Cultural Exchange

Welcome to the Learning to See blog!
Spring 2010

Spanish students at the Portsmouth High School will begin reading and responding to the photos and biographies from students in Mayto, Mexico. Everyone is welcome to make posts to this blog and are encouraged to do so, in Spanish or English. With some assistance, we hope to get the kids in Mexico to a computer... that works... and has the Internet. This will give them a chance to see themselves "live" on-line and create an opportunity for them to make a further exchange and to practice English. Portsmouth High School students will then begin to create their own photographic portraits and biographies and post them to the blog.

The first group of images are of the elementary schools kids in Mexico. Portraits with something that is special to them and a short writing exercise to caption their photo.

The second group of images of the high school students in Mexico include answers to the following questons:
Birthday, favorite music, favorite food, what do you want to be when you grow up, and tell me something about yourself. The students in Portsmouth will answers these questions and further expand their biographies to discuss a specific holiday that they celebrate.