Here is my classroom. It looks like any other classroom but I have to say I miss room 312 quite a bit (what I mean is, I miss you guys a LOT!!!).
As you already know, my school is called Boston Arts Academy. It is a public high school. High school starts with the ninth grade in the US (so if you lived here, you would already be in high school, and not in middle school).
Here are the names of the different grades in a high school (which are also those used in college):
- first year of high school, 9th grade: Freshman
- second year, 10th grade: Sophomore
- third year, 11th grade: Junior
- fourth year, 12th grade: Senior
At BAA (Boston Arts Academy), I teach French 1 (French for beginners) to Juniors and Seniors.
I also teach Seminar (which is English reading and writing skills) to Freshmen.
And finally I share a class with an Arabic teacher: I thus have the opportunity to learn Arabic with Juniors and Seniors , and I also teach them Arab culture. I like teaching here a lot but there is a lot of work as you can imagine.
The students all have academic classes (math, science, world language, seminar...) but they also have an artistic major (specialty subject for arts). There are four majors: theater, music (vocal or instrument), dance and visual arts.
We spent our first day of school in the Red Sox stadium of Fenway, which is right opposite our school. The Red Sox is one of the most famous baseball teams in the US, and Bostonians are really crazy about them.
You can see the students here. The people wearing blue t.shirts are the faculty (=teachers) and staff (administration).
Hear the kind of cheerful greetings the students have for their teachers. Could you imagine that at Manet's?
You have a nice view of the Fenway Park here, and you can see how huge (=enormous) it is.
The school's t.shirt, Boston Arts Academy, school for the visual and performing arts.
Who is that girl? Is she a student or a teacher? I haven't got a clue, sorry... I think she doesn't know either.
Two days after school resumed (=started again), the students' parents were invited to meet with the staff and faculty, and before the meeting started, the arts teachers put up a show for the audience.
The students who did good last year receive a congratulations diploma, which is a bit like the ones you get at Manet's school for "encouragements", "tableau d'honneur" or "félicitations".
