Source: Sussex Academy
Students in Cameron Smith’s AP Spanish class at Sussex Academy enjoyed a series of sweet and savory lessons while working on a unit on recipes.
In the unit, students learn about Latin American cuisine and study grammatically how to follow formal and informal commands, Smith said. It’s a listening and reading activity, he said, in which students have to navigate and adapt to issues that arise.
On different days, students followed Spanish directions to make flour tortillas, guacamole and sweet plantains, and invited other classes and staff to try their creations.
The activity also prepares students for an upcoming field trip to a Mexican restaurant in Philadelphia, Smith said, where they will meet and learn about successful immigrants whose restaurants they have studied. Anyone interested in supporting the initiative is asked to contact Smith at 302-856-3636 or cameron.smith@saas.k12.de.us.
Sussex Academy is a tuition-free, public charter school in Georgetown, Del. Its mission is to foster academic achievement and social responsibility in a small school environment where students participate in a highly accelerated college preparatory program that prepares them for the technological and global mindedness needed for the 21st century and that instills ethical conduct and service to others in their day-to-day lives.
