The Titan View - Northview High School

Languages Around the World
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Congratulations to many world language students
from Northview High School who
attained national recognition for excellent
performance on the 2009 National Spanish Ex-
aminations.
Students from Northview High School earned a total of 57
gold, 74 silver and 48 bronze medals along with 70 honorable
mentions.“Attaining a medal or honorable mention for any student
on the National Spanish Examinations is very prestigious,”
said Kevin Cessna-Buscemi, National Director of the
Exams, “because the exams are the largest of their kind in the
United States with well over 115,000 students participating in
2009.”
Students from Northview High School have a long history of
high achievement on these exams and participating students
were taught by Spanish teachers Carrie Gutierrez, Zandra
Horton, Susan Johnson, Patricia Rodriguez and Estela Valenciano.
The Northview JCL is finishing up the 2008-
2009 year with many awards and accolades. The
most recent and largest event was the state convention
held at Rock Eagle. Over 1000 Latin Students representing
different schools attended this convention in order to compete
in various sports, arts, and tests.
Northview was very successful in the oh-so-famous chariot
races. The NHS JCL was first in the boys and girls chariot run.
While some consider this a miraculous run, others see it as a
form of redemption. At last year’s state convention, the JCL
not only failed to win a title, but took a few casualties along the
way. A new chariot and a new year brought victory and glory,
but lacked the running over of a student.
The NHS JCL brought home many academic awards in tests
regarding subjects from Roman history to Greek derivatives.
The list of academic awards was seemingly endless which
reflects the fact that Northview continues to be a powerhouse
in academics. The Northview JCL made history this past convention
in the competition of Certamen or Latin quiz bowl. Our
Novice team achieved 3rd in their division, while the Lower
and Upper teams achieved 1st in their respective divisions.
The current Upper level team has won three straight
state titles, a feat that no other team has ever accomplished
before.
Northview had two students running for an office in the Georgia
Junior Classical League. We are proud to announce that
Arun Kumar and Parth Sehgal were successful in bids for
President and Vice President respectively. We wish them a
great term and hope that they will continue to bring honor to
Northview.
Twenty students from Northview will be attending this year’s
national convention at the University of California Davis this
summer. Though we will officially be representing Georgia, we
hope to bring many awards back to Northview.
Don’t
have a
cow – buy
one!
Looking for a
way to encourage
their students
to speak
more French in class, French teachers
Catherine Francisse, Roya Schweinbeck
and Valerie White put their heads together
and came up with a creative solution - a
cow! Instead of nagging and ranting at students
(commonly known as “having a
cow”), the three French teachers invented
an a-moo-zing way of persuading students
to stay in the target language. Students
who speak English in class get a toy cow
on the desk and have to perform a short
penalty at the end of class. Juniors Kaylee
Goss and Jessica McRoberts ruminated
and decided to milk this class actvitity,
turning it into a fundraiser for Oxfam.
With help from the Chick-Fil-A, French
classes held a competition fundraiser and
raised over $200 for an Oxfam project to
buy animals for Africa. Winning classes get
a Chick-Fil-A tray, and the money collected
will be used to buy animals for an African
village. One cow costs $75, so enough
money was raised to buy two cows and a
goat. So no kidding when we say that
once again, Northview French students are
la crème de la crème!
Ha Lim Yue, a Northview
senior competed at the 4th
"Chinese Bridge" US High
School Chinese Speech Contest on
April 17, 2009. She won the third place
in the special group. The contestants came
from 21 states this year. The final contest
was held at the University of Massachusetts
Confucius Institute in Boston. The contest
aims to give students an opportunity to
demonstrate their skills in speaking Chinese
language. Each student presented an individual
speech and answered the questions
in Chinese, then were judged by a panel of
Chinese language teachers and language
experts. Congratulations to Ha Lim Yue
and Northview’s newly established Chinese
Program.