High school students to celebrate World Languages Day April 8
About 60 students and teachers from area high schools are expected to celebrate World Languages Day at the University of Maine on Friday, April 8 with a culture bowl, campus scavenger hunt, poetry readings, skits, games and traditional dance lessons.
The event will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union, Little Hall and elsewhere on campus.
World Languages Day offers an opportunity for local high school students in upper level French and Spanish classes to spend a day at UMaine immersed in their language of study while getting to know the campus and interacting with professors and students from the Department of Modern Languages and Classics.
Students from Bangor High School, Brewer High School and Foxcroft Academy in Dover-Foxcroft are scheduled to attend.
Throughout the day, students will get the chance to learn traditional dances from France and Latin America; recite a short poem in French or Spanish; and take part in a campus scavenger hunt and bag skit, an impromptu performance incorporating items drawn from a bag.
The UMaine Department of Modern Languages and Classics, along with the Foreign Language Association of Maine (FLAME), is hosting World Languages Day for the third year in a row.
The event, which initially ended in 2009, was revived in 2014 by sponsorship from the Department of Modern Languages and Classics, UMaine Humanities Center, Canadian-American Center and FLAME.
For more information about World Languages Day, email Maria Sandweiss at maria.sandweiss@umit.maine.edu.