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MPA students top national Spanish exam
Submitted by Staff on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 2:24pm.
Morgan Park Academy Middle School students placed in the top seven for the National Spanish Exam Chicago chapter. Pictured are Suvrat Chandra, Sarah Eichinger, Cara Kraus-Perrotta, Terry Kirk, Jordan Compton and Zainab Shirazi.
Congratulations to Morgan Park Academy 7th and 8th grade students who recently completed the National Spanish Exam and received recognition for scoring in the top percentiles.
Twenty-eight students placed nationally and six students from the seventh grade will receive a cash award from the Chicago-area chapter for placing citywide. The National Spanish Examination is a standards based assessment that measures both achievement and proficiency.
Seventh graders receiving national recognition- Honorable mention: Sarah Norise, Kelly Sorfleet, Jared Bell, Albert Alfano and Michael Schaible; Bronze certificates: Hannah Maloney, Nia Davis, Alexandra Lewis and Kunal Kaistha; Silver certificates: Courtney Somerville, Zainab Shirazi, Jordan Compton and Terry Kirk; and Gold certificates: Cara Kraus-Perrotta, Sarah Eichinger and Suvrat Chandra.
The following 8th grade students were awarded national recognition/honorable mention: Robin Gagnon, Maria Reyes, Sarah Harmening, Damian Skawiniak, Karen Linnerud, Justin Sipich and Lindsay Jackson. Bronze certificates went to Emma Raser and Kirby Summers, while Adnan Razzaque, Mark Stonitsch and Pooja Avula earned Silver certificates.
The following students have placed in citywide and will receive a cash-prize: 1st- Suvrat Chandra; 2nd
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Comment: Congrats to those 7th and
Submitted by Tim Moran on Wed, 06/06/2007 - 3:05pm.Congrats to those 7th and 8th graders at MPA. MPA has always been, and apparantly still is the school that you want to send your child to if you want them to learn Spanish (or French)at a young age. I'm not surprised at all to see that the school that I will always call home had such high places in the Spanish exam.
At MPA, they start you off early in the Foreign Language field. Whereas most schools do not even offer a foreign language until high school, MPA makes it mandatory as soon as you enter kindergarten, or as MPA calls it "pre-first." I believe that is a very effective way to go about things. Children remember more and pick up languages the earlier you teach them. The later they pick something up, the harder it is to grasp it.
I have MPA to thank for me excelling in Spanish at the high school level and also for being in an AP class senior year. In grade school at MPA, particularly in 7th and 8th grade, I struggled in Spanish and would get low marks compared to other students. But once I went to high school at a nearby institution, I was WAY ahead of the crowd when it came to Spanish. High school Spanish for me was easier than 7th and 8th grade Spanish at MPA.