Día de Acción de Gracia

Time to give thanks! This is a reminder to help put a Latin American spin on the Thanksgiving holiday by bringing an authentic main dish, side dish, or dessert to school tomorrow (Tuesday). Please see Thursday's blog post for details.

Some final thoughts:

• Report directly to the Brown Room for class.
• If you don't want to keep your food in your locker, put it on the table in the back of Mr. Fendryk's room (room 127).
• Or, if your dish needs to be refrigerated, put it in the fridge in the Brown Room.
• Bringing your food in a nice dish or piece of Tupperware? Mark it (use an address label or just write on it with a Sharpie) so you can get it back at the end of the day.
• If your dish needs a serving spoon or a spatula and you can bring one in, that would be great. (Label it!)
  
• Don't forget to include a card or sheet of paper that includes your name, the name of the recipe, the ingredients, and the country of origin.

This should be a lot of fun! See you mañana !

review

Today in class, Sections 01 and 05 reviewed the Katrina/Global Warming test. Tomorrow will be 03's turn.

01 and 05 will begin work on their papers tomorrow in class. We will determine who is going to work with whom, and then each group will choose their topic.

REMINDER: Next Tuesday, our last full day of classes before the break, we will have a gustatory extravaganza. We will celebrate an American holiday (Thanksgiving) with a Latin American flavor. Since we are inventing this holiday, we'll call it Día de Acción de Gracias !

In a twenty-point graded homework assignment, each student will prepare an authentic Latin American dish to share with the class next Tuesday. This can be a main dish, a side dish, or a dessert. Recipes are available online, and can be from ANY Latin American country (listed below). Write or type out your recipe, the country of origin, plus what makes it authentic, to earn all 20 points. If you don't bring in a dish, or if you bring in Taco Bell, you receive a zero!

One more rule: NO SALSA.

This should be an eye-opening and mouth-watering experience!

Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Peru, Venezuela, Chile, Ecuador, Guatemala, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Uruguay.