Classroom Spotlight: Playing Trashketball in Rauch’s Spanish II

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Photojournalism students captured what’s happening in classrooms around the school. The first Classroom Spotlight is from PhotoJ senior Jadin Kaltenbach. 

Class: Spanish II

Teacher: Mr. Rauch

What they’re doing: The students are reviewing what they’ve learned so far this semester in Spanish II. They are being asked questions in English and they are supposed to answer them in Spanish. They were also translating sentences from English to Spanish. The first person to answer the question or translate the sentence correctly then got the chance to play trashketball. Trashketball consists of a student taking a ball (in this case a wad of paper taped together) and trying to throw it into the recycling bin in the front of the room from their seat.

Mr. Rauch says: “We were playing trash with the grammar  and vocab from that section. We did activities that keep the students engaged so that it isn’t just looking at words.”

Lauren Brooks says: “I am quiet person during class so it was cool to be able to do vocab words without having to yell them out. Coach Rauch always has some kind of activity that keeps all of us engaged.”

Victor Farina says: “I don’t know exactly what we were doing during class; it was verbs in general. I speak Portugese so I don’t know Spanish.”

Wrap-up:  Playing trashketball was a really interesting way to spice up the normally boring review process.