For the past couple of weeks, students in Mr. Kristopher
Walker’s and Mrs. Noemi Malagon’s Spanish II classes have worked on a
bullfighting project. This form of
entertainment, which is popular in countries such as Spain and Mexico, has both
positive and negative qualities. Some
may see it as the cruel torture and murder of a defenseless animal. But, others believe that bullfighting is a
major tourist attraction that shouldn’t be destroyed. Spanish II students have taken their opinion,
whether it be for or against bullfighting, and created a campaign project.
As a
part of Project Based Learning, the students were each assigned a specific task
for the project. The positions for the
bullfighting project were:
Speaker/Candidate: presents opinion to the
audience
Group Leader: supports speaker; keeps group on
task
Speech Writer: creates speech for speaker
Marketing Publisher: makes posters,
announcements, etc. for speaker
Each speaker presented their
speech to an audience on February 19th. Then, all audience members were asked to vote
for their three favorite speeches. The votes
were all tallied up, and the winners for each class period were as follows:
Period 1-Mr. Walker
1st Place: Amber
Mikel
2nd Place: Katie
Gunter
3rd Place: Whitney Haneline
Period 3-Mrs. Malagon
1st Place: John Salmon
2nd Place: Katherine Nolan
3rd Place: Harrison Sponseller
Period 3-Mr. Walker
1st Place: Kaitlyn Ott
2nd Place: Brandon Lozano
3rd Place: Rafael Jimenez
All in
all, the bullfighting project is one of Tippecanoe Valley High School’s biggest
activities connected to PBL.
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