America,
Meet Italy
By Brittany Mease
The
sixth and seventh graders have been given the opportunity of a lifetime!
Throughout the next couple of weeks they will become pen pals with a class of
Italian students. They will be sending word documents electronically and those
documents will be printed out then given to the student pen pals in Italy. This
is the first time Interstate’s middle school has written to fellow students of
Italy, so this is a very exciting time.
The
students they are writing to are the ages of twelve to thirteen and are from
Rho, Italy. Rho is a old city with a population of around 51,000. Rho is
located in Northern Italy, just eight miles from the famous Italian city,
Milan.
“I
believe that the students here will love hearing about the culture of Rho and
the city of Milan, due to the fact that it is the ‘fashion capital of the
world’.”, states Mrs. Downes, “It will also give them a chance to really get to
know what Italy is all about; not that it’s a place where everyone has ‘mafia’
accent. It’s a great opportunity!”
The
sixth and seventh graders are doing this to broaden their horizons. They have
been studying the country of Italy; becoming pen pals with Italian students
will be a great benefit. They will be taking a lot from this international
project: new friends, a grasp of Italian culture, and a new understanding of
the world outside the United States.
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