Global Studies
Upper School Activities

Eight high school girls from Dijon, France are spending ten days in classes at Carolina Day School. Exchange partners attend classes together and enjoy the local sites outside school. Later this month a group of 10 French students will stay with CDS middle school students who will travel to France this May.

Ten students will travel to Honduras with Shoulder to Shoulder, a nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Jeff Heck, father of Jody Heck.  Students will spend two weeks (July 28-Aug. 9) staying at a clinic founded and run by Shoulder to Shoulder in Santa Lucia, Intibuca and will partner with students from the Bilingual School of La Ceiba Honduras. In small teams, the students will visit a school in an outlying village every day for two weeks and work with teachers and leaders in that village to develop a list of needs for the community. Upon returning to the United States the students will raise funds, collect the requested supplies, and then ship them to Honduras.  (Website: www.shouldertoshoulder.org).

In the 9th grade computer applications class, students have been using a “Typing Tutor” that was written by British programmers.  The text included information on cricket matches between Indian and Australian teams.  The freshmen students had to ask sophomore Englishman, Alex Trim what some of the terms in the text meant.  The computer applications class is taught by Dave Fortney.

Both the French IV and AP classes, which are taught by Kathryn McCartney, have weekly roundtable discussions -- spoken only in French --  on cultural and current events. Recent topics include the new French President Sarkozy and articles from LeMonde, the French newspaper.

Upper school students who are members of the French Club now have a pen pal in Nigeria. The pen pal is a Peace Corps volunteer. This connection is made possible through the Peace Corps' World Wide School initiative and the work of Madame Kathryn McCartney, the upper school French teacher.

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