SPAN 101 class reads to children

Students who signed up for Spanish 101 with lecturer Luziris Turi this semester may have expected to just learn introductory Spanish, but they were also given the opportunity to take their Spanish skills out into the community. On Nov. 23, Turi and several of her students went to Dow Elementary to present six short stories they had written to elementary school children in Houston's Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts after-school program."I wanted [the students] to see what they learned in action and, at the same time, to reach out to the community in Houston," Turi said.

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Spanish 101 Students Create ‘Cuentos Para Niños’

With only a semester’s worth of Spanish, 13 Rice students took a trip last fall to the Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts Center (MECA) near downtown Houston and presented stories they had created to elementary school children.

Read more: Rice At Large Issue 15