Listening Class- Black is Beautiful

Click here to hear Sufia Abdul Rachman's essay again.

You can read her essay here.

Welcome, New Students

Welcome, Tugce, Cem, Serdar and Renata!

Congratulations, Abdullah, Jin Young and Satoko on your move to Proficiency!

Listening Class, March 23

Today we will listen to a report about the artist Shepherd Fairey, who created the famous Obama poster which we can still see everywhere in Philadelphia.

You can listen to the story again here.

You can see the poster here.

Shepherd Fairey's website is here

Message from Dennis Freitas

How are you doing?
Is your class that boring after I've came back to Brazil? hehehehehe
I really miss classes and every one there.
I'm sending a photo with this email. It would be nice if you post it on your blog =D

Have a nice week.


Dennis Freitas

Aor Enjoying Our Class

John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity"

Hi Students,

In Unit 2 we'll be talking about ideals and utopia.

The original text of John Winthrop's speech is here:

A Model of Christian Charity


If you are interested in learning more about the Puritans, I recommend this book:

The Wordy Shipmates, by Sarah Vowell

Combination with Proficiency Class Today

Everyone,

I'm still sick today, so today we're going to combine Advanced and Proficiency. Have fun with Keith, Tamina, Joon, Jaime and Songyi, and I will hopefully see you tomorrow.

Information about addiction

Are you addicted to the internet?

Here are some sites with information about internet addiction:

http://psychcentral.com/netaddiction/

Here's a test to see if you are addicted to the internet:

http://www.netaddiction.com/resources/internet_addiction_test.htm

Snow Day Today- No Class

See you tomorrow!

Snow Day Tomorrow

Dear Students,

Class will probably be canceled because of the snow tomorrow.

Please check Kaplan's facebook page, or this website at 7:00 to find out if class is canceled.

Cara

Goodbye, Narumi and Sirporn

We'll miss you!