“Conflicto. Solucion. Resumen del Argumento. Protagonista. Ambiente. Genero.” Noelia Perez’s second-grade students’ hands shot up in the air after she wrote the words on a whiteboard in her classroom at Skelly Elementary School, 2940 S. 90th East Ave.
The children took turns volunteering answers in Spanish, identifying the literary elements in the stories they’d been assigned to present on tri-fold poster boards that would be displayed in the school library.
Books in Perez’s classroom are organized in bins tucked into shelves in a corner — blue bins hold books written in English; red bins contain books in Spanish.
Perez is in her second year teaching in the dual-language program at Skelly, where she was assigned through a three-year teacher exchange program with Spain.
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