THE HISTORY OF HALLOWEEN

It's one of America's favorite holidays, but what's the real story behind the tricks and treats of Halloween?

ON TOP OF THE WORLD

Last year some third-year students were actively involved in an exchange project with Mickle Middle School in Lincoln, Nebraska. Here you can watch the awesome music video Mickle Middle's students shared with us at the end of the school year.

Are you ready for this year’s exchange project? :)

AWÁ: EARTH'S MOST THREATENED TRIBE

Yesterday in classes IIIB and IIIC we watched an interesting video about the Awá people, an endangered indigenous group of people living in the eastern Amazon forests of Brazil. Approximately 350 members survive, and 100 of those have no contact with the outside world. Their language is in the Tupi-Guarani family. The Awá are in a protracted legal battle to protect their lands from illegal settling and logging.

According to Survival International, a human rights organization which campaigns for the rights of indigenous tribal peoples and considers the Awá to be the "earth's most threatened tribe", Awá forests are now disappearing faster than in any other Indian area in the Brazilian Amazon. In April 2012, Survival International launched a world-wide campaign to protect the Awá people.