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Add a Language as an Additional Language in Google Drive

From Free Technology for Teachers

With the New Drive, not only can you now set your overall language, but you can also include a subset of languages that you understand. This is a great tool for students taking foreign language classes. A first year Spanish student, for example, can easily get confused when their menus switch to Spanish as a result of changing the primary language in Drive. That’s no longer an issue if Spanish is added as an additional language rather than the primary one! 

The addition of more languages is easy. While in the New Drive,  click on Settings (the gear shaped icon in the top right corner) and then select “Settings:” 

 Under “General” select Change language settings next to “Language:” 

  

Next, click on Select languages next to “Other languages you understand.” 

    

Once the pop-up window appears,  check the box(es) next to all language(s) that you understand. 

  

By doing this, you enable the features of the other languages without changing the overall language of Google Drive. It’s a great new feature to support language students in Drive!

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Black Knight Alfa (959.704 Steen)

Jim Ehrlich requested this book about Vietnam, and I bought it for him to read. He said it was really good: realistic, and exciting to read. In fact, his whole family read it.

The author served in Vietnam with the Infantry Rifle Company, 'Black Knight Alfa', also known as 'The Dragon Slayers'. "Tough, well disciplined and unpredictable, 'Black Knight Alfa' were so feared that the NVA and Vietcong warned their own soldiers against engaging them in combat. In the Shau valley these American soldiers all had prices on their heads."

Trailer for Ready Set Go Theatre Company's web series of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet

Episode One

Foul Trouble (FIC Feinstein)

"Terrell Jamerson is among the top basketball players in the country, if not the top. Danny Wilcox is his teammate, and the son of the coach. The three of them have to navigate increasing pressure and schemes to find the right college --- and future --- for each of them.  Plenty of exciting basketball games, characters who may or may not be good guys, and real life behind-the-scenes exposure to national recruiting keeps the pages turning all the way to the exciting finish." (from Teen Reads)

Sinner (FIC Stiefvater)

If you are a fan of the Wolves of Mercy Falls Trilogy (beginning with Shiver), then you will definitely want to read Sinner. I think you could read Sinner all by itself, though, and it would make perfect sense. I read it this summer and liked it best of all.