Hi everyone!
My name is Chelsea Lawrence. I teach Upper School Spanish (mainly 10th grade) at UMS-Wright Preparatory School in Mobile, Alabama. This is my 8th year teaching. My focus areas at my course level is Central America and the Spanish-speaking Caribbean. I am part of a department that is fortunate to develop our own curriculum so we have the freedom to teach alot of "out of the box" topics that are typically not in a traditional textbook. One of threads that we weave in to our units on different countries in these regions is the international influence both past and present. My key topics pertain to US relations in Guatemala (United Fruit Company), Panama, and Cuba as well as Soviet Union/Russian relations with Cuba and Venezuela. I am excited to be part of this seminar and to have the opportunity to enrich my own knowledge and my curriculum on China and its global reaches.
-Chelsea
