Building a Human Tower in Spain

Every year in early October in Spain teams of people compete to see who can build the largest tower made out of humans!

Members of "Vella de Xiquets de Valls" fall as they try to complete their human tower during the 26th Human Tower Competition on October 2, 2016. #

See more photos here.

Watch this video to see one being built in action.

Here is an another article and video about the human towers.

Create a new blog post in your Spanish Blog Portfolio, title it the same as this blog post, and answer 4 of the following questions in complete sentences based on these images.

• What are the human towers called?
• Where does this take place? What is the region of Spain?
• How many people does it take to make a tower?
• What is the history behind this activity?
• Would you ever participate in this competition? Explain.

World Cup 2014

Olé! It's the World Cup! The World Cup is an international soccer competition that happens every four years like the Olympics. Countries all over the world compete to play in the World Cup, and only 32 earn the chance to compete for the globe. 

Mr. Rucker and I have been leading a World Cup club for the class of 2017. We have a fancy website you can check out all kinds of things about the world cup like the music, the mascot and more!

www.tinyurl.com/chworldcup2014 

Check out the website then compose an email answering one or more of the Hot Tamale Activities to bordner@cityhigh.org or akhand@cityhigh.org

• Who are you rooting for? Why?
• Watch a few videos on the website then describe them.
• Check out some of the infographics on the World Cup 2014 page and describe them.
• Watch a game then describe it. 
• Pick a country competing in the World Cup and write a description of their culture or soccer team