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Introductory Videos to Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O89PkSNTtbg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB7kLNwKEVU

Quizlet
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General Research: Lost Languages Websites to Explore for Background

http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/enduring-voices/
http://www.festival.si.edu/2013/One_World_Many_Voices/video_audio_gallery.aspx
http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2100/article/138/disappearing.languages
http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/10-languages-on-verge-extinction.htm

Week 11/2
Video to watch:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lNjnE_-Log

What do you think? Vote! 
http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-we-preserve-endangered-languages

At home reading:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/15/AR2009031501857.html

Discussion Question: 
What is lost in a culture if a language is lost?

Week 11/9

Video to watch: (recommended by Macy, 7th grade FPS-er)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXDbcOKEHfc

At home reading: 
http://examinedexistence.com/12-benefits-of-learning-a-foreign-language-2/
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140606-why-we-must-save-dying-languages (This one is really good!)

Week 11/16

Videos to watch
Google Steps In!   http://www.cnet.com/news/google-confronts-extinction-of-more-than-3000-languages/
Australia's Got Talent!!!   https://vimeo.com/136674165
Back to the Future  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DERu2aAqqWM

At home reading:
Korean Soap Operas! http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/09/saving-languages-through-korean-soap-operas/380537/

Week 11/29

Learn 20 Languages?!? How and Why? (article and video found by 7th grade FPSer, Bryan)

article to read: http://ideas.ted.com/why-i-learned-20-languages-and-what-i-learned-about-myself-in-the-process/
video to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNmf-G81Irs