What is FERIA SCSC?
FERIA Spanish Conference of South Carolina is the state competition for high school and middle school students of Spanish and now hosting French! Held annually at Winthrop University, students compete in spelling, speaking, and writing tasks to demonstrate their proficiency.
Here's a link to this year's website: https://www.winthrop.edu/cas/worldlanguages/feria-scsc.aspx
The 2024 FERIA SCSC competition will be held February 23 at Winthrop University. Best of luck to our Clover team!
Competition Rules & Categories
Participants fall into the following categories based on their experience with Spanish:
A – Student has learned Spanish exclusively in the classroom
B – Student has limited outside experience in Spanish
C – Student has extensive experience in Spanish, but whose Spanish is somewhat Anglicized
D – Native speaker
2 students will represent CHS in the spelling bee. Other students may participate in the writing and/or speaking contests.
Writing:
Time: 50 minutes
Essay: 250 words minimum
4 prompts: Students choose 1 of the 4
Speaking:
16 possible topics
3 topics blind draw; choose 1 of 3
Room with panel of 3 judges
Speak for 2 minutes
Spelling:
2 students max per school
Use the “new” alphabet
Multiple rounds
A – Student has learned Spanish exclusively in the classroom
B – Student has limited outside experience in Spanish
C – Student has extensive experience in Spanish, but whose Spanish is somewhat Anglicized
D – Native speaker
2 students will represent CHS in the spelling bee. Other students may participate in the writing and/or speaking contests.
Writing:
Time: 50 minutes
Essay: 250 words minimum
4 prompts: Students choose 1 of the 4
Speaking:
16 possible topics
3 topics blind draw; choose 1 of 3
Room with panel of 3 judges
Speak for 2 minutes
Spelling:
2 students max per school
Use the “new” alphabet
Multiple rounds
Click below to see this year's topics and rubrics:
speaking_topics_spring_2022.docx | |
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discurso_improvisado_rubric.docx | |
File Size: | 14 kb |
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feria_spring_2022_writing_topics.docx | |
File Size: | 1369 kb |
File Type: | docx |