Foreign Language

Monica Lucas, Spanish & Portuguese
Ms. Monica dos Anjos Lucas, the middle school Spanish teacher, was born in Rio de Janeiro, but nowadays lives in Niterói. She studied at a college called UFF where she earned her bachelor’s degree of Portuguese, Spanish language and literature. She has a master’s degree and a specialization in Spanish as a Second Language. Before coming to EARJ she taught at four other schools.

Ms. Monica has been at EARJ for six years. She would like parents and students to know that she loves to work with our adolescents and that her class is challenging, but not hard. In the classroom she speaks a lot of Spanish with her students and teaches them how to develop skills to discuss and understand the world that we live in. She is involved with leadership conference and her Thursday activity is the Middle School Headline News.

Outside of school Ms. Monica enjoys gardening, crocheting, reading, dancing and being with her family.

Written by Fellipo L.
Grade 8
E-mail Ms. Monica

Valdir Chagas, French & Portuguese
Valdir Chagas, also known as Mr. Chagas, is the middle school French and Portuguese for foreigners teacher. Mr. Chagas is considered to be a fun teacher by all of his students because he makes his subjects a lot better to learn. Mr. Chagas was born in Rio de Janeiro, but has lived in São Paulo, Londrina and Montpellier, France. He went to college at UFRJ and UFF in Rio, and Montpellier in France. He is currently working on his PhD in Comparative Literature. Before coming to EARJ, he worked for a university in Paraná.

Mr. Chagas has worked at EARJ for nine years as a French teacher. He teaches French because he loves languages and other countries, diversity and culture. In Mr. Chagas’ classes you have to try to focus on oral skills and have fun, if possible. Mr. Chagas is involved in the leadership conferences and his
Thursday activity is the chess club.

Mr. Chagas’ hobbies are photography and reading. He is married to an
American teacher from EARJ and they have a 9-month-old daughter called,
Sofia. This is a little about Valdir Chagas. I hope you enjoyed getting to know him a little better.

Written by Lanai M.
Grade 8
E-mail Mr. Chagas