The idea behind ¡Palabra Mania! is to give High School and University Students (both beginning and more advanced students, including AP students) around the country a chance to learn new vocabulary that they have not necessarily learned from their textbooks, and to have fun and be creative while doing it!! 

Here's how ¡Palabra Mania! will work: 

• On the first of every month, I will put a word that may or may not be familiar to you.  Sometimes the words may have more than one meaning; that's okay...choose the meaning that you want to use and the one that will allow you to be the most creative;
• Take the word for that month and write the most creative sentence that you possibly can.  Be as accurate as you can in your grammar, but the idea is that it is your own sentence.  The sentence can be as short or as long as you want to make it, but remember only one sentence; the more vivid the description, the more likely it is to be pleasing to the readers;
• When you have written your sentence, click here, fill out the form and submit it to me;
• On the fifteenth of every month, at 5:00 p.m. ET, submissions will be closed;
• On the sixteenth of the month, all sentences that were submitted for consideration will be placed on a "ballot", broken down into two groups (high school and University) and voting for the most creative sentence in each group will take place.  Only one ballot per person please! 
• On the 29th of every month, at 5:00 p.m. ET, voting will close;
• On the last day of the month, the winners will be notified and will be announced.  A brief write up about the winners will be featured. 

Please join us in ... 

If you should have questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!  ¡Diviértanse!  (Enjoy yourself!)