About the Author
Anna Porto is a high school Italian teacher in Connecticut. She has a MA in Education and MA in Instructional Technology. She grew up in the former Czechoslovakia, speaking Czech and Slovak, and learned Italian in a bilingual high school. She mastered English while watching American movies. After freelancing as a language instructor in Europe, she moved to the U.S. in 2003 and, a few years later, started her dream career as a teacher. She has been teaching Italian in a public urban high school for the last 10 years, and she is mastering Spanish conversational skills with her students in the hallways. Anna is also the author of stories, IPAs, and Communicative Tasks for Nostra Storia levels 3 and 4.