Spanish IV 02-28-2006

Spanish IV 02-28-2006

• Corrected textbook homework Activities 4, 5 & 10


• Reviewed the uses and conjugations of the imperfecto – see text pages 20-21


• Review: Comparison of the preterite and the imperfecto- see text page 32


• Practiced writing our homework sentences – first with partner (cangurú), then with the whole class.


• Reviewed key elements of a <<fábula>>


• Received a new story packet: La abeja haragana.  


• Tarea:


• Read the Parte I and write out answers to ¿Comprendió Ud.? – suggestion: Read these questions BEFORE reading the story.


• Study “-ir stem-changers in the preterite” – Text pg. 18 and Write out Exercise 1-15 on pages 18 &19

Spanish II 02-28-2006

Spanish II 02-28-2006-Corrected

• Corrected homework from last night


• Took Exam 1A (

     Parte 1  = Escuchar, Leer y Escribir.  
     Parte II = Vocabulario (pg. 40
                      Gramática (stem-changing verbs &
                                    Affirmative / Negative adverbs and adjectives)

• Tarea: Received new homework packet cover sheet (for lesson 1A)- due 3/03

Spanish II 02-27-2006

Spanish II 02-27-2006

• Review quiz – el vocabulario 1A


• Review quiz – stem-changers #2


• Review: Hay que + infinitivo


• Review: Se prohibe + infinitivo


• Partner questions/ answers – stem-changers


• Period 4: Partner A/B conversation: stem-changers


• Tarea:


• Review homework sheet


• STUDY for 1A test tomorrow:


• pp. 40 & 41


• flashcards of vocabulary


• white verb grid

Spanish IV 02-27-2006

Spanish IV 02-27-2006

• Stamps on homework: Text ex 4, 5 & 10 (el amigo ayuda, no adula)


• Reviewed common mistakes on the ORALS – whole class session – handouts and notes.


• Tarea:  List of verbs from the chapter – write 10 sentences incorporating them

Spanish II 02-24-2006

Spanish II  02-24-2006

• Turned in last night’s sentences for stamps (Habla menos, escucha más)


• Quiz: Interrogatives (los interrogativos)


• Practiced stem-changing verbs by playing Lotería


• Corrections on yesterday’s quiz – Stem-changing verbs.


• Partner white board sentence translations (from last night’s sentences)


• Whole class sentence writing – from English prompts of last night’s sentences.


• Period 3: Turned in “Sentinels of Silence” worksheet from last week’s movie about Mexico’s Pre-Columbian pyramids.


• Tarea:


• WAVA workbook Act. 11, page 13 & Act. 12, page 14.

Note:  Activity 11 = 2 complete sentences
           Activity 12 = Indicate if the sentence is true for you AND
      If it is – write a sentence that is an EXAMPLE of how it’s true for you.
      If it is NOT true for you: rewrite the statement so that it IS true.

Spanish IV 02-24-2006

Spanish IV 02-24-2006

• Reviewed corrections on yesterday’s Preterite test.


• Read Sapo y Sepo aloud to each other, verifying vocabulary.


• Maestra “dramatically” read the story aloud to the class.


• Using our homework questions, we quizzed each other on our comprehension of Sapo y Sepo.


• Review of the forms of the narrative on page 9, in text.


• Did exercise 1-6, page 12. (Animales = características)


• Tarea:


• Practice vocabulary with Actividades 4 & 5 on page 12.


• Review the irregular Pretérito on page 15 then ...


• Write out Activity 10 on pages 16 & 17

Sp II 02-23-2006

Sp. II 02-23-2006

• Reviewed sentence writing & stem-changing verbs by playing “Pass the paper” game. = Participation points from team earned depending on points earned on their sentences.


• Took stem-changing verb quiz 1A and turned in


• Went over answers on quiz in period 3.


• Received tarea packet cover sheet for lección Preliminar


• Organized our homework from the last lesson


• Partner-verified packets and turned them in.


• Tarea:


• Write 15 sentences in Spanish – EACH sentence includes BOTH one of the verbs from the white verb grid (using a variety of conjugations) AND one of the vocabulary items from page 40 in the textbook.

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Sp. IV 02-23-2006

• Corrected Wkbk pp. 27 &28 – El pretérito de la vida de Jules Verne


• Corrected Pretérito Verb Grid


• Took Preterite Test #1- Lección 1A


• Started  “Sapo y Sepo” : Reading packet & vocabulary list


• Got Forecasting information


• Tarea:


• Complete vocabulary list for Sapo y Sepo


• Finish reading the story “La lista”


• Write 5 comprehension questions based on entire story “la lista”

Sp IV 02 22 2006

Sp IV 02-22-2006

• Rotating partners: rehearsing “!Qué fin de semana!”


• Selected presentation partners


• Presented Orals (30 points)


• Handout – El pretérito


• Reviewed Spelling changes in verbs ending with –car, -gar, -zar


• Spelling changes with –er verbs where the I converts to a Y


• Announced Preterite Test for tomorrow: All regular preterite forms, the spelling changers listed above, and the irregulars: Ser/Ir, Dar, and Hacer

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Sp II 02-22-2006

• Collected student work and gave stamps for completed assignments.


• GramActiva DVD – textbook video on affirmative and negative words.


• Lecture on Affirmative and Negative words in Spanish (nadie, alguien, etc.)


• In partners, completed cloze exercise on p.31 (Act. 19) – text


• Corrected verb grids from yesterday (stem changing verbs)


• Tarea:


• Quiz tomorrow on stem-changing verbs (STUDY!)


• Finish “Lotería” packets


• Bring in all old homework (from last unit)


• Bring in pink “Sentinels of Silence” for debrief tomorrow

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Sp II 02-21-2006

• Reviewed stem-changing verbs (grids stamped – Chile picante)


• Partner practice conjugation drills – 14 stem-changers from Lesson 1


• Notes – stem-changers & corrections on Almorzar-entender on chart (per. 4)


• How to “build sentences” handout (Cómo “construir” oraciones) – practiced creating sentences by answering interrogatives.


• Tarea:


• Assemble all of your stamped homework so far.


• Finish the remaining 7 sentences on white handout using AT LEAST 5 of the elements.


• Prepare Lotería 6 (e-ie verbs) with “bilingual” answers: Write the Spanish form of the verb and give it’s English equivalent.

      Ex. “Quiero / I want”; Piensas / You think

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Sp IV 02-21-2006

• Corrected WB 25-26


• Reviewed el pretérito & played Lotería


• Sarita & Carmen presented their Escudos


• Turned in Escudos response forms


• Practiced, “!Qué fin de semana!”  With 2 partners


• Tarea:


• Practice for Oral presentation tomorrow – !Qué fin de semana!


• WB pp 27 & 28 – el pretérito


• Return signed Progress Reports, if not yet signed.

Sp II 021706

Sp. II 02-17-06

• Introduced & reviewed stem-changing verbs, using the textbook’s GramActiva video.


• Reviewed the differing ways that verbs can change their stems: o-ue. U-ue. E-ie, e-i.


• Introduced new vocab using p. 18-19 in the text, along with the accompanying CD track.


• Introduced “Hay que…” “Se prohíbe…”


• In groups, students made lists of 7 affirmative and 7 negative statements about classroom behavior in their ideal command.


• Tarea:


• Conjugate all of the stem changing verbs outlined on page 27 of the textbook (13 in all), plus “comenzar” (making a total of 14 verbs).  This will be accomplished on the verb grids handed out in class.

Sp IV 02172006

Sp IV 02-17-2006

• “Practice Quiz” for the regular preterite


• Showed students their usernames and passwords on the Conjuguemos site.


• Stamps on Ex. 8, pg. 14 & Workbooks pp 25 & 26 (el molcajete)


• Escudos – Eva, Gael, Esperanza


• Received scoring sheets for Escudos – those who presented before today.


• Read page 9 aloud, in partners, and wrote answers to activity 2, pg. 11.


• Shared our jokes with 2 separate partners, then with the whole class


• Received grade print outs

Tarea:

• Make a diary for this weekend:


• Divide each day into three parts


• Write at least 2 sentences for what you did - use different verbs

• Have grade print signed by your parent(s)

                                                          

Sp IV 02162006

Sp IV 02-16-2006

• Turned in Homework (vocab. lists & sentences) for stamps (Agua de horchata)


• Reviewed vocabulary, page 10


• Played “Estoy pensando de una palabra”


• Use small white boards with homework sentences – gave partner the English and partner tried to write the Spanish.


• Review of the uses of the Preterito and the Imperfecto – see pages 13-16 in the text + Power Point presentation


• Tarea:


• Be ready to tell joke tomorrow


• Haven’t presented your Escudo yet? – Be ready to present tomorrow.


• Review pp 13-16 and double check your classroom notes


• Study the regular conjugations of the preterite (pg. 14)


• Write out activity 8, pg. 14


• Review vocabulary by doing activities 1 &2 on Workbook pp 25 & 26

Sp II 02162006

Sp II – 02-16-2006

• Reviewed grammar and vocabulary quickly with students through a game of Pelota de Práctica.


• Students took the Unit Test for Para Empezar (review unit).


• Those students that finished their tests early read a Spanish children’s book and summarized it (in Spanish) to earn extra points on their tests.


• Tarea:


• Review the Green flashcards that Mr. Christensen gave out this week (for p.40 vocab) in preparation for Chapter 1.

Sp II 02152006

Sp II – 02-15-2006

• Stamped homework, while students reviewed present tense verb conjugation (conjuguemos.com)


• Corrected homework as a class, addressing student questions along the way.


• Mr. Christensen presented a powerpoint to the class, with pictures of people, maps, and places.  In pairs, students described (in writing) the people, the weather, and the countries using personal whiteboards and dry erase markers.


• Pelota de Práctica – reviewed conjugation of present tense verbs with Mr. Christensen throwing a ball to students.  Those who received the ball were required to conjugate a given verb according to the location of their thumb on the ball (subject pronouns were written all over the ball).  


• Tarea:


• Study for tomorrow’s test, using the study guides distributed yesterday.

Sp IV 02152006

Sp IV 02-15-2006

• Corrected and turned in Test (L. P. – 60 pts) from yesterday


• Escudos – orals continued.  Those who went today: Miguel, Josué, Adriana, Mora, Carlos, Donato, Eduardo y Elena


• Got new vocabulary list ,1-A, pg. 10, and went over pronunciation.


• Anuncio – Find and practice a joke in Spanish for Friday.


• Tarea – Write 15 bilingual sentences using as many of the new vocabulary words as possible (minimum = 1 per sentence).

Sp IV 02142006

Sp IV 02-14-2006

• Turned in (a) Word Search & (b) Crossword – Profesiones


• Confirmed who would be attending the Guitarist Concert this PM


• Exchanged homework packets; corrected and turned in


• Reviewed for test: Serpientes y Escaleras


• Took - Test , Leccion Preliminar


• Made Valentine’s Cards


• Tarea? – Practice your Escudo Oral, if you haven’t gone yet.

Sp II 02142006

Sp II 02-14-2006

• Stamped homework


• Graded Homework as a class


• Reviewed possessive pronouns and formation of present tense verbs


• Enjoyed a visit by a guest guitarist – Spanish Classical Guitar


• Tarea:


• Finish white homework packet “P-2” and “P-4”


• Study for Thursday’s test (handed out study guide)


• Return progress report with goals and parent signature by tomorrow

Sp II 02082006

Sp II 02-08-2006

• Stamped homework


• Graded Homework as a class


• Reviewed possessive pronouns and formation of present tense verbs


• Enjoyed a visit by a guest guitarist – Spanish Classical Guitar


• Tarea:


• Finish white homework packet “P-2” and “P-4”


• Study for Thursday’s test (handed out study guide)


• Return progress report with goals and parent signature by tomorrow

Sp II 02132006

Sp II – 02-13-2006

• Precaliento (warm-up)-Students were given a list of the 15 most common errors from last week’s poems.  They were then given a few minutes to correct these errors on their own.  We then went over them as a class.


• Reviewed the use of “llamarse” and “gustar” along with their differences in Spanish


• Reviewed Seasons of the year in Spanish, brainstorming (as a class) the weather, holidays, and activities (including sports) that occur in each season.


• In pairs, students completed Text p. 11, Act 18, quizzing one another on the activities that one would generally enjoy in each season.


• Students received performance reports, and were assigned the task of coming up with a strategy for future success (outlined in handout).


• Tarea:


• Students were to return (by Wednesday), the grade handouts and success strategies, signed by them and their parents


• Study for Thursday’s test (on Para Empezar), the first unit of study in the book


• Complete the “Español 1 – Repaso” packet.

Sp II 02102006

Sp II 02-10-2006

• Names test = took and turned in


• Repaso – Subject pronouns and the formation of verbs in the present tense.


• Students received sheets of subject pronouns, verb stems, & endings


• Students cut the stems, endings and subject pronouns into squares for assembly into words and sentences.


• Tarea


• No homework

Sp IV 02102006

Sp IV 02-10-2006

• Names test = took and turned in


• Repaso – vocabulario


• Text – pp. 5 & 6 – vocabulario, presentaciones y computadoras


• Activity 5, pg. 6


• Repaso – Verbos en el presente http:/www.conjuguemos.com


• Repaso – meanings of the categories in the Escudo for Monday


• Anuncios – NW International Film Festival starts tonight

       Volunteers for 8th grade Electives Fair – See Mrs. Croft
        Want to Host an Exchange student?

• Tarea: Escudos Oral due Monday

Sp IV 02092006

Sp IV 02-09-2006

• Stamped homework (pink Práctica LP)– Sello = Mi casa es tu casa


• Reviewed vocabulario – Las profesiones at the Quia site

       htttp://www.quia.com/jg/700337.html

• “Escudo” workshop – questions/answers session


• Corrections – Workbook pp. 19-23


• Correcciones – Práctica Lección Preliminar


• Got Prearranged absence forms for an “in-building field trip” to hear a Spanish guitarist next Tuesday: either the last 30 minutes of 3rd of the first 30 minutes of 4th periods.


• Tarea


• Study for names test tomorrow


• Escudo due Monday


• Test – Lección Preliminar on Tuesday

Sp II 02092006

Sp II 02-09-2006

• Turned in homework


• Presented final drafts of “Poemas en Diamante” (diamond poems) to the rest of the class.


• While students presented, their classmates wrote comments and suggestions on the in-class comment sheet.


• Conversation cards – in partners, students spoke to one another on two different topics, using vocabulary from the Para Empezar unit.


• Reviewed old vocabulary from Spanish I, with yellow packets (played “pelota de práctica in per. 4)


• Tarea


• Complete study system given to you by Mr. Christensen (green packet) for page 40 in the text


• Complete study system assigned yesterday in class (p. 68)

Sp IV 02082006

Sp IV 02-08-2006-Update

• UPDATE: Other handouts- distributed during class:


• Conexiones vocab. on Quia http://www.quia.com/jg/700337.html


• Vocabulario pg. 3 ¡Hagamos Conexiones!

• Stamped homework (¡Viva México!)


• Warm-up – Los números altos


• Orales de pareja – Preguntas personales (3 partners)


• Continued correcting workbook – pp 16, 17, 18


• Went over the Escudo requirements - due Monday


• Announced first lesson test (Preliminar) Next Tuesday (Feb. 14)


• Tarea:


• Study for Names Test – el viernes


• Práctica de Lección Preliminar (pink handout)

Sp II 02082006

Sp II 02-08-2006

• Turned in homework


• Took quiz on Latin American Geography


• Mrs. Thurber-Brown taught the class about Study skills for successful completion of foreign language classes.


• Peer-edited one another’s rough drafts of yesterday’s poems


• Tarea:


• Finish final copy of Poema en Diamante (Diamond poem)


• Read, sign, and return “Study skills” worksheet


• Complete the Search through your Textbook worksheet


• Create a study system for the vocabulary terms on pg. 68 of your textbook.

Sp II 02072006

Sp II 02-07-2006

• Turned in homework


• Reviewed formation and use of tener, venir, and hacer in text (p. 15)


• Completed Activities 2 y 3 in text page 15


• Played “Barco de Batalla” (Battleship) with partners, to practice verb conjugation


• Reviewed last night’s homework – final section of blue verb grid


• Tarea


• Write a rough draft of the “Poemas en Diamante” (Diamond-shaped poem), following the instructions on page 13 of the textbook.


• Study for tomorrow’s map quiz.  You need to know Latin American country names, locations, and capitals.  Use the geography handouts from class, along with the beginning of chapter one to study for this.

Sp IV 02072006

Sp IV 02-07-2006

• Discussion of new +/- grading scale for ’06-‘07


• Homework stamped (¡Viva España!)


• Partners reviewed vocabulary on page 4 -  professional fields and professions


• Partners read ¡Hagamos Conexiones! – pg. 3


• New partners (cocodrilos) questions/answers, Act. 2, pg. 4 (text)


• Began correcting Workbook homework (pp. 11-14)


• Postponed oral, El escudo, until Monday, Feb. 13th.


• Tarea: Scavenger hunt - textbook

Sp IV 02062006

Sp IV 02-06-2006

1. Workbooks stamped (Yo ♥ Español)


2. Reviewed the names of the animals on Partner Orals handout


3. Organized ourselves into Partners – made “appointments”


4. Partner Oral: Entrevista personal


5. Introduced our partner to the class (10 puntos)


6. Got handout for the Escudo project due Thursday

Guidelines:

• Integrate your visual into your talk


• Oral presentation, no more than 10 written items


• No words on your visual except item #6

                    

1. Tarea:

• Wkbk pp. 17-23 (present tense verbs)


• Start working on Escudo

Sp II 02062006

Sp II – 02-06-2006

• Turned in homework


• Handed out workbooks


• Handed out flashcard sheets, instructed students on different flashcard types and the importance of varying study strategies (don’t just read, write and speak too!)


• Reviewed geography of Latin America, with partners using whiteboards to describe weather, give names and capitals of countries.


• Reviewed interrogatives, writing 5 get-to-know-you questions and then sharing them with partners.  


• Reviewed Spanish I vocab and grammar with the help of yellow review packets.


• Tarea


• Finish blue verb grids (-er & -ir verbs)


• Complete WAVA p.5 Act 6


• Study green geography handout (from Friday) – Latin American Geography quiz on wednesday

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Sp IV 02-03-2006

• Sellos on Homework (Gol)


• Checked off Study Buddies – contact information on Syllabus


• Copied off the vocabulary for professions from Quia site

Conexiones_Preliminar_profesioneshttp://www.quia.com/jg/700337.html

• Played vocabulary review games on the Smart Board from the Quia site.


• Textbook Cover Contest – 4 winners!


• Reviewed the yellow vocabulary sheet distributed yesterday


• Corrected last night’s homework


• Voted for MORP king


• Tarea:

            Workbook pp 11-16 (present tense verbs)
             Study and complete exercises

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Sp II – 02-03-2006

• Turned in homework


• Checked off book covers, voted for best 3 in class.


• Quiz – Ser (corrected quiz immediately thereafter)


• Maps-


• Received green map packets and looked for countries and capitals in text


• Listened to Capital Raps song


• Completed on-line geography quiz


• Reviewed class names in Spanish and english


• Tarea:


• Complete the first three pages of the packet.


• Complete the –ar verb section of blue verb grid.

Sp IV 02022006

Sp IV 02-02-2006

• Turned in Parent Contact Information/Workbook form


• Stamped homework (¿Qué te pasa, calabaza?)


• Checked off Encuesta – completed


• Datos Personales – mixer/oral


• Got “Permisos de pasillo” – Hall passes/extra credit vouchers


• Power Point & notes: Basics of grammar – Parts of Speech

1. What they are


2. Nouns: gender & number


3. Articles: definite & indefinite


4. Adjectives: quantity versus descriptive


5. Verbs: Simple versus compounds; past-present-future


6. Adverbs

• Corrected Homework in workbook


• Answered questions to me from students in Datos Personales


• Homework for tonight:

1. Workbook pp.7-10


2. Bienvenidos- Complete telephone numbers of classmate


3. Study numbers 100-1,000,000


4. Have textbook covered for tomorrow

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Sp II – 02-02-2006

• Turned in homework


• Stamped packet and verb grids


• Completed “Datos Personales” mixer and classmate scavenger hung


• Handed out Hall Passes


• Reviewed formation of questions


• Cuál, dónde, etc.


• Completed gold interrogatives (question words) handout


• Wrote 5 questions (complete sentences) in Spanish to ask classmates about themselves (also using new chapter vocab)


• Completed partner oral with the 5 questions, switching partners twice


• Visited the following website for practice of new vocabulary:


• http://www.quia.com/jg/598529.html


• Tarea:


• Completed the following sections in the white packet – “physical appearance,” “nationalities,” and Practice Workbook page “P-1” (the fourth page of the packet).


• Studied usage of the verb “ser” for tomorrow’s quiz

Sp II 02012006

Sp II – 02-01-2006

• Turned in Welcome & Datos personales handouts


• Stamped 5 Syllabus questions


• Who is it?- Oral mixer


• Reviewed the alphabet & dictated our names


• Reviewed numbers 0-1,000


• Gave phone numbers in 100’s & 10’s


• Encuesta – based on Syllabus questions


• Received Workbook Packets


• Completed Text listening activity, pg. 2


• Tarea:

1. Have parent/guardian complete form in parent letter

              Be sure parent indicates choice re: workbook

1. Complete #’s 1-26 in workbook packet


2. Complete blue verb grid, -ar verbs (bailar through escuchar)


3. Get textbook covered by Friday

Sp IV-02-01-2006

Sp IV – 02-01-2006

• Turned in Welcome & Datos personales handouts


• Stamped 5 Syllabus questions


• ¿Quién soy yo?- Oral mixer


• Reviewed the alphabet & dictated our names


• Reviewed numbers 0-1,000


• Gave phone numbers in 100’s & 10’s


• Encuesta – based on Syllabus questions


• Received Workbooks


• Tarea:

1. Have parent/guardian complete form in parent letter

              Be sure parent indicates choice re: workbook

1. Study pp 1-6 in Workbook


2. Write out exercises 1-4 in Workbook


3. Get textbook covered by Friday

PDX Intern Films

Portland International Film Festival
February 10-25
http://www.nwfilm.org

Las películas en Español

Película: Wandering Shadows     
País: Colombia     
Director: Ciro Guerra     
Cuándo la dan y el cine:      02/17/06      8:30 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2
     02/20/06     9:00 PM     Broadway Metroplex 1
     02/21/06     7:00 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2

Película: The Car     
País: Colombia     
Director: Luis Orjuela
Cuándo la dan y el cine:       02/24/06     9:15 PM     Guild Theatre  829 SW Taylor St.
     02/25/06     6:00 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2

Película: New From Afar          
País: México     
Director: Ricardo Benet     
Cuándo la dan y el cine:      02/24/06     8:45 PM      Broadway Metroplex 1
     02/18/06     4:30 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2

Película: Tapas     
País: Spain     
Directors: José Corbacho y Juan Cruz     
Cuándo la dan y el cine:      02/13/06     6:15 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2
     02/15/06     8:15 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2
     02/16/06     8:30 PM     Broadway Metroplex 2