Sp II 03-24-2006

Sp II 03-24-2006

• Watched movie, Touring Mexico, taking note of the regions mentioned and something memorable about them.


• Stamped WAVA pp 31, 32, & 33 and returned


• Reviewed Ser & Estar – page 88 & WAVA listening activity 8, pg. 30


• Stressed Possessives – Reviewed in period 3 + WAVA activity 9; Introduced in period 4 (pg. 88 + Act. 22)


• Reviewed vocabulary and reflexive verbs- corrected Crossword handout.


• ¿Tarea?  ¡No! – Have a fun and safe Spring Break!

Sp II 03-24-2006

Sp II 03-24-2006

• Watched movie, Touring Mexico, taking note of the regions mentioned and something memorable about them.


• Stamped WAVA pp 31, 32, & 33 and returned


• Reviewed Ser & Estar – page 88 & WAVA listening activity 8, pg. 30


• Stressed Possessives – Reviewed in period 3 + WAVA activity 9; Introduced in period 4 (pg. 88 + Act. 22)


• Reviewed vocabulary and reflexive verbs- corrected Crossword handout.


• ¿Tarea?  ¡No! – Have a fun and safe Spring Break!

Sp IV 03-24-2006

Sp IV 03-24-2006

• Reviewed yesterday’s test over 1B


• Turned in organized homework packets for 1B


• Editing circles for Shadow Story write up – composition


• Started Shadow Story Orals


• Tarea: Final copy due on 4/03/06: 250 words (minimum), Typed, double-spaced.

Have a fun and safe Spring Break!

Sp II 03-23-2006

Sp II 03-23-2006

• Warm-up: Read “Conexiones-La Salud” on page 83 then answer the questions about you and your sleep pattern.


• Listening activities 5, 6 and 7 in the WAVA workbook.


• Reviewed “Ser” and “Estar” – see page 86.  We also did exercise 19.


• Period 3: introduced the possessive adjectives on page 88, and we did activity 22.


• Tarea: WAVA workbook, writing activities on pages 31, 32, and 33.

Sp IV 03-23-2006

Sp IV 03-23-2006

• Warm-up: Oral de pareja sobre tu infancia


• Repaso – meaning changers in the past tense : Sentences


• Test: 1B


• Writing workshop – continue adding details to your “redacción” – Complete the “mapa del cuento”


• Do steps 4 & 5 on page 43 for your redacción


• Received homework packet cover sheet


• Tarea: (1) complete mapa del cuento (2) complete your rough draft of your story –250 words/minimun (3) Make paper cutouts for your shadow story – tell us the story you are writing and illustrate it with cut outs that you’ll put up on the overhead as you are telling the story.  (4) have your homework organized in your 1B packet.

Sp II 03-22-2006

Sp. II 03-22-2006

• Warm-up: practiced conjugations of Reflexive verbs


• Got overview handout of Reflexive Verbs – same information as the Power Point from yesterday.


• Took quiz on Reflexive verb conjugation (20 points with a possible 5 points extra)


• Reviewed the answers of the quiz.


• Text book – page 79 – Activity 6 – written and oral (Got a green handout with a Venn diagram already printed on it)


• Text book – page 79 – Activity 7 – oral (documented on new Venn diagram


• Introduced homework – handed out a two-sided pink sheet: crossword on one side and 2 vocabulary activities on the other.  Please complete for tomorrow.

Sp IV 03-22-2006

Sp. IV 03-22-2006

• Warm-up BIG sentence/vocabulary/past tense review sheet – re: un viaje a la Costa del Sol


• Handouts- Overview of the uses of the preterite and the imperfect (see page 28) AS WELL as a comparison of verbs that change their meaning between the preterite and the imperfect (see page 32)


• Using the above handout, we went over the beginning of the story, Cuentame un cuento and analyzed the reasons for the uses of the verbs in the past tense.


• Went over what will be on tomorrow’s test – got a study guide


• Got a study guide for the oral we’ll be doing tomorrow and Friday.


• Started adding to our stories – el Taller- page 43;  begin steps 4 & 5.


• Lesson 1B test tomorrow.

Sp II 03-21-2006

Sp II  03-21-2006

• Introduction to lesson 2A – read and listened to pp 74-75


• Did Actividades 1 & 2 on page 75.


• Listened to the “Videohistoria” – pp 76-77, then watched it on the DVD.


• Reviewed Reflexive Verbs – period 3 played a sequencing game for daily routine activities.


• Watched the “GramActiva” on Reflexive Verbs


• Power Point on Reflexive Verbs


• Corrected/Reviewed the Verb Chart from last night


• Corrected Exercises A, B, C and D from “Body Parts; Clothing” packet.


• Tarea – Study for Reflexive Verbs quiz tomorrow AND write Exercise D in the packet, being sure to include all of the information in at least 4-5 sentences.

Sp IV 03-21-2006

Sp IV 03-21-2006

• Los mejores chistes del día – read and interpreted the jokes in Spanish from this web site http://chistes.com/


• Survey – asked four classmate the comprehension questions we wrote last night about the story read in class yesterday.


• Debriefed story “Cuéntame un cuento”; reviewed homework, questions and went over the symbolism and other aspects of the story.


• Introduced the composition based on the “Taller” – page 43.


• Tarea – Complete items 1, 2 , and 3 on page 43.

           #1 – List the imperfect verbs from the story up to line #50.  
         Then indicate WHY these are in the imperfecto – refer to the uses of the
          Imperfecto and the Preterito chart in the chapter.
           #2 – Choose one of the themes listed to write about.
           #3 -  Write your opening paragraph(s) setting the scene/stage for your story.
             (Rough draft)
         Final draft will be typed – double spaced and 250 words.

Sp IV 03-20-2006

Sp. IV 03-20-2006 – Mrs. Reed subbed for this class

• Turned in questions from the video (el arte de contra)


• Corrected Workbook pages 31-32


• Played vocabulary flashcard game, words on page 25


• Practiced asking/answering questions in the past tense using question cards sets #1 & #2


• Announced Test 1B – el jueves


• Read “Cuentame un cuento” aloud in small groups – pp. 37-40


• Tarea:  (1) complete the exercise on pg. 41- rewriting the sentences in the proper

                         sequence according to the story.
                  (2) Write 5 comprehension questions about the story
                         to ask fellow students tomorrow to see if they understood.

Sp II 03-20-2006

Sp. II 03-20-2006

• Took vocabulary production test of clothing and body


• Reviewed possible answers to the test.


• Received new vocabulary lists (pink) from page 96, and went over the pronunciation and extra notes.


• Introduced “Reflexive Verbs” – see page 80 in your text.


• Practiced conjugating reflexive verbs.


• Started White Packet – “Parts of the Body; Clothing”


• Distributed a verb grid of reflexive verbs for lesson 2A


• Announced a conjugation quiz on Wednesday over the reflexive verbs


• Homework (1) Complete the verb grid of the reflexive verbs

                         (2) Complete exercises A, B, C and D (1-15) in the white packet,  
                              “Parts of the Body; Clothing”

Spanish IV 03-14-2006

Spanish IV 03-14-2006

1. Collected homework - ¡Superhombre! From the Barbara Kuczun Nelson site
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/ and stamped it for completion, or incompleto, then please return to students. Meanwhile the students wrote out the Activity 1-34, page 33.

2. The students then selected new oral partners.  Distribute the pink sheets with obras de arte y/o artistas.  

3. With their “Maja de Francisco Goya” partner, they read aloud ¡Aparición incredible en la calle de enamorados!, page 30 And helped one another understand it.

4. Corrected exercise 29, page 29

5. Correct last night’s homework, ¡Superhombre! –

6. As time permitted, they may began watching a Sponge Bob Square Pants video in Spanish.

Tarea:

1. Workbook pages 31-32 – La leyenda del chico y el lobo. – Practice of vocabulary on page 25 (text) in context.

Workbook page 34, Ex. 1-10 La bola de crystal Pretérito vs. imperfecto

Spanish II 03-14-2006

Spanish II 03-14-2006

Warm-up:
1. Drilled the vocabulary on page 70

2. Quiz – Recognition test for clothing and body parts on page 70

Review: Confirmed what the answers should be.

Corrected White homework handout 2A-A

Review “Verbs and expressions that use the infinitive” – page 71

Activity 3 – page 71 –Write a response to Carlos agreeing with some of the suggestions and providing one or two additional suggestions.

Activity 4 – page 71 - You wrote out your questions as homework.  Each student practiced asking and answering the questions, keeping track of which expressions your partner used from the box on page 71.  

Video – We began the video, Touring Mexico.  Students wrote down the regions mentioned, and something important/interesting to them about those regions.

Tarea – Other side of the white sheet from last night, 2A-B

Sp II 03-15-2006

Sp II 03-15-2006

• Warm-up quiz on page 70: English to Spanish


• Corrections


• Stamp on Tarea


• Handout- flashcards of El cuerpo humano


• Song: Cabeza, hombres, rodillas, pies


• Juego: Memoria – flashcard matching game


• Continued with the video Touring Mexico


• Test – Body parts and clothing- page 70 & today’s words.

Sp IV 03-15-2006

Sp IV 03-15-2006

• Read page 31 – las artes literarias precolombinas


• Wrote out “Comparan” – page 31


• Speaking practice: A conversar  - page 31


• Speaking practice: Un anecdota de la infancia


• Comprehension practice: Conexiones video – Two young women recount events from their childhood and teen years.


• Tarea: Answer the questions based on the video.

Sp II 03-13-2006

Sp. II 03-13-2006

• Warm-up: Review of body parts and clothing, pg. 70


• Period: Simon says, Period four we sang, “Cabezas, hombres, rodillas, pies…”


• Wrote out Activity 1, pg. 70


• Working with our “oso” partner, we asked and answered

      questions based on Act. 1

• Corrected homework – handout –A ver si recuerdas 2A


• Gave notes over additional vocabulary items


• Reviewed translation sentences.


• Tarea:


• Study for recognition test on page 70 body and clothing.


• Complete side 2A-A of white handout distributed at the end of class.


• Write out the questions for Activity 4, page 71

Sp IV 03-13-2006

Sp IV 03-13-2006

• Went to the ASB elections assembly


• Rotating partners oral, Act. 32, pg. 30


• Reviewed vocabulary questions that arose from the oral:


• Reviewed uses of the preterite and the imperfect – Started ¡Superhombre! At the http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/exercises/  follow links from preterite/imperfect exercises in the right-hand column.


• Tarea: Complete the above exercise about ¡Superhombre!

Sp IV 03-10-2006

Sp. IV 03-10-2006

We watched the movie “Antz” in Spanish.

We’ll have another group oral on Monday,
“Who shall we invite to dinner”

Sp II 03-10-2006

Sp II – 03-10-2006

• Warm up – Partner Oral text p.59, Act 19 part 2 (using homework sheet from this week)


• Review – Celia Cruz (textbook also)


• Examen (test) 1B


• Graded and turned in homework packets for unit 1B


• Students who finished tests early started work on preview worksheet for unit 2A vocab “A Ver Si Recuerdas” 2A (white sheet)


• Enjoyed a slice of cake in celebration of Mr. Christensen’s last day at THS


• Tarea:


• Finish white sheet began (or at least handed out) in class

Spanish IV 03-09-2006

Spanish IV 03-09-2006

• Started lesson 1-B in Conexiones


• With a partner (cangurú), read page 24 & began writing answers to ex. 23, on page 26.


• Reviewed the Leyenda de el Iztaccíhuatl y el Popocatépetl – and did the partner oral exercise 2 (mapeche partner)


• Reviewed answers from yesterday’s test


• Reviewed the answers to the second part of the Juan Bobo story


• Exchanged homework packets and verified them.  Then we turned them in.


• Tarea:


• Finish writing out exercise 23, page 26 – text.


• Study the uses of the preterite and the imperfect, pp. 27-28 – Note taking highly recommended.


• Apply the uses of the pret/imp in two activities: Ex. 29, pg. 29 and


• Write a paragraph about an incident from your childhood (an anecdote) by including the information prompted by the questions in exercise 32, pg. 30

Sp II 03-09-2006

Sp II – 03-09-2006

• (Shortened day – snow)


• Turned in homework for stamps


• Quiz – Vocabulary recognition and production


• Corrected homework


• Reviewed Saber vs. Conocer


• Reviewed Hace + time + que…

Tarea:

• Organize AND BRING your 1B tareas packet


• ESTUDIA – pp 68 & 69


• What’s on the test tomorrow:


• Reading comprehension – vocabulary in context


• Grammar:


• Saber & Conocer : conjugations AND when to use them.


• Expressing how long someone’s been doing something.


• Be able to ask how long someone’s been doing something.

HACE + TIME EXPRESSION + VERB –THE PERSON & ACTION
Ex. Hace dos años que estudio Español

• tan  + adjective/adverb +como;


• tanto/a/os/as + noun(s) + como

Sp II 03-06-2006

Sp II – 03-06-2006

• Using pink “animals” sheet, students picked partners for future activities.


• Oral de pareja (Partner oral) “1B-1” – Other pink handout


• Students practiced vocabulary recognition and production at website: http://www.quia.com/jg/619368.html

• Review of “Saber” and “Conocer,” the two “to know” verbs in Spanish.  Students can study these verbs in their text at p. 56.


• Tarea:


• Text p.57, Act. 18, parts 1 & 2


• Part 1 – list


• Part 2 - paragraph

Sp IV 03-08-2006

Sp. IV 03-08-06

• Confirmed the “lista de tareas” for lesson 1-A


• Took Test 1A


• Started Reading the legend, “ El Iztaccíhuatl y El Popocatépetl”


• Enrolled on the Quia site


• Tarea:


• Complete the new vocabulary list for page 25


• Complete exercises 1 & 3 on the legend packet


• Complete your homework packet of 1A for tomorrow

Sp II - 03 08 2006

Sp II-03-08-2006

• Warm-up: Students copied down error-ridden sentences taken from the last test’s essay section, then corrected them individually – debriefed as a class.


• Reviewed Hace + time + que to discuss lengths of time passed.


• Partner oral – saber vs. conocer (pink sheet, taken from Realidades 2)


• Tarea:


• Study vocab p.68 for tomorrow’s quiz


• Study p.46-49 for quiz as well.


• (period 3 only) WAVA p. 23 Act 12 (saber vs. conocer)


• B-6&7 on pink handout – be sure you’ve gotten both sides down.

Spanish II 03-07-2006

Spanish II 03-07-2006

• Collected and stamped (Gracias) the homework from last night – Act. 16


• Warm-up – Text page 50, Exercises 4 & 5 (reading comprehension and vocabulary practice)


• Reviewed Saber and Conocer – Did Activity 15 – page 57

       Corrected Act. 16 (period 3, not 4)

• Introduced the structure: HACE + Time Expression + Que + verb = how long someone’s been doing and activity. – See page 58

      Used lots of personal examples: how longs someone’s been playing the guitar,  
      How long someone’s been playing soccer, etc.

• Tarea:


• Check your class notes with box on top of page 58 – Hace + Time Expressions.


• Write out Activity 19, part 1, on page 59


• Read about Celia Cruz and answers the questions on page 59


• Practice Saber y Conocer in WAVA, pg. 23: For each topic listed by number write an intelligent question for BOTH Saber and Conocer.

Spanish IV 03-07-2006

Spanish IV 03-07-2006

• Warm-up : Reviewed the imperfecto & vocab. pg. 10 – Wkbk pg. 30


• Past tense module – B. K. Nelson site @ Colby College ¡Qué miedo pasé!

Read, Listened and Watched Video, Did preterite/imperfect fill-in exercise

• Reviewed the first part of Juan Bobo – stamped the questions (Gracias/piñata)


• Sang: El hijo del sol – Andean Folk Song- Preterite & Imperfect


• Forecasted for next year’s classes


• Homework: Study for 1-A test tomorrow – see yesterday’s blog for a list of what’s on the test.

Los sitios buenos

Los sitios buenos para la práctica

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/
exercises/

www.conjuguemos.com
La clave para THS = 893

www.quia.com

Sp IV 03-03-2006

Sp IV 03-03-2006

• Taped Oral tests: for Participation Points- Oregon Oral assessment


• Read <<Juan Bobo>> aloud in small groups while others where testing.


• Wrote out the answers to Comprendió Ud for both parts.


• 1A test announced for Wednesday: March 08, 2006


• Vocabulary pg. 10 + Cuidado,


• Preterite & Imperfect- conjugations,


• Know the differences in the types of narrations discussed in the chapter:


• El chiste,


• la leyenda


• la fábula,


• Know the details and vocabulary from the story, La abeja haragana

Sp II 03062006

Sp II – 03-06-2006

• Using pink “animals” sheet, students picked partners for future activities.


• Oral de pareja (Partner oral) “1B-1” – Other pink handout


• Students practiced vocabulary recognition and production at website: http://www.quia.com/jg/619368.


• Review of “Saber” and “Conocer,” the two “to know” verbs in Spanish.  Students can study these verbs in their text at p. 56.


• Tarea:


• Text p.57, Act. 18, parts 1 & 2


• Part 1 – list


• Part 2 - paragraph

Sp IV 03-03-2006

Sp. IV 03-03-2006

• Estoy pensando en una palabra (vocabulary guessing game as well as listening comprehension practice).


• Reviewed/corrected the packet exercises on La abeja hiragana


• Reviewed/corrected the workbook homework – el imperfecto


• Received the packet, “Juan Bobo”


• Started taped orals


• ¿Hay tarea?  ¡No!  ¡Que pasen buen fin de semana!

Sp II 03-03-2006

Sp II 03-03-2006

• Act. 3, page 43


• Corrected homework


• Read & discussed “Fondo Cultural” – page 44


• Listened and repeated vocabulary in context – pp 46 & 47


• Act. 1 & 3 pg. 47


• Learned “Izquierda, derecha, delante, detrás” rhyme


• Video historia – DVD that goes with the book – more vocabulary in context.


• Period 3 – GramActiva = both tan…como/tanto…como AND saber vs. conocer


• Tarea:


• Green 2-sided handout – Ex. A, B, and C

¡Que pases buen fin de semana!

Sp IV 03-02-2006

Sp IV 03-02-2006

• Turned in Tarea: Stamps and Points


• Practiced the Imperfecto – Page 22 (text), Act. 17 (Written)


• “La abeja haragana”


• Read aloud the Parte II


• Confirmed meaning of the vocabulary


• Confirmed answers of the homework, “¿Comprendió Ud.?


• Started the exercises in the back of the packet


• Tarea:


• Write out your definitions for the vocabulary, if you didn’t complete that last night – so we can play, “Estoy pensando en una palabra” tomorrow


• Finish up all of the exercises for La abeja haragana

Sp II 03-02-2006

Sp II 03-02-2006

• Corrected and turned-in homework Packet for Lesson 1A (28 pts)


• Turned-in signed Progress Reports.


• Got points in the grade book for “fan folds” of vocabulary on pg. 42


• Stamped Vocabulary 1B fill-in list.


• Translated the following sentences talking about

Being in a Place (Estar + en + Lugar), Going to a Place (Ir + a + Lugar) and
Going to do an Activity ( If + a + Infinitivo)

1. I am in the gymnasium.  I am going to do exercises everyday.


2. Where is the library?  I have to chech out a book for English clas.


3. Where is Mr. Christensen?  He is at his friend’s house.  They are going to play videogames.


4. Where are we going?  I don’t know where I am!


5. Are you going to the basketball game tonight?

• Finished Parte III from “Practice Test” done in class yesterdays – more of the same topics as above.


• Textbook, page 43, Activity 3.


• Introduced how to make “like” comparisons – Saying that things are: “Just as --- as”, “Just as much --- as” and “Just as many --- as”


• Tarea:


• Yellow handout: Comparisons of Equality – do all items.


• WAVA workbook, page 22 – do all questions.

Sp II-el 2o de marzo

Sp II el 2°de marzo

• Students assembled and graded homework packets.


• Precaliento (Warmup)- Students translated English sentences to Spanish, emphasizing “Ir” and “Estar” – Corrected as a class


• Reviewed the final section of yesterday’s warm-up quiz, also focusing on “Ir a…” terms (learning how to speak about what one is “going to do” in Spanish.


• Making comparisons…. – Introduced the concepts of “tan…como,” “tanto…como,” and “tantos…como” to talk about equality of objects, people, etc.


• Introduced/Reviewed vocabulary dealing with extracurricular activities (outlined in text on pg. 68) through a game of “Pelota de Práctica.”


• Tarea


• Yellow “Comparisons” worksheet – do all questions, front and back


• WAVA p.22 – written in complete sentences.

Sp IV 1 Marzo 06

Sp. IV  1 Marzo 06

• Turned in forecasting sheets


• Reminded to sign up for the field trip to U of O


• Reviewed –ir stem-changers: where they make the “third” change: in 3rd person preterite, in the –ing form and in nosotros/vosotros of the present subjunctive


• Corrected textbook homework: pp. 18-19, Ex. 15


• Reviewed the Parte 1 – La abeja haragana:

Read aloud with partner and double check answers to homework-
                Comprendió Ud, parte 1
Reviewed with a whole class, reviewing Parte I

• Continued with new partner reading Parte II


• Tarea:


• Write out the answers to ¿Comprendió Ud.? – Parte II


• Pink handout- vocab. pg. 10 – Select 10 and write definitions on the back, preparing to play, “Estoy pensando en una palabra”.

Sp II 1 marzo 06

Sp II el 1ero de marzo

• Pretest/review: Estar and Ir


• Practiced To be in a place and Going to a place - overhead


• A Ver si Recuerdas – pages 42 & 43 + extra vocabulary

La alberca = the swimming pool
El zócalo = the town square (Latin America)
El campo de    fútbol    =   The football field
                    _(name of the sport)-
La cancha de  básquetbol  = the basketball court
El baloncesto = the truly Spanish way of saying “basketball”

• Activity 1, page 42 and interviewed two other students – turned in.


• How to study tip – fan fold paper to write multiple repeats to memorize.

(see How to succeed in Spanish without working too hard)

• Received updated Progress Reports (minus the last unit tests- we’re still waiting for some to finish their make ups!)


• Tarea:


• Make 3 sets of fan folds: 5-7 words that you need to learn from each of the three categories on the top of page 42.


• Fill-in the Spanish for the English words on vocabulary sheet for page 68


• Write definitions on the backs of the Vocabulary Clip Art Flashcards


• Have your parent(s) sign the updated progress report.