Spanish III 03-21-07

• More students turned in their signed progress reports. Lost yours? Print a new one from EdLine, and have one of your parents sign it.

• Continued with the project presentations – we saw some wonderful Power Points and heard about very interesting national parks to go visit.

• Tarea:

STUDY! We’re REALLY going to have the 1-B test tomorrow: Same criteria as I outlined last week with the addition of vocabulary comprehension and production: I’ll provide definitions of 15 of the vocabulary items on page 58 and you’ll write the item in Spanish. Then YOU’LL write 4 definitions in Spanish and also write out which item you’re talking about.

What else is on the test?

Listening and reading comprehension

Selecting the preterite or the imperfect form of the verb for a sentence

Conjugating the unit’s verbs in the preterite and the imperfect.

Spanish IV 03-21-07

• Pruebita de verbos – verb quiz over the second group from our Lista máxima. We took and corrected it.
• Identified the 21 sections of the verb list. Ask to see a friend’s copy to find out what they are. We confirmed the tenses that you are now responsible to know for these verbs. They are: (1) El presente indicativo, (2) el presente subjuntivo, (3) los mandatos (imperatives), (4) el pretérito, (5) el imperfecto indicativo, (6) el futuro, (7) el condicional (potencial), (8) el progresivo presente (estar + participio presente/gerundio)
• Continued, and completed – except for Olga, with our shadow stories about a childhood experience.
• Tarea: Verb quiz: Parecer - Sostener

Spanish IV 03-20-07

Spanish IV 03-20-07

• Turned in our signed Progress Reports – I will still accept these tomorrow.
• Organized for our project presentations: (1) established presentation order (2) distributed response sheets
• Began presenting and writing our responses.
• Tarea
1. Study the verbs Hacer – oponer re: verb quiz tomorrow.
2. Read Las Artes Precolombinas – pg.31 & write out answers to Comparemos.

Spanish III 03-20-07

Spanish III 03-20-07

• Period 2: turned in our signed Progress Reports – I will still accept these tomorrow. Period 4 – got our progress reports
• Organized for our project presentations: (1) established presentation order (2) distributed response sheets (3) downloaded our presentations onto classroom’s computer.
• Began presenting and writing our responses.
• Tarea
1. Period 4 – Progress reports returned and signed.

Spanish III & Spanish IV 03-19-07

• Both classes started off with editing circles for their different past tense projects due tomorrow. Spanish IV – your Shadow story about a childhood event; Spanish III your Power Point presentation about a trip to a national park in a Spanish-speaking country.

• The editing circles took the bulk of the class in all sections. See the Círculos redactors on the previous blog entry to this one, to see the categories and the guiding questions if you want to check your own work. Spanish III got daily points for having completed and brought their outlines (were to have been done in-class last Wednesday) and rough drafts. I circulated and answered questions.

• Periods 1 & 2: got grade printouts, if your parents didn’t come to conferences. Please have them signed and return tomorrow. Period 4 – I didn’t get them to you, so we’ll do this tomorrow for the following day.

• Spanish IV – we reviewed the test over the past tenses from last Wednesday.

Círculos redactors Las narraciones en el pasado

1. La información es completa _______________________

• ¿Tiene todos los elementos pedidos/necesarios?
• ¿Tiene suficiente apoyos? – añade detalles extra para dar ejemplos.
• ¿Tiene(n) sentido la(s) frases(s)?

2. La conjugación de los verbos del pasado _______________________

• ¿Es un verbo regular o irregular en el pretérito?
• ¿Es un verbo regular o irregular en el imperfecto?
• ¿Es un verbo que cambia la raíz en el pretérito?
• ¿Es un verbo que cambia la ortografía en el pretérito? (-car/-gar/-zar; i-y)
• ¿Hay acordancia entre el sujeto y la terminación del verbo conjugado?

3. El uso/la aplicación del pretérito ________________________

• Acción limitada
• Acción terminada
• El empiezo/la terminación de la acción
• Una acción central a un evento/una narración

4. El uso/la aplicación del imperfecto ________________________

• Una descripción de la vida en general
• Una descripción de una persona y/o un lugar
• Una acción habitual (used to...)
• Una acción en proceso (was/were----ing)
• Una circunstancia general de una narración

Español III 03-14-07

Spanish III – Period 2 & 4

1. Warm-up: Distribute the “Código EcoViajero”

Students read it aloud with their seat partner and figured out it's meaning. Then we
went over it as a whole class.

2. I am postponing the Chapter 1-B test until next week. Probably Wednesday, maybe Thursday. This way you can still be working on your understanding of the preterite and imperfect as we share our projects.

3. Distributed the sign-up sheet for the projects and each student selected a country and a park – if they found a different one than is listed, that is just fine, but they needed to write it in under the country in which it is located.

4. GTime to work on their projects.
1. Write an outline based on the required elements of the project – YES(!) this WILL be included in the preparation points. You should not simply copy my Spanish – but rather, write in the specific details that pertain to your site.

Remember: A list of the required elements can be found both in the green project
handout & the white page that also include the Annotated Bibliography and the Scoring guide.

Note: we’ll NOT be doing an Annotated bibliography this time, but everything else IS included.

b. Worked on your personal narrative about your trip. Remember to apply the rules for the preterite and the imperfect. – handouts, on use of these were made available.

Homework: Rough draft of project for Monday, Final draft and PowerPoint due on Tuesday.

Español IV 03-14-07

Spanish IV – 03-14-07

(I was giving the Spanish IB orals - Sub= Mrs. Fowler)

1. Workbook packets 1-B

a. Ex. 8 students to took turns reading and class corrected the answers.

b. Preterit vs. Imperfect – used exercises 10 & 11 as a warm-up to the quiz .

2. Preterite/Imperfect quiz. - Students took and turned in as completed.

3. Work time on their “Shadow Story” projects. Create a narrative in the past; presumably a childhood experience (real or imaginary). You eed to set the scene and establish the principle characters then launch into the event itself. You will be telling this to us aloud, and all the while building your visual by incorporating cut outs you will place on the overhead to create shadows.

Homework: Rough draft of their 350-500 word narrative.

Spanish III 03-06-07

Spanish III 03-13-07

“En ese Martes no te cases ni embarques”

• Partner sharing and editing of our 10 sentences about things others were doing when someone else suddenly interrupted them.
• We took turns writing example of these sentences on the Smart Board, and double-checked them for meaning and accuracy of use of the imperfect and the preterite.
• Big over view of the National Park in a Spanish-speaking country project:

1. Helpful websites, and a BIG list of countries and possible project locations.

2. English list of required components in the written part of the project.

3. Overview of all of the elements required: Written, Power Point, Specialized vocabulary list for the class, Comprehension questions for the class, Bibliography with 5 citations – 3 of which are in Spanish.

4. Deadlines:

a. Select site for tomorrow (3-14-07)

b. Rough Draft – typed and double-spaced recommended – ready for editing circle in class on Monday (3-19-07)

c. Final Copy to turn in (different one to present from), Power Point ready to present for Tuesday (3-20)

• Showed previous Power Points from this project and we analyzed their relative strengths.
• Homework:
1. Study for Chapter 1-B test tomorrow: Listening and Reading Comprehension, the Preterite and the Imperfect: know how to conjugate them and when to use them.
2. Do some investigation on the Project Websites distributed in class – Select a site for tomorrow.

Spanish IV 03-12-07

Spanish IV 03-13-07

En ese Martes no te cases ni embarques.

“Mop up Day”

• Told our “stories” about our worst date ever to a partner.
• Corrected exercise 1-34, page 33: Selecting the correct use of the preterite or the imperfect- review of page 32.
• Corrected the yellow vocabulary translation exercise from Friday’s substitute day.
• Introduced the “Cuento de sombras” project:
1. Write a 350-500 word narrative about a childhood event (real or imaginary).
2. Practice telling it aloud and using shadow figures to “build” the story on the overhead projector while it telling to us.
3. Rough draft due on Monday – ready for editing circles.
4. Be ready to present with your final copy (typed, double spaced) with “shadows” on Tuesday.
• Reviewed for tomorrow’s test on the Preterite and the Imperfect.

Spanish III 03-13007

Spanish III 03-09-07

(Sub – el Sr. Neves)

• Warm-up: Communicative Activity 1-2: Talking with a partner about camping and the equipment needed for various activities.
• Corrected homework: in the textbook and in the workbook.
• Practice quizzes for the vocabulary, the Preterite and the Imperfecto.
• Homework: Students did not feel this was explained well, so few people did it.

Spanish III 03-12-07

• Took notes over the verbs that when translated into English seem to “change their meanings” from the imperfect to the preterite. The verbs covered were:

Imperfect: Preterite:

Saber knew (information) found out, first learned of

Conocer knew (people, places) first met someone, first went to a place

Poder had to ability (at last) managed to do/negative – failed to do

Tener possessed, had (owned) “got”/received; owned briefly

Estar was (condition) “got”/became a condition

Entender understood caught on

Costar was valued at (didn’t buy) it cost + it was the price paid (did buy)

Preferir preferred decided to do

Querer wanted; loved wanted/loved BUT got over it; neg = refused to do

Haber (hay) there was/there were there occurred

• Power Point presentation reviewing the uses of the Preterite and the Imperfect.

• Used Barbara Kuzen Nelson’s interactive web page over the Feria de San Fermín to practice the preterite and the imperfect. We did two of the exercises as a whole class.

• Explained about the intended homework from Friday, and reassigned it for Tuesday. Using the four columns write 10 sentences about how one person/or group is interrupted in the middle of doing something by another action in the past.

Spanish III 03-09-09 AND 03-12-07

Spanish III 03-09-07

(Sub – el Sr. Neves)

• Warm-up: Communicative Activity 1-2: Talking with a partner about camping and the equipment needed for various activities.
• Corrected homework: in the textbook and in the workbook.
• Practice quizzes for the vocabulary, the Preterite and the Imperfecto.
• Homework: Students did not feel this was explained well, so few people did it.

Spanish III 03-12-07

• Took notes over the verbs that when translated into English seem to “change their meanings” from the imperfect to the preterite. The verbs covered were:

Imperfect: Preterite:

Saber knew (information) found out, first learned of

Conocer knew (people, places) first met someone, first went to a place

Poder had to ability (at last) managed to do/negative – failed to do

Tener possessed, had (owned) “got”/received; owned briefly

Estar was (condition) “got”/became a condition

Entender understood caught on

Costar was valued at (didn’t buy) it cost + it was the price paid (did buy)

Preferir preferred decided to do

Querer wanted; loved wanted/loved BUT got over it; neg = refused to do

Haber (hay) there was/there were there occurred

• Power Point presentation reviewing the uses of the Preterite and the Imperfect.

• Used Barbara Kuzen Nelson’s interactive web page over the Feria de San Fermín to practice the preterite and the imperfect. We did two of the exercises as a whole class.

• Explained about the intended homework from Friday, and reassigned it for Tuesday. Using the four columns write 10 sentences about how one person/or group is interrupted in the middle of doing something by another action in the past.

Spanish IV 03-09 AND 03-12

Spanish IV 03-09-07

(Sub – el Sr. Neves)

• Handout, ¿Cómo se dice ‘to become’ en Español? – worked through the exercises practicing the different idioms used depending on various contexts.
• Practiced the meanings of the first “chunk” of verbs from La lista máxima de verbos. _ Practiced sentences based on these.
• Yellow handout: Conexiones p. 25 – Traducción de vocabulario
• Distributed white handout: practicing the preterite and imperfect and how their meanings may change when translating to English. See page 32.

03-12-07

• Reviewed past-tense meaning changers – page 32.
• Practiced with the white handout from Friday- incorporating the past tense “meaning changers” into sentences.
• Watched the Barbara Kuzan Nelson interactive story, “!Qué miedo pasé!
• Did the follow-up preterite/imperfecto exercises based on the words from the hotel clerk’s anecdote about an incident that happened to her at work.
• Went to the the Proficiency Website from the University of Texas at Austin and listened to three people telling anecdotes about their worst dates/days.
• Tarea:
1. Write a paragraph detailing a similar anecdote: something frightening, your worst date ever or a really terrible time you had.
2. Continue working on the verbs from the “La lista máxima”: Hacer-Oponer

Spanish IV 03-08-07

• We reviewed our answers to the questions about the reading on literary genres, and further discussed their forms and differences.
• Corrections on the homework: Act. 25- vocabulary practice; Act. 29 – past tense practice.
• La lista máxima de los verbos: We did a “Jig Saw” activity with this handout of four columns of infinitives. (1) We divided into four teams – each one per column of verbs – and we wrote definitions for all of them. (2) We reconfigured into new teams so that a member from each of the previous teams came together to share their definitions with the others.
• Tarea:
1. Know the list of verbs Aborrecer through Exponer
2. Conjugate the following verbs on the chart on the reverse of the verbs list:

Aborrecer, Atraer, Caber, Contener, Disponer: Use “yo” in all of the forms except the Tu commands.

Español III 03-08-07

Spanish III 03-08-07

• Small white board review game in groups of 4: two teams of two. We did more practice with sentence writing, combining the preterite and imperfect with the vocabulary as yesterday, but today one team provided the sentence for the other team to translate.

• Homework review/correction. Activities 39 & 41. Activity 39 – we shared our sentences about our childhood. Act. 41 – we corrected the forms of the verbs we wrote out for the account of Jennifer Rodríguez (Olympic speed skater).

• Introduced the research project about national parks and ecotourism in Spanish-speaking countries. Received a project expectation sheet and a list of website from with to begin their research.

• Homework:

1. Write out the answers to the questions in part 2 of Activity 41.
2. Complete the WAVA exercise 10, page 16: Write out the vocabulary word that is being described, and then find it in the word search.

Español III 03-07-07

Spanish III 03-07-07

• Reviewed (again) the 4 nightly habits for successful studying:
1. Drill/practice NEW vocabulary and verb forms.
2. Recycle/review previously studied/tested vocabulary and verb forms.
3. a. “Translate” today’s notes from abbreviations/shorthand to full

sentences while you still remember what they mean.

2. Go over any in-class corrections and write notes to yourself about what you want to remember about how to do it correctly in the future.
3. Write down any questions you may still have to ask in class the next day.
3. Complete the assignment for our next class.
• Partner vocabulary drill/practice – page 58
• Stamped and credited homework.
• Reviewed the time expressions typical for the Preterite and the Imperfect.
• We combined these time expressions with the vocabulary and wrote out “bilingual sentences” – first in Spanish, then translated them to English. We used the English versions for prompts for a White Board Partner review game.
• We went over the corrections of the homework.
• Tarea/homework:
1. Activity 39, page 44: Using either ir, ser or ver in each of your sentences, write about your childhood completing the sentences for each of the numbers.
2. Activity 41, page 45. Decide if the Preterite, or the Imperfect is required of the verb for each of the sentences, and then conjugate the verb needed in its appropriate form.

Español IV 03-07-07

Spanish IV 03-07-07

• Verified our 1-A homework packets and turned them in. (60 pts.)
• Repaso y correcciones – Examen 1-A (118 pts)
• Reviewed the new vocabulary on page 25.
• We reviewed our definitions for the “generos literarios” we prepped as homework: Novela, cuento, poems, drama, ensayo
• With our bailarina partners, we read the interview with Enrique Jaramillo Leví.
• Began answering the reading comprehension questions in Act. 23, page 26.
• Tarea:
1. Complete Act. 23 – pg. 26,
2. Practice the Ampliación vocab. with Act. 25, pg. 26.
3. Review the uses of the Preterite versus the Imperfecto – pp. 27-28 and apply them to…
4. Act. 29, on page 29.

Español IV 03-06-07

Spanish IV 03-06-07

• Took Exam 1-A
• Received our cover sheet for homework packet 1-A
• Got new workbook packet: 1-B
• Got 1-B vocabulary list, page 25.
• Tarea:
1. Fill-in new vocabulary list
2. Write out the differences between the following genres: Novela, Cuento, Poema, Drama, Ensayo
3. Complete your tareas 1-A packet.

Español III 03-06-07

Spanish III 03-06-07

• Warm-up: Wrote answers to questions about your childhood – mostly in the imperfecto.
• Rotating partner orals: asking and answering the questions from the warm-up.
• Reviewed the forms of the imperfecto: period 2 – squoosh ball verb toss drill.
• Wrote out activity 36, page 42. Then reviewed as a class.
• Corrected the Preterite and Imperfect Tenses Compared Packet, Ex. A (per. 2)

Per. 4: Ex. A, B and D #’s 1a-5b

Tarea:

1. Complete Exercise D (#;s 6a-10b).
2. If you didn’t complete writing out the answers from today’s warm-up, do that, too.

Español III 5 de marzo de 2007

Spanish III 03-05-07

• Read, and listened to, pages 36 + 37.
• Did activities 26 & 27 on pp 36 + 37.
• Read the “student newspaper” on page 38, and wrote out the answers to the questions in Act. 28.
• Brain stormed what we remembered about the two past tenses: El pretérito y El Imperfecto. Then we took notes over this.
• We checked out our answers with the uses of the Imperfecto on page 42.
• Got a packet: The Preterit and the Imperfect Tenses Compared – We worked through the study points (the numbered items) on the first page.
• We applied the study notes to practices a and b.
• Homework: Continue on in the packet completing

Exercises A, B, (skip C) and D_ 1a-5b.

Español IV 5 demarzo de 2007

Spanish IV 03-05-07

• Reviewed Juan Bobo:

1. Read the second part aloud with a partner.

2. Reviewed the details of the story, new vocabulary, and special expressions.

3. Corrected the answers to the comprehension questions.

• Reviewed Iztaccíhuatl y Popocatépel exercises.
• Went over what would be included on the lesson test tomorrow:

1. The forms and uses of the preterite and imperfect

2. The vocabulary from pp 10 & 11

3. The details of the reading on page 9.

4. Details from the 4 readings: La abeja hiragana, el perro y su reflejo, Ixtaccíhuatl y Popo., Juan Bobo

Tarea: Study!

Español III & Español IV _2 de marzo de 2007

Spanish III & IV 03-02-07

!El Día de películas!

We watched La edad de hielo (Ice Age) in all classes today.

Spanish III:

Verified their homework packets and turned them in.

Tarea: Están libres! – No homework this weekend.

Spanish IV:

Daniela y José presented their oral.

Tarea: Finish reading Juan Bobo and complete the comprehension questions at the end of the second part.

Español III el primero de marzo de 2007

Spanish III 03-01-07

• Practice vocabulary “quiz” – matching then coming up with the Spanish from the English.
• Took Lesson Exam 1-A
• Got Tareas 1-A cover sheet
• Watched some of La Edad del Hielo – Ice Age in Spanish with Spanish subtitles.
• Homework: Organize your homework packet following the instructions on the cover page.

Eslpañol IV el primero de marzo de 2007

Spanish IV 03-01-07

• Reviewed the uses of the Imperfecto – page 20, Conexiones
• Class oral practice: Encuesta – Asked and answered questions about our childhoods.
• Corrected the WB exercises we’ve been preparing the last couple of nights.
• Olga and Carmen presented their Que fin de semana oral.
• I previewed the Juan Bobo story, and distributed copies of it.
• Distributed copies of a word search based on the vocab. pp. 10 & 11.
• Tarea:
1. Word search
2. Juan Bobo – read the first part, and answer the comprehension questions.
3. Complete the other 2 sections on the Encuesta form from today’s partner o