Spanish IV 05-07-07

• Practiced “Las mañanitas” song – traditional serenade song- important for cultural literacy: need to know for final exam.
• I collected more Permission Slips for the upcoming movies and reminded students they should have turned in their summary of the article about Maná and their game preserves.
• Reviewed the expectations and grading for orals – got a copy of the IB orals scoring guide/rubric, along with the results of our last oral.
• Next on-demand interactive oral announced for this Thursday.
• Reviewed requirements of being excused on the day of a major test, oral or project.
• Announced the verbs to be tested this week: Weds – group 10, Thurs – group 11, (Friday – group 12 – I now plan on postponing this to next Tuesday).
• Reviewed the meanings and irregularities of the verbs to be tested on Wednesday. I explained that what we did today in class is the job of the student to do in preparation of these verb quizzes.
• We returned to our “KWL” chart from the beginning of our “Ecology” units and reviewed what we said that we already Knew and what we Wanted to learn; then compared this with what we actually did Learn.
• I introduced the new unit in a similar fashion – we began a new “KWL”, filling in what we already knew about HUMAN RIGHTS.
• I introduced the vocabulary on page 80.
• Gave a preview to the reading on page 79, the United Nation’s Declaration of Universal Human Rights. I also introduced the exercise on page 81 where the students chart the rights that are guaranteed with those that are protected, in the declaration on page 79. – We’ll do this in class tomorrow, so those who’ll be taking the IB Mathematics test tomorrow morning can work on that as homework for class on Wednesday.