Spanish IV 09-15-08

Spanish IV 09-15-08
• Precaliento: Word search re: profesiones – see page 5. More of these available at the QUIA games website http://www.quia.com/jg/700337.html
• We stamped and checked off homework while students were working on the word search, and then we corrected it: Crossword for the professions listed on page 5 and Exercise 5, page 6, using the computer vocabulary.
• Review of the FUTURO – I recommended a small desk reference like Essential SPANISH Grammar, by Seymour Resnick, Dover Publications, Inc.; New York. This small and handy reference gives just a brief overview of the basics and can remind you of how something works that you haven’t used for a while. We used its overview of El FUTURO – pages 41-42, which we viewed under the document camera.
• We also did a brief review of the present subjunctive – using it after “cuando” for a future action that the speaker feels may/or may not happen.
• Partner orals – using the sentences written as homework, students worked with 3 different partners playing the games, “A quién conoces?” and “Cuando vas a ser feliz?” We needed to incorporate both the present subjunctive AND the future in the latter.
• I introduced the project due on Friday: Mi escudo personal. This will be both a composition and an oral presentation supported with a visual. There was a packet distributed that includes a project description and a pattern for the personal shield. Students are to share why they have chosen the 6 symbols for the categories indicated on their handout. Additional handout about the steps of the writing process.
• Tarea:
1. Workbook packet: pages WB17-19, Exercises 12, 13 & 14. Note on 14: This is like “Jeopardy” – Read the entire conversation to see where it needs to go, and then come back and fill in the questions needed based on the supplied answers.
2. OUTLINE (Bosquejo) for Escudo project. PLEASE DO NOT WRITE OUT THE ENTIRE PROJECT YET. Just OUTLINE in SPANISH your responses to the 6 categories and write a couple of words in Spanish to remind you of the 3 to 5 supporting sentences you are going to write about each of them.