Spanish II 10-21-08

Español II
21 de octubre de 2008

• I distributed progress reports to those students whose parents did not come to Parent Conferences.
• Vocabulary practice, warming up for our vocabulary test:
1. I took pictures with the document camera of realia from Mexico showing colored drawings of various sports. I projected these on the Smart Board, and as students identified what sport it represented, I also wrote its name in Spanish underneath it.
2. Rowdy Review: Working with a partner, each set of partners received 1 handout of various vocabulary items written in a random fashion at various angles. Each partner, using different colored writing instruments or highlighters, would try to beat the other one in identifying the word being described in high-level Spanish.
• Took Vocabulary test 1B, and turned it in as done.
• Picked up a yellow packet, Comparison of Adjectives, and students began taking notes and working through the exercises on this.
• Once all tests were in, we reviewed the just as ---as, just as much/many---as, and faster than structures we practiced yesterday. Then we reinforced these with the explanations and began the exercises in the packet.
• We did some more work with comparing the two verbs “To know” – Saber (facts/information/how to do something) and Conocer (people, places, personal experience, internalized music, etc.). We practiced with Activity 15, page 56.
• Tarea:
1. Have your Progress Report signed and return by Thursday.
2. Work on the Yellow Comparison of Adjectives packet – pp.174-176(top of page) – Practice the “Active Reading” strategy I demonstrated today.
3. Activity 16, page 57 – Textbook re: Saber and Conocer. Complete both parts 1 and 2.