Spanish IV 10-31-08

Español IV
31 de octubre de 2008

Stations activities today re: Los días de los muertos:
• Decorating sugar skulls: Calaveras de azúcar with royal icing and shiny paper.
• Papel picado – cut out paper designs typically used for any celebration.
• El esqueleto músico – cut out puppet of a guitarrista
• Lectura: Reading and interacting with the text:
1. “Laminas” – teaching sheets from Mexico and responding to them – highlighting vocabulary learned from context
2. Compare/contrast Los Días de los Muertos with Halloween via a Venn diagram
• ¡A cantar! – Listening to the song “Hasta los muertos bailan” by Tish Hinajosa, while reading along with the lyrics, then singing along!

Students were to complete at least three of the stations, with the goal of trying to complete 4 – and they received stamps on their “Pasaportes” each time they finished at a station.

Tarea:
Keep studying for Tuesday’s test – Lesson 1A
• Vocabulary page 10 and all of the verbs from the lesson
• Conjugations of the preterite
• Conjugations of the imperfect
• Know the defining traits for the three types of narrations we’ve studied: The joke, the fable and the legend. – Reread/review page 9.
• Know the characters and the plot details of the three short stories we’ve read:
1. La abeja haragana
2. Juan Bobo
3. Iztaccíhuatl y Popocatépetl