Spanish IV 02-26-09

I was out of the classroom today at a professional meeting. Here are the activities I left with the substitute for the students to do today:

Spanish IV

1. Warm-up: Write answers to 5 Questions - more of these questions typical to job interviews.

Homework stamped while students wrote answers.
Homework: 10 sentences incorporating as much of the vocabulary and from the green packet, “REPASO del Capítulo” -their future in the world of work.

Called on students to offer their answers to the warm-up questions.

2. Vocabulary Practice: Class organized into teams of 3’s to practice writing their homework sentences in Spanish.
Game: One member translates one of their homework sentences into English, Another team member does his/her best to write it in Spanish and then PASSES the WHITE BOARD to the Third team member gets to make any corrections.

Played this for a few rounds in small teams – THEN as a whole class: Each team took a turn providing a sentence from their homework, and the other teams tried writing it out in Spanish.

3. Reading. Distributed “Herramientas” Article and Bosquejo (outline of main points in the article). Students worked with their “Peluquera” Partner, taking turns reading this aloud to each other, and trying to figure out what it means.
Goal: ½ of the article today. Vocabulary tips under the document camera for the students to refer to as they read.

Tarea: Write a rough draft of the Three Paragraph Essay (Students should add the 3 to the Handout before it says ‘parrafo’) about what job they would be best suited for. They should fill-in the brain-storm section on the handout BEFORE they begin writing. There will be an Editing Circle activity for this tomorrow – EVERYONE should do this and have it ready for tomorrow’s class.