Spanish IV 03-11-09

I was out of class today giving the IB Spanish Oral Exams. Here's a summary of the plans I left with Miss Gergen, our nice substitute teacher:
1. El Pretérito
• Using your book, open to page 13, and also distribute the packet: EL PRETERITO. Go over the FIVE points on pages 13-14 and compare those to the uses indicated on the handout packet.
• Review the frequent time expressions from the packet – have them quiz each other with a seat partner to verify if they still remember the meanings of these. Debrief as a whole group and see if anyone needs refreshing on any of them.
• Have a brief discussion about why these time expressions would indicate the preterite based on the study points 1-5 in the text.
• Do activity 1-8: Ask students to write out the verbs they think would fit in the “espacios en blanco” and then go over it together.

2. Editing Circles:
• Have them get out their rough drafts for their Cartas de solicitud/cover letters AND their Handouts For Editing:
1. Sugerencias redactoras – Put mine under the doc. camera to have them check they have numbered their items as I have done mine.
These numbered items will be their JOBS in the editing circles.
2. Lista Para Revisar Su Composición
• Group them in 3’s = Divide the jobs amongst themselves.
• Everyone reads everyone else’s paper, editing by ONLY UNDERLINING items they want the author to reconsider, and writing the number of the type of error it might be. Once done editing that particular paper, each editor is PRINT his/her name at the bottom AND write the number(s) of their job.

3. Story Packet: La abeja haragana
• Distribute the packets, and the vocabulary list, as they complete their editing. Ask them to be sure and go over the introduction about the author.
• They are to take turns reading Parte 1 aloud to one another, and then helping each other understand the story.
• They are to complete:
1. The comprehension questions at the end of Parte 1 ¿Comprendió Ud.? (I) = page 339. Ask them to please WRITE THE ANSWERS ON A NEW PIECE OF PAPER – NOT IN THE PACKET.
2. Estructuras gramaticales – page 166, for Parte I (#’s 1-6). These answers they MAY WRITE in the packet (I’ve taken this from the workbook that went with the text that I took the story from – that’s why the numbers don’t line up.)
Tarea – Español IV:
1. Be ready to tell an appropriate joke in Spanish – they need to turn in a printed copy of it, too. If they got it at a website, I’d like that address on it as well.
2. Type their final cover letter, and be ready to turn it in with ALL of the PROCESS steps documented: Template, Rough, Evidence of Editing Circles, Final Copy – Typed; Double Spaced, Spelling in Spanish Counts.
3. Any of today’s class work they didn’t finish in class.