Spanish IV 04-01-09

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
I'm away today traveling to meetings in St. Louis on Thursday and Friday.
Here is the work I left with your substitute, Ms. Gergen

1. Homework correction – Activities 1-8 & 1-10 in workbook packets.

2. Brain storm with the students re: the differences between the two past tenses: preterite and imperfect.

3. Open books to pages 27-32. Going through the uses/comparisons of the Preterite and Imperfect.

4.Writing (working in partners)– Act. 1-33, page 30. Partners write a brief story, using the bullets under the article as a guideline. (These will be collected)
Once done, combine the partners into groups of 4 – and each team reads their story to the other team.

5. HANDOUT: Cuando Era Niño – Please carefully go through EACH page of this packet with the students. Highlight that:
(a) Students will need to have TWO copies –
(1) Final: typed, double spaced ready to turn-in on MONDAY –
(2) for them to work off of while they present.
Please remind them they should NOT EXPECT TO USE THE ONE TURNED IN TO ME – as I will be using it while they present. No extra copy for themselves? = They are not ready to present.

(b) Students will engage us as they “build” the elements of their stories by placing visual aids under the document camera – BE SURE they have every important element represented visually. These may be small props, pictures, photos, clip art, etc. – these should all work together to illustrate your story AS IT UNFOLDS.

Tarea:
1. Activity 29, on page 29.
2. Mind Map ---story organizer in Spanish for their project story due on Monday. It needs to include:
(a) WHERE the incident took place (add what descriptors to the place are important to the anecdote?
(b) WHO were the important people in the incident? (add what characteristics of these people are pertinent to the incident?
(c) WHAT happened? – the MUST be a CONFLICT to be resolved