Español IV 11 de septiembre de 2009

Español IV
11 de septiembre de 2009

Today was BUSY! An assembly, photos, and early release for athletes. Because of these things students rotated in and out of class today. In case you missed something, this is what we did:

• I collected the homework from last night. While students worked on their review activity, I stamped and entered the homework (sello = Yo ♥ español), and then returned it to the students for an activity later in class.
• Period 2 received their planners. We’ll do our Rights & Responsibilities review next week when our class is altogether all period long.
• Review: Working with a partner students brainstormed words they know for each of these following categories,
(1) Positive personality traits
(2) Places we like to go to in our free time
(3) Holidays, celebrations and events
(4) Foods
• As a whole class we compared the items we know in each of the categories.
• The students then selected an item in each of the categories that applied to themselves and used it to decorate the Latino name side of their name tag in this manner:
Latino name = Boldly written in center.
Then in each of the corners an item from each of the review categories.
Upper left = #1 – a Spanish word for one of their positive personality trait.
Lower left = #2 - a drawing representing their favorite place.
Upper right = #3 – a drawing representing their favorite event.
Lower right = #4 – a drawing representing their favorite food.
• Rotating Partner Interview & survey: Working with at least 2 others, students dictated their Latino class names to each other, along with their phone numbers, using the Spanish format (503.431.55.63), practicing numbers in the 10’s and 100’s. Then they gave each other the 5 question quiz prepared as homework over class procedures and grading.
• HANDOUT: In-class Performance Grades = Pink packet: Descriptors for each grade (A, B, C,…), Activities to make-up these points when missing class, “Reporting” sheet to document the work you did.
• HANDOUT: Conexiones Workbook packet for our first unit, “Preliminar”. This whole packet is both a review and expansion of basic grammar.
• Tarea:
STUDY and complete workbook pages WB 1, 2 and 3.