Monday, September 13, 2010

Español II
El 13 de septiembre de 2010
• Link Leaders came in, distributed the Rights & Responsibilities handouts and went through some information over it with the students. Students signed off that they had reviewed the information, and I collected these papers.
• Finished our partner “quizzes” – Encuesta (survery) using the 5-question homework from last week, and then turned them in.
• Several people turned-in the parent signature letters into the turn-in folder.
• Checked off covered textbooks and awarded prizes in our contest.
• I gave a “warm-up quiz” with MY questions about the class’s procedures – then we reviewed together.
• BIG OVERVIEW OF THE TEXTBOOK: Where are the references and how each chapter is organized.
• We began our review lesson, Para empezar –
page 1: Some discussion about Latino schools based on the the photos and looking at the goals of the unit.
Page 2 – Listened and read along to the dialogues where people ask/answer questions about what they are like.
Page 3 – Chart of adjectives – masculine singular & plural forms and feminine sing/pl. forms.
Page 5 – Chart of the verb SER (to be)
• Review of subject pronouns, Ser and Adjectives –See SEPARATE POST of the NOTES (Apuntes)
• Repaso – Categorías: We just began this Spanish I Review game.
1. Students divided a sheet of paper into 4 sections
2. Labled the first section: la escuela
3. Students brainstormed all of the words they knew in Spanish about school/classrooms, and then we compiled them onto a big paper.
• Hand out a “How to Study for Success in Spanish”
Tarea
1. PRINT YOUR NAME on the top of the How to Study handout and have your parents sign it for tomorrow.
2. Reread the dialogues on page 2 and Answer the questions in Activity 1
3. Study the Adjectives on page 3 – chart & ¿Recuerdas? Box and write out the answers to the questions in Activity 2.