Español II el 30 de noviembre de 2011

I. Warm-up: Sentences practicing the preterite with our vocabulary.

II. Text pg. 110, Activity 13 - Reading and writing the preterite.

III. Homework corrections - More preterite practice on the handout from yesterday.

IV. Text pg. 111, Activity 15 - Writing about who did what activity when.

V. Partner work:
A. Comparing answers on Activity 15
B. Practicing the NEW QUESTIONS HANDOUT (2-sided) - taking turns asking/answering questions in the preterite.
C. Asking follow-up questions using the 10 sentences written as homework for Monday.

ANUNCIO: Lesson 2A test on TUESDAY - December 6th: Listening, Reading, Writing AND Speaking - We'll be using our questions from today's handout. PRACTICE so you can answer then quickly, with appropriate information and the correct verb form.

Tarea:
New BLUE packet, "Tarea de Repaso" - just page 1 for tomorrow.

Español IV el 30 de noviembre de 2011

I. Lectura: Working with a partner, students read aloud Chapter 2A's opening article on page 45 & Activity 2-1 on page 47. Practicing vocabulary and structures from the lesson within the contextualized theme.

II. Práctica de escritura/comunicación - Each pair of students teamed up with another and practiced writing sentences using the sentences written as homework.

III. Estructura: Ser versus Estar = take notes on pages 49-51. I showed a Power Point, students took notes and then we did some in-class work on a new packet.

Tarea:
1. New Workbook Packet - 2A: manual de ejercicios = Actividades 2-1, 2-1 on pg. WB41.
2. Ser versus Estar Packet - Complete all of Exercise C; Exercise E #s 1-10.

Español II el 29 de noviembre de 2011

I. Warm-up: Practicing the preterite in sentences with our lesson vocabulary - Focused on the verbs "Comprar" and "Comer".

II. Homework review: WB42 & 44; handout Práctica con el Pretérito

III. Preterite Conjugation Test - from last week (of classes) - Reviewed the corrections.

Reminder of the EXTRA CREDIT option:
Go to the site www.conjuguemos.com Sign in with school code 893. Practice until you can quickly and accurately complete the 5-minute test for test #8 with no less than 50 verbs @ 90% or better without looking at the answers.
Send it to me by MONDAY - 12/05/11. Up to 10 points.

IV. Demonstrative Adjectives: Working with a partner we continued on through Exercise C and then we did partner drills with a practice handout.

Tarea:
Handout: Tarea de traducción

Español IV el 29 de noviembre de 2011

I. Qué miedo pasé - Barbara Kuczun Nelson's (Colby College) activity practicing the preterite and the imperfect in a video-taped anecdote.

II. Homework review/corrections -Act. 1-12, WB35-36: More Preterite versus Imperfecto re: Cenicienta & Traducciones - vocabulary & grammar from the lesson.

III. Lesson 1B Exam

IV. Vocabulary 2A - page 46 - New list handout

V. Partner Read Aloud - Cuentos de hadas

Tarea:
1. Complete the new 2A Vocabulary List, page 46 - including the little exercise at the end.
2. Write sentences in Spanish incorporating 20 of the new vocabulary items. Underline and number the vocabulary items and then translate your sentences to English - we'll use this in class tomorrow.

Español II el 28 de noviembre de 2011

I. Listening Comprehension: New WAVA packet, Activities 5-9 = Practiced the vocabulary and grammar structures for lesson 2B in context.

II. Repaso - Sentence writing built on interrogatives (tarea - homework)

III. El pretérito
A. Verb grid pp. 2 & 3 (homework correction)
B. Partner question/answer drill with the verb forms
C. Juego - Subject ball toss verb practice.

Anuncio: Test 2B one week from tomorrow; December 6th

Tarea:
1. Práctica con el Pretérito - deep pink handout practicing the preterite and the vocabulary.

Español IV el 28 de noviembre de 2011

I. Cuéntame un cuento - reviewed this short story read over Thanksgiving break (text pp. 37-41). Students read aloud with a partner, and then we reviewed as a class - I hit the most challenging points.

II. Repaso - Packet from tarea & test prep for tomorrow's Lesson Exam. Study guide distributed - see below.

III. Juego del vocabulario = "Dedos" y "Estoy pensando en una palabra" = Cuál pareja puede encontrar primero la palabra en su hoja que describo?

Tarea:
1. Yellow sentences - Traducciones
2. Workbook Packet 1B - Activity 1-12, pp. WB35, 36


Guía de estudios para el examen 1B mañana

1. El vocabulario- pa. 25:
• Recognición del vocabulario en contexto.

2. Comprensión –
• La entrevista con Enrique Jaramillo Levi – p. 24
• Una leyenda mexicana – p. 29
• Las artes literarias precolombinas – p. 31
• Cuéntame un cuento – pp. 37-41

3. Las estructuras-
• Los usos del pretérito versus el imperfecto – pp. 27-30
• Los cambios del sentido – pp. 32-33

Español II el 18 de noviembre de 2011

1. Reviewed answers and corrections for the Lesson 2A test.

2. Homework corrections - Workbook pp. 38-41: Vocabulary practice.

3. Partner White Board Review Games:
A. Conjugation game using the site www.conjuguemos.com we practiced test #8, the regular preterite. EXTRA CREDIT option* See below
B. 2B vocabulary using a Quia Games

4. Introduced the homework over the break - see tarea below.

5. Watched some more of Enredados.

Extra credit option for preterite mastery:

1. Register at Conjuguemos.com - Using school code 893
2. Practice Spanish Ver
   

Tarea:
1. Handout - Sentence writing using Interrogatives as prompts. On the reverse write 10 sentences following the guidelines given.
2. Preterite Verb Grid - complete the rest (pages 2 & 3)
3. Work book pages 42 & 44

Español IV el 18 de noviembre de 2011

1. Repaso/Correcciones - La tarea: enfoque de página 32. We reviewed the answers practicing the "meaning changers" from the preterite/imperfect of certain verbs.

2. Los proyectos:

• Organized our papers
• Got into groups of four and then shared our projects while I circulated and took notes
• Turned-in project packets

3. Introduced the science fiction short-story to be read during vacation, Cuéntame un cuento pp. 37-41. READ ACTIVITY 1-42. pg. 41 FIRST to give you a guideline of what to look for in the story. Expect to read the story a few times.

4. JUEGOS! 30 minutes reward for filling your bottle - juegos en español

5. ANUNCIO: Lesson 1B Test - el martes, el 29 de noviembre.

6. Extra-credit option. Go to B K Nelson's site On the right-hand side select Preterite versus Imperfect. Practice on-line but print out the exercise and select your answer for extra credit. You may do any, or all, of the first four (1st 4) exercises.

Tarea:

1. Short story pp. 37-41 (see item #3 above)

2. 1B review packet - cut the abeja section - you've already done that!

Español II el 17 de noviembre de 2011

1. Warm-up: Preterite sentences.

2. Played Lotería - Regular Preterite for -er/-ir verbs.

3. Took Regular Preterite Conjugation Quiz, afterwards I showed the students what I hoped to see as their answers.

4. Demonstrative Adjectives: Paquete, Ejercicio A.

Tarea:
Workbook pp. 38-41 = vocabulary practice.

Español IV el 17 de noviembre de 2011

Lectura/Conversar: Read and then discussed Las artes precolombinas - pg. 31

Took and corrected the Preterite versus the Imperfect quiz.

Editing circles - rough drafts of Cuando era niño project.

Tarea:
1. Project Due. Typed final copy (double-spaced @ 12 point font); all writing process paper 7 5-10 small visuals to help in the telling of your story.
2. Handout: Enfoque pa. 32 - Translation sentences.

Español II el 16 de noviembre de 2011

1. Question Words

• Song, El preguntón - Handout - interrogatives & the preterite
  
• Sentence Activity - reverse of the handout

2. El pretérito regular

• Regular Preterite flashcards : students got two handouts of cards for (1) Subject pronouns (2) Verb stems (3) Verb endings. They cut these apart and then organized them into like categories.
• Mini-sentence builder activity: I wrote sentences in English using the elements from the flashcards. Students used their cards to put together the Spanish equivalent.
• Pretérito - Tarea #1: We went over the answers to the homework handout.
  

3. Demonstrative Adjectives

• Reviewed our Rima to help us remember the forms: "This and these both have Ts, That and Those no T shows, Far away? Begins with A, I don't know - ends with O".
• New packet: Demonstrative Adjectives. We did the first two pages practicing, Este/a/os/as; Ese/a/os/as; Aquel/Aquella/os/as.

Tarea:

1. Lotería - Regular -er/-ir Preterite verbs. Fill-in this bingo-like game using answers both in Spanish and English.

2. STUDY! Preterite Conjugation Quiz tomorrow. Know the verbs on the first page of your verb grid packet - BOTH meanings and forms. Use your new flash cards from class today!

Español IV el 16 de noviembre de 2011

1. NUEVOS PAREJAS! We organized new partner appointments today.

2. Lectura: pg. 30: El callejón de enamorados

3. Act. 34, pg. 33 : El pretérito/imperfecto = cambios de sentido

4. Workbook pg. WB34 - El pretérito o el imperfecto

5. In-class writing workshop - continued working on our childhood incident narrative.
HANDOUT: Transitional Expressions - Please find a way to incorporate a variety of these in your narrative (:>)

Tarea:
1. Finish the rough draft for the entire 5 paragraph composition about a childhood incident. Be sure to check your work with the assignment handout. You'll need your complete work to participate in our editing circle activity tomorrow.
2. Concept Quiz - Preterit versus Imperfect

Español II el 15 de noviembre de 2011

1. Warm-up: Vocabulary picture flashcards - working with a partner and their vocabulary lists, students identified which vocabulary items were portrayed in the drawings.

2. Video Historia - pp. 104-105: Students watched the video, read along in their books. This incorporates the vocabulary and structures of the lesson in a meaningful context.
Then we did Actividad 3, pg. 105 = Comprehension questions.

3. Demonstrative Adjectives = This blouse, that jacket, those pants over there. See page 114.
I introduced these terms using examples around the classroom. Next we read the grammar box on page 114 and then followed with the Gram Activa video. Last students got a blue 2-page handout with examples and drawing flash cards.

4. El pretérito
(a).We took the preterite time expressions quiz, and then corrected it.
(b) Reviewed the conjugations of the preterite, correcting our verb grid homework.
(c) Partner questions/answer practice using the Tú form in questions/answering in the Yo.

ANUNCIO - Preterite conjugations test on THURSDAY: Be able to form the verbs and know the meanings of the verbs - STUDY YOUR VERB GRID!

Tarea:
1. 2B Flashcards - finish the list (#s 25-49)
2. Yellow handout: El pretérito - tarea #1

Español IV el 15 de noviembre de 2011

1. Warm-up: New workbook packet - Act. 1-8, pg. WB32: vocabulary & past tenses.

2. Homework review: Act. 25 & 29 = vocabulary & past tenses.

3. Meaning changers: Preterite versus Imperfecto = pg. 32 + handout

4. Proyecto:

• Clarified the steps in developing your 5-paragraph story per the Mapa del cuento handout
• In-class work time: goal = complete introductory paragraph. I checked off your completed work.
  

ANUNCIO = Concept QUIZ over preterite versus imperfecto the THURSDAY.

Tarea:

1. Rough draft on project - complete through paragraph 3.

Español II el 14 de noviembre de 2011

1. Review "quiz" of class procedures, grading and in-class performance expectations. See handout, "Bienvenidos a la clase de español".

2. Introduced our new lesson - 2B - !Vamos de compras! - Pronunciation and then listening/reading comprehension pp. 102-103. Got new vocabulary handout/packet - review page 124.

3. Introduced the simple past tense - El pretérito. I demonstrated, students made observations about the structures, we read pg. 110 in our text books and then saw the GramActiva. Next we got a WHITE HANDOUT - El PRETERITO and a set of Preterite Verb grids. We learned the TIME EXPRESSIONS associated with the preterite and then began practicing writing in the forms.

Tarea:
1. 2B Flashcards: #s 1-24
2. Complete the FIRST page of the VERB GRID.
3. Memorize the TIME EXPRESSIONS for the PRETERITE - see the bottom of your verb grid and/or the white EL PRETERITO handout.

Español IV el 14 de noviembre de 2011

1. Review "quiz" of class procedures, grading and in-class performance expectations. See handout, "Bienvenidos a la clase de español".

2. Practica del vocabulario - pg. 25: Partner drills and then guessing game using the definitions written as homework last week - I checked off their stamps.

2. El imperfecto versus el pretérito - see text pp. 27-28: When to use which past tense? Also 2 handouts given today (1) El imperfecto (2) El Pretérito versus el imperfecto - read the story at the bottom of the page to see how/when to use which one.

4. Proyecto - Due this Friday (11/18/11) - Handout "Cuando era niño".

• I introduced the project and we did the first step - deciding on a childhood incident (real or imaginary) that we can develop into a strong narration.
• Practiced background circumstances with a T-chart of "Lo bueno/lo malo" about our lives at the time of the incident we're using.
• Began filling in the graphic organizer in the project packet - UP to, and including, "El conflicto". This upper portion to be completed with more details as homework. We'll do the plot stages later.

Tarea:

1. Vocabulary practice: Act. 25, pg. 26

2. Preterite/Imperfect practice: Act. 29, pg. 29

3. El proyecto: Fill-in background circumstance details for: El Lugar and los personajes - remember to include details that will come into play for the "incident".

Español II el 9 de noviembre de 2011

Numbers 0-100 quiz and review.

Handout: Pages 98-99 - Review of Shopping: Where to go/What to buy/Describing purchases
Vocabulary and more numbers practice with a "put it all together" exercise.

30 minutes of JUEGOS en español = Reward for filling the bottle!

Película, palomitas y limonada = Feliz fin del cuarto!

Get lots of rest and come back ready to start our new quarter on Monday!

Español IV el 9 de noviembre de 2011

Repaso - El artículo = What makes a short story? Incorporating the " vocabulario 1-B" pg. 25 & reviewing the comprehension questions in Act. 23, pg. 26.

Test 1A - Review and Corrections

Película, palomitas y limonada = Feliz fin del cuarto: End of quarter today!

Español II el 8 de noviembre de 2011

Repaso - Homework review/correction

TEST! We took the 2A Exam.

Started our mini-review lesson prior to 2B, A ver si recuerdas: pp. 98-99.

1. Students received TWO handouts: (1) AZUL - vocabulario (2) ROSADO - Los números.
2. Students began ACT.1 - pg. 98 - to complete as homework.
3. Practiced saying numbers 0-100 - "Timed" activity on the reverse of the Los números handout.

Tarea:
1. Finish Act. 1, pg. 98: Write 8 sentences = one for EACH of the places in the vocabulary at top of the page. Each sentence includes elements from each section of the vocabulary: Where you're going; What you're doing there; What you're buying; 2 adjectives to describe what you're buying.
Ex. Voy al centro comercial para comprar unos anteojos de sol bonitos y baratos.

2. STUDY numbers 0-100: Be ABLE to WRITE then in WORDS tomorrow = QUIZ!

Español IV el 8 de noviembre de 2011

We took the 1A Exam today - in 3 parts.

Working with a partner, students read the interview (pg. 24) with a short-story writer about what is a good short story, and then answered comprehension questions in Act. 1-23, pg. 26.

Students began their homework (see below).

We continued on with our película, El fantástico señor Zorro!

Tarea:
1. Create your own vocabulary study sheet for page 25.
2. Select 10 of the vocabulary items and then for each of them write a sentence in Spanish that works as its definition.

Español II el 7 de noviembre de 2011

1. WAVA - Listening Comprehension Activities 8 & 9 = Ser versus Estar & Stressed Possessives (mío, tuyo, etc.)

2. Possessive Adjectives & Pronouns packet - Exercise C - back page. More practice with the el mío, etc. forms.

3. Homework corrections/ review:

• Reflexive verbs and their pronouns: simple conjugations and how to use them with infinitive verb phrases.
• La ENCUESTA - we asked up to four other people the same questions we answered as homework about our daily routine habits.

4. I read a children's book in Spanish, Yo, solito, about a "Typical" day and what the little one could do for himself and others - reflexive versus non-reflexive verbs.

5. We started watching "Enredados" - "Tangled" en español

Tarea:
1. Finish the last section of the Encuesta - writing about others' daily routines.
2. 2A REPASO - handout

Español IV el 7 de noviembre de 2011

Repaso - tareas:

• Partner corrections on Irregular Preterite verb chart - using one of my keys
• Self-corrections on A. 11, pg. 17 & some discussion of Don Quixote (preterite)
  
• Partner conversations about childhood memories using the Imperfecto and practicing follow-up questioning strategies

Repaso - Las narraciones: JUEGO! Quién soy yo?:

• We played the "parlor game" of putting the name of a character for the stories we've readon the back of each student. The students could only ask Sí/No questions to discover their identities.
• All characters from the same story gathered together and lined-up in order of their appearances in the stories.
• They retold the main events of their stories.

Película:
El fantástico Señor Zorro - period 1 began this and period 4 continued.

Tarea:
Chapter 1A Test Tomorrow: Study Guide -

1. Vocabulary pg. 10
2. Readings: Article on pg. 9, La abeja haragana, Juan Bobo, Las leyendas mexicanas
3. Structures: Regular and Irregular Preterite Forms - pp. 13-16; Regular & Irregular Imperfect Forms - pg. 21
   

Español II el 4 de noviembre de 2011

Warm-up: Daily routine sentences.

Practice test - Los verbos reflexivos

ACCIONES - in groups of 4, students took turns reading a getting ready scenario while the others acted it out.

Homework correction: Crossword & "Put it all together" sentences

We filled our Botella today! We'll schedule our 30 minutes of juegos en español next week.

Tarea:
1. Complete the "mi información personal" on the Encuesta handout
2. Handout: Tarea de practica - Reflexive Verbs.

Español IV el 4 de noviembre de 2011

Las leyendas - día segunda: Los grupos mixtos.
(1) Teams of FOUR - Each person acting as an expert for a different legend. Each "expert" shared his/her legend with the others - teaching them the key vocabulary and then checking for their understanding using the comprehension questions prepared as homework.
(2) We then debriefed all together.

Los cuentos:
We finished reviewing BOTH (1) La abeja haragana and (2) Juan Bobo.

Hora cuarta - Empezamos la película - El fabuloso señor zorro

Tarea:
1. Text activities 11 & 19 on pp. 17 & 22.
2. Complete the preterite verb grid #2

Español II el 3 de noviembre de 2011

1. Daily Routine - verbs and items.

• Warm-up Sentences
• Corrections of WAVA 10 & 11

2. Ser versus Estar

• Homework corrections - drawings/sentences packet
• You Tube Teaching "Rap" + Handout

3. Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

• Text pg. 88-89
• Act. 24- pg. 89
• Packet - Possessive Adjectives and Pronouns

4. Announced Lesson 2A Test (Tues. 11/08) & gave "Interactive" Study Guide - study tips and chart to keep track of daily study/practice.

Tarea:
2-sides handout: Crossword/Sentences

Español IV el 3 de noviembre de 2011

Video - Misterias de algunos sitios arqueológicos de las Américas
Hoja extra - reacciones al video

Las leyendas de las Américas - Trabajo de grupos de 4

• Un paquete de 4 leyendas - Una leyenda por grupo (grupo experto)
  

• El grupo se lee su leyenda - ayudando el uno al otro en entenderlo y en poder leerla bien en voz alta.
  
• Cada grupo indentifica el vocabulario clave.
• Cada grupo escribe (al mínimo de) 3 preguntas inteligentes de comprensión sobre su leyenda - y llega a un acuerdo sobre la respuesta correcta.

Repaso de las tareas del Workbook - El pretérito versus el imperfecto

Tarea:
Be sure YOU are ready to teach YOUR legend to 3 other people tomorrow:
(1) You are comfortable reading it aloud - you know how to pronounce everything and you know the meanings for all of the words, in case someone asks.
(2) You have YOUR OWN copy of all of the materials -
A. the KEY vocabulary items
B. the comprehension questions (and answers).

Español II el 2 de noviembre de 2011

1. Warm-up: Practicing writing about our daily routine activities/reflexive verbs.

2. Homework correction: Reflexive verbs versus regular verbs

3. 2A vocabulary test - took and scored these quizzes. Students also took a practice meaning/spelling double test to check on their own.

4. SER versus ESTAR - Reviewed the guidelines on pg. 86 and then compared these with the guidelines on our NEW PACKET. We practiced saying the example sentences for each use of Ser and Estar.

Tarea:
1. Complete the two exercises in the SER/ESTAR packet- check the guidelines to be sure you are using the correct verb.
2. WAVA 10 & 11: Practice writing about the daily routine of these people.

Español IV el 2 de noviembre de 2011

I. Práctica del vocabulario en contexto:

• Repaso - Act. 5, pg. 12 CUIDADO!
• Hoja extra de ayer
• Crucigrama
• Juego de tarjetas

II. El imperfecto:

• Repaso de los apuntes del texto = pp. 20-21
• Repaso de mi hoja de apuntes
• Act. 17, pg. 22
• WB29-30

III. Los cuentos: La abeja

• Yo les leí el cuento de nuevo dramáticamente en voz alta

Tarea:
1. WB 27-28 = el pretérito
2. WB 31 = el imperfecto

Español II el 1ero de noviembre de 2011

I. Posesión:
A. Review with a Quia "quiz" http://www.quia.com/quiz/1635153.html?AP_rand=964935050
"The item" of "the owner" = La casa de mi abuela (my grandmother's house)

B. Power Point How do you say who owns what?

C. Possessive adjectives TWO ways:
1. My book, your books, etc. Mi(s), tu(s), su(s)
2. Stressing the possession but still using the noun - It is MY book, they are YOUR marbles, etc.
El libro es mío, las canicas son tuyas, etc.

D. Possessive Pronouns - it's MINE, YOURS, OURS, etc. - see page 88
Stressing the possesion but NOT using the noun.

E. Actividades 22 y 23 - libro, pg. 88

II. Vocabulario = Práctica para el examen mañana
Act. 4, pg. 78

III. Vocabulario y los verbos reflexivos
Act. 9, pg. 81

Tarea:
(1) Text page 81: Actividades 9 (Los verbos reflexivos) & 10 (Los verbos reflexivos versus NO reflexivos)
(2) ESTUDIA! Quia vocabulario http://www.quia.com/jg/1160510.html

Español IV el 1ero de noviembre de 2011

Las estaciones: Actividades para el día de los muertos

(1) Una calavera decorada - decorating sugar skulls

(2) Artesanías -making a dancing musician skeleton and/or papel picado

(3) Lecturas - Qué es el día de los muertos: Reading teaching sheets (Láminas/Monografías) from Mexico and then answering questions

(4) Oral y actividades - Asking/answering questions; Compare/Contrast with Halloween

(5) Repaso de las tareas y lectura - cuento folclórico Juan Bobo

(6) Práctica del vocabulario 1A - hoja extra + tarjetas de repaso

Tarea:
1. Finish reading Juan Bobo and complete the rest of the comprehension questions, Comprendió Ud.? #s 16-22
2. Crucigrama 1A - vocabulary crossword
3. Complete (and bring) the "Práctica del vocabulario" from today's Estación VI.