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Before School: En el restaurante (1/4)

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced translating dollar amounts into Spanish. If you missed class, try doing some on your own: $15.25, $27.35, $41.50, $38.75, $9.23
-Students practiced conversational skills with one another.
-I handed back the quizzes on the restaurant vocabulary and verbs. We discussed the correct answers together.
-I also handed out a sheet on the verbs “querer”, “comer”, and “beber”. Since the majority had trouble with this on the quiz, we will spend a little more time reviewing how to conjugate these verbs. Refer to this sheet if you need help completing the homework assignment (see attachment)
-Students have a homework sheet due this Friday, Jan 6 (see attachment)
-I will be out of town this Friday, Jan 6. My sub will be Karina, who has previously subbed at Logan for Spanish. She is from Colombia and is very excited to have our students in class.

Class topics: 
present tense
Fluency level: 
Beginner

1/4/12 Cultura

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Hi high beginner Spanish class!

I apologize that lesson plans weren't posted the two weeks before holiday break since I was in South America. Students had a substitute from Colombia and continued to learn about cultural aspects of the Spanish speaking world including information about Colombia and festivals celebrated throughout the region. I am now officially back on track in terms of posting lessons.

In class today, students answered the following question:

Escribe 2 cosas interesantes de las clases con Karina.
I asked students to share one interesting thing they learned.

We talked about typical elements of a letter:
* fecha (date)
* querido/querida (dear)
* sinceramente (sincerely)

Students wrote a letter to Karina (the substitute while I was gone before break) thanking her and sharing what they learned. Phrases used:

  • Gracias por... (venir/enseñar)
  • Me gustó...
  • Aprendí..
  • Fue interesante...
  • Mi festival favorito es...

We are going to review what students learned about festivals and have a quick test next week. The test will include information about our culture unit and verbs:

  • lucha libre
  • festivales
  • verbs and conjugations (ser/estar/hay/tener)

We spent the remainder of class starting our review as I asked questions about the above items.

Tarea: study information about festivals, lucha libre, ser/estar/hay/tener

Class topics: 
festivales
cultura
Fluency level: 
Beginner

1/3/12 Naciones y nacionalidades/América del sur

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Hi intermediate Spanish class!

I apologize that lesson plans weren't posted the two weeks before holiday break since I was in South America. Students had a substitute from Colombia and continued to learn about South America, including important people, flags, identifying countries on the map and capitals. I am now officially back on track in terms of posting lessons.

In class today, students answered the following question:

Escribe 2 cosas que aprendiste en la clase de Karina (de Colombia, de banderas, capitales, personas, y geografia de América del sur)

We practiced past tense conjugations (see below) and students asked each other what they did over break. They talked with everyone and filled out the attached form.
Ej.: Estudiante a: ¿Qué hiciste durante las vacaciones? Estudiante b: Fui a Nueva York.
To conjugate in the past for regular verbs, drop the ending (ar/er/ir) and add the following endings:
-ar (é, aste, ó, amos, aron)
-er/ir (í, iste, ió, imos, ieron)

I explained that for my break I went to South America and did a cruise. Students were paired up and received attached worksheet. We went to the computer lab and students were to use clues to come up with the name of places described. Then, they were to plot the places on a map to come up with the most likely route of the cruise.

Tarea: finish above activity.

Class topics: 
países
ciudades
América del sur
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

3rd Period Matrix: 12/14

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced their conversational skills with one another.
-Students answered comprehension questions on Dali, the artist we learned about last class period (see attachment for questions)
-As a group, we created a crazy story together in Spanish, using the verbs from our "Most Commonly Used Verbs" sheets. Each student wrote a sentence of the story. If you'd like to read it, it is posted outside the Spanish room. If you missed class, try writing your own crazy story at home, using the verbs we went over together in class.
-We discussed the Latin artists we have read about and each student said who their favorite artist and painting is. Salvador Dali seemed to be rather popular with our class!
-We also talked about a future project of creating a piece of art in the inspiration of one the artists we discussed in class. We will talk about these details after break.
-No homework was given. Have a wonderful break!

Class topics: 
artists
present tense
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix: 12/14

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students spent time in class working on and finishing their weather books. A couple students chose to take their home to finish. For instructions on the book, please see the previous lesson plan.
-No homework was given. Have a wonderful break!

Class topics: 
weather
seasons
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before School: En el restaurante (12/14)

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students presented the food and restaurant vocabulary through a restaurant scenario. Using the menus they created, other students "dined" in their classmates' restaurant and ordered from their menu. Students took turns as the server and the customer.
-We will continue these presentations on Friday. All students must turn in their completed menus on Friday (12/16). See the attachment for menu instructions.

Class topics: 
food
restaurant
querer
drink
Fluency level: 
Beginner

3rd Period Matrix: 12/9

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students answered comprehension questions on the Las Meninas discussion we had last class (see attachment for questions)
-We went over the homework assignment together and discussed the translations of each sentence.
-Students read a biography on the Spanish artist, Salvador Dali. Together we discussed comprehension questions about his life and art, looking at photos of his work (see attachment for biography)
-no homework was given.

Class topics: 
artists
present tense
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix: 12/9

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced conversational skills with their classmates. They continued practice with saying, “It's nice to meet you”, or mucho gusto. We learned a new conversational questions, “De donde eres?”, “Where are you from?”. The response is “Soy de...(Colorado, los estados unidos)”, “I am from...Colorado, the Unites States”.
-Students began working on their weather books. We will continue working on these in class next Wednesday. The instructions for the book are: must include a cover page with their name and “Mi Libro del Tiempo”; must include one page for each season; must include all the weather vocabulary words we discussed in class; weather should be drawn and labeled.
-There was no homework given.

Class topics: 
weather
conversation
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before School: En el restaurante (12/9)

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students took a quiz on the food and restaurant vocabulary. If you were not in class, please schedule a time to take the quiz.
-Students began working on creating their own menus (see attachment for instructions).
-Students must finish their menus by Wednesday 12/14.

Class topics: 
food
restaurant
querer
comer
beber
drink
Fluency level: 
Beginner

3rd Period Matrix- 12/7

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students practiced their conversational skills with each other. They practiced how to say, “It's nice to meet you”, by saying either mucho gusto or encantado/a.
-Students answered comprehension questions on the Velázquez biography (see attachment)
-We went through the second page of the most commonly used verbs in Spanish. Together, we conjugated them according to the subject of the sentence (see attachment)
-We discussed one of Velazquez's most influential paintings, called “Las Meninas”. We pointed out the different people in the painting and clever ways that Velazquez placed them (see attachment)
-We also looked at Picasso's versions of the same painting. In his life, he painted 44 versions of Las Meninas, all which look strangely different from the original.
-Students were given homework on the most commonly used verbs. It is due next class period, Friday 12/9 (see attachment for assignment)

Class topics: 
artists
present tense
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

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