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Latinos famosos: 10/17/12

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Class Activities: 

Students arrived and worked in pairs describing members of class for their partner to guess. Students practiced: le gusta, vive en, es, tiene, and other basic present tense verbs.

We played 20 questions with the living famous Spanish-speakers students have studied so far. A student came to the front of the class and asked yes or no questions to find out their person. Ej. ¿Es hombre o mujer? ¿Nació en Argentina? ¿Vive en España?

Students were paired up and were to write a dialogue between an interviewer and one of the famous Spanish-speakers (vivo o muerto) that the other student had studied. The interviewer asked questions of the famous person.

Tarea: no hay

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Lucha Libre: 10/16/12

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Class Activities: 

Students worked on their Lucha Libre paintings and the consensus is that we will need 15 more minutes to complete paintings Thursday.

Tarea: for those of you who have emailed me the final draft of your biography, no tienen tarea! Others need to email me final drafts.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Lucha Libre: 10/11/12

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Class Activities: 

Students arrived and painted their Lucha Libre character which took the remainder of class. I corrected student bios/histories of their character. Students need a bit more time to complete their paintings so we will work on them Tuesday.

Tarea: incorporate corrections and email me final draft of biography.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

3rd Period Matrix- 10/10

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students reviewed characteristics and the verbs used to express them.
-Student who were in class last week were each given a sentence to correct for the rest of the class. They were evaluated on how well they explained it and if their corrections were valid.
-Students presented their "famous person" to the class and we tried to guess who it was.
-HOMEWORK: Students have no homework.

Class topics: 
characteristics
Fluency level: 
Intermediate

2nd Period Matrix- 10/10

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students reviewed clothing vocabulary.
-Students practiced asking classmates what they're wearing.
-We reviewed the verb "llevar" (to wear). We talked about how to express what someone else is wearing. In partners, students created sentences using this verb.
-We played Loteria (Bingo) using clothing vocabulary and "llevar".
-HOMEWORK: Students have a worksheet to complete. It is due in class next Wednesday, 10/17 (see attachment for worksheet).

Class topics: 
clothing
llevar
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Before School: Beginner 10/10

Submitted by kimber on

Class Activities: 

-Students reviewed vocabulary for body parts.
-Students learned about the verb "doler" (to hurt). We discussed the ways of expressing pain (see attachment for explanation sheet).
-Students completed a worksheet and created sentences using this verb with body parts vocabulary (see attachment for worksheet).
-HOMEWORK: Students must complete a worksheet using the verb "doler" (see attachment). It is due in class next Wednesday, 10/17

Class topics: 
body parts
doler
Fluency level: 
Beginner

Latinos famosos: 10/10/12

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and read an article about Celia Cruz. They were supposed to read for a general idea of what the article is about and then needed to underline 10 past tense verbs.

Students shared something they learned about Celia Cruz: where/when she was born, what she did, when she died, etc. We also made a list of past tense verbs and I wrote them on the board in three columns. The columns were -ar verbs, -er/ir verbs and irregular verbs. We went over the conjugation to talk about third person in the past.

-ar verbs: drop ending (ar) and add -o (participó, empezó)
-er/ir verbs: drop ending (er, ir) and add -ió (corrió, vivió)

We made a list of some famous Spanish speakers who are no longer living. Students each chose a person and we went to the computer lab where they could learn 5 things about their famous people. Sentences should be simple and include the correct conjugation of verbs in the past.

Tarea: complete 5 sentences about their person.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Latinos famosos: 10/5/12

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and conjugated 10 verbs on board.

We did a quick practice with small whiteboards practicing verb conjugations.

Students who hadn't presented their famous Spanish-speaker presented while other students took notes.

We played a game called Lotería (bingo) and I explained to students that we are going to make our own lotería game using famous Spanish-speakers.

Tarea: each student got a 3x5 index card and needed to put a photo on one side of the person who they studied and a corrected version of the information they wrote about the person on the other side. Students got the corrected version of their information back in class today. We're going to use these cards to create our Lotería game.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

Lucha libre arte: 10/9/12

Submitted by Nikki on

Class Activities: 

Students arrived and we went to art room and talked about similarities between all of the lucha libre art we found online and about student preferences of styles.
En común:
* rayos
* estrellas
* estilo de letra

We listened to music and students spent the rest of class drawing and painting the luchador they invented. We will finish paintings Thursday.

tarea: completar biografía/información de luchador inventado. A quick description/biography of each luchador will be attached to the back of each painting.

Fluency level: 
Intermediate

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