November 19 and 20

There will be a sub on these two days. You are to complete a packet of exercises that cover AR verb conjugation, reading comprehension using weather phrases, and questions and writing assignment about the Hispanic heritage of Texas. Toward the end of the class, you are to go to the LAB and pull up my folder in Sony content. Using the "Answers" file you can correct your answers on the first two pages of the packet. You are to turn in the packet before you leave.

Your homework: enjoy your time with your family!

November 13 and 14

LAB:  Vocabulary review on Quizlet.com: El Tiempo / AR Infinitives / Los Animales

Oral exercises/ conversation in class as followup to LAB practices.

                                                                            

November 9 and 12

New Material: Weather Phrases
   Copy from the board (or classmate, if absent) the new list of weather words. We are going to use these words in a Performance Assessment after Thanksgiving , creating a presentation as a weather forecaster.

Review of steps in verb conjugation. "Conjugation Buffet": Worksheet divided into four four parts increasing in difficulty. We put these on the board for additional discussion.

?Quien es este jugador de futbol?                                                                                

November 7 and 8

New vocabulary:

• jugar al baloncesto /al basquetbol
• jugar al futbol
• jugar al tenis
• jugar al golf
• correr
• nadar
• jugar a los bolos
• jugar al hocki
• jugar al futbol americano
• jugar al volibol

Culture:

•  what is a hat trick?
• what is a rainbow kick
• what is a bicycle kick?
• 25 minutes of the film "Victory" with Pele, considered by most the greatest soccer player; this clip even demonstrates the mob behavior 

November 5 and 6

Infinitives: pages 82 and 94 in your text: copy the these with their translations to English. Today we learned:

• to find the stem of each of these
• to conjugate these regular -AR, -ER and IR verbs in the first, second and third persons singular and plural
• how to say we like or do not like to do the things (no me gusta leer novelas but me gusta ir al cine). In other words, when I like is followed by an infinitive the singular form of gustar is used.
• how to say I like to play "insert name of sport"/ there fore we also learned new vocab for different sports/ page 83.

Homework : exercises 26, 27 and 28 in this chapter (3).

Note: the conjugation /endings chart is on 98 in the text, but we made our own (endins) key to accompany our "windows"

November 1 and 2

Culture Day / Finishing Unit on Puerto Rico

• the coqui /national symbol of Puerto Rico
• Roberto Clemente / national hero of Puerto Rico / opened the door for Hispanics in professional baseball
• The Day of the Dead/ Celebrated on All Soul's Day/ Catholic Celebration that assimilates many Aztec customs and beliefs

There are handouts on all of these for the culture section in your folders.Remember this was a short day!
Watch the following:

October 30 and31

QUIZ

Chapter 2     53 points   It covers:
     Me gusta/me gustan
     Definite articles
     Conjugation of ser
     New vocabulary words
     Opposites
     Reading comprehension  

October 26 and 29

Culture: material for binder on Paella and Saffron

New vocabulary: List of nouns from Halloween.
     Pronunciation/relate to English vocab or ACT words: sangre: sanguinary or dulces: dulcet or cuerpo: 
     corporal
     Fill in the blanks in the Spanish sentences on the other side with words from the list.

Reading Comprehension: "En Defensa de los Vampiros" Short Spanish story of an outraged vampire.
     Exercises A/B and D...turn in for credit

October 24 and 25

New material! New material!

Me gusta and me gustan pages 55-57. (orally) exercises 20 and 22.
Nouns and definite articles. Page 60. Exercise 26 on the board.
New vocab: new adjectives on page 58 and animals with Loteria.

Classwork: translate color paragraph on page 68.
On the 25th (Thursday schedule) there was only time for Loteria OR the translation).We will pick up the second option next class.

October 22 and 23

Your Paw Prints were due today..

From the Food Channel: the cuisine of Spain. Terms to remember:

• paella and bomba rice
• saffron
• percebes from La Costa de Muerte
• churros
• tapas
• jamon iberica belotes and serrano ham 

                                                                            
                         Great "how-to" video : Ayo making paella autentica   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

October 15 and 16

ADJECTIVAL AGREEMENT    THE PAW ASSIGNMENT

YOU HAVE A WORKSHEET WITH SIX PAWS ON IT. EACH PAW REPRESENTS A DIFFERENT
SIDE OF YOU. THE FOOT PADS ARE NOUNS AND THE TOE PADS ARE ADJECTIVES.

OPTIONS FOR THE FOOT PAD: "YO" IS REQUIRED/YOUR CHOICES FOR THE OTHER FIVE ARE: AMIGA; HIJA; JAGUAR; CATOLICA; ESTUDIANTE; CANTANTE; BAILADORA; ARTISTA; ATLETA; SOBRINA; TIA HERMANA.

NOW THE TOE PADS : FOR EACH "SIDE" OF YOU SELECT FOUR ADJECTIVES THAT DESCRIBE THAT PARTICULAR "YOU". FOR INSTANCE, YOU MIGHT BE A FUERTE OR FEROZ ATLETA; A FIEL AND ESPIRITUAL CATOLICA; OR, A TRABAJADORA AND INTELIGENTE ESTUDIANTE. YOU WILL FINISH WITH 24 DIFFERENT ADJECTIVES AND YOU CANNOT USE ADJECTIVES THAT ARE PHYSICAL DESCRIPTIONS LIKE "RUBIA".

FINALLY, YOU NEED TO SELECT DIFFERENT COLORS AND COLOR THE PAW.yOU FINISH BY WRITING: "ESTA PATA ES __________ PORQUE" THIS PART/REASON YOU MAY WRITE IN ENGLISH. THE COLOR MUST AGREE IN GENDER AND NUMBER WITH "ESTA PATA"

15 POINTS

FINISH FOR HOMEWORK BUT THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL HOMEWORK OVER THE FALL BREAK!!!!!

October 10 and 11

"THE COCKTAIL PARTY " AKA THE ART OF CONVERSATION IN SPANISH

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT    60 POINTS

October 8 and 9

POP QUIZ on the verb SER 16 points. You may use your window sheets.

Practica for the Cocktail Party
Explanation of the scoring rubrics, self assessment sheets and the group assignment process.

October 4 and 5

ADJECTIVAL AGREEMENT
In the text, we discussed pages 44 and 45 and worked with the vocab. We did exercises 1,2,4,7,8 and 9 together, orally. Classwork assignment (with partner, if desired): Text: exercises 11,12,and 13. Worksheet numbered 11 and 13 on Adjectival agreement and Reading comprehension. In your workbooks: Chapter Two/ exercises 1 thru 4 and 10-13. Complete unfinished exercises for homework.

September 28 and October 1

New material: new numbers 30 -100. Lotería for practice
Agenda updates for October, including "The Cocktail Party" on October 10 and 11.This performance assessment is worth 75 points! You need to get your cards in order.
Classwork in your workbooks: exercises 6-8 on page 15.
No homework tonight.

September 26 and 27

Today was SER day. The girls paired up, and using their window sheets, completed the following work : text - exercise 32 and 32 and workbook- pages 10 - 11, exercises 27,28 and 30. We went through the material carefully, discussing it and putting it on the board. This was worth 5 class points.

In addition we watched short videos on the following fiestas and arts of Spain: the festival of La Tomatina, the running of the bulls during the festival of San Fermin in Pamplona and a professional castanet  "player" :

September 24 and 25

Today we began conjugating verbs!!! Specifically the irregular verb SER/TO BE. We used our six paneled window sheets/with subject pronouns to determine the correct forms.

There was a worksheet with 20 sentences for conjugating using the windows sheets.

Homework: Clocks for writing the time....12 points.

Remember that Monday was Mercy Day and the periods were shorter than usual.

September 21 and 24.

We added to our question/conversation cards.

¿Qué hora es?

¿Qué es tu correo electrónico?

¿Cómo se escribe...?

¿Qué día es hoy?

¿Cuándo es tu cumpleaños?

¿Cuál fetch es hoy?

¿Cuántos años tie es?

¿Qué es tu dirección?

Translations/answers/practice.

Quiz (20 points) on numbers.

September 18 and19

We began class with a game of Lotería as a review of the numbers 0 -39 in preparation for a quiz next class period.

New material: Subject pronouns. This was a lengthy lesson/taking notes on the grid sheet/the windows sheet. If you are absent you need to borrow someone's notes and copy them. They need to be kept in your notebook since you will use them often in the first semester...you are sometimes permitted to use them on a quiz! We completed pages 4,5and 6 in your workbooks. Some classes also completed an additional worksheet 8 and 9.

Homework: study for your quiz/it is oral.   Bring about 10 index cards to the next class.  And some of you were told to finish your workbook pages for homework...that probably was only on A Day.

September 14 and 17

We are still using the clocks and working on telling times. We reviewed the formula for time up through 30 minutes past the hour. New material: 31 - 60 minutes past the hour. This formula is more difficult because you go to the next hour and come down and subtract (menos) the minutes rather than add them. This is on page twenty in your text. We completed  a classwork assignment together as a practice.
We also worked with the question ¿Cómo se escribe...? using the words for the alphabet on page 22.
We finished class with a vocab game covering a mini unit on animals.

No homework.

September 12 and13

Maps were returned.

Quiz:Los días,los meses,las estaciones....23 points.

New material¿Qué hora es? Telling time...this was new to many students so I only introduced the time to the 30 minute mark;we did a number of oral activities to utilize the rules/patterns that we learned.

Reviewed conversational questions.

We checked the homework on the board. No new homework for tonight.

September 10 and 11

 Your maps were due today.

We reviewed numbers and the material for the quiz. Again, we used quizlet in the LAB  as a review for the quiz.

New material: the flamenco...castanets, the musical accompaniement , the shoes and the importance of the arms.  Go to YouTube.com and type in Sara Baras. (flamenco, por Bulerias) to watch a video of a performance!

More new material: Answer the following questions:

        ¿Qué fecha es hoy?

        ¿Cuál es tu telefono?

        ¿Cuál es tu correo electrónico?

        ¿Cuál día es hoy?

Homework: study for your quiz and complete page 7 and 9 in your workbook.Check the link at the bottom.

                                                 

September 6 and 7

Girls, I know the dates of these posts are not in order. I changed the template format yesterday and it scrambled the posts. I imagine you really don't care but I wanted you to know that I know the sight changed overnight and there is a chronological error.

Now to what we did today: your homework was collected/ 5 points. Our review today was a packet worth 5 points covering the days, months seasons, and numbers.
We are going to have a quiz next week on the first three items in the list. Make sure the date is in your planner.

But the new activity was the introduction of quizlet.com as a vocabulary tool. You can use this for every vocab unit and have the automatic study cards that I have made for you.When you enter the sight search for vbsaylor. This lesson is listed as days and months.

                                                              Quizlet.com


DO NOT FORGET THAT YOUR MAP IS DUE NEXT PERIOD. IF IT IS LATE THE SCORE IS LOWERED A LETTER GRADE!!!!

August 30. And 31

Any map questions?

REVIEW:
      Basic questions
      LAB exercise format/exercise 6 and 9
      Days of the week
New material:
      Numbers 0 - 30/ exercise 20  and. 21
Homework:
      Exercise 6, 9 and 11.

September 4 and 5

There was no "class" today because these were Freshman Activity Days. everyone has their map assignment to complete in addition to the three exercises (6, 9 and 11) that were assigned in the text. B DAY/Block Four was not given the text assignment due to a lack of class time.

August 28 and 29

No class for Freshmen: Activity Days

Remember, girls, that if you are  in class or a Freshman in Activities during class time you still have an assignment to be completed: your (assembled and labeled )map of the Iberian Peninsula.

August 24 and 27

La Geografia de Espana.....

Explanation and discussion of the provinces and other geographical features of the Iberian Peninsula.
How does the geography of a country affect its history, culture and language....even the the more obscure facets of everyday life like the roof of a house, the liquor that is manufactured or the vocabulary references of the  language. The instructions are clear and the due dates are September 10 or 11. See Señora for extra handouts.
Z

August 20-21
Review vowel sounds from last week. New sounds: ue , l, ll, h, j, c, g, y, and z. Once again, go to studyspanish.com and pronounce the sounds with the speakers.

New:spelling in Spanish activities.

August 16

Welcome back! this is Spanish ONE....we begin with pronunciation, pronunciation and MORE pronunciation. We are need a strong foundation that will serve us well into the nex t  year.  Today the focus is on the vowels. In addition we cover the denials, the nasal, and  the q combinations. In the LAB we worked with studyspanish.com. Go to Pronunciation and then do # 1-6 .


studyspanish.com.        

Click here to see the document!

HISPANIC TRIVIAL PURSUIT

April 6 and 16 

Trivial Pursuit a la Hispanic world.....we simply use the TP board and change the color categories to:

BLUE / GEOGRAPHY:  What is the largest port city in Spain?
PINK / LIFE :   In what country did the tango originate?
GREEN / FAMOUS PEOPLE: What Cuban band leader was married to Lucille Ball ?
BROWN / FOOD and DRINK: Saffron makes the paella what color?
ORANGE / SPORTS and ARTS:  How did Roberto Clemente die?
YELLOW / HISTORY:  Who did Castro overthrow in 1959?

                                                             

March 20 and 21

SER and ESTAR:

• in the LAB: studyspanish.com/ Grammar/ #15 and#16 - read all the rules and examples and then do the basic quiz on each one. Submit your answers to have them graded.
• discuss and check the remaining sentences (the second sheet) from last classs

NEW VOCABULARY

• TRELLIS PUZZLE
• BUSCAPALABRAS/ opportunity for one extra credit point
• LOTERIA

HOMEWORK:

• Finish the vocab sheets
• quiz on SER and ESTAR in two class periods.

Need help with SER and ESTAR??????

March 16-19

Vocab exercise/ 30 seconds of extemporaneous speaking: random selection of drawing with 30 second description. 3 minutes of prep time.

Focus today is on SER and Estar. Worksheet with 45 sentences begun in class and completed for homework.

Loteria with kitchen words: new vocab: la botella/el microondas/el congelador/el tostador/ la escoba/ el trapeador/el lavaplatos/ el horno/ el sarten/las toallas/el abrelatas/ la lata

                      
                                                                    

March 12-15.

New material: difference in the use of SER and ESTAR/Notes on the board/Worksheets 53-55/exercises A.B,E and I.
LAB assignment: Studyspanish.com/Grammar/#15 and 16 SER and ESTAR/ Basic Quizzes. Conjuguemos/Vocab/Capitulo 6.
Performance Assessments collected.
Buscapalabras and Trellis exercises on vocab.
New words: el albaricoque/la alcachofa/las albondigas/la berenjena/la calabaza/el esparrago/el nabo/el pepino/el pepinillo/el puerro/el rabano/la remolachala miel/la mantequilla/la crema

                                                                      

                                                                             

Mexico: Tejano music

Mexico: and one more cliff diver...

Mexico: Cliff divers of Acapulco

Mexico: Frida Kahlo

Mexico: Diego Rivera

Mexico: Day of the Dead/El Dia de Los Muertos

March 1 and 2

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT   THE BEDROOM

DUE: MONDAY, MARCH 12 A DAY   or   TUESDAY, MARCH 13  B DAY

EL DORMITORIO/LA ALCOBA

Draw, cut from a magazine, Google an image or use clip art to illustrate a bedroom –a teenager’s room, a nursery, a master suite – a bedroom that appeals to you so that it will make it easier to discuss. Attach this to a white sheet of paper (computer paper/do NOT spend money on construction paper or poster board).    25 pts.

In Spanish, write a paragraph describing the room: its color, size, the furniture, patterns and/or knick knacks, what you like or dislike about the room. What do you do in the room? The paragraph should be a minimum of 150 words. I have provided a list of vocabulary words to get you started; you are not limited to these words nor do you have to use any of them. Your use of correct adjectival agreement is critical to this assignment.  50 pts.

El dormitorio/La alcoba

La cama            la almohada       la silla            el gabinete

La cómoda         las fundas         el sillón           la mesa

La ventana         el colchón          la mecedora     la lámpara

Las cortinas        la colcha           el espejo         los estantes

Las persianas      la manta           el cuadro         la percha

La alfombra       el escritorio        el poster         la pared

Las rayas          la cabecera        el diseño         los lunares

La lana             la seda             el algodón        redondo

Cuadrado          moderno            elegante        contemporáneo

Tradicional        el estilo             el suelo           la alfombra 

After discussing this assignment and creating sample scenarios/bedrooms we used "the grocery cart" to work with esta es/ este es/ estas son, etc plus the new vocab words. 

 

March 1 and 2

I collected your homework.
Discussion of Performnace assessment. 75 points. Check the document.

February 24 and 27

Stem changing QUIZ. After the Quiz we played Spanish Scrabble.
No homework.

February 28 and 29

Returned quizzes...really great scores all across the board! Today we took these verbs that you conjugated so beautifully and used them to write sentences, sentences we would use in everyday conversations. We started small, just putting thirty conjugated verbs on the board, correcting them as we finished. Then we used those corrected verbs as small units of longer sentences. We're getting there, ladies.
Homework: Complete the sentences in Spanish..10 points/ You need a dozen blank index cards next class.

February 22 and 23

QUIZ   Next class: 30 pts. Don't forget conjuguemos.com (#3 in verb section); it is an excellent way to review because you receive immediate corrections. Also, if you need to review the ending, skip back to #2 for a quick review.

Vocab, vocab, vocab....las frutas discussion en espanol only! New Loteria set with fruits and veggies/ part review and part new words. Again the discussion/explanation was in Spanish.

STUDY! ESTUDIEN!

February 20 and 21

Back to to the Lab: conjuguemos.com / go verb link and then click on #3:Present Tense Stem Changing Verbs. We set our clocks for 10 minutes. Then we went back to the Vocab by text link and went to our text: #431 - Capitulo5 and rewarded ourselves with 10 minutes of vocab Hangman.

Back to the classroom and another Practica for our upcoming Quiz (30 pts.)

New material: Vocab: Las frutas /C oncentration Game

                                                      

Need a little extra help with your stem changing verb patterns?

February 16 and 17

Today was a review today: La Casa vocabulary and Stem Changing verbs. If there was time, the class played a couple of Loteria games with the vocab , again IF there was time! The emphasis was on the BOOT verbs; we had a lengthy exercise conjugating examples/ going to the board and editing our errors. Some classes did exercises in the text and some did an extra BOOT sheet. It doesn't matter because I will just reverse the two the next class period.

You will be quizzed on this next Friday or the following Monday, so you need to be asking questions or seeing me now instead of waiting until the last minute. This is simple IF you follow the elementary steps and imagine the BOOT on the grid!!

February 14 1nd 15

New and review material: vocab on The House: rooms, furniture, appliances and structural parts of the house like the walls, ceilings, bathroom fixtures, etc. We played three games of LOTERIA with the new words!



                New Material: Stem changing or "Boot Verbs"                         

Nuestra bota

We copied notes on stem changing verbs and used the imaginary boot grid to help conjugate them.It is important to remember that these changes occur only in a designated vowel in the stem and in no way change the endings we have learned for present tense conjugations.

Winter Break

Winter Break....are you a member? did you sign on? do you want three extra credit points? Blog (me) the answers to these questions in Spanish after viewing the video :)   

Cuantas de estas alpacas no son blancas?

En cual pais viven las alpacas?

Son estas alpacas delgadas o gordas?

Answer in complete sentences in Spanish for credit..

FEBRUARY 8 & 9

Our Quz: Possessive adjectives: 23 points

Estar + directions/ group activity. Each group had to place our nine pinata pals in a "still life"; then nine sentences were composed giving the members positions in relationship to some member. To conclude the activity, I read the nine sentences to another group to see if they could accurately place our pals in the same position as the "still life" without viewing it. This was not nearly as easy as it sounds!

El guitarrista esta cerca del violinista.

Homework: Bring blank verb cards to class....

February 6 & 7

Today's review material covered a quick Practica for next block's quiz.
We returned to the LAB and Conjuguemos.com for a review of the vocab from Chapter 5.
Nw material: Use of estar to denote location (activity: Alejandro y Frida) and  specific location prepositional phrases. This can all be found on 174-5 in the text. We also did exercise 24 on p. 175.

Homework: Study your worksheets for the quiz next block.

February 2-3

We reviewed the quiz results answers;  no one kept the paper because there are a number of you out there who have to make this up! It is your responsibility to see me.
We went to the LAB to use a new web site: Conjuguemos.com. On the web site we used both the Grammar Link (#2 Present tense of regular verbs)  and the Vocab by book link. Remember our text is Expresate I and we are going to Capitulo 4. You may select the first or the second part (no me importa). The hangman option is actually quite useful for learning the new words!
We also completed together (on the board) a lengthy exercise on the possessives.
Homework: you will have a quiz on the possesives in TWO class periods.

January 31 & February 1

Quiz (little Exam?): regular and irregular conjugations and translation. 45 points.

January 27 & 30


We reviewed the vocab on La Familia as well as a lengthy Practica on present tense verb conjugation of all the verb in our Verb Card set. There will be a 45 point quiz next class on the conjugations; you may use your cards! LAB time.
Homework: Bring your grid sheets and card sets to class ; you cannot leave class to get them.

January 25/26

Review of the six verbs with irregular "yo " forms.
Lengthy oral exercise of "tu" questions with "yo" replies.
New material: possessive adjectives with board exercises practice.
Homework: 15 sentences with "la familia"/"posesivos"/"conjugacion

January 23/24

Our exercises covered the translations on all our verbs cards and, additionally was an AR/ER/IR review. All exercised were posted and reviewed. We added six new (irregular in the "yoform):HACER.PONER/SALIR/SABER/VER and
TRAER.

Jan. 19/20

Jan. 19/20

We began our stack of verb conjugation cards with forty verbs from the text. The card include the infinitive and its translation. We also included any grammatical idiosyncrasies: irregular yo form; stem-changes; irregular in most forms,etc. Bring six more for next class to include hacer/poner/salir/ver/traer.

Jan. 17/18

Jan. 17/18

We completed a second set of exercises that required discrimination of information in the dictionary. Although we worked in groups, this exercise was more difficult than the previous class and required more analysis. It was collected and is worth ten points.

Jan.12/13

Jan.12/13

We began a two day lesson on using a Spanish-English dictionary: the symbols for the different parts of speech; how to read the lists of idiomatic expressions; and how to determine which of the listed translations is appropriate in context. We completed and discussed a worksheet with exercises over the more basic information. This isn't as easy as it sounds!