MONDAY and TUESDAY MAY 13 and 14

This is the last guaranteed time I am giving you to fine tune your assessment performance:  Today each group is allotted 15-20 minutes to "block off" your presentation with the table, chairs, "station" and other props. You have to use this time wisely ...if you haven't blocked this off then there will be no spontaneity  and give no evidence of preparation.

You have to memorize five speaking parts so learn one today and then add one each day....if you leave this to the last minute, many of you are going to be in trouble! This is your final...give it the importance it merits.

WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY MAY 8 AND 9

Worksheets/New Material On Formal Affirmative and Negative Commands
After completing the exercises, there was a 15 minute "restaurant" group meeting to review and revise the three mandatory commands for the assignment. 

For the word "to order" in your dialogue, use "pedir" NOT ordenar.

For the "bill" use "cuenta".

In your texts we reviewed the vocab on 196, 197, 198, 208 and 209 that might enhance the dialogue in the assessments.

Do not forget your menu: in addition to the vocabulary requirements, adjectival agreement and the correct definite article determines your grade.

MONDAY and TUESDAY MAY 6 and 7

Today is the next to last day you will have for group prep for your final assessment. Today you should be putting the final touches on the dialogue, starting your menu and assembling the vocabulary you are going to include on that menu. You still have two SHORT prep times but that time should be utilized as a run through/ practice session.

Thursday May 2

Good morning, girls.

As you recall, we made a bargain: you had your Derby/Trivia race on Tuesday instead of today. And now, you have to fulfill your end of the bargain....

The "Forming Commands" worksheets are on my desk.

You have two columns. The left column has 25 Spanish infinitives (I know I omitted #5...you know I don't do numbers well!) Follow the steps:

• write the "yo" form of each infinitive
• subtract the "o" from each one
• finally, add "a" if it is an er/ir verb or add "e" if it is an ar verb

Finally, let's go to the second column. You have one extra step here. These are English commands. Start by writing the Spanish infinitive for each one. If it says serve then you write servir, etc.Now, go back and repeat the three previous steps. remember to start with the "yo" form because you might have a stem change or an irregularity....check your yo forms, girls, and your answers will always be right.

Have a fun three day weekend and I hope all of you have the Derby winner or a babysitting job that pays really well!!

AN EXAMPLE OR TWO.....

HERE ARE TWO RESTAURANT SKITS:

THERE ARE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES IN BOTH. THEY OFFER EXAMPLES OF HOW TO DO AND HOW NOT TO DO THIS ASSIGNMENTS......

Monday, April 29 B Day

Today is A Day and the first opportunity this "Day"  has had to work in groups on their performance assessments.

All blocks used their class time to choose their restaurants and begin to write their dialogues and/or their menus.

Remember the requirements of your rubric!

APRIL 25 and 26

THERE IS NO CLASS TODAY BECAUSE ALL THE FRESHMAN ARE PERFORMING SERVICE  IN  THE FOREST OR AT THE ZOO.

THE FEW REMAINING UPPERCLASSMEN MAY UTILIZE THIS PERIOD AS EXTRA TIME TO WORK ON YOUR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT.

APRIL 24

Today is the first day and hourly allotment to begin planning the performance assessment. Again, learning to collaborate and plan is part of this assignment.

You have three hours of class time remaining.

April 22 and 23

THE FOOD BOX - lengthy oral exercises  identifying many of the new vocab words.

EL RESTAURANTE packet. This packet has the instructions, parameters and vocabulary sources for this performance assessment that replaces/ that is the final exam grade for the year.This assignment is divided into three components:

• the written dialogue       50 points
• the menu                       25 points
• the performance            25 points

You will be given four hours of class time to collaborate as a group. This requires focus and planning. You need to work on it weekly so that you are not overwhelmed. Parents, ask to see the packet. There are a number of vocabulary sources listed.

 

April 18 and 19

LAB: Quizlet.com  56 new words: Food from Loteria cards

Writing exercise: Using the mastery sheets we did last class period, translate the twenty sentences using more "sophisticated" vocabulary to create a better. flow. We posted and corrected these individually on the board.

APRIL 16 and 17

QUIZZES RETURNED AND ERRORS DISCUSSED

WE ADDED NEW SET OF VOCABULARY WORDS TO LOTERIA AND PLAYED BOTH SETS AT A TIME. YOU NOW HAVE 56 NEW FOOD WORDS AND THEY ARE POSTED ON QUIZLET FOR YOU!

WE FINISHED WITH A "MASTERY EXERCISE" ON YO FORMS OF VERBS: REGULAR VERBS, IRREGULAR VERBS AND STEM CHANGING VERBS. I CORRECTED EACH STUDENT'S PAPER INDIVIDUALLY AND THEN CHECKED THE CORRECTIONS. THESE PAPERS ARE TO BE SAVED FOR A WRITING EXERCISE NEXT CLASS PERIOD.

APRIL 12 and 15

Quick over view of stem changing materials and rules precede Pop Quiz...20 points!!

New vocabulary : JUNK FOOD      

Did you have your picture taken today with the alpacas???

APRIL 10 and 11

MORE BOOT VERBS.....

                                                                           

                                                 
We reviewed the basic rules, put exercise on the board and made a white KEY card for for IR (e) changes.
In the LAB we spent half an hour on conjuguemos.com ( Spanish Verbs / # 3 Present Tense Stem Changes).

No homework but be forewarned there may be a pop quiz looming in your future.

                                                           

APRIL 8 and 9

NEW MATERIAL :  Stem Changing Verbs....


                                                              aka : BOOT VERBS
                           
                                                                 

Stem changing Verbs use the same endings as regular verbs. Stem changing Verbs are different in that a vowel (an o or an e change to ue or to ie) These changes occur in the singular persons and in the third person plural. An easier ( a more visual ) way to remember this is to call these boot verbs. We discussed all of this in class today, made a rules/notes sheet for your notebooks and did practice work at the board. If you were absent this video may help you.

and this second one is silly, but you never know what can help you remember something....

no homework tonight......

MARCH 25 AND 26

LAB: New Vocab: STEM CHANGING VERBS

New Class Material: ORDINAL NUMBERS. (Worksheets 186-188)

Homework: Clocks/Time Review

                                                                     

MARCH 21 AND 21

Review: All the exercises for homework were checked , put on the board and discussed.

Scrabble!!!

MARCH 19 AND 20

SPOT CHECK ON ALL ASSIGNMENTS OUT

NEW MATERIAL :FORMATION AND USE OF THE PRESENT PROGRESSIVE TENSE

THIS INSTRUCTIONAL PACK WAS COMPLETE AND SELF DIRECTED. THIS IS THE EASIEST TENSE IN SPANISH TO FORM AND USE. WE DID THE EXERCISES TOGETHER IN CLASS.

NEW MATERIAL: QUIZLET: EXPRESSIONS WITH TENER. LAB TIME

YOUR HOMEWORK: TRANSLATE THE FOLLOWING SENTENCES:

  1. I am hungry.
  2. Are you in a hurry?
  3. I have to go to the bathroom.
  4. Do you feel like going to the dance with me?
  5. The girls are cold.
  6. We have to do our homework.
  7. Is she sleepy?
  8. Is the baby hot?                          
  9. We don't feel like working.
10. It is late; I am in a hurry.
11. The dog is hungry.
12. He doesn't have to wash the dishes tonight.
13. Are you all cold?
14. All the kids are thirsty.
15. I have to leave now.


  1. I am looking for my money!
  2. You are eating too (demasiado) fast!
  3. We are cooking pasta for dinner.
  4. Are you all talking about the game?
  5. She isn't listening to the teacher.            >>>>>>>>>this group of sentences use the present progressive
  6  Mother is vacuuming the dining room.
  7. The students are studying in the Library.
  8. My dad and brothers are watching the basketball games in the living room.
  9. Is he cutting the grass now?
10. You all are setting the table with Grandma's dishes.
                                                                                         

MARCH 15 AND 18

VOCABULARY BUILDING PACKET / SIX PAGES /30 POINTS

TIME FOR QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

MARCH 12 AND 13

TWO MORE DAYS UNTIL 
STATE!!














QUIZ TODAY: SER AND (E)STAR WARS......30 POINTS!!

Group work: Using a sheet of four comics that I distributed, your group is to write a caption for as many of them as you choose. You may earn 1 - 5 extra credits points for the best caption. This is an exercise in translation/illustrating that slang and plays on words do not translate from one language to another. Example: the one with the pig in the bed looking at the doctor: -Doc, how did you get here so fast? - I rode in the hambulance. In Spanish  that is monto en la ambulancia de jamon. And that, mis chicas, is NOT funny.

And we finished with a puzzle/dictionary sheet on the bathroom..43 words ranging from the shower and soap to nail file and toilet paper!
And when we are finished with the words, you have an additional opportunity to earn four extra credit points.

NO HOMEWORK TODAY.(BUT YOU HAVE YOUR LONG TERM WRITING ASSESSMENT DUE).

ASSIGNMENTS DUE

THERE IS A QUIZ ON THE USE OF SER VERSUS ESTAR. THE QUIZ IS 30 POINTS/ 15 SENTENCES. YOU MAY USE YOUR SER AND ESTAR RULES SHEET. IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT YOU CANNOT USE A SHEET THAT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE IN CLASS. YOU NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE AND BRING YOUR SHEET.


WRITTEN ASSESSMENT - 75 POINTS. A DAY IS DUE MONDAY, MARCH 18
AND B DAY IS THURSDAY, MARCH 21. PARENTS NEED TO ASK TO SEE THE ASSIGNMENT SHEET.

THESE ARE BOTH IMPORTANT GRADES.


THURSDAY.....

March 4-11th

This week: New Material : SER and ESTAR

• Explanation of the rules for determining whether you use SER or ESTAR. You will be permitted to use this sheet on a quiz later so be certain to copy the additional rules I give you. We will do the exercises on this sheet orally.
• Worksheet 1- 45. We put all of these sentences on the board
• Additional class exercises.

• We watched this video on SER and ESTAR. (click on above)
• In addition we went over instructions for Perfomance Assessment: EL DORMITORIO/LA ALCOBA
• As a preview to the assignment we googled a number of photos of bedrooms. Using these photos as inspiration or a guide, we discussed the required of the assessment/writing assignment. This assignment is worth 75 points and is due on Monday the 18th or Tuesday the 19th. Parents may want to look at the two page instruction sheet for info; this assignment should require three hours quality time.
• The writing assignment requires frequent use of SER or ESTAR and careful use of adjectival agreement.

February 28 and March 1

In your text: we went over the new vocabulary on pages 170 and 171. We did a number of exercises orally or on the board during class. Your homework on the vocabulary is exercises 18 and 20. In 18 you rewrite the entire paragraph filling in the blanks with information about where you live and what your house is like. In exercise 20 you have to do three things: you begin by writing the person in your house who each chore/ you then conjugate the verb according to the person or persons doing that chore/ you write how often that person does that chore by choosing one of the four options listed in bold print in the directions.

Review: the forms of estar on page 174 and the prepositions indicating location(we did these before when I arranged the pinatas and "critters" in the center of the class). For homework do exercise 23: rewrite the paragraph and fill in each blank with some form of estar. If you are in A DAY then you must also do exercise 24; we have done this before in class together.


                   DO NOT FORGET THE PLAY IS THIS WEEKEND!!

                                                                   

February 26 and 27

EC PAPEL # 3

Return quizzes from last class.

Today was the last day to work on Possessive Adjectives; we put all the homework on the board and corrected it. Emphasis is on the four different forms of "your" /singular/plural/ familiar/ formal.

Open Book Pop Quiz on the these possessive adjectives. 30 points.

No Homework tonight



Example of possessive:

Es NUESTRA estrella favorita del cine de NUESTRA ciudad en SU vestido tan fenomenal.

February 22 and 25

Vocabulary quiz: los animales exoticos       30 points

EC PAPEL # 2

New Material : Possessive Adjectives    Class discussion and exercises.

If you need a quick review of this and the text explanation is not clear enough try this video; listen to the entire presentation before you begin your homework.

Your homework: finish the exercise packet I gave you in class today. Do not forget to 
translate the sentences in exercise B on #90. 

REVIEW:  Oral activity/ classroom discussion: los animales exoticos

NEW MATERIAL: possessive adjectives   (took notes)

                          mi                    nuestro
                          tu                     vuestro
                          su                     su         
these are adjectives so the endings change to agree with the nouns they modify: mi libro or mis libros. In your text there is a further explanation on page 162 and 163.

LAB: 15 minutes on Quizlet to review words on los animales exoticos.

HOMEWORK: study for your vocab quiz

February 18 and 19

RETURNED EXAMS AND SCORES FOR LAB RECITATIONS....

FINISHED "EL PRECIO DE LA FAMA".EXERCISES E/G/H/I WERE DONE IN CLASS ORALLY.

EXERCISE F WAS ASSIGNED FOR HOMEWORK.

February 14 and 15

El Precio de la Fama : the story of Josefina...

Individual and group translation of part one of the story.


LAB: retaping of El Reloj - each class now has new folder...

EXAM makeups and questions


homework:  Exercises A - D









                             

February 12

YOUR HOMEWORK FOR TONIGHT:

• COPY ALL THE NEW VOCABULARY WORDS FROM  "ANIMALES EXOTICOS"  next pg.
• CHOOSE AN ANIMAL FROM THE LIST/WRITE 50 WORD PARAGRAPH/DESCRIPTION
• REWRITE THESE SENTENCES, FILLING IN THE BLANK:

                                                     

  1. Comemos los sandwiches de ____________________ para el almuerzo.

  2._____________________ es la mamalia mas grande del mundo.

  3._____________________ es el gato mas rapido de las Americas.

  4. Bob _______________________ vive en Bikini Bottom.

  5. _______________________ pertence (belongs to) a la familia de los caballos.

  6. En la sabana, ____________________ usa un traje negro y blanco pero en la Anartica es     

      ____________________________ que usa el traje negro y blanco.

  7.__________________________ vive en los arboles y no mueve (moves) rapido.

  8. Las plumas del __________________ son de muchos colores brillantes.

  9.La _________________ es adorable y aplaude frecuntemente.

10. El ___________________ pone la cabeza en la arena (sand).

LOS ANIMALES EXOTICOS

LOS ANIMALES DE...

      el Artico:

• la orca                             orca
• la ballena blanca           white whale                                                      
• la foca                              seal
• la morsa                          walrus
• el oso polar                     polar bear

   

      la Anartica:

• el pinguino                           

      la sabana:

• el avestruz                ostrich
• el hipopotamo          hippopotamus
• la jirafa                      giraffe
• la cebra                     zebra
• el quepardo              cheetah                                              
• el rinoceronte          rhinoceros                                               
• el jabali                     wild boar
• 
  

     el desierto:

• el camello                 camel

  

      la selva:

• la boa                        boa constrictor
• el perezoso               sloth
• el jaguar                   jaguar
• la anaconda            anaconda
• el tucan                    toucan                                                              

      el mar: 

• el calamar gigante    giant squid
• el pulpo                   octopus
• la medusa               jellyfish
• el atun                     tuna
• el delfin                   dolphin
• la esponja               sponge

                                      

   

February 12 and 13

           THE GREAT BIG VERB EXAM     100 POINTS

February 6 and 7

"THE GREAT BIG VERB EXAM:  REVIEW"


LAB: 20 minutes practice with Quizlet  ( three sets /see previous blog)

PRACTICE EXAM/FORMAT:

• IRREGULAR FORMS AND SIT VERBS
• REGULAR YO FORMS
• NOSOTROS FORMS
• MIXED CONJUGATION SECTION
• TRANSLATION/CONJUGATION SECTION

                                                                                                                

STUDY GUIDE/ RESOURCE

STUDY GUIDE FOR CONJUGATING IN THE PRESENT TENSE



Ms. Saylor's Dashboard     < click here

USE THE FOLLOWING SETS FROM MY DASHBOARD:

• IRREGULAR YO FORMS
• INFINITIVES TRANSLATIONS (30 WORDS)
• INFINITIVES TRANSLATIONS PART TWO (8 WORDS) 

                    NEW MATERIAL: EXPRESSIONS OR IDIOMS WITH THE VERB "TENER"

THE HOTTEST DESERT ON EARTH: THE ATACAMA IN CHILE. WATCH HOW THE SPEAKER COOKS HIS BREAKFAST!!

                                       
                                         HOWLER MONKEYS (COSTA RICA)

                                         FROM THE CHAPTER ON COSTA RICA