martes, el 26 de enero

CP/H

• Review for Final Exam!
• Correct Final Review WS
• Review Video Notes from Mexico 1
• Discuss NB check (bring your binder on the day of the final!)
  
• PPT Reviews

1. Basic Facts - Mexico
2. 1st Semester Review
3. Common Mistakes (made on written final)

• Pass back writtens

Things that you need to study culture wise: Mexico I Video, Food for the ancestors video WS, Mexico Info/History from notes/PPT, Day of the Dead info

Honors - Study up to 4.2
CP - Study up to 4.1

lunes, el 25 de enero de 2010

CP/Honors

History Channel: Mexico I Video

HW: Study for Final Exam
Reminders: Notebook check on the day of your scantron final. Make sure that your binder is in order, the papers are filed correctly, and there aren't loose papers/papers in the pockets!

CP: Enfoques 1-6 are also due on the day of your final.

Finals are:
Period 3/4 on Wednesday
Period 5 on Thursday
Period 1/2 on Friday

viernes, el 22 de enero de 2010

CP/Honors

• Finish ORAL EXAMS (Hooray!)
  
• Collected: 1st Semester Review Sheet (due today at the end of class)
• HW: 1st Semester Review Book/Pages (Due Monday)
  

Also, Check out this neat blog with an informative post on estuvo vs. fue!

jueves, el 21 de enero de 2010

CP/Honors

• ORAL EXAMS
• Don't forget: 1st Semester Review Sheet (due Friday)
• HW: 1st Semester Review Book/Pages (Due Monday)
  

Also, Check out this neat blog with an informative post on estuvo vs. fue!

miércoles, el 20 de enero de 2010

CP/Honors

• ORAL EXAMS
• HW: 1st Semester Review Sheet (due Friday)
  

Also, Check out this neat blog with an informative post on estuvo vs. fue!

Upon the eve of another final...

martes, el 19 de enero de 2010

CP/Honors

• Practice Orals
• Discuss Rubric
• Sign up/volunteer for orals
• Practice Orals/play preterite game
  
• HW: Study for Oral Exams (beginning tomorrow)

viernes, el 15 de enero de 2010

CP

• Practice Orals
• Correct Preterite Imperfect WS #3 & #5
• Leer - Leyenda pg. 214-215
• HW: Study for Oral Exams (beginning next week on Wednesday)

Honors

• Practice Orals
• Juego: Trivial Pursuit with Preterite
• HW: Study for Oral Exams (beginning next week on Wednesday)
• EC Opportunity -
  
• Write 1-2 pargraphs typed; Due Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2010
  Go online and read the article, "Mexico's Colors of Three Cultures", from the Jan/Feb 2010 issue of Saudi Aramco World.
  
  For 3 points extra credit type one to two paragraphs in English about what you learned and or what you thought about the article especially about the influences on the Mexico that we're studying and the etymology (word origins).

jueves, el 14 de enero de 2010

CP

• In Class - Written Final Exam
• HW: Preterite/Imperfect WS #3 & #5 (due Friday)

Honors

• Practice Orals
• Correct HW: WB pgs 174-176
• Cultura - Palabras Indígenas pg. 229
• Car, gar, zar practice- Para y Piensa pg. 229, 231
• Irregular Preterite (venir, querer, decir, traer) pg. 232
  
• Act 11, 12 pg. 233
  
• Cultura - Un deporte antiguo pg 234
• Para y Piensa pg. 234 (preterite irreg)
• Leer: Telehistoria pg. 225, 230, 235
• Mirar el video
• Leer: Cultura pg. 238-239: Los zapotecas y los otavaleños
• No book needed tomorrow, we're going to play a game!
• HW: WB pgs 177-179

miércoles, el 13 de enero de 2010

CP
• Enfoque #6 - Pick one of the practice written topics and write an introductory paragraph for it.
• Preterite/Imperfect WS #5 (begin in class; due Friday)
• Correct practice written; peer editing
• Brainstorm and write as a class

Here is the practice written body paragraph that we wrote together in Per 2 .

Queríamos hacer muchas cosas divertidas entonces primero fuimos a Disneyland. Había mucha gente allí pero nos divertimos mucho. Hacía mucho sol ese día pero comenzó a llover por la tarde. Subimos a los autitos chocadores y después fuimos a Space Mountain, mi montaña rusa favorita. Comimos hamburguesas y papas fritas. Por fin salimos a las diez de la noche porque estábamos muy cansados y teníamos que levantarnos temprano el día siguiente.

Here is the practice written conclusion that we wrote in Per 3.

Mi amigo se quedó por dos semanas antes de salir. Mientras estaba aquí nos divertíamos mucho. Él me invitó a su país, Canada, pero no tengo bastante dinero para volar. Voy a trabajar mucho este año porque quiero visitarlo, ver su casa y conocer a su familia.

• No HW for tonight; study for written final!

Honors
• Practice Orales
• Correct Hw; WB pgs 171-173
• Act 1, 2, Para y Piensa pg. 224 (for 4.2 vocab list click here!)
• Review: Irregular Preterite, Y-changers pg 226

• Act 3, 4, Para y Piensa pg. 226

o Review: Irregular Preterite, car, gar, zar pg 227

• Act 5, 6 (listening) pg. 228
• Act 7 pg 229 (with partner out loud)

• HW: WB pgs 174-176

martes, el 12 de enero de 2010

CP
• Enfoque #5 - Number your paper from 1 to 13. Read the following story about Columbus's first trip and beside each number write the correct form of the verb in the parentheses.

El Primer Viaje de Colón - En los últimos meses del año de 1492, Colón (1. descubrió/ descubría) varias islas pequeñas en la región de las Antillas. En la primera de estas islas, (2. capturó/ capturaba) a varios de los nativos y los (3. llevó/ llevaba) a sus barcos. Para continuar sus exploraciones él (4. necesitó/ necesitaba) guías y estos nativos (5. pudieron/ podían) ayudarle mucho. Mientras (while) Colón (6. viajó/ viajaba) de un lugar a otro, los indios que le (7. acompañaron/ acompañaban) le (8. hablaron/ hablaban) constantemente de una tierra grande y rica que estaba al sur. Al hablar de esta tierra la (9. llamaron/ llamaban) siempre Cuba. (10. Pasaron/ Pasaban) dos semanas y en la mañana del domingo, 28 de octubre, Colón y sus acompañantes (11. desembarcaron/ desembarcaban) en la costa norte de Cuba. Inmediatamente el Almirante (Admiral) (12. pensó/ pensaba) que por fin ya estaba sobre el territorio del continente que el (13. buscó/ buscaba).

• Correct HW (Preterite Imperfect WS #2)
• Practice Orals Levels 3 & 4 out loud
• Preterite/Imperfect WS #3 (begin in class; due Friday)
• Discuss practice written (HW for tonight; download the topics here!)

Honors
• In Class - Written Final Exam
• HW: WB pgs 171-173

lunes, el 11 de enero de 2010

CP
• Practice Orals out loud- level 2/3
• Go over Level 5 Oral Answers
• Review Quiz 4.1
• Discuss written finals (changed to Thursday, 1/14 because of assembly on Friday)
• HW: Preterite Imperfect WS #2

Honors
• Practice Orals out loud- levels 3/4
• Go over Level 4 and 5 Oral Answers
• Discuss, get ready for and practice for Written Final on Tuesday, 1/12
• HW: Study for Written Final tomorrow

Download the Written Final Rubric and Practice Topics!

viernes, el 8 de enero de 2010

CP
• Enfoque #4 - Act 5 pg. 219 (Culture Review)
• Go over Level 4 Oral Answers
• Practice Orals out loud- level 1
• Discuss written exams
• Begin work on level 5 orals
• HW: Level 5 Oral Q's (translate the questions to Spanish)

Honors
• Practice Orals out loud- levels 1/2
• Go over Level 4 Oral Answers
• Act 5 pg. 219 (Culture Review)
• Begin 4.2 vocab pgs. 222-223
• HW: Level 5 Oral Q's (translate the questions to Spanish) + study for written final on Tuesday

* Download the Written Final Rubric and Practice Topics!

jueves, el 7 de enero de 2010

CP
• Enfoque #3 - Read Telehistoria (Pg 201, 206, 211) and then answer Act 9 pg 207
• Mirar - La Telehistoria (La leyenda de los dos volcanes Itxa y Popo)
• Go over Level 3 Oral Answers; Translate Level 4 Oral Q's
• Correct WS: URB 4.2 pgs 17-18
• Columbus Story: Preterite Imperfect Activity
• HW: Level 4 Oral Q's

Honors
• No Enfoque today (turn in old enfoques 1-20)
• Columbus Story: Preterite Imperfect Activity
• Leer: La Bandera Mexicana pg. 216
• Go over Level 3 Oral Answers; Translate Level 4 Oral Q's
• Correct WS: Preterite Imperfect WS #4
• HW: Level 4 Oral Q's + Preterite Imperfect WS #5

miércoles, el 6 de enero de 2010

CP
• Enfoque #2 - My Dog Doesn't Know the Days of the Week (story- write P or I for each number.)

• It was 7:00 in the morning, and I was fast asleep (1) in my bed. My dog, Taco, came (2) into my bedroom and jumped (3) on my bed. His loud barking woke me up (4). I glared (5) at him, and he got off (6) the bed. He still growled (7) and barked (8) at me furiously and wouldn't leave the room. Finally, I got out (9) of bed and chased (10) him. I closed (11) the door and went back (12) to my warm bed. As I lay (13) there unable to go back to sleep, Taco whined (14) outside the door. I finally understood (15) that my poor Taco doesn't know the days of the week.

• Go over Level 2 Oral Answers; Translate Level 3 Oral Q's
• Notes- Preterite Car, gar, zar pg 227 - practice
o PPT practice -car, -gar, -zar (if you still need helping on forming them download this ppt)
o Begin WS: URB 4.2 pgs 17-18 (finish for HW)
• HW: Level 3 Oral Q's + WS URB 4.2 pg 17-18 car, gar, zar


Honors
• Enfoque #20 - My Dog Doesn't Know the Days of the Week (story- write P or I for each number.)

• It was 7:00 in the morning, and I was fast asleep (1) in my bed. My dog, Taco, came (2) into my bedroom and jumped (3) on my bed. His loud barking woke me up (4). I glared (5) at him, and he got off (6) the bed. He still growled (7) and barked (8) at me furiously and wouldn't leave the room. Finally, I got out (9) of bed and chased (10) him. I closed (11) the door and went back (12) to my warm bed. As I lay (13) there unable to go back to sleep, Taco whined (14) outside the door. I finally understood (15) that my poor Taco doesn't know the days of the week.

• Correct HW: Preterite Imperfect WS #3
• Go over Level 2 Oral Answers; Translate Level 3 Oral Q's
• HW: Level 3 Oral Q's + Preterite Imperfect WS #4

martes, el 5 de enero de 2010

CP
• Turn in Enfoques 1-20 (First two minutes or late)
• Enfoque #1 - Un Buen Testigo (PPT) Preterite vs. Imperfect activity
• Go over Level 1 Oral Answers; Translate Level 2 Oral Q's
• Notes- Y-Changers (pg. 226) + Preterite Car, gar, zar (pg 227)

• Reg Preterite + Car, gar, zar PPT
  
• Irregular Preterite + Y -changers PPT
• All irregular Preterite Charts/Notes
  

HW: Level 2 Oral Q's (write out your answers in Spanish)

Honors
• Enfoque # 19 - Un Buen Testigo (PPT) Preterite vs. Imperfect activity
• Correct HW: Preterite Imperfect WS #2
• Leer: Cultura pg. 214-215 Una Leyenda Mazateca: El fuego y el tlacuache
• Go over Level 1 Oral Answers; Translate Level 2 Oral Q's
• HW: Level 2 Oral Q's (write out your answers in Spanish) + Preterite Imperfect WS #3

lunes, el 4 de enero de 2010

CP
• Enfoque #20 - Write one to two paragraphs- ¿Qué hiciste durante las vacaciones navideñas?
o (Enfoques 1-20 due on Tuesday 1/5/10; first two minutes of class)
• Practice: Preterite vs. Imperfect PPT (also conocer, saber, querer in the preterite)
• Go over Level I Oral Q's for First Semester Final/discuss risk taking
• HW: Level I Oral Q's

Honors
• Enfoque # 18 - Write one to two paragraphs- ¿Qué hiciste durante las vacaciones navideñas?
• Correct HW: Preterite Imperfect WS #1
• Leer - Telehistoria pg. 201, 206, 211 / Mirar
• Go over Level I Oral Q's for First Semester Final/discuss risk taking
• HW: Level I Oral Q's + Preterite Imperfect WS #2