spanish 1 and 2 (SO8- SO9): week of 22 January

Welcome back from a long weekend!

This week we start a new quarter, be ready for it to get a bit more intense.

SO8:

Your current events are due 24/25 Jan. Country: Costa Rica/Nicaragua and the topic was your choice. I will be choosing about 7-10 of you for our first tertulia session. Those chosen will discuss their article in a group and then we will all ask questions, discuss the article, give our opinions, etc.

This week we will finish with reflexive verbs. Expect homework every night. You will also need your workbook. We will be writing a paragraph and have a peer editing session as well before you turn it in to me. Hope you have been studying because you will be having the chapter test the last week of January.

After we finish this chapter we will begin reading conversations in different locations. You will then be using these examples to create your own.

I will be combining your shopping chapter with the community chapter. Plan on creating your own store which will then be located in the community we will create as a class. I have not decided yet if we will have a fashion show or not. I will let you know.

Your next current event will be due: 05/06 February countries: Honduras/ El Salvador topic: community problems (examples: dirty water/ people becoming ill for unknown reasons/ toxic dumping)

SO9

We once again are reviewing stem changing and irregular forms of the preterite! We will be finishing with our sports chapter. Your project will be due 25th January. be ready to present on that day. I am placing the websites to help in your project below.

This week: Your projects are due and we will continue working on the past tense. Start preparing for the chapter test. You will be testing next week.

The last week of this month we will begin reading our book El Libro Secreto de Daniel Torres. As we read you will be assigned vocabulary to define and translate. Yes, you will be doing both, a Spanish definition and a translation but expect on quizzes the definitions in Spanish. Based on the book you will also be working with grammar. You will need to be able to identify the present, present progressive, preterite and the imperfect in the reading. It will take us a while to read this book since we are only reading for part of the class each day. There will be reflections assigned and other related activities to the reading.

Our next big grammar topic will be the imperfect. You will be assigned videos to watch and take notes on. You will then be asked to explain it to a classmate and compare your explanation with their's and figure out if you are both correct or semi-correct. This will be one of our tertulias. Be prepared for lots of work with this tense since it is important. Once you feel confident with this grammar topic you will be asked to create a mini video to present to the SO8 class who will begin learning the concept shortly. For the mini video you will once again work in pairs. You will provide examples, show the difference between it and the preterite, explain its purpose, etc. In order to film you will have the option of using the classroom/ board etc. before class on the dates assigned. you can also do it on your computer with a camera if you so wish. We will discuss this soon but be prepared.

We will then return to food and the formal commands to make sure you understand it well. For this topic, we will be helping in a healthy food project for a local children's hospital. You will be given community service hours and recognition for your participation in the acknowledgment section of the book, once published. So we have a busy 9 weeks.

Here are the links right off the power point (for some of you, you will need to do the research on your own, there were too many sites to place on here):