Tuesday, February 14, 2017

¿Dónde vamos de vacaciones?

¡Bienvenidos a la biblioteca!


  • Use CULTURE GRAMS to learn more about the COUNTRY your student is from!


  • Use the AROUND THE WORLD section of TIME FOR KIDS.COM to find out more about small snippits of that student’s life!!




ALSO:


Thursday, February 9, 2017

EL PROYECTO DEL VIAJE

¡Hola hola, clase!  You can do it!  ¡Sí se puede!  ¡Aquí está la presentación de hoy! 

  • Calentamiento
    • ¡Saquen ustedes el vocabulario nuevo!
      • Take out the NEW VOCAB SHEET from the FRONT!
      • Then, use the next 5 minutes to finish them up!
    • Then, start thinking; 
      • Who would you want to work with?
      • What country would you like to work on?
      • With WHICH STUDENTS would you get the MOST DONE on a project?
      • Where are your NOTES on conjugating verbs?
  • Work time: PRIORITIES
    • FINISH YOUR VOCAB SHEET!
      • Then, once you SHOW IT to Ms. Williams,
    • GET AN iPAD and you may start researching places to go in the countries you might like to choose!!
    • REMEMBER: 
      • We’re going to be doing a BROCHURE and PRESENTATION for a trip to a SPANISH SPEAKING COUNTRY!
    • You can work with up to 3 other people.
      • You can do a VIDEO, or you can do a live presentation with Google Slides (PPT) or Prezi to back you up. 
      • You only need to say about 3 sentences in Spanish, EACH.
    • Decide, please, who is going to have each TRABAJO:
      • BROCHURE editor (spelling, formatting, making sure everything’s legible and makes sense)
      • PRESENTATION editor (spelling, formatting, making sure everything’s legible and smooth)
      • BROCHURE director (making sure each team member has written their part; overall design.)
      • PRESENTATION director (making sure each team member has written their part; overall design.)
    • THEN, make sure that your team has all decided:
      • WHICH COUNTRIES DO YOU WANT?  (TOP 3!)
      • (there are 21, + the United States!)
        • 1. México
        • 2. Guatemala
        • 3. Dominican Republic (La república dominicana - next to Haiti, which has some Spanish speaking parts)
        • 4. Colombia
        • 5. Puerto Rico
        • 6. Perú
        • 7. Spain / España
        • 8. IN AFRICA: Equatorial Guinea
        • 9. Venezuela
        • 10. Argentina
        • 11. Ecuador
        • 12. Bolivia
        • 13. Chile
        • 14. Nicaragua
        • 15. Costa Rica
        • 16.El Salvador
        • 17. Panamá
        • 18. Cuba
        • 19. Honduras 
        • 20. Paraguay 
        • 21.  Uruguay
        • NOT: PORTUGAL y BRAZIL → they speak PORTUGUESE! 
    • Once you have decided HOW you will present, who will do which job, WHICH COUNTRIES DO YOU WANT (TOP 3!), and picked a SPANISH-BASED AGENCY NAME, you can go to the following link:  
    • First-come, first served based on completion!
        • Here’s who has which country so far!

La tarea:  SAM: Please finish up the new vocab sheet -- Ch. 8A and 8B (vacation vocab) --> here is the PDF of Chapter 8A, and the PDF of Chapter 8B, and get your PROPOSAL IN, as well!!


LINK to NEW FLASHCARDS on QUIZLET:


ALSO:

Monday, January 23, 2017

Choose your own adventure day!

Welcome!  ¡Bienvenidos! CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE!!


CONJUGATING: FIRST:  check out this playlist!!


THEN, GAMES TO PRACTICE -- THESE HAVE ALL OF THE PRONOUNS/ENDINGS!

What these verbs MEAN

QUESTION WORDS:

PLACES VOCABULARY:


8TH GRADERS:   HS Placement Paragraph help!
IDEAS/TOPICS:


  • HS Placement packet
      1. Your family
      ○    What are their names and ages?
      ○    What are does each one like, dislike?
      ○    What do they do? What are their jobs or hobbies?
      ○    Write about an activity you did with a family member last summer. → preterit and imperfect
      ○    Tell about the future plans of someone → future tense
      1. Your favorite foods
      ○    What do you eat for breakfast? What did you eat yesterday?→ preterit and imperfect
      ○    What foods do you like/dislike? Why? ○   
      • Write about a meal you had at a restaurant.
      • What did you order for each course and how much did it cost? → higher / cost numbers & “to order” (pedir)
      • Did you like the meal?
      ○    Tell whether or not you would go there again and if you would recommend it to your friends.
      1. Hobbies/Past times
      ○    Write about the things you like to do outside of school (for example: reading, listening to music, playing video games, drawing, cleaning the house, cooking)
      ○    Who do you like to do these activities with?
      ○    Write about what you did for fun the last time there was a rainy day or a snow day.
      ○    What are you going to do this weekend at home?
      1. Storytelling
      ○    Write a short story in the language you’re studying. → preterit and imperfect
      ○    Make sure your story includes characters, a setting, a problem, and a solution.
      ○    Include details about your story elements to make your story more interesting.
      ○    You may include verbs in the present, past, and/or future tense.
      1. Physical Descriptions and Personality Traits
      ○    Write about two to three people.  They can be someone you know, someone famous, someone made up, or even yourself.
      ○    Include at least three physical descriptions for each person.
      ○    Describe their personalities, likes and dislikes, things they like to do.
      ○    Add any information that you think is important to know about the people you’re describing.

SENTENCE HELP:
VOCABULARY HELP: 



VERBS HELP: 

Friday, December 9, 2016

Schedule day!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fKuQRk71EYwAzKo7vYxcY4I6lmuSrNNYyQcsh8PTxq8/edit

Open this up!

GO to FILE

Then, select MAKE A COPY!!
Put your NAME IN to the title, and

SHARE IT WITH Ms. Williams --> hit "Share" and type in "Catherine Williams"

Monday, November 21, 2016

HERE IS THE QUIZ!

Please CLICK HERE to take the quiz!!

It only uses "yo", "tú", "él", "ella", and "usted".