2010 – 2011 Español 1b Trimestre 1
Our daily agenda will be listed using the accordion steps below. You will find an outline of what we did in class, links to any important websites or visual aides, as well as links to any handouts recieved during the class period.
As stated in class, if you miss a class period it is your responsiblity to look at the daily agenda and make up the appropriate work before the next class period.
Week 1 09.06 — 09.10
Monday 9.06
Labor Day — No School
Tuesday 9.07
Cut Day – No School
Wednesday 9.08
- Circle with introductions and new vocabulary
- Hola
- Cómo esta(s) - Estoy
- Cómo te llamas - Cómo se llama
- Me llamo - Se llama
- Chico - Chica
- Él - Ella
- Handout - Immersion
Thursday 9.09
- Review vocabulary
- Introductions
- Add "enamorado" to vocab
- Emoción flash cards
Friday 9.10
- Compilación de preguntas - memorized vs. original questions
- Canción de Preguntas
POR QUÉ, WHY
CUÁNDO, WHEN
QUÉ, WHAT, DÓNDE, WHERE
CUÁNTO, HOW MUCH
CÓMO, HOW
QUIÉN MEANS WHO IS THERE - HOMEWORK - PURCHASE OR OBTAIN A COMPOSITION BOOK FOR MON
Week 2 09.13 — 09.17
Monday 09.13
- Review homework questions and proper answers
- Check for composition book
- Practice vocabulary from last week
- Intro new vocabulary
- tengo - tiene
- frío
- calor
- hambre
- sed
- miedo
- Write extended sentences using new vocabulary and illustrate
- ¿Cómo está? example
Tuesday 09.14
- Review vocabulary
- Share homework
- Non-memorized questions
- Elbow tag for conversation partners
- Frases complicadas
- Vocabulary, Week 1
- HW- 5 frases complicadas
- Él está enojado porque está enamorado de Sara pero Sara está enamorado de otra persona.
Wednesday 09.15
- Week 1 debrief and discussion
- Trust sequence and community
- Ground rules, expectations and policies
Thursday 09.16
- Multiple Intelligences Questionaire
- chart class intelligences
- make a poster with intelligence type, style, 3 ways you learn best and 3 ways you don´t learn well
- Learning Styles
- begin questionaire
If you were absent, see me for the questionaire and you are responsible for the poster.
Friday 09.17
- American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language (ACTFL) Presentation
- Learning Styles (if absent, disregard)
- Complete Questionaire
- Chart
- Discussion of all English Week topics
- Community Building
- Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles
- ACTFL levels of language learning
HOMEWORK - I pg written in your composition book discussing the following
- linking all three topics
- describing how they apply to Spanish class and to school in general
- and describing how they affect both your learning and teaching (i.e. if you´re giving a presentation or imparting information to someone else)
Week 3 09.20 — 09.24
Monday 09.20
- Review Circle
- Collect homework
- Powerpoints
- New vocab: Chistoso
- Homework: Find 5 photos with people in them. Describe them using detailed sentences. 1-2 sentences per photo. Paste into composition book.
Tuesday 09.21
- Chat with native Spanish speakers from around the globe on Live Mocha
- Translation: translate simple sentences from English to Spanish and Spanish to English (worksheet)
- Conversación - hold a short basic conversation using the emotions words with a partner (oral, list on worksheet)
- Grammar mini-lesson with Siemer (el, la, los, las vs. un, una, unos, unas chart)
- Practice vocabulary on Free Rice
Wednesday 09.22
- Review vocab circle
- 10 questions (orignal) for 10 different people
- Categorize and translate all current vocabulary
- Review vocab circle
- Homework: finish categorizing and translating vocabulary
Thursday 09.23
- Kiva Loans
- You have money to make five loans as a class.
- Research 3 people you would like to loan to. Tell me about them. Write all the words YOU SHOULD KNOW in Spanish and any words we haven't learned yet in English.
Friday 09.24
- Review vocab circle
- 3 preguntas
- cuando es tu cumpleanos
- que es tu dia favorita
- cual es la fecha
- Vocab review
- Cuentos chistosos (3 en el medio)
- Present tense verb review, groups of 5 - hablar, comer, vivir
- Pato, pato, ganso with conjugations
- Notes
- Present tense regular conjugation
- 10 sentences with different subject pronouns (HOMEWORK IF ABSENT)
- New vocab: subject pronouns, comer, vivir, hablar
Week 4 09.27 — 10.01
Monday 09.27
- Pre-Assessment
- Soy una Estrella (Student of the week) Overview and Dates
Tuesday 09.28
- Vocab Review Circle
- Review 10 homework sentences (5th period)
- Elbow tag question review (20 diferentes)
- Oral conjugation review (groups of 9)
- Describe the pictures
- Review emociones and que tiene powerpoints
- New PPT: Que hace (hablar, comer, escribir)
- Counting - throw a ball, stand if out (1-100)
- Find the flashcard
- Homework
- SECOND PERIOD: 10 sentences, 9 different subject pronouns, regular present tense verbs (hablar, comer, escribir)
- FIFTH PERIOD: 10 sentences, 5 using tener and 5 using ir (subject pronouns: yo, tu, ella, nosotros, ellos)
Wednesday 09.29
SECOND PERIOD
- Vocab Circle
- Review Homework
- Intro IR and TENER as irregular present tense verbs
- Flashcard "Bingo"
- HOMEWORK: 10 original sentences, 5 with IR and 5 with TENER
FIFTH PERIOD (***most students missed half of class due to OUS college faire)
- Vocab Circle
- Review Homework
- Flashcard "Bingo"
Thursday 09.30
- Vocab circle
- Review homework
- Vocab flashcards (table bingo)
- Oral review (inner and outer circle)
- regular verbs
- irregular verbs
- Review emociones and Que tiene PPT
- Intro Que hace PPT
- HOMEWORK: find a photo, paste into composition book, describe using at least 5 regular verbs and tener and ir.
Friday 10.01
- Vocab circle
- 10 preguntas / respuestas a 10 personas diferentes
- Practice test - oral and written
*** DON'T FORGET YOUR "SOY UNA ESTRELLA" HOMEWORK THIS WEEKEND, DUE MONDAY IF YOUR NAME IS: Glenn, Herbold, Espinosa, Parent, O'Roake, Miller, DeSimone, or Self.***
***FIRST PROFICIENCY BENCHMARK QUIZ MONDAY***
Week 5 10.04 — 10.08
Monday 10.04
- Proficiency Benchmark Exam #1
- Oral
- Written
- Gramatica Conjugation practice handout (while people finish exams)
- HOMEWORK - complete handout
Tuesday 10.05
- Vocab Circle
- Oral Conjugation Review
- New Vocab - Partes del Cuerpo
- Adjectives review
- HOMEWORK - Draw a person. Write 8 sentences describing the person. Use at least one body part and one adjective per sentence.
Wednesday 10.06
- Vocab circle
- cuento de White City vocab
- partes del cuerpo
- adjetivos
- Conjugation practice
- Pateo a..., Pego a..., Pateo la pierna de..., Pego la pie de..., Toco la cabeza de...
- Learning Centers
- Free Rice
- Live Mocha
- Translate
- Describe Photo
Thursday 10.07
- Housekeeping
- collect libros de composicion
- reminder, SOY UNA ESTRELLA
- stamp 8 sentences hw (5th period)
- sign Kiva board
- Vocab circle
- partes del cuerpo
- adjectivos
- verbos irregulares (ser, estar, tener, ir)
- Add Cuento de Muerte de White City vocab to composition notebook
- arma / pistola
- escapar
- arrestar
- policia
- esconder
- disparar
- muerte
- matar
- Write the story we acted out using all 8 vocab words - conjugation!
- Ninja game, with body parts
- Review learning center worksheet, parts 2 and 3
- add to picture description and correct errors as necessary
Friday 10.08
Columbus Day Observed — no school
Week 6 10.11 — 10.15
Monday 10.11
Columbus Day
Professional Development — no school
Tuesday 10.12
- Vocab Circle
- Ninja con cuerpo
- Common test errors, notes
- Test Corrections
- HOMEWORK - finish
Wednesday 10.13
- Vocab Circle
- Skits with vocab
- group does the motions for and repeats the vocabulary words as it is acted out
- Description of the photo (PPT)
- Describe the photo to your partner
- Switch partners and repeat
- Share oral description with the class
- Repeat with 2 more photos
- Review test corrections
- Brainstorm known verbs
- HOMEWORK - Describe the last photo on the PPT with a minimum of 10 different verbs, conjugated correctly!
Thursday 10.14
- Vocab circle
- Review family vocab SKIT
- Each person wears a card with their family tie description (la mama)
- Organize your family visually (taller, shorter, next to each other)
- 2 Yo Soy... statements
- 1 description of another group member statement
- HOMEWORK: Fill in the family tree with the appropriate relationships relative to you (it is NOT your family tree)
Friday 10.15
- Vocab Circle
- 2nd Period - Perform skits, 5th period - body part ninja game
- Review family tree homework
- Describe your family tree to your partner in first person, they take notes and share about your family tree in third person
- Review familia vocab
Week 7 10.18 — 10.22
Monday 10.18
- Vocab Circle
- Describe your family tree to a partner (5 sentences)
- they take notes in both first and third person, share with the class
- focus on verb conjugation, su, "la familia de"
- Describe your family tree to a partner (5 sentences)
- use at least 5 different prepositions in the 5 sentences
- porque, con, sin, de, para/por, y and pero
- they take notes in both first and third person, share with the class
- HOMEWORK: check all 10 sentences generated in class for errors (marked by Siemer) and correct
Tuesday 10.19
- Vocab Circle
- Review Homework
- Hot Seat (3 personas)
- Photo for Kiva and sign Kiva board
- Soy una Estrella presentations
- Pregunta a 5 personas
- como esta(n) __________ (familia o amigos)
- como es(son) __________ (familia o amigos)
- Conjugation circles
- hablar
- comer
- vivir
- ser
- estar
- tener
- ir
- Dibuja una persona (2 minutos) - FIFTH PERIOD ONLY
- pasa el dibujo, 30 segundos, cada persona escribe una frase describiendo el dibujo (5 frases en total)
- corrige las frases
Wednesday 10.20
- Vocab Circle
- Review Homework
- Soy una estrella presentations
- Gossip circles - about class and teachers

- Dibuja una persona (2 minutos) - SECOND PERIOD ONLY
- pasa el dibujo, 30 segundos, cada persona escribe una frase describiendo el dibujo (5 frases en total)
- corrige las frases
- Dibuja una familia con nombres y titulos
- pasa el dibujo, 30 segundos, cada persona escribe una frase describiendo el dibujo (5 frases en total)
- HOMEWORK - SECOND AND FIFTH PERIODS, correct the sentences describing the family picture
Thursday 10.21
- Vocab Circle
- Soy una Estrella presentations
- Centros de Aprender (rm 18) - FIFTH PERIOD ONLY
- HOMEWORK - finish 1 pg of free rice (write in comp book)
Friday 10.22
- Vocab Circle
- Review homework
- Watch El Rey Leon (the Lion King) and write down at least 100 words you understand in Spanish (finish for homework)
Week 8 10.25 — 10.29
Monday 10.25
***Siemer home sick, substitue teacher
- Watch El Rey Leon (the Lion King) and write down at least 35 NEW words you understand in Spanish
- Write a minimum of 10 sentences using a minimum of 25 different words from the video.
- HOMEWORK - complete sentences above
Tuesday 10.26
- Vocab Circle
- Vocab Brainstorm (this trimester only), 5 min
- share out - total number of words, most original / unique words, etc.
- Flashcards / Memoria with vocab they need to practice
- Juego de los Dados
- hablar
- comer
- tener
- estar
- ser
- ir
Wednesday 10.27
- Vocab Circle
- Monologue about self
- practiced 30 second conversations describing self, parent, friend, teacher etc. in inner and outer circle partners
- brainstormed things to say in four categories
- emociones
- adjectives
- frases de tener
- description
- I'm thinking of someone - description game with partner
- How many words? game - write down all the description words your partner uses to describe a classmate in one minute. Winner gets the most words.
- Juego de los dados
Thursday 10.28
- Vocab Circle
- Simon Dice
- vocabulario nuevo - tocar, mover, poner
- practice with Siemer leading
- play with Siemer leading
- play with students leading
- Review complete conjugations of TOCAR and MOVER and PONER
- Juego de los dados, parte 2
- basic level, same verbs as Tuesday
- advanced level, same irregular verbs as Tuesday added tocar, mover and poner
- Intro Pastimes review vocabulary
- Memoria / Flashcards / Speed with vocabulary (6x6 blank handout)
Friday 10.29
- Vocab circle
- Stamp and review homework
- Juego de los Dados, nivel 2
- Review tocar, poner y mover
- Pictionary
Week 9 11.01 — 11.05
Monday 11.01
Cut day — no school
Tuesday 11.02
Día de los Muertos
- Vocab circle
- Video - Historia del día de los muertos
- Centros de Aprender
- Papel Picado
- Vocabulario (draw each word)
- Altares (draw and write about 6 things on your altar)
- Historia Simple del Día de los Muertos (translate)
- HOMEWORK - finish vocab, altares, and historia if you did not in class
Wednesday 11.03
- Vocab circle
- Check - Review homework
- Soy una Estrella Presentations
- Get together with Roger´s class for speaking practice - self, family, friends
- Final Project Outline and Rubric
Thursday 11.04
- Vocab circle
- Review Day of the Dead information
- Ask 5 people... (practice questions and vocabulary)
- Brainstorm topics to potentially cover when talking about yourself
- Begin work on final project
- pages one and two, Description of me
- pages three and four, My Family
- Elbow Tag (2nd period)
- No homework
Friday 11.05
*** NEXT WEEK IS THE LAST WEEK TO RE-TAKE THE FIRST PROFICIENCY EXAM
- Vocab Circle
- Oral Pre-Assessment
- Proyecto final
- p 3-4, Mi familia
- p 5-6, Mis amigos
- p 7-8, Escuela
***SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF TRIMESTER TWO, INCLUDING PROJECTS AND EXAMS! (.JPG)
Week 10 11.08 — 11.12
***THIS IS THE LAST WEEK TO RETAKE THE PROFICIENCY EXAM and FOR LATE WORK TO BE TURNED IN
***SCHEDULE FOR THE REST OF TRIMESTER TWO, INCLUDING PROJECTS AND EXAMS! (.JPG)
Monday 11.08
- Vocab Circle
- Questions and Answers
- 2nd period: licenses
- 5th period: favorite person in family / class and why, most important characteristic for a boyfriend or girlfriend and why
- Work on pages 7 and 8 (Escuela) and pages 9 and 10 (Actividades)
- HOMEWORK - finish pages 1-10, due Tuesday
Tuesday 11.09
- Vocab Circle
- Pancho Comancho
- Peer Edit (worksheet) and corrections
Wednesday 11.10
- Vocab Circle
- Soy una Estrella
- Sentence Corrections and rewrite final rough draft
Thursday 11.11
Veterans Day — no school
Friday 11.12
Cut day — no school
Week 11 11.15 — 11.19
Monday 11.15
Tuesday 11.16
Wednesday 11.17
Thursday 11.18
Friday 11.19
End of trimester
Week 12 11.22 — 11.26
Monday 11.22
Parent Conferences
Tuesday 11.23
Parent Conferences
Wednesday 11.24
Parent Conferences
Thursday 11.25
Thanksgiving Break
Friday 11.26
Thanksgiving Break