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| Rockford High School, Modern Languages department |
Spanish 1, 3 and 4 instructor |
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Welcome to our Spanish 2B website!
Here you will find a daily summary of what we did and what has been assigned.
First week of class we were basically just getting to know each other a little bit, and learning names.
For Tuesday 12 marzo, your homework is this:
follow the link below to the www.conjuguemos.com site.
There choose the "Spanish Verbs" link at the left, and then practice your PRESENT TENSE VERBS in a 5 minute timed trial.
You should be able to handle #2) PRESENT TENSE: regular verbs without much trouble.
If you need help during a conjugation timed trial, click on the purple "Verb charts" tab above the frog's head.
If those are easy for you, try #3, which features the "Stem-changing" verbs or "shoe verbs" as we call them sometimes.
Record your best score (percentage and raw score) and bring that to class on Tuesday.
12 marzo 2013 -- Today we got back our rough drafts of the family sentences, and we read chapters 1 and 2 of the awfully cheesy story "Mi propio auto." To verify our comprehension, either answer the questions that go with chapters 1 and 2 (found on pp. 12-13) OR write 6 English sentences summarizing what happened in each chapter. We also took the Spanish 2B PRETEST today, just to have a baseline for comparison when we get to late May.
13 marzo -- turn in your assignment from Tuesday, re-read ch. 2 as a class, and read into Chapter 3 together. Photo of the day: la capilla Sextina (Sistine chapel where the new Pope is being chosen). HW -- RE-WRITE your 12 sentences about people in your family (YOU CAN BE ONE OF THEM!), adding detail and taking into account any marks made on your first draft. Remember that we will be turning these into visual family trees that will be posted in class for all to see!
14 marzo - look at news of the nuevo Papa Francisco from Argentina. Share good news, take the pre-test those who missed it earlier, read on in Mi Propio Auto chapter 3 together as a class, students translating to English, all taking notes on new vocab as we go. There will be a T/F quiz at the end of the story, so pay attention! HW = work on locating the visuals to go with the illustrate family tree project.
15 marzo - word of the day = grabar (to record); share good news, read on together in Propio Auto; take surprise quiz over basic reading comprehension stuff. HW - come to class with a great attitude on Monday, ready to begin with a new vocab list!
18 marzo -- share weekend news, get packet for this tri, take notes on p.1 vocab and start to learn it well. HW = do top half of p. 4
19 marzo -- warm up whiteboard translations, review vocab gestures, correct p. 4, begin to tell a class story in Spanish using the p.1 vocab. HW = read chapter 4 of Mi Propio Auto for comprehension, taking a good 30 minutes. Try to read the whole chapter through one time in that time, only looking up words that seem vital or are recurring. Read for a general understanding of what is going on in that chapter.
20 marzo -- fotos of Mexican and Argentine president with the new Pope (Papa Francisco); review vocab gestures, finish the class stories we were telling yesterday; read/discuss what happened in chapter 4 of Mi Propio Auto. HW = read the p.2 story in our packets about the hotel with the mice, and TRANSLATE THE QUESTIONS below it. Don't answer them yet, just translate them.
KEEP STUDYING VOCAB... you know we'll have a quiz at the end of the week!
21 marzo -- share good news, review vocabulary, look at the world's smallest book (thanks, Japan!), get printed version of yesterday's class story to re-read and retell, review the two past tenses used in Spanish and see how they were applied in yesterday's story. Read the p.2 story together; take surprise Spanish to English vocab quiz on this week's vocab. HW for Friday: do p. 7 in the packet and practice your vocab for an English to Spanish quiz on Friday.
22 marzo -- share good news, review vocab, go over homework (p.7), take English to Spanish vocab quiz, and do bottom of p.4 together. HW for Monday = complete p. 3. NOTE: we'll have a test next week before the break, mostly over the p.1 vocab, but also over the two past tenses, which are discussed on pp. 10-13 of your packet. We'll work more on that Monday and Tuesday.
Hours 3 and 4 -- we got to speak for a while with Rosa Piña Agramonte (from the Dominican Republic) who is in town for the global water conference this weekend. Lots to think about, when you consider what she told us about the condition of the water supply for many in her home country. Groups bringing in those bio-sand water filters are really making a difference!
25 marzo -- recap our weekends in Spanish, go over p.3 carefully, keep reviewing the past tenses in general. HW = do pp. 5 - 6
26 marzo -- practice the 2 past tenses a bit more w/ p. 12-13, review our question words, share good news, begin watching the show "Extra" episode 1. Remember that our first test of the trimester is tomorrow, and should prepare for:
Reading – new story with 12 questions.
¿Quién? - who ¿Qué?=what ¿Cuándo?=when ¿Dónde?=Where ¿Por qué?=why ¿Cómo?=How ¿Cuánto?=How much
Vocab – mult. Choice 15 questions
Pretérito o imperfecto? 12 we use the PRETERIT tense for things that Bam! Happened (once or a limited # of times). We use the IMPERFECT tense for things that happened habitually or that were happening (in progress), for telling time and dates, for generally describing people and situations, and for giving BACKGROUND (setting elements).
Conjugating verbs 6 pret, 5 imp.
Vocab – read and illustrate / translate 6 pts
58 pts total
8 abril 2013 -- welcome back! Share new in Spanish, look at our first test of the trimester and make corrections to it (retakes will be available for one week, for an average of the two scores), look at family vocab on p.2 of the Family packet we got last Wednesday. Tonight's homework = do p. 3 and p.5 in the family packet, and remember that on THURSDAY of this week you need to bring in your completed Family mini-poster (featuring color illustrations/photos of you and at least 5 other people in your family, with 2 awesome Spanish sentences about each person).
9 abril 2013 -- Get new seats, credit for HW, look at sample of well-done family project, correct pp. 3 and 5, finish Extra episode 1, take notes on this week's new vocab on p.14 of the main packet. HW = do p. 15 in the main packet, and keep practicing your family vocab and working on that family project.
Need to type letters with accents and things?
If using Microsoft WORD, here's one way to do it.
To get an accent on a vowel, first depress the CTRL key and the apostrophe key, then release and type the vowel you want, and it should have an accent over it.
To get a ñ to show up, you can hold deperss three keys on the left of your keyboard, the CTRL, SHIFT, and the `/~ key above the TAB key, then release and type the "N" and it should work :)
10 abril - share good news, go over p. 15 story together, do 5 translations using family vocab to practice, practice p.14 vocab more with gestures. HW = family project plus do p. 6 in the family packet.
11 abril -- more family practice with SP-->Eng translations together, share good news, foto of Maru, un perro sonriente; share our own family projects, introducing a person or two from each person's poster. Look at reflexive verbs together (explained on p.19), doing p. 16 together as a class. Finally, we read chapter 5 of Mi Propio Auto together. HW = keep studying the p. 14 vocab (recognition quiz tomorrow) and the family vocab (big family vocab quiz next week).
12 abril -- sub here. Take recognition quiz on p.14 vocab, watch episode 2 of "Extra," read ch. 6 in "Auto" and do p. 4 in family packet and p.20 in main packet for Monday.
15 abril -- I'm back! Credit given for completing p. 20 in the main packet and p.4 in the family packet. Correct those pages, share good news from the weekend, read chapter 6 of "Mi propio auto" together. HW = Keep studying p.2 family list (quiz on Wednesday) and read chapter 7 of Mi Propio Auto.
16 abril -- practice family vocab more, in SP2B music packet listen to the song "Eres para mí" by Julieta Venegas and fill in the blanks; read chapter 7 together in Mi Propio Auto. Tonight's HW= prep for big family vocab quiz tomorrow, and remember that we're heading toward our second test of the trimester on Friday -- over p.14, 19-20 in our main packet.
17 abril -- Foto del día -- interesante arte por Ron Mueck, take family vocab quiz, review p.14 vocab and turn it into an acted story :) HW = study pp.14, 19, y 20.
18 abril -- discuss news (flooding here, explosion in TX), practice past tenses more with p.11 in family packet, and some practice preterit and imperfect verb conjugations. Practice reflexive verbs some more. For tonight, study up!
past tenses (know how to form verbs in preterit and imperfect tenses, know when to use which one in context of a story) -- p.11 in the main packet.
reflexive verbs -- how do they work? (p.19), what are some common reflexive verbs? (p.20) -- be able to pick a good verb for a particular sentence, and then know how to conjugate it.
For example, if you're tying to use the verb "cepillarse" (to brush) in this sentence: Yo ___ _________ los dientes dos veces cada día.
you would take the "se" off the end and put it in front of the verb, changing it to the pronoun that works for "yo" which would be "me." Then, just conjugate the verb with a form that works for "yo" like "cepillo" in the present tense, or "cepillaba" in the past.
The sentence would look like: Yo me cepillo los dientse dos veces cada día.
Doing that part on the test will be worth a whole bunch of points.
The p.14 vocabulary you will need to be able to write in Spanish, spelling it properly.
Study up!!!
22 abril : share weekend news, look at photos from the area of the "inundación de 2013" en el río Grand y el río Rogue. Finish watching episode 2 of Extra for the second time and take 10 point comprehension quiz on that.
HW = 1) finish p.11 in the family packet, and 2) write down on a clean sheet of paper the PRETERIT verb tree for the following preterit verbs:
Decir, poner, ponerse (pp5-6), ver (p.6), ser, and ir (p.8) -- page numbers in our main packet. You can copy them if you need to; try to do them out of your head and then use the pages in your packet to double-check yourself.
Your grammar goal this week should be to have well-learned those preterit irregular verbs.
23 abril -- foto del día, get our test back (in computer as being out of 89 points... retakes are available starting Wednesday of either the whole test or selected sections. If doing a sectional retake, you must bring your original test back to me first so I can use your original score on those sections that you are not retaking). Discuss 5 de mayo and begin to plan our celebration thereof on 3 mayo; watch the video by Huecco of the Socketball as he's promoting it's use in developing parts of the world through this mostly Spanish song, translating the chorus to English. HW = read chapter 8 of Mi Propio Auto and write a 5 sentence Spanish summary of what happens. Due Wednesday.
24 abril -- share good news, correct p.11 and finish the 3 little pigs story; learn new vocab on p.22 (camisa apesta vocab). HW = complete p.24, keep studying those preterit irregular verbs for Friday's quiz.
25 abril -- go over p.24, review vocab, act out story using p. 22 vocabulary (camisa apesta vocab), do sentences with preterit irregulars. HW = p.22 and p.25 in the packet
26 abril -- check p. 25, share good news, correct p. 22, review vocab and the preterit irregular verbs of this week (ser,ir,decir, poner(se), ver--> quiz coming on Monday for that stuff); watch first half of episode 3 of Extra.
Note the new activities on this site to help you practice your preterit irregular verbs and your reflexives too! RETAKES AVAILABLE THROUGH WEDNESDAY
29 abril -- share weekend news, head to computer lab to practice our preterit irregular verbs, either on this site or on www.conjuguemos.com. Head back to room and take the 12 pt quiz over ser, ir, decir, poner, ponerse, and ver in ther PRETERIT tense. HW = read ch 9 of "Mi propio auto," complete p.27.
30 abril -- news from Bagladesh, share good news, go over the acted out story of Bionic Ben and take reading comprehension quiz over that. Get back our quizzes from yesterday, celebrating success where we had it, and noting that
YOU CAN RETAKE THAT QUIZ any day later this week and I WILL TAKE THE BETTER SCORE. Keep practicing these verbs if you haven't mastered them yet!
Watch more of Extra episode 3. HW = do p.7 in the family packet, working on these preterit irregular verbs: dar, querer, and venir.
1 mayo -- credit for HW, share good news, look at funny photo from the White House, read chapter 9 together of Mi Propio Auto, correct p.7 HW, listen for the first time to the song "Espacio sideral" by Jesse y Joy. HW = 1) write 5 sentences in Spanish recapping what happened in Chapter 9, keep studying preterit irregular verbs, and do pages 23 # 1 through 6 in the main packet.
2 mayo - warm up translations, share good news and Spanish joke, credit for p.23 and correct that, working on our pronunciation. Finihs Extra 3 in some hours and listen to the song "Espacio Sideral" again, with all words in the word bank. HW = Bring something yummy and Mexican for our early 5 de mayo celebration on Friday (bringing something = participation points, PREPARING a Mexican dish = extra credit points) and STUDY your p.22 vocabulary for a quiz (English to Spanish).
3 mayo -- celebrate life, springtime, and 5 de mayo :) Try the tostones that profe made. Listen again to "Espacio sideral" and copy down any missing words from that song.
6 mayo - share weekend news and a joke, go over the meaning of "Espacio sideral" and sing once, do top half of p.28 as a warmup. In family packet, look at p. 9 together and complete. HW = bottomw of p. 28 --> write 10 sentences in Spanish about what you did (preterit tense) this morning to get up and get ready for the day.
7 mayo -- share sentences with neighbor, write commonalities on white boards, share good news and a long joke, learn new vocabulary on p.30. HW - do top of p.31 well... we'll be grading it tomorrow! We did #5 together --should be "Si una persona extraña TOCA A LA PUERTA, tú no LA ABRES. #3 should say that Romeo no DEJA DE PENSAR acerca de las chicas. También habla ACERCA DE ellas en sus clases.
KEEP STUDYING THOSE PRETERIT IRREGULARS of course.
8 mayo -- share good news, grade p. 31 HW for 16 pts, review vocab from Tuesday, get new worksheet to practice it (match up answers with questions, and translate from Spanish to English), begin watching episode 4 of Extra.
HW = finish worksheet, study p.30 vocab and preterit irregular verbs!
9 mayo -- credit for HW, warm-up translations, correct HW, finish extra 4, start to watch a familiar classic, but in Spanish -- "La sirenita." HW for Friday -- complete p. 30 (putting a story into past tense) and study vocabulary for a FRIDAY QUIZ on the p.30 vocab (some English to Spanish, some Spanish to English).
10 mayo - share good news, read some practice stories to practice vocab, take quiz # 10 (p.30 vocab list from cuento 2.3), correct homework, watch middle 1/3 of "La sirenita." HW = have a great weekend, but realize we have our next TEST coming up next week. KEEP STUDYING PRETERIT IRREGULAR VERBS and vocabulary.
13 mayo -- papers returned, get new seats, share good news from weekend; learn present tense verb forms of "saber" and "conocer" and practice knowing when to use each on p. 34. (use "saber" for knowing facts, information, or how to do things. "conocer" is knowing in the sense of being acquainted or familiar with... you "conocer" people typically, but can also "conocer" a place or a thing, as in "ahhhh yo conozco los libros de Tolkein... [because I've read them already].") HW for Tuesday = read the "Cuento de Amor" on p.31-32 and answer the 13 questions that follow it.
Test # 3 coming on Thursday or Friday, over Saber/conocer, the past tenses, p.22 and 30 vocabulary, and preterit irregular verbs that we have studied thus far (ser,ir,dar,ver,poner,poder,querer, saber, venir, decir, tener)
14 mayo -- share good news, GET NEW PAST TENSE REVIEW SHEET that I created so you could have one place to study all the essentials of the two past tenses in Spanish. Watch a bit more of la Sirenita. HW = re-read the Ricki/Rita story for a reading comprehension quiz on Wednesday.
15 mayo -- Finish "La Sirenita" and get worksheet of quotes from the movie to work on. Take reading quiz on the Ricki/Rita story from p. 31-32. Look at Saber/conocer a bit more and do p.34 # 1-12 for HW.
16 mayo -- check p.34 1-12 and La Sirenita worksheet from Wednesday for points, review saber/conocer for the test, do two reading practices and some verb conjugation practice.
WHAT PAGES TO STUDY FOR THE TEST? p.22, 30, 33 in the packet AND study that past tense summary sheet I gave you this week. Recognize those regular preterit and imperfect verb endings, and know how the following preterit IRREGULAR verbs work -- ser,ir, dar, ver, poner, poder, querer, venir, saber, and decir.
I'll upload that practice story from today onto Family Access so you can look it over more. You'll have to piece together some pieces of that story, and be prepared to answer a few questions. 71 points in total.
17 mayo -- review un poco, take our 3rd test of the trimester. Time left? Share good news and watch school news. HW -- no written homework due Monday. Enjoy the weekend!
22 mayo -- Share good news, review vocab gestures, watch episode 5 of "Extra" for the first time. There will be a quiz over it after we see it the second time. HW = study vocab p.42 and do bottom half p.48
23 mayo -- share good news, read some student-generated stories from the p.42 vocab list, correct p.48, take quiz on p.42 vocab. HW due Tuesday = read the multi-part story on p. 46 and answer the questions that go with it. Also, look over the top half of p.45 and see how it works to use the suffix "-ísimo" in Spanish.
28 mayo -- share weekend news, learn how to make positive and negative familiar commands, the type you'd use with a sibling or friend or pet. Turn in p. 46 for points. Watch Extra 5 (most of it) for second time doing the worksheet with a neighbor. HW = do top 1/2 of p.52.
29 mayo - 31 mayo -- turn in Extra 5 worksheet, watch the show "Casi, casi" set in Puerto Rico about the complexities of Emilio and his elaborate plan to win the affections of a girl. Get review packet for exam and begin work on that.
3 junio -- finish "Casi,Casi" and take comprehension quiz on that (partner quiz) 22 points. Time to work on review packet which WILL BE DUE FOR MANY POINTS ON EXAM DAY! I will post the key to the packet on Family Access so that you will be able to CHECK you work to see how you're doing!
FOR Tuesday, 4 junio, if you are able to bring something for an end of the year celebration, please do!
I'll bring some "yerba mate" which is a tea-like beverage from Argentina, and I'll get some jalapeño peppers as well if you'd like to try one :)
If you are able to bring something for our celebration, you can get some extra credit. (5 pts)
if it's something Hispanic that you buy and bring in, it's worth 10 points.
If you cook something Hispanic, it's worth 15 points! (or if you bring us some yummy takeout to share from El Haragán on Northland Dr. (the old Perkins) or from Cinco de Mayo in Rockford).
If you don't have time to bring anything, that is ok. Just bring your review packet as completed as possible!
Tuesday we'll be starting the exam by doing the listening section together.
Profe G
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| My Quia activities and quizzes |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/510387.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/1908496.htmlp.1 vocab |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/1937096.htmlUse this to see how well you know your family vocab! |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/837180.htmlpractice your regular preterit verbs here! These are what we use for BAM! situations (single actions, know # of times, interrupting action) |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/837181.htmlHow well do you know your reglar IMPERFECT verbs? (continual action/habitual action, age, ongoing action, times/dates, descriptions, setting elements, background information, emotions, etc.) |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/1947439.htmlp.14 vocabulary -- week of April 9 - 12 |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/2517395.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/630565.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/641706.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/2521397.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/1517323.html |
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https://www.quia.com/pa/30192.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/1110959.html |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/1111027.html |
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https://www.quia.com/pa/30191.html |
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https://www.quia.com/pop/557603.htmlthe tough section on test #2... retakes through April 30. |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/2547290.htmlQuiz Monday 29 April over ser,ir, poner, decir, and ver |
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https://www.quia.com/jg/2515808.htmlQUIZ FRIDAY 3 mayo |
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