Thursday, August 13, 2015

Blocks 1 & 4  Spanish 3-4:

-Students  completed the warm up.
-Student yearbook pictures were taken throughout the day today.
-Students recited the preliminary lesson vocabulary.
-Students recited the alphabet.
-Students added more pages to their interactive notebooks.

-Students created 5 examples of concrete poetry using words from the preliminary lesson vocabulary.

Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.
-No new written assignment.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st  timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Block 2  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed the warm up.
-Student yearbook pictures were taken throughout the day today.
-Students recited the preliminary lesson vocabulary.
-Students recited the alphabet. 
-Students added additional pages to their interactive notebooks. 
-Students created 5 examples of concrete poetry using words from the preliminary lesson vocabulary list.

  
Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Write 7 sentences using the 7 verbs that were listed on the board at the end of class.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Blocks 1 & 4  Spanish 3-4:

-Students  completed the warm up.
-Students participated in a PRIDE lesson.
-Students received their workbooks for the course.
-Students started setting up their Interactive Student Notebooks.

-Students repeated the Spanish alphabet.

Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.
-Students will need to write 8 - 10 sentences in Spanish about their families.  This is due at the beginning of class.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st  timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Block 2  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed the warm up.
-Students received school picture information.  School pictures will be taken tomorrow.
-Students received four forms that need to be completed, signed by their parents and returned.
-Students received their workbooks for the course. 
-Students participated in a PRIDE lesson.
-Students started to set up their Interactive Student Notebooks. 

  
Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-Students will need to write 8 - 10 sentences about their families in Spanish.  This assignment will be due at the beginning of the period tomorrow.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Blocks 1 & 4  Spanish 3-4:

-Students  completed the warm up after being taught how to set up their papers.
-Students completed the course pretest.

Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.
-No new written assignment.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st  timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Block 2  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed the warm up after being taught how to set up their papers.
-Students completed the course pretest.

  
Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-No new written assignment.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Sample Famous Person Paragraph

 Sample Famous Person Paragraph

Please be sure to follow this example when completing your famous person assignment each week.

Oscar Hijuelos is a novelist who was born in New York City in 1951.  His parents were from Cuba and wanted their son to have a strong understanding of his heritage. For this reason, they taught him only Spanish.  When Mr. Hijuelos was about four years old, he was diagnosed with a kidney disorder and he was placed in a home for terminally ill children.  The isolation that he felt during the two years that he was living in the home eventually led to his desire to express himself in writing.  After college, Oscar went to work for an advertising company and began writing short stories.  He went on to write The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love.  The novel became a bestseller before being made into a movie.   Mr. Hijuelos was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction for this work in 1990 and he is still considered one of the primary voices of the experiences of Cubans emigrating to the United States.  His work is important to me because it provides an opportunity for me to understand what it was like for people who moved from Cuba to the United States.  In addition, the movie, Mambo Kings, led to a mambo revival, which re-introduced that style of music in the United States. 

Monday, August 10, 2015

Blocks 1 & 4  Spanish 3-4:

-Students  completed an information sheet.
-The teacher presented the classroom procedures and policies.
-Students participated in a Find Someone Who activity to get to know one another.
-Students completed a listening comprehension activity in Spanish.

-Students wrote an introduction to themselves in Spanish.

-Students completed a review activity using Kahoot.

Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog.
-No new written assignment.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st  timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th.

Block 2  Spanish 3-4 Honors:

-Students completed an information sheet.
-The teacher presented the classroom procedures and policies.
-Students participated in a Find Someone Who activity to get to know one another.
-Students completed a listening comprehension activity in Spanish. 
-The students wrote an introduction to themselves in Spanish. 
-Students completed a review activity using Kahoot.

  
Homework:

-Luis Walter Alvarez biography due by 7:30 am, Friday, August 14, 2015.  This must be submitted via Google Classroom.  Remember to explain why Mr. Alvarez's work is important to you and/or how it changed the world.  You can always look at the sample paragraph on the blog. 
-No new written assignment.
-Remember that you will need a single subject spiral notebook, a set of colored pencils and 3 glue sticks for this semester. 
-1st timed verb pretest over regular and irregular verbs in the present tense this Friday, August 14th. 

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