jueves, el cuatro de diciembre del dos mil ocho

Español Uno (1):

Announcements:
--You will receive your tests tomorrow. Thank you for being so patient!
--You will have a chapter 4/12 vocabulary quiz on Tuesday, December 16th.

Submitted: The crossword & vocabulary page you completed with the substitute on Tuesday.

Today’s Learning Objectives:

1. Organize our writing folders, by adding Monday’s class-write and yesterday’s partner-write to the composition section.

2. Practice our spelling in Spanish. You’ll remember that we don’t use K in Spanish (unless it is a word borrowed from another language.) Nice job guessing how we would spell the following "K" sounds in Spanish:
KA ---> CA
KE ---> QUE
KI ---> QUI
KO ---> CO
KU ---> CU

Nice work spelling the following words. Some of you even correctly guessed that there was an accent mark in the last word!
--ma-ri-qui-ta
--pan-que-ques
--ca-sti-llo
--co-co-dri-lo
--cú-pi-do

3. Practice speaking with a partner, by answering questions 13, 18, 25, 26 and 29 from our speaking assessment.

4. Receive the chapter 4/12 food vocabulary list. This chapter is DIFFERENT from our previous chapters. This chapter requires a lot more INDEPENDENT MEMORIZATION of vocabulary. You need to put in the time outside of class to memorize this vocabulary. There is no easy short-cut. Again, you will be having a quiz on this vocabulary on Tuesday, December 16th.

**As we discussed in class, a number of the food words are not clearly feminine or masculine. For those words that do not end in "o" (masculine) or "a" (feminine), you just need to memorize whether they are feminine or masculine. There is no easy short-cut.

Homework: Using the clip-art images given to you, please make food flashcards for next Monday.

Español Dos (2):

Collected: Students placed their test #2 reflection in their writing folder.

Today’s Learning Objectives:

1. Utilizing the blue preterite packet, work with a partner to take a practice preterite quiz.

2. Work with a partner to read “La moda de Steve Carrell”. Good job making logical guesses on new words in context.

3. Receive the chapter four “pink packet.” IMPORTANT: Your chapter four pink packet has all the irregular preterite verbs. If your blue preterite packet is not yet complete, utilize your pink packet to make it complete.

Homework: Use your book to define any chapter four vocabulary that we did not get to in class.