lunes, el veintidós de febrero del dos mil diez

Español Uno (1):

Announcement: Classes shortened to 49 minutes due to 10th grade registration presentations.

Today’s Agenda:

1. Read, in Spanish, for nine minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss what we did over the Mid-Winter Break, answering some of our fundamental questions, as well as a new one:

¿Qué hiciste para divertirte?.................What did you do in order to have fun?
……….Para divertirme………………………….In order to have fun (I)….

¿Qué querías hacer que no pudiste hacer?

¿Qué tuviste que hacer?

3. Describe the clothing of an Argentinean family pictured in a photo displayed.

Homework: If you haven’t yet made flaschcards for chapter 6, consider doing so! We will be moving into chapter seven next week.

Español Dos (2):

Announcement: Classes shortened to 49 minutes due to 10th grade registration.

Today’s Agenda:

1. (all but 5th due to the fire drill): Read, in Spanish, for ten minutes during SSR.

2. Discuss what we did over Mid-Winter Break, answering the following fundamental questions:

--¿Qué hiciste para divertirte?
------Para divertirme, (yo)….

--¿Qué querías hacer que no pudiste hacer?

--¿Qué tuviste que hacer?

3. Practice choosing whether unfamiliar words in Spanish need accent marks, based upon Profe Nick's pronunciation and our knowledge of accent rules.

Accent Rules:

--You can only know if a word needs an accent if you’ve heard the word pronounced.

-- If a word ends in a vowel, n or s, the natural stress (no accent needed) goes on the second to last syllable.

--If a word ends in any other letter, the natural stress (no accent needed) goes on the last syllable.

--When dividing a word into its syllables, we have to keep dipthongs (and tripthongs) in mind. A dipthong is when two vowels combine to make one sound. A dipthong happens in either of the two scenarios:
............a. A weak + a weak vowel
............b. A weak + a strong vowel
.......................i. weak vowels = i, u
.......................ii. strong vowels = a, e, o
.............c. A tripthong is when three vowels combine (two weak and a strong or three weak)

--(NEW INFORMATION) If you want to separate a dipthong (or tripthong), you write in an accent. For instance, if the word agua (a-gua) were supposed to be pronounced (a-gu-a), we’d write in an accent (agúa). (Clearly that’s NOT how we write the word, but hopefully that example helps.)

Students listened to the words on the left, and decided if an accent was needed.
--valido……………………………válido
--imagen………………………….imagen
--naturaleza……………………..naturaleza
--esquian………………………….esquían
--epoca…………………………….época
--impresionista…………………impresionista
--se gradua………………………se gradúa
--muerta………………………….muerta
--me reuno………………………me reúno
--imaginacion…………………..imaginación

Homework: If you haven’t yet made flaschcards for chapter 6, consider doing so! We will be moving into chapter seven next week.