Senorita Stapleton

Spanish 1 will be creating children's books comparing the US celebrations of Christmas and Hanukkah (and one other holiday of their choice) to a Spanish speaking countries' celebrations. Spanish 2 will be doing the same but in an oral presentation with a visual aid. Spansih 3/4 will be writing essays.

These were assigned November 15 and 16. They are due December 1 (A Day) and 2 (B Day). No late children's books will be accepted!!! I need to ship them to the orphanage in Honduras this weekend!

Rubrics can be viewed under "Documentos Necesarios"

8th Grade --> prepare for a verb quiz this Friday!

All the high school classes on Friday the 12th and Monday the 15th will be continuing their study of Basque Christmas by reading about Olentzero, the coal mining giant who comes down from the mountains every Nochebuena to have a good meal and to deliver presents to good children.

The link is here:

http://www.olentzero.com/cuentos/castellano/cuentosc.html

The assignment is to read the story titled "Olentzero y el Dolmen" and answer questions on a worksheet. The worksheet can be found under the "Documentos Necesarios" tab to the left.

With it being a short week, time is thin!

Eighth grade will be continuing their study of descriptions and using ser and estar. We will be practicing our listening skills and speaking skills in the coming weeks as well.

All high school classes are starting a mini-unit in conjunction with Mr. Gorne's choir class. Since the choir class has been studying a Basque Christmas carol, we started pulling it apart it in class and did image drawings about the carol. We will continue the study of Basque Christmas by reading about Olentzero, the coal miner who comes down from the mountains bringing gifts and looking for good food, later this week and conclude the unit with a project comparing US holidays and Spanish speaking countries' holidays.

Spanish 1 students will be creating a children's book comparing US holidays to Spanish speaking countries' holidays. Spanish 2 students will be comparing the same but with an oral presentation. Spanish 3/4 students will be writing a short essay comparing the two. These will be due November 30th for A Day classes and December 1st for B Day classes.

Side note: in order to be balanced and to be celebrate all the diversities present in our school, all high school students will be looking at Judaism and Islam in Spain during the month of December.

Enjoy your day off! See you at parent teacher conferences next week!

Division 3/4, good luck on the SAT this weekend!

Tarea:

8th grade: physical and personality descriptions of you + three people in your life, presentations on Tuesday

Spanish 1: Fill in the calendar with tener que phrases using E --> IE verbs

Spanish 2: seven day forecast for your Spanish city, presentation NO NOTES

Spanish 3/4: continue to generate ideas for your final project, we'll discuss creation myths on Monday

The Drop Dead Date for first quarter was yesterday. I'm very proud to report that there are only three grades that fall below a 70% in my classes!

Eighth graders have completed their Day of the Dead unit with an in-class essay. They will be continuing onto more vocabulary and reemphasizing verbs learned thus far.

Spanish 1 will be working on dates, days of the month and months of the year for the next couple of weeks. They will be doing this in conjunction with relearning present tense and looking at stem changing verbs in the present tense.

Spanish 2 will be working on weather and will be watching weather patterns here at home and at places abroad. They will be reemphasizing preterit and imperfect tenses while expanding their vocabulary.

Spanish 3/4 has started work on their final project of creating their own planet, country and city in the manner of a pop-up book. We've begun with geography vocabulary and will be looking at creation myths to help them in their final project.

Tarea:

8th grade: none

Spanish 1: finding the dates of the following days in Spanish

1/1, 2/14, 3/17, 5/5, 6/24, 7/4, 8/14, 9/16, 10/31, 11/23 (A Day only), 11/25 (B Day only), 12/24, 12/25, 12/31

Bonus if you name the actual holidays in Spanish

Spanish 2: 7 day forecast for your city + presentation NO NOTES!

Spansih 3/4: generating ideas for your final project