Senor Nishiya

Here it is.  For extra credit:

Handwrite a 1 page and 3 paragraph biographical essay on the following important latino persons:

For each person you will receive +10 points on a daily grade or quiz or +5 on a major grade /project.

1.  Rigoberta Menchu
2.  Cesar Chavez
3.  Fidel Castro
4.  Hugo Chavez
5.  Che Guevara

For the test on Dia de los Muertos be sure to know the following:

ofrendas = offerings
cemetarios = cemetaries
calaveras = skulls
Nov. 1 = day for the deceased children
Nov. 2 = day for the deceased adults
Oaxaca = southern state in Mexico, famous for their big celebrations
Velas = Candles, attract the spirits to the offrendas
decorar = decorate
hacer una ofrenda = to make an altar
van al cemetario = they go to the cemetary
celebrar = to celebrate

Most will be matching and multiple choice questions, but you will need to write a five sentence paragraph in spanish about the traditions of this holiday.
You can write sentences like:
El dia de los muertos es un dia muy importante en mexico.  Mucha gente (people) celebra los difuntos (deceased).  Es comun hacer una ofrenda y decorar los criptas.  En la noche, la gente va al cemetario para celebrar y tener una fiesta. 

Que buen trabajo mis estudiantes! 

What great work!!

Students completed their family trees and did a presentation to the class.  I was very impressed with the effort students put forward.

Some especially great work came from:

1st period: Skylor
4th period: Courtney
5th period: Kimber, Emery
7th period: Rachel
8th period: Garima, Raina, Brittan

Today in class, we reviewed -ar verb conjugation and played a game of chico chile.  Tomorrow, we will be reviewing -er and -ir verb conjugation.

Do you have a favorite youtube video on verbs or verb conjugation?  If so, please post!

Today in class, we reviewed the important points in chapters para empezar to 4b.  We divided up into groups and began creating mini projects for the chapters.  We are going to take these mini projects and put them on a tic-tac-toe board.  Tomorrow, students will have to pick "3 en raya" three in a row for their project.  We will do presentations thursday and friday this week.  This is our first major grade for the six weeks.