el 25 de mayo

¡Feliz  viernes clase! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos and you must have headphones or earbuds. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Activity:

Follow the link here for practicing Direct Object Pronouns: http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/dopro1.htm. Primero, read the examples, then do la práctica listed on the left. Next, follow the link here for learning about Demonstrative Adjectives: http://www.studyspanish.com/lessons/demonstratives.htm. After you read the lesson, do some of the practice activities on the left hand side. You will make mistakes, but it will give you hints afterward in order to fix them. When you are finished, you should have another perspective on how there concepts are used in Spanish. Did you like the activities? Explain.

el 18 de mayo

¡Feliz  viernes clase! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos and you must have headphones or earbuds. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Activity:

Today, we will be exploring a very popular store in Spain called El Corte Inglés. Click on the following link: http://www.elcorteingles.es/ and look at different types of clothing that they offer and choose 3 things you are interested in buying and then convert their price from Euros to Dollars using this currency converter: http://fx-rate.net/EUR/USD/ . Report the prices of the items you chose! When you are done, go to www.wikipedia.org and find the article on El Corte Inglés and look at it in Spanish.

el 11 de mayo

¡Feliz  viernes clase! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos and you must have headphones or earbuds. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Activity:

Have you ever noticed that a lot of Major League Baseball players are Hispanic? Do you know the country of origin for any of those players? Click on the following link http://www.hispaniola.com/dominican_republic/info/society_baseball.php to read a little bit about baseball in the Dominican Republic. After you read the article, research more about how baseball came to the Caribbean and answer the following questions: 1) What 2 Caribbean nations have a great passion for baseball, even more so than the United States? 2) What group brought baseball to these countries (be specific, I don’t want to just know what country introduced the sport). 3) Research the roster of the Detroit Tigers and tell me if any of their players are from a Spanish-speaking country. Who are they and where are they from?

el 4 de mayo

¡Feliz  viernes clase! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!
Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos and you must have headphones or earbuds. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.
Activity:

Go to www.wikipedia.org and read about the History of Cinco de Mayo. In the comments box, tell me 5 facts you learned about what this holiday celebrates. Then, go to www.studyspanish.com/verbs and take an -ar verbs quiz in the present tense and report to me in comments how you did.  Then, continue to explore that website and it’s interesting resources and activities! ¡Buena suerte!

el 27 de abril

¡Feliz  viernes clase! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos and you must have headphones or earbuds. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Activity:

President Obama’s trip to Colombia was overshadowed by the Secret Service Sex Scandal, which has been in the headlines for weeks now. However, much has been overlooked by the media regarding his trip. Using google, research President Obama’s trip and tell me 1. What city did he go to in Colombia? 2. Why did he go there? 3. What was his position regarding the Falkland Islands? If you have any problems finding the answers, ask me or a classmate for help! When you are done, you may work on your Chapter 6 Spelling Contract! ¡Buena suerte!

el 20 de abril

Bienvenidos to our Spanish class blog y feliz viernes! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are ready to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos and you must have headphones or earbuds. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Activity:

Click on the following link to a british newspaper’s website about President Obama’s recent speech about the Falkland Islands: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9207183/Barack-Obama-makes-Falklands-gaffe-by-calling-Malvinas-the-Maldives.html . After you have read the article, go to www.wikipedia.org and find the article on the Falkland Islands Dispute. When was the Falkland Islands War? What 2 countries fought and who won? Finally, what are the Falkland Islands called in Spanish?

el 13 de abril

Welcome to our Spanish class blog! Our activities on the blog will be in the green box located below. Read the activity and follow its instructions. When you are done, to answer the questions required, scroll down to the bottom of the blog page and click on add comment. Type your answers in the box that pops up and at the end of your answers, include your name. You MUST have your name in the comments box or you will NOT receive credit for your work. This is just like putting your name on your paper! ALSO, you must click anonymous from the check boxes listed below the comments box, since the comments are submitted to me for review and not published. If you leave the box for Google ID checked, your answers will be lost in space for all eternity (until you redo it!). Finally, you will be required to type in the random letters or words given at the bottom of the comments box to verify that you are not a robot. If you have ANY questions, please let me know!

Be reminded that you lose participation points when you are caught on YouTube, Facebook, and similar sites. You may listen to music on a site like www.grooveshark.com that does NOT have videos. If music starts to interfere with your ability to complete your work or stay on task, you will lose that privilege.

Activity:

Go to www.wikipedia.org and find the article on Hugo Chavez, the President of Venezuela. Read over the article and then in the comments box, tell me when he was born and when he became president. Then, google Hugo Chavez In Cuba to find recent news articles about his travel to Cuba. Why has he gone there? When you have answered these questions, go back to Wikipedia or the CIA World Factbook to learn more about Venezuela.