October+2011

__**Monday/Tuesday, October 3-4, 2011**__
Lab One: Learn about Costa Rica sightseeing options by visiting these various websites:

__Sitios de Interés:__ Teatro Nacional |[]]] Arenal/Baldí |[]]] Parque Turu Bar Ri |[]]] Río Pacuare |[]]] [|more cool places to visit and things to do in Costa Rica] [|additional links]'

__Other Resources to check out by googling these topics:__ Travel Companies in Costa Rica Language Schools //Here's a link to the school where your maestra has been studying and taking groups since 1998//: [|iclc.ws]

After lab: Costa Rica presentation--listen to presentation in Spanish and take notes to complete outline



check Friday's worksheet with regular verbs set in Costa Rica (see week of Sept. 26)

see more through the Costa Rica link to the left
 * Viaje a Costa Rica Project Kickoff**

Example of a storyboard (half completed)
 * __ Tarea :__** Based upon what you learned today through the lab and classroom presentation as well as the article and videos we viewed last week, create an eight scene storyboard about what a group of turistas do in Costa Rica.

1. Think of eight activities that you know how to say about what one can do in Costa Rica using the present tense. 2. Write out your story on a sheet of paper. 3. On __another__ sheet of paper turned horizontally (landscape orientation), you will divide it into eight equal squares, and draw simple pictures to illustrate the tourists' actions. As always, remember to talk about ideas that you can clearly communicate, at your level. 4. We will do more with this activity in class on Wed./Thurs., so be sure to have it ready to go.

__**Wednesday/Thursday, October 5-6, 2011**__ Today we will talk about activities in Costa Rica using the present tense. First is an information gap activity using the present tense and forming questions about activities in Costa Rica:

Cut apart pictures from yesterday's storyboard. Read your story to your partner and lay out a picture for each event in your story. Your partner will do the same. Now, mix up your cards and give them to your partner. Read your story to them. They must listen to you and put the pictures in order. Once this is done, have your partner retell the story you wrote by looking only at the pictures. Then do the same for them. Challenge: Take both sets of cards, mix them together, lay face down. Create a new story by taking turns drawing cards from the stack.

Tarea: Use your same pictures and create a new version of the story of 8 events written in the 1st person (I, we).

__**Friday, October 7, 2011**__ Tell your new story to your partner in the 1st person. Discuss formation of past tense. Rewrite your stories in the past tense. Form teams to select driving question for your Costa Rican travel presentation (see link at left) Tarea: Talking About The Past worksheet

__**Monday/Tuesday, October 10-11, 2011**__

1. Research in language lab about Costa Rica for upcoming project

2. Para Empezar--past tense verbs [|Mis vacaciones.ppt] 3. checked homework from Friday (see 10-7 for worksheet)

4. Complete new vocabulary list on airport vocab. [|Sp2 ch1-A vocab..doc]

5. Worksheet (I do not have it in electronic format--extra copies in homework box)

__**Wednesday/Thursday, October 12-13, 2011**__

1. Continue research in library for Costa Rica travel project see further info. about the itinerary here [|Costa+Rica+itinerary+recs.docx]

2. Para Empezar--classify vocab. in the most logical category Make a chart on your paper like that shown in the first slide. Then write the activities found on the second slide under the most appropriate category. [|sorting act. w travel vocab..ppt]

I am out for a conference today. There is a worksheet on vocabulary and past tense verbs that you will need to get from me since it is not in electronic format.
 * Friday, October 14, 2011**

__**Monday/Tuesday, October 17-18, 2011**__ Time to continue research for Costa Rica itinerary

Guided writing after the lab--practice writing two days of an itinerary. Here is a sample. You'll see many places where you would suplement with additional details. [|Sample Itinerary.docx]

Homework: Refer to the practice writing today to write one day of your itinerary. Be sure that your work is not the same day that another classmate is doing.

__**Wednesday/Thursday, October 19-20, 2011**__ Turn in Day One of Itinerary Time to continue research for Costa Rica itinerary

Vocabulary practice (to be posted) Talking about travel experiences in the past (to be posted)

Homework: Complete another day of your itinerary

__**Friday, October 21, 2011**__ Work on itineraries Do vocabulary worksheet; this is a practice test and similar to one we'll take after the presentations are finished. Use the word bank in Part A to do Part B. To do parts C and D, you will need to also refer to your full vocabulary list. [|Unit 1-1 vocab. practice quiz.doc]

Finalized version of itinerary is due next Tuesday, October 25, at 3pm Group presentations to begin week of October 31st

__**Monday/Tuesday, October 24-25, 2011**__

Language Lab: Work in teams to finish itinerary.

The rubric will remind you of what you need to include: [|itinerary rubric.doc]

Itinerary with all elements due by 3 p.m. on Tuesday, October 25th

Complete this activity with past tense verbs and travel vocabulary:

[|hicimos un viaje-ar preterite.pptx]

__**Wednesday, October 26, 2011**__

NO SCHOOL!

__**Thursday/Friday, October 27-28, 2011**__

Learn about the formation of -er and -ir verbs in the past tense with this worksheet: [|Hablando más del pasado.docx]

Play Battleship with -ar, -er, -ir verbs [|Battleship instructions.docx] [|Battleship with reg. pret. travel vocab..doc]