Juanes

Juanes-Minas Piedras Inspiration for this unit goes to the blog: El mundo de Birch []

The actions of just one person can make a difference What can just one person do?
 * Minas Piedras **

Day 1 – (1) TPR review of vocab. (caminar / tocar la guitarra / escribir / escuchar / cantar / jugar...)

(2) Create personal connections with the subject with a survey:

Survey- What is a song that you do NOT like? Do you play an instrument? Do you write songs, poems, or stories? Have you been in a car accident? Have you spent time in a hospital? How many days? Have you been sick this school year? Did you miss school? Have you broken a leg or foot? How long were you unable to walk?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Cuál es una canción que NO te gusta? (A mí no me gusta la canción //__Who Let The Dogs Out__//) <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Tocas un instrumento musical? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Escribes música, canciones, o poemas? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Has estado en un accidente de auto? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Has pasado unas noches en el hospital? Cuántas? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Has estado enfermo(a) este año escolar? ¿Perdiste unos días de clases? <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">¿Te has quebrado la pierna o el pie? Cuánto tiempo necesitaste para recuperarte?

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Introduce theme with Juanes PPt <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">give vocab. box to fill in during presentation <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Lab exploration (or flipped classroom homework) A. Go to Google Earth. Locate Colombia, and the cities of Cartagena, Juanes' hometown of Medellín, and the capital Bogotá,

B. View the reports below about Colombia and landmines: [|Niños en Colombia los mayores afectados por minas antipersonal] [|TV report on landmines] (tres hermanos-victimas de las minas) [|Unicef report on landmines] Report-[|Landmines shatter children's lives] [|No Más Minas] [|Remángate] [|April 4-Presta Tu Pierna /Lend Your Leg] [|Colombia sin minas -Fundación Mi Sangre] [|Fundación Mi Sangre] [|Colombia sin minas-Campos de Paz] -- (soldados - soldiers, tener fé - to have faith) Learn more about what you can do to fight against landmines: [|If There Were Landmines Here...] Reminder that Colombia is a beautiful country: [|video sobre el turismo en Colombia] [|MInas Piedras en italiano y español]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Tea Party activity with parts of the lyrics <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Reading of victim's testimony with simple questions to answer / or have students paraphrase what they understood / send out tweets of testimony [|testimonios+de+victimas (1).doc]

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Show pictures of victims; have students listen and identify which one is being described; on 2nd listening write the words/phrases that helped them identify the victim

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">April 4-International Awareness Day—Presta tu Pierna-http://www.lendyourleg.org/es/ website with video

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Remángate video __[]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Fundación Mi Sangre video: __[]__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;"> (from 4:12 until end at 6:33 is an explanation of what the foundation does; upper-level students could understood much of it)

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Work together to create a poster with question words: Who is responsible? Where are the children going to play? / How can I help? / What can I do? / When are we going to live in a world without mines? / Why do the victims have to pay?, suffer? / Teacher helps students craft questions correctly and then they must create a visual with the questions

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Prompt: La Fundación Colombia Sin Minas has contracted your advertising agency to create a campaign to bring attention to the problem of landmines. You must create a visual that answers the question ¿Qué puede hacer solo una persona? Use vocabulary form this unit and the estructuras útiles to show what one person can do.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Create a PowerPoint, Prezi, Animoto video, Glogster poster or other visual with pictures of children/teens w/ smiling faces that would depict their life prior to the accident; write description of each to tell about their appearance, personality, what they liked to do, etc.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">__Upper-level__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Juanes' letter to the President of Colombia: Use of subjunctive—It is important that, necessary that; I want you to; It is sad that; It is a shame that;

Letter to President Santos of Colombia

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">__Variations:__ <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">Unfortunately the problem of landmines is not limited just to Colombia. Many parts of Africa are affected including French-speaking Cameroon and Chad. And we unfortunately hear all too often about the devastation they have caused in Afghanistan and Iraq. The ideas above could be adapted to an exploration of the landmine threat in those areas.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">A prompt could be that French landmine researchers will be meeting at a conference in Geneva to investigate ways to end the violence. Propose solutions.

<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif;">The approach above could be used to discuss topics like drug-related violence and ecological problems.