January+2012

__**Enero 2012**__
__**Tuesday-Wednesday, January 3-4, 2012**__ 1. Mis Resoluciones para el 2012 (activity)

2. Preview activity for Univisión video: How many of the following common resolutions can you understand?

3. View video: [|Resoluciones comunes]

4. View again and complete cloze activity with script:

5. Go over schedule for next two weeks regarding Notebook Checks & Midterm Exams (see below)

6. Quick review of daily routine using actions (TPR). Absent students will need to review vocab. list. 7. __**Getting ready for New Year's Eve dictation and writing activity:**__ Fill in thought bubble using daily routine vocab. to tell what each one has to do, wants to do, needs to do, or is going to do to get themself ready.

(This was given as a dictation in class--If absent, you can create your own sentences.) (Create your own sentences similar to the structures used in the dictation.) 8 . Homework: Distribute study guide and go over directions.

__**Thursday-Friday, January 7-8, 2012**__ 1. Review formation of stem-changing activities with Partner Practice activity. Fold in half / hold up where partner can view the problem / check their answer--you can see the correct answer)

2. Check study guide & thought bubbles from the salon de belleza

3. Homework: Organize notebook and study for upcoming exam (see schedule below)

__**FINALS WEEK**__ __ Mid-term Test concepts: __ ► Be able to tell about daily routine in present tense as well as past tense using sequencing words (primero, despues, luego, entonces, finalmente)

► Talk about recent past events using preterite tense (regular preterite and 5 irregulars: ser, ir, dar, ver, hacer)

3RD BLOCK MIDTERM EXAM 5th block- NOTEBOOK CHECK Argentina video & viewing sheet (Skip over 16:20 to 17:40--slaughter of a cow) __**Tuesday, January 10, 2012**__ 6TH BLOCK MIDTERM EXAM 4th block— NOTEBOOK CHECK Argentina video & viewing sheet
 * Monday, January 9, 2012**

__**Wednesday, January 11, 2012**__ 5TH BLOCK MIDTERM EXAM 3rd block- NOTEBOOK CHECK Argentina video & viewing sheet

__**Thursday, January 12, 2012**__ 4TH BLOCK MIDTERM EXAM 6th block- NOTEBOOK CHECK Argentina video & viewing sheet

__**Friday, January 13 &**__ **__Monday, January 16__**__**, 2012--NO SCHOOL!**__

Mini-Proyecto: __**"Los Once del 2011**__"--Use preterite (past) tense to write about the 11 most important events that happened to you, your family, students in your group, or in the world. See info. sheet for more info. and rubric for grading. Do the two verb activities contained in the PowerPoint below. One is a review of past tense verbs you have already learned. Then read through the explanation of "Super Y" verbs and take notes in the grammar section of notebook. Correctly form the verbs shown on the last slide (put on same page as notes). Continue working on mini-proyecto (see above)-- Have ready to display on Monday, Tuesday
 * __Tuesday, Wednesday, January 17-18, 2012__**
 * __Thursday, Friday, January 19-20, 2012__**

__** Monday, Tuesday, January 23-24, 2012 **__ Presentations on display in learning lab Fill in viewing sheet while you read other student's presentations

Complete parts of the graphic organizer that deal with the preterite verbs you've learned to this point: __** Wednesday, Thursday, January 25-26, 2012 **__ 1. Para Empezar to review irregular preterite verbs 2. Read events of 2011 from authentic internet sources--see what you understand and think about how this list is similar/different from the list you prepared as part of your mini-proyecto.

3. Then answer the following questions: 4. In order to move from global events to events in your own life, we will do a survey. Read the questions and fill in the first column using complete sentences with preterite tense verbs.

5. We continued on with additional preterite notes to give you more verbs to work with as we describe past events. Review and complete these notes on the "i" group for the gramatica section of your notebook. 6. Complete homework on preterite verbs.

__** Friday, January 27, 2012 **__

1. Fill in the "i group" box in your graphic organizer using your notes. Write the meaning and conjugation of querer, no querer, and venir.

2. Un Juego: Students pair with a partner and place a copy of the handout between them (see below for handout). They also have a marker in a color different than that of their partner. Starting on the Spanish side of the handout below, be the first to mark the word when you hear it. __ For those absent, you will simply write the equivalent word or phrase in English or Spanish on both sides of handout. __

__**Monday, Tuesday, January 30-31, 2012**__ Language Lab--Practice with irregular preterite verbs / Go to quia.com / then enter "Quia Web" / for teacher type "Lilley"/ Click on my classes / Open Preterite Review and do activities in order

After lab-- PowerPoint presentation about the singer Juanes La Historia de Juan- (1) Tea Party mixer activity with lyrics / later discuss what you think they mean (2) Watch video [|La Historia de Juan] (3) Do Cloze activity on page 6--fill in blanks--will listen to several times Tarea--Worksheet with questions about Juanes