Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Newspaper

The first issue of the newspaper, "The Butterfly Effect" was emailed out to students last Fri. We received a truly positive response!

currently, all staff members articles are due tomorrow and the paper must be completely laid out by Monday!

Expect the next edition of "The Butterfly Effect" to be out no later than Friday Sept. 28th!

Spanish II

What we've done:

The students have reviewed the present tense, verbs from Spanish I, colors, numbers, etc. etc. The students have also translated many cultural articles in class and written a restaurant dialog and performed it.

What we're doing:

Currently, the students are studying the regular and irregular preterite tense - conjugating verbs in the regular and irregular preterite, translating in the preterite tense, etc. etc.

Homestudies, Upcoming Quizzes, etc.:

Today in class the students were given their Study Guide for Friday's Major Test.
The study guide is due at the beginning of class tomorrow.
We will go over the study guide tomorrow in class and play a review game (time allowing).

FRIDAY --> TEST I

Upcoming:

We'll begin Unit II Mexico

Spanish I

What we've done:

The students have already mastered some adjectives, the alphabet, the numbers en Espanol, favorito, days of the week and months, etc.

In addition, the students studied the
QuinceaƱera and viewed the movie Sweet 15. About the quince anos tradition in the Latin American world.

What we're doing:

Currently, Spanish I students are looking at Family vocabulary and stringing together sentences.

Homestudies / Upcoming Quizzes / Tests:

A collage is due by the end of class tomorrow of 15 photographs with 15 sentences / captions en espanol about the photographs in the collage.


Also, there is a quiz Friday over the Family vocabulary.

Please bring in a few pictures of your own family for Friday's class.


Friday, August 17, 2007

REMINDER to all SPANISH classes

YOU MUST have your composition or spiral bound notebook in class by Monday!

Gracias!

Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Newspaper ~ Week of Aug. 13

* Stories assigned

* Newspaper positions voted on and are as follows:

Editor in Chief - Sam B.
Managing Ed. - Brad
Sports Ed. - Justis
Features Ed. - Patrick
Copy Ed. - David Clegg and Scott Hart
Ad Manager - David Clegg (with some aid from Patrick and Sam)

* First deadline Wed. Aug. 29
* Staff decided that the paper will be a bi-monthly publication