Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Workshop on Developing Reading and Writing Skills in the LOTE classroom

Looking for Connections






Bob Hodum

2 Lowell Place
Port Jefferson, N.Y. 11777

astrolabio53@gmail.com









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Everything we do in life is connected and has led us to this moment, to this very spot and to these very words. These ideas and strategies have come from thousands of lessons taught to almost as many students. And are as much a product of my own invention as they are of lunch break conversations, quick morning chats, and afterschool sessions with my friends and colleagues.





A. Reading and writing: Oh my ... !
No matter what we do, working on reading and writing skills in the foreign language classroom is often dry, disconnected and seen as an end unto itself. We, LOTE teachers, focus on speaking and listening and, of course, culture in all of its manifestations.
Few if any of us enjoy focusing on reading and writing in our classrooms. I’ve heard them described as a “necessary evils”. We see reading and writing as tasks to be accomplished and then we move on. A whole battery of state and national exams assess reading in the most disjointed and some times uninteresting way imaginable. Devoid of context and explanation of characters readings on these types of assessments seem to torment more than inspire. Often deliberately selected to be above level more times than not, our students have every negative conception of reading and writing reinforced by evaluative tools that we are powerless to change. That is our reality and we won’t be able to change those evaluative tools. But we can change how WE look at these things.

Some how the excitement that we feel when we read and the joy we feel when we express ourselves in written form in the languages we’ve come to call our own escapes our kids in the classroom. Reading and writing aren’t as exciting as speaking or culture, art, music or history. The printed word doesn’t have catchy music or an exciting sound track, no visual to hook them. Just words … Readings unto themselves seem to lack the curious cultural points and personal intimate hooks that we use to pull our students into our other lessons. It just isn’t any fun.

That is unless we change our mindset and those of our students.
Maybe if we see reading and writing not as seperate entities but connected to a nexus of everything else that we do in our classrooms, as springboards, bridges or fianl destinations in our journey through the year, we'll have a new direction and appreciation for these tadsks once considered onerous.

Connections, always look for connections. I know that our students do.

B. A Couple of Questions: So, I guess its time for a couple of questions before we start. These are the questions I always ask myself...

Reading: Strategies

  • Why do I want them to read? Purpose for activity: (Investigative and informational, entertainment, discrete skill development reinforcing grammar concepts in reading context, preparatory activity for new activity/unit)

  • How do I feel about this reading? (Could it be a springboard for other activities and the next unit, it is a culminating activity for the unit, it has intrinsic value in a cultural, historic or literary sense, it is required reading for the curriculum)

  • What are they going to read? (Appropriateness of selection/task for level, genre examined before, during or after, prerequisite knowledge in place before selection is undertaken)

  • What connection does the selection have to the unit? (Complements, reinforces or provides more information on unit’s topic, challenges assumptions, presents new direction, functional use of discrete skills taught in unit)

  • How will I evaluate their having read? (Assessment requires use of other modalities – oral explanation/reaction, written summary, continuation, reaction, assessment is on-going and occurs as students moves to check-points in the reading, progressive movement leads reader to the next stage or level of activity in unit, final evaluation asks for synthesis not reiteration, different skills called upon to explain and iterate understanding of material and demonstrate discrete skills acquired)

  • How will I lead up to the reading? (Introductory activities clearly lead to reading selection or writing task, examination of tangential issues and ideas discussed found in selection, ethic and moral statements examined prior to selection and pondered after completion of selection, familiarity with other readings of similar genre with similar or contrasting themes)

  • How will we address the reading in class? (Students assigned specific events/characters/locations/themes/imagery and types of expressions and language and must report back to class during lesson on the selection, reading is done in class with choral or individual recitation accompanied by written or oral activity appropriate to selection, reading done in class individually with written or oral assessments completed in class after reading or at home, oral discussion focusing on persons, places and vital things through discussion, written questions or reaction statements, activities that compare and contrast one selection with previously read works, cultural connections examined as I progress through selection)

  • How will I assess the completion of the selection? (Exit cards used for daily evaluations which provide a cumulative & overall evaluation of understanding of reading selection, essay/composition/reaction paper which compares and contrasts characters and their personal situations and values, discuss ethics and moral statement made by selection, relate the selection to other works read in or outside of class)

  • How will I build on the reading in post-task activities? (An examination of the social and cultural context of the selection, hands-on activities follow reading and reinforce themes and moral statements, subsequent readings compliment or contradict selection’s themes, moral or philosophical positions, debates focus on moral and ethical questions raised by reading, role playing exercises develop characters, oral, listening and/or writing exercises further themes or moral/philosophical positions of selection)

  • How will this connect me to my next unit, topic discussion or activity? (Author is part of a larger unit, setting located in a country/region being studied, themes and social commentary examined in other venues, cultural content to be developed in next activity, philosophy and/or moral statements related to next topic/unit, genre is complimented or contrasted with next selection’s genre, cross-selection character study)

Writing: Strategies

  • Why do I want them to write? Is it an activity with a clear purpose? (Discrete skill development reinforcing grammar concepts previously taught, chronicling events in the students’ diary, reaction piece to activity/lesson, exploring a particular genre examined in class, preparatory activity for sequential lesson/unit, grammar points taught prior will manifest themselves in the writing task, investigative and informational, required task for Regents or A.P. Exams, practice of grammar concepts and/or specific format – letter writing, entertainment value is high – scripts for video presentations, jokes, magazine articles for student magazine, etc.)

  • What are they going to write? (Appropriateness of task for level, exploration of specific genre, a culminating activity to a reading, discussion or listening comp., prerequisite grammar knowledge in place before writing task, multi-tiered writing tasks that progress from simple format to more complicated – e-mails, personal notes, letters, diary entries, position papers, point/counterpoint reaction papers, essays, investigative reports, lyrics and poetry, character sketches, scene descriptions, plot summaries or news reviews, book reviews, statements for time capsules, obituaries, inter-grade level peer correspondence, biography, autobiography, etc.)

  • What connection does it have to the unit? (Complements or provides more information on unit’s topic, functional use of discrete grammar skills taught previously, provides review of lesson’s cultural & moral/ethical content, current events and historical content, provides transition to next topic and lesson by asking students to extrapolate)

  • How will I evaluate their writing task? (Topic consultation, one on one review of drafts, written/oral peer evaluations, progressive sequential assessments of writing task which lead writer to the next tier of assignment, final evaluation asks for synthesis not reiteration, different skills called upon to explain and iterate understanding of material and demonstrate discrete skills acquired)

  • How will I lead up to the writing task? (Current lesson’s themes examined in different modalities – discussed, read or listened to by students, previous activities/tasks clearly lead to writing task, an entrance card and/or poll administered as a Do Now prior to writing task, thorough discussion of tangential issues and ideas prior to writing task, ethic and moral statements pondered and examined prior to writing task, a model of the genre/format examined)

  • How will we address the writing in class? (Task is completed at home and assessed by teacher, groups of peers with formal rubrics evaluate writing sample, sample will form part of a portfolio, writing sample will be an entry in a diary, sample will be included in classroom magazine, to be graded at a later date

  • How will I assess the task? (Writing rubric used for assessment, perusal of sample’s major grammar points, focused examination of verb tenses and their transitions, development of topic and use of formats required structure – letter format, intro, body, conclusion, peer group evaluation using writing rubric, piece included in portfolio and compared to prior writing samples, sample assessed using Regents guidelines, conventional tests, quizzes and assignments)

  • How will I build on the writing in post-task activities? (Theme/topic of writing task serve as springboards for debates, discussions, original writing task serves as first stage in multi-tiered writing activity)

  • How will this connect me to my next unit, topic discussion or activity? (Provides clear bridge to next topic, connects to a reading of similar genre, leads to a debate or discussion of similar or identical topic, segues to listening activity with similar theme, provides discussion topic for transition to next lesson, small writing task leads to larger writing assignment, preparatory writing tasks which leads to viewing film, writing sample represents initial stage of project based on writing task’s topic)

    I guess the point is … Everything is connected. There are connections in everything that we do and ask them to do. We have to have a larger vision than just the reading or the writing task. These are not ends unto themselves, yet bridges to related topics and new tasks. If I don’t have a clear vision of how my reading and writing tasks and activities connect to one another and to other skills, and topics and activities, then the reading and writing tasks are forgotten and put aside and their true value is never realized. LOOK for connections. They ARE there; all we have to do is find them!

    C. Tools of the trade:
    Teaching reading and writing is simply an extension of everything you do in the foreign language classroom. And as you might suspect there are certain tools of the trade we must have. Get some card board boxes for storage and fill them with the following:

    1. colored pencils
    2. scissors (as many as you can beg borrow or collect)
    3. large sheets of poster paper
    4. several rolls of tape
    5. glue guns and sticks
    6. colored paper
    7. pipe cleaners
    8. colored chalk and paper hand towels
    9. crayons
    10. paints and brushes/drop clothes/sponges/box of handy wipes and paper towels
    11. old newspapers / bottles of liquid wallpaper paste / plastic buckets

    Now we are ready. Reading and writing don’t just involve words on pages. It’s a hands-on experience. So let’s do it.


    D. What we do and why do we do it?

Understanding by Design


Here are a few words about Understanding by Design. You understand exactly where your lesson is going and why you are have designed the unit and its lessons and related activities with a clear outcome in mind. You understand how this unit will progress, what activities and lessons will be part of the unit and how it will culminate before it begins. Activities and tasks are related to the assessments as you develop your unit and its lessons. The student learns for understanding; makes connections, applies, explains and interprets, changes perspective, empathizes and self-assess.


To consult U.b.D. framework, scroll to the bottom of this posting.





READING ACTIVITIES

What do we need to do to make it work?


1. setup the situation and answer the question why we are going to do the reading
2. use a pre-reading activity to show that the reading will be connected to something larger and more global
3. provide a cultural hook
4. summarize segments of the selection with redaction and reaction
5. provide opportunities to synthesize, distill and make connections to a global vision

6. remember the 4 "R"s


read (on masse, individually, in groups, ion class, at home)
resolve (problem solving part of the process)
redact (write reactions and reflections)
react (oral discussion and debate)


What do our students need to do be able to read and write in a foreign language?


1. make connections to things bigger than the reading/writing assignment
2. see the importance of the reading/writing assignment in a global sense
3. vest in topics and themes that will appear in the reading/writing assignment
4. deduce meaning of new vocabulary
5. infer meaning of intent
6. understand structure and how it changes based on genre
7. interpret content based on context and sources
8. appreciate cultural connections that are the underpinnings of the reading/writing assignment
9. relate themes and topics of the reading/writing assignment to prior material and topics
10. reevaluate and reconsider their own world vision


What will our students read?


1. Personal correspondence (e-mails, letters, notes)
2. Prose (short stories, selections from novels, anecdotes, satire, critical essays, jokes, proverbs and sayings, news articles, on-line cultural selections, etc.)
3. Poetry (structured and unstructured)
4. Personal reflections (personal reactions, personal diary, opinion statements)
5. Musical lyrics
6. Advertisements, jingles and commercials


A. Pre-reading activities

1. Whats in a line?
Examine a quote or a key sentence from the reading yet to be read in class. This should be related to the theme, a main character or a particularly literary and memorable passage.

2. Point/Counterpoint:
Oral activity: Brief debates to discuss main theme and/or topics related to central idea of the reading selection. (Crime, changes in our society, personal conflicts that go unresolved in life, love or suspicion of fellow man, alienation, etc.) Hold mini-debates on these related topics.

3. Visualize words:
Present thematic vocabulary related to reading selection. SmartBoard, overhead, dittos, index cards. Students use the vocabulary independent of the reading context.

4. What do you see?
Describe/discuss a visual whose narrative is related to a theme from the reading selection. Introduce and highlight vocabulary common to the story the students invent.

5. Its all in the words:
Introduce an expression, proverb or saying related to the selection (“Llueve a cántaros” Una carta a Dios)

6. Preguntas rápidas:
Ask oral questions related to the theme of the reading and/or related topics. Let these 5-10 questions be topic questions that point students in the direction of the narrative without revealing details of the story.
a. Small group review of questions
b. Individual mastery of questions through practice


7. “Let’s imagine”
Writing activity: Create a description wheel of the possible attributes and characteristics of a person with the name of the selection’s main character. Include personality and physical traits, describe profession and preferences. Compare accuracy of predictions with actual story.

8. Use a short pre-reading from a different genre related to story.
(Regents style paragraph, poem, and/or newspaper or magazine article that address a similar event, type of person or occur in a similar locale, etc.

9. Grammar Highlight
Writing activity: Feature a specific grammar point which is pivotal in reading selection. Review concepts with oral questions/ written exercises. (Idiomatic expressions, Si clause, specific tense)

10. Word strength
Writing and oral activities: Students will learn a short list (10-15 words) pivotal to the selection. Review with fill-in cloze procedure, oral questions and directed compositions.

11. Music says it all:
Play a song which depicts theme or uses vocabulary found in reading selection. Great on-line sources for all kinds of music.

12. Una foto vale mil palabras / A picture is worth 1000 words:
Show a picture and/or poster which address the theme of the selection. Introduce vocabulary through the use of visual. Have students do the same the following day.


B. Reading Activities

1. A Trip to the Literary Museum
Oral and writing activities:
Goal: Examine stories of similar genre or theme or by same author.
After class reads and examines together 1 work of a particular author or genre groups are formed and a chairperson/captain is selected. Groups read different works by same author or works of similar genre by different authors. Each group will alternately be actor or reporter. Each group must prepare a Literary Museum with stations/live dioramas. On alternating days students will be either recorders or actors when they visit the other group’s Literary Museum. Significant preparation required. 2 days prep. / 2-3 day activity
Responsibilities:
Actors
group: Help others understand the group’s story by demonstrating and explaining content, characters and themes of reading selection. Create five stations based on new story which include:
1. live characterizations of protagonists
2. enactment of important scene or dialogue
3. debate on issues prominent to story
4. presentation and explanation of visuals of protagonists and scenes
5. discussion of themes / morals / philosophy / cultural connections that are fundamental to the story


Recorders group: Acquire understanding and specifics of the readings selection, cycle through the stations and identify and record critical information and personal reactions
1. maintain notes and identify critical information using teacher-provided forms
2. write reaction piece
3. select favorite station and explain why
4. report back to group and class

End activities:
1. Academy Awards for best actors and scene
2. Best Debate for most convincing debate or discussion
3. Golden Brush Award for clearest and most interesting depiction


Assessments:
1. Cross-literary comparison of the genres, themes or specific author’s works
2. Tertulia oral discussion of the genres, themes or specific author’s works
3. Recorders’ notes collected and evaluated
4. Peer evaluation conducted by chairperson/captain of the group and reported to teacher


2. Dos cabezas mejor que una/Two heads are better than one:
Goal: Share insight and understanding of a difficult reading selection. Group activity involves:
1. read: selection read together
2. resolve: essential questions must be resolved
3. redact: write responses to discrete questions as well as personal reactions
4. react: oral reaction in form of debate or position statement
A controversial and challenging multi-paragraph selection is divided into two days. Students read in pairs and record critical information. Reading is not done at home. Written reaction assignments are assigned for homework after each reading sessions. Pair up strong and weak readers. A reading work sheet with essential questions as well as affective domain how do you feel reaction questions provides focus during the reading sessions. Sheets collected after every session. Written assignment focuses on discrete informational questions based on reading session
.

3. “Reporting Back” Oral and writing activities: Pre-assign paragraphs to small groups. All are readers and 1 is a reporter.
a. Read assignment (paragraph/page).
b. Group discusses the following questions: who, what, when, where, why?
c. Reporter records responses.
d. Reports back to class on specific paragraph/page.
e. Peer questioning: reporter orally quizzes group on questions
f. Illustrate answers with captions.
g. Written quiz administered to all.

4. Grammar Focus: Oral and writing activities: Give list of key grammar points from selection to small groups.
a. Ask groups to find these highlighted points in the selection.
b. Students to modify grammar points for general use.
c. Students give brief lesson on one major grammar point from selection.

5. “Info Search” Oral and writing activities: Who, what, when, where and why? Use groups or individual to focus on these questions. Groups will identify the following.
a. Characters
b. Places
c. Important actions
d. Time frame
e. Motives for actions
f. Dramatic and sudden changes in the above

6. “Find and identify” Writing activity: Students focus on tenses and other critical parts of the sentence.
a. Note types of tenses used and who does the action. Identify temporal setting and who does these actions.
b. Examine adjectives: use and frequency of adjectives and the nouns they modify.
c. Identify prepositional phrases and examine their location in sentences.
d. Highlight idiomatic expressions and verbal phrases.

7. “Props” Oral and writing activities: Students bring in props important to the reading selection.
a. Show and Tell - brief orals on props and their importance.
b. No lo veo - students guess which object is displayed behind them. Class gives clues.


c. Es así - Student describes object not visible to class. Class has to identify the object.


d. Identifíiquelo - One group of students writes a brief description of object, who might use it in the selection, etc., the second group must identify the object.

8. Reflections: Student Journal: Writing activity: students maintain a journal about reading selections.
a. Summary/reflections on plot, characters in 3rd person.
b. 1st person narration of events.
c. Poems based on characters’ lives, predicaments, conflicts, etc.
d. Letters between characters in 1st person.
e. Interview of characters about their earlier lives not revealed in selection.

9. Yes or No: Oral activity: Students are interrogated by reproter about details of the selection.
a. Students are interrogated by peers about details of story.
b. One student deliberately answers questions incorrectly and class must identify incorrect responses. Teacher selects student before class to play this role. Choose one of the students who best understands the selection.
c. Class answers short, directed questions on selection.

10. Only the reporter knows: Writing activity: Students write nightly reviews of details from selection. Students write reviews of the selection from a reporter's point of view. The topic sentences are ... Yo lo sé todo / Esto es lo que pasó / Yo descubrí ...

11. Talking Points: Oral activity: Students prepare list 7 - 10 important points gleaned from selection for discussion the following day. Students read for the oral discussion.

12. Talk about It: Oral activity: Students will record on their own IPod or tape recorder details about the selection.
a. Provide a character sketch.
b. Give 1st person narrative.
c. Present 3rd person news story.
d. Answer written questions about selection.
e. Record picture description based on reading selection.

13. Highways and Byways: Writing activity: Student uses interactive board or overhead with a projection of a reading selection and underlines critical information.
a. Highlight important nouns: persons, places and things
b. Underline verbs and verbal phrases
c. Indicate adjectives and their importance to nouns
d. Find prepositional phrases

14. Find the Missing Links: Writing activity: Students use modified story on overhead for reading comprehension. Class reads modified selection prior to examining the unmidified reading.
a. Teacher deletes difficult words not critical to the understanding the selection. Students answer questions and discuss. After completion of exercise, class reads the unaltered version.
b. Teacher deletes vocabulary, verbs, nouns from projection on the interactive board or overhead. Students read in groups and supply missing information.

15. Little by Little: Oral activity: Students in reading groups re-read selection in class for greater comprehension.
a. Find key words, phrases, actions by paragraph. Stop and discuss these per paragraph.
b. Complete selection and/or page and cover reading selection and recall key phrases, words and actions
c. Recreate the story hot-potato style as students complete a portion of the story and pass it on to the next student.


16. Three Heads are better than one: Oral and writing activity: Group of three students re-read selection for 5-10 minutes. Members of group are assigned roles; reporter, translator, recorder of questions.
a. Students re-read different parts of selection in small groups. Time this reading period.
b. Perform assigned tasks; all three read, translator does English translation, recorder writes groups answers to directed questions and reporter reports back to class on their paragraph.
c. Students read same parts of selection. General review of questions and groups’ reporters answer questions.

17. Guess where it will go: Oral and writing activities: Students will stop at midpoint of story and predict outcomes.
a. Guess how the story will end.
b. Write predictions about the characters and story.
c. Compare predictions with story's actual outcomes.


18. Details, details, details: Writing activity: Students will use cloze-like exercise to recall details of the story.
a. 1st attempt: re-read story individually for timed period.
b. attempt to fill-in the missing parts of story on ditto.
c. 2nd attempt: re-read story in groups for shorter period of time.
d. Go back to the modified selection and complete fill-ins.
e. Review selection orally with class.
f. Ask students to recall specific sentences from story without using references.

19. Total Recall: Oral activity: Students read story together out loud, stopping to memorize lines/phrases from story. Use choral recitation, T.P.R. and cue words for memorization.
a. Student readers read aloud story.
b. Select lines/phrases to be memorized for brevity and importance.
b. Choral repetition of selected lines reinforced by gesture. (TPR)
c. Memorize in chronological order, stop every paragraph.
d. Select different readers as you progress through selection.
e. Repeat procedure every paragraph continuing to orally review from the very 1st to the most current paragraph. cue students with one word or phrase for total recall.
f. When page/selection is completed students will write what they remember.
g. Cue to students during writing exercise.
h. Review orally paragraph/selection.

20. Mix and Match: Writing and oral activity: Students will unscramble sentences and passages from story. Index cards contain parts of sentences from selection. Scramble word order.
a. Write the parts of key sentences from selection on different index cards.
b. Display scrambled sentences (Velcro, magnets, chalk tray)
c. unscramble sentences.
d. Place unscrambled sentences in chronological order according to the reading selection.

21. Vocabulary on Index Cards: Oral and writing activity: Use index cards with vocabulary and important phrases to review story.
a. Use one word to elicit complete sentences about the reading.
b. “How do you say” review with cards
c. “Pasapalabra” game playing using cards, two teams competes to guess word on index card held up behind them. Their teams give clues to help them guess.
d. “The Amazing Kreskin” - hold card to your forehead, word not visible and ask the students to read your mind and guess the word.
e. Hangman - use index cards with missing letters which form complete sentences. Students guess letters and sentences.


C. Post-Reading Activities
Activities can be used for review of short stories, novels, poems, Regents and A.P. readings, etc.

1. Vocabulary Wheel: Writing and drawing activity: Students recall important vocabulary, actions, characters, etc. by building a wheel of information around the title of the story.

2. Multiple Reading: What do you remember? Writing activity: Use a modified cloze procedure to review story. Modified reading selection with important vocabulary, actions and persons, places and things missing is completed by students. No word bank available.
a. Use Sustained Silent Reading - re-read individually the selection. Limit the time for the first read.
b. Attempt to complete selection with missing words without consulting reading. Time the exercise.
c. Assign small groups and re-read selection without referencing the cloze exercise.
d. Small groups return to close exercise without referencing reading selection.
e. Review exercise with class.
f. Ask students to recall segments of story without referring to selection or exercise.

3. Mind Mapping: Writing and oral activity: brain based learning technique for review of details of the reading selection.
a. Divide students into groups.
b. Assign stations to groups with different colored magic marker.
c. Students will prepare a schematic of the story by diagramming their recollections of the story. Start at top, bottom or center of sheet of poster paper by writing the name of the story. Include characters, places, vocabulary and expressions. Map the reading selection.
d. Time the exercise and signal when the groups move clockwise around the room visiting the other stations and adding information to the other groups’ mind maps. Different colored magic markers will highlight additions.
e. Activity ends when groups have returned to their own stations. Students will read their maps and see the additions their peers have made.
f. One member of each group gets to keep the mind map to study from for the following day’s quiz/exam.

4. Read different genre: Reading and writing activities: Students read a different genre, poem, interview, short story, newspaper article with a similar theme. Discuss and write comparison of themes, literary style and technique.

5. Point/counterpoint: Oral activity: Select topics related to the themes of the selection for a debate.

6. To the stage: Oral and writing activities: Perform skits and do role-playing based on story’s characters, themes, plot, etc. Write a different ending to the story and present to class.

7. Illustrate Story Book: Writing and drawing activities: Write and illustrate the storyboard for the selection. Use captions and restated narrative and dialogue with illustrations. Use comic book presentations also.

8. Wanted Posters: Drawing and writing activities: Design a wanted poster for one of the characters; include biographical information and physical description.

9. Book Jacket: Writing and drawing activities: Design a book jacket to promote the reading selection. Include biography of author and a synopsis of the selection. Design the cover for your ad campaign.

10. Discovery of the Lost Chapter: Writing and oral activities: Write the lost final chapter of the reading selection. Present the new chapter to the class.

11. This is my story: Writing and oral activities: Tell the story from another character’s perspective. Use 1st person point of view.

12. Book Review: Writing activity: Critique the story in a newspaper column or an article for a magazine.

13. Masquerade - Who am I? Oral activity: Students will dress up as one of the characters, important things or places from the reading selection. Talk about yourself and your life in the selection. Students guess who or what is represented.

14. Puppet Shows: Writing and oral activities: Select scenes from work and perform them. Make puppets and stage for performance.

15. Crossword Puzzles: Writing activity: Students will complete computer-designed crossword puzzles which use vocabulary from story.

16. Radio Show: Oral and writing activities: Reenact the story and record the reenactment. Include commercials, a station identification jingle and message.

17. It happened this way: Writing activity: Develop a time-line of all the major events of the reading selection. Write chronological outline of major events.

18. Yes or No: Oral and writing activities:
A competition based on answering questions based from the story. The highest number of correct responses in a limited period of time wins.


19. When did it happen? Writing and oral activities: Prepare index cards with important sentences from the reading selection. Students arrange cards in chronological order.

Writing Activities

What do we need to do to make it work?
1. setup the situation and answer the question why we are going to do the writing
2. use a pre-writing activity to show to what the writing will be connected
3. provide a cultural hook
4. summarize segments of assignment with explanation and reaction
5. provide opportunity to synthesize, distill and make connections to a global vision

What do our students need to do be able to write in a foreign language?
1. Make connections to things bigger than the writing assignment
2. See the importance of the writing assignment in a global sense
3. Vest in topics and themes that will appear in the writing assignment
4. Recall previously used vocabulary and expressions and use new ones
5. Understand the form /structure required by the writing task (format, style, type of vocabulary and expressions, narrative, dialogue, proverb/saying style)
6. Understand structure and how it changes based on task and genre
7. Interpret task based on context and sources
8. Appreciate cultural connections that are the underpinnings of the writing assignment
9. Relate themes and topics of the writing assignment to prior material and topics
10. Reevaluate and reconsider their world vision as a summative activity

What will our students write?
1. Personal correspondence (e-mails, letters, notes)
2. Prose (fairy tales, short stories, anecdotes, satire, critical essays, jokes, proverbs and sayings, news articles, on-line cultural selections, sensory descriptive paragraphs, etc.)
3. Poetry (structured and unstructured)
4. Personal reflections (personal reactions, personal diary, opinion statements)
5. Musical lyrics
6. Advertisements, jingles and commercials
7. Personal descriptions and autobiographies


A. Pre-writing Activities How we build up to writing compositions?

Building on Verbs


1. Cosas básicas / Basic Questions: Writing Activity: Students will master answering six basic questions which will be included in more lengthy compositions.
a. Who - use ser
b. What - use ser
c. Where - use estar
d. When - use ser and mention the hour, the date, the season
e. What - use the verb ser
f. Why & How - These interrogatives may require compound sentences. Encourage the use of a known and mastered structure. I like, he likes, etc.
I want to / He/She wants to

2. Soy lo que hago/My hobbies and pastimes: Writing activity: Develop list of favorite activities of the class and their associated actions. a. Class discusses pastimes and actions related to them. Prompt with the question - What do you like to do? Discussion and note taking follow.
b. Prepare class list of preferences with related actions for the following day.
c. Students prepare four oral statements which will include: My favorite pastime is / I like to / His/Her favorite pastime is / She/ He likes to / Where this is done An object representative of the passtime forms part of the presentation.
d. Write a directed composition based on topic. Students respond to directed questions. Include pictures of activity with the composition.

3. Who am I? Quién soy yo?
Writing and oral activity: Students prepare a poster project entitled Who am I? Picture of student placed in the center. Sentences about favorite activities and what the student likes to do and where this is done surround the picture. Sentences are written in different colors.

4. Its a matter of Time / Es cuestión de tiempo: Writing activity: Matching game which tests student’s understanding of temporal markers. Two sets of index, magnet, or Velcro cards with temporal markers and conjugated actions. Match two sets of cards.
a. Matching Temporal Markers: tomorrow, yesterday, today, everyday, when I was young, this morning, always, right now cues are written on index cards, Velcro, magnet cards, overhead, etc. A second set of cards has conjugated verbs. Students match time with conjugation.
b. Sentence Puzzles: Temporal marker cards, conjugated verb cards and prepositional phrase cards with my friends, at the beach, in the movies, etc. are scrambled. All these pieces form the puzzle sentence. Students unscrambled and form sentences. Students begin to understand these three components as they move the cards to form sentences.
c. Sentence Puzzles Advanced: Introduce dependent clauses, whose, if clauses, subjunctive. As students use the cards, they get a better understanding of the nuances of syntax; meaning changes, lyrical tone and emphatic statements. Los tres salieron juntos. Juntos los tres salieron. Salieron juntos los tres.

5. Singing the verbs / Cantando los verbos: Song writing to a tune known by all which highlights verb conjugations. “Mickey Mouse”, Ser/Estar song, Future song sung to Mexican Hat Dance ( Daré, darás, dará, daremos, darán ... )

6. Matching pronouns / verb endings: Students will relate pronouns with specific endings.
a. Who did it?¿Quién lo hizo? Students match two sets of flash cards with subject pronouns and conjugated.
b. Throwing the dice / Tirando los dados: two paper/cardboard dice cubes with pronouns and verb endings. Team that has the highest number of matches wins.
c. Draw it / Dibújelo: One player from each team sees the complex sentence. The student draws the sentence. Team members guess the correct order, conjugation and prepositional phrases. Announce general topic to class before drawing begins.

7. Verb flash cards: Use different sets of cards (verb, pronoun, prepositional phrase, temporal marker and the cuando card to play the following games.
a. Quick Phrases/ Frases relámpagas: Use either verb or pronoun card to elicit quick phrases. The first round the tense is chosen by the player. During the second round opposing team chooses the tense.
b. Don’t break the chain / No rompas la cadena: Each team has to construct a sentence from the four categories and the cuando card of scrambled cards. Points are won after the successful completion of each sentence.
c. Verb Card Race / Carrera de verbos: Time the above activity and see who can beat the bell. Best time wins.

8. Verb Scategory: 1st group that comes up with 5 verbs which begin with:
a. A certain letter or a series of letters which are conjugated in a specific tense. ( A, B, C, D ) anduvo, bailó, comió, dio
b. Generate a list of vocabulary from beginning letters of verbs from the first activity.
c. Generate a list of different verbs from beginning letters of vocabulary from second activity. Conjugate in a different tense.

9. Octopus / El pulpo: Give a conjugated verb on the interactive board, flash card or overhead in a vertical or horizontal position. Students build from the letters of the original verb creating a verb octopus. One student does his/her octopus on one of the mediums while the others work in groups or individually. Time the exercise if desired.

10. Finish it / Termínela: Students use verb cards to review the subjunctive.
a. Verb card review of the subjunctive
b. Timed response - prompt with the verb card (infinitive), conjugate verb, Verb Race / Carrera de verbos

11. Subjunctive Buddies: Use second set of cards with subjunctive cue phrases and create sentences with the subjunctive. Add non-subjunctive phrase cards. Matching game combines cue phrases with verb cards. Unscramble cards and make sentences.

12. Guess what it is / Adivínelo: Guess subjunctive cue phrases by giving Hangman-like fill-ins. Leave out as many key letters as possible.
_ _ a _ _ (Ojalá) / _ _ _ _os_ _ _ _ ( es posible)

13. Listen carefully / Escúchelo bien: Students have the lyrics with missing verbal phrases from a popular song.
a. Listen and read along filling in the missing verbs. “Si pudiera ser tu héroe” works well.
b. Second round focus on one clause of particular interest. “Si pudiera ...” as a segue into a grammar point. “Ojalá que llueva café” is another great song for the subjunctive.
c. Write a new chorus and/or lyrics with the subjunctive and perform.
d. Illustrate lyrics with quote from song and focus on verbal structure.

14. Wisdom of the Ages / Sabiduría de los siglos: Proverbs, sayings with specific verb structures: students work with proverbs and sayings which contain important verbal structures.
a. Future & cuando, pres. subjunctive - Cuando la rana tenga pelo, Cuando mamen los gallos, Cuando San Juan agache el dedo
b. Commands - Vete a otro perro con este hueso, Dime con quien andas y te diré quien eres, Viva y Deje vivir, Haz bien y no mires a quien
c. Infinitive as a noun - Creer que todo el monte es orégano, Ver es creer, Querer es poder

Pre-writing Vocabulary Building
1. Word Scategory: Topics are chosen and students develop list of nouns related to the topics. Four topics/lists move the lesson along well. (Sports, school, weather, vacation activities) words must start with a specific letter. Change the letter after a few minutes.

2. Picture Bingo: Generate topical vocabulary based on pictures. Each group has the same four pictures. They generate lists for the pictures, review and compile vocabulary. The following day play Picture Bingo. Each group gets one picture. Randomly select vocabulary about the four pictures. The group with seven/ten vocabulary words wins bingo.

3. Persons, places and things Scategory: Choose four topics and student groups generate related topical vocabulary lists that contain persons, places and things based on the topic. (the beach, the lifeguard, to save, from the chair, the sand, etc.) Review and compile.
a. The following day write the incomplete form of a key word from one of the topics. Students guess the word and begin to regenerate lists without using references. Change incomplete key word every five minutes.
b. Present all four topics at the same time and scramble all of the vocabulary. Students unscramble and categorize all of the new vocabulary.

4. Compound Words: Present the formation of compound words
verb & noun, masculine.
a. Put them together / Júntalas: Present a list of disassembled compound words and have students reassemble the words. Guess the meaning.
b. When do you use it? / ¿Cuando se usa?: Match the compound word with a situation.
c. Compound Word Factory / “Un fábricapalabras”: Students invent their own compound words based on different situations and/or conditions. Students illustrate new invention and caption with their compound word.

5. Yes, Captain / Sí, capitán: Sentence completion game which requires five/six teams seated in rows. The first person in every row is that row’s captain. Incomplete sentences with missing subjects, prepositions, verbs, etc. are read a loud. Each team member writes independently the response that they think the captain has written. Award a point for each perfect match. Change captains after each sentence. Incomplete sentences focus on noun/verb agreement, temporal markers and verb conjugations, etc.

6. Pásalo 1: Goal: Focus on the arrangement of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and prepositional phrases.
Teams arranged in rows with a captain in front must complete a row sentence without discussion by sequentially completing a sentence on Pásalo sheet. Teacher announces topic to all the teams. Captain initiates the sentence. Each member must continue the sentence to its logical conclusion without consultation. Sentences must include noun, adjective, verb, adverb and prepositional phrase and be based on topic provided by the teacher.
Completed sentence is brought to the front and written on the board by the last in the row. Award points for correct sentences. Last person now becomes the captain and everyone moves to the desk behind them.

7. Pásalo II: Same game only the teacher announces the topic and gives the captain either a noun, adjective, verb, adverb, or prepositional phrase. Team must create the sentence without consultation using the parts of speech in the correct order.


B. Writing Activities



1. Boletín de noticias/News Bulletin: A listening comprehension selection in the form of a news bulletin which announces an important event or comments on personage is quickly read in a news bulletin style. Student groups assembly the details (critical information) and reconstruct verbatim the bulletin. Selection must be read several times. A reporter from each group reads or writes the group’s version on the board. The most accurate wins points highest number of points gets the Wolf Blitzer Award.

2. Student Diary / Mi diario: Students maintain a diary/journal which contains writing samples of different genre.
a. A reflective journal / anecdotal, non-directed writings, etc.
b. A directed journal / writings based on curriculum
c. Topics are based on classroom units and themes, reflect grammar units, review readings, etc.
d. Encourage inclusion of art work, photography, CD music, book jackets, clothing designs, etc.
e. Sharing Time: peer reviews on a quarterly basis. Peer chooses favorite entry, write message to author and give an evaluation.

3. General Composition Anthology / Mi antología: Students write reactions and directed compositions in the back of their notebook which is collected after every chapter review and/or story.
a. Collaborative writing:
1. Writing is corrected and highlighted by teacher.
2. Student and peers correct works and resubmit
3. Final grade is a composite from original and final draft.

4. Formal Essay Writing /Redacciones formales : Students write 250-300 word essays on a specific topic.
a. Highlighted errors
b. Peer correction
c. Resubmitted for grade which is a composite of first and final draft.
d. Final work becomes part of the student portfolio.

5. Student Portfolio / Mi carpeta personal: Students compile an anthology of their most important works. This collection of student writings serves as a final evaluation for the course. An eclectic selection of writing should be displayed including the following:
a. A table of contents
b. A minimum of 20 entries with a representation of some of the following genre (essays, poems, tests, a cassette tape, video, projects, journal, awards, etc.)
c. Students select the content of their portfolios from the student file maintained during the school year.
d. Retype the original and/or keep original work
e. A reflection on the year is the last piece to be added to the portfolio. Students reflect on the years activities in essay form.
f. Sharing time should be allowed for students to read their peers’ portfolios. The student reviewer includes a written statement and/or message to the author and evaluates the work.
g. A Parent Reflection letter is included in the student’s works and expresses their feelings about the portfolio.
h. A Portfolio Night brings parents, students and teacher together to view the portfolios of the class. Students present their portfolios to the parents.

6. Class Literary Magazine / Nuestra revista: Students compile works of a specific genre (poetry, short stories, interviews, etc.), a title for the magazine is selected, artwork for the cover is designed, works are paginated and a table of contents is prepared. Sketches and drawings, award winning prose/poems, are included.

7. The Question Board / El preguntón: Display directed questions related to the topic of the week on art paper, bulletin board or poster board.
a. Questions are on display all week and done orally.
b. Assign questions in groups of 2-3 as extra crdit.
c. Write all the answers with class after finishing chapter and/or unit.

8. Building a Matrix for Writing Poetry / La matriz poética: Students will compile a series of related concepts, symbols, images, etc. and construct a matrix of elements which will later be used for writing poetry.
a. Review the 5 senses and the actions and nouns associated with each sense e.g. (sight, seeing, colors)
b. Build the matrix using these associated items.
c. Mix and match unrelated senses, actions and nouns. (socks sing)
d. Examine universal symbols and their levels of meaning. (red - love- heart) encourage students to contradict standard symbolizations.
e. Vary the standard syntax and discover the lyrical quality of the sentence.
Se quemó la casa amarilla anoche. / La casaamarilla anoche se quemó./ Anoche se quemó la casa amarilla.

9. Form poems: Use an exemplar of a poem previously studied in class. Remove the critical elements of the poem and identify the parts of speech to which these elements correspond. Students will substitute different nouns for the original nouns, different verbs for the original verbs, different adjectives for the original adjectives, etc.

10. Concrete poems: Students will write poems in the shape of the topic, person, place, or thing which is the focus of the work. After studying the music of the Romero family from California, students will write poems in the shapes of music notes, guitars, etc. / love poems could be written in the shapes of hearts, roses, etc.
a. Free verse: Solicit words and word associations from the students on a given topic. No specific number of verses or rhyme scheme is needed.
b. Directed poems: Students follow specific criterion such as themes, rhyme scheme, number of verses, specific color references, etc.
c. Diamond Poems: Students follow a pattern which includes;
noun,
adjective, adjective,
verb, verb,
complete sentence about/using noun,
adjective, adjective (different)
verb, verb (different)
noun (synonym)

11. Guided compositions: Students write compositions following a series of specific thematic requirements and/or suggestions. Subtopics with options vary the writing. This form of writing may serve as an introduction to a new topic and be accompanied by word banks.

C. Post-writing activities

Post-writing activities can focus on many but I focus on projects that integrate the readings, cultural units and always involve written presentations. Projects culminate with groups reporting back to the class. Here are some of the projects that I’ve used in the past.



1a. Recetas memorables
Vamos a conocer mejor la cocina mexicana y latinoamericana. La mejor manera de profundizar nuestro conocimeinto no es sólo comer la comida mexicana sino prepararla. Tienes que consultar este enlace y escoger un plato que te guste.Si quisieras trabajar con un amigo sí tú puedes.



http://www.euroresidentes.com/Recetas/Cocina_mexicana/indice-cocina-mexicana.htm



Debes hacerlo siguiente: La Práctica:


a. Escoger tu plato mexicano favorito de los platos que están en este enlace (link)


b. leer y estudiar la receta y preparar el plato para compartirlo con nuestra clase.


La Presentación:


c. explicar cómo se prepara este palto (Here you must use commands to explain the steps required in its preparation)


1. tienes que enumerar los ingredientes


2. explicar paso a paso cómo se prepara usando los mandatos


3. presentar un poster board con fotos de ti y tu grupo preparando este plato.


d. investigar y explicar los orígenes de este plato (de origen indígena, español, y/o africano)



SE PRESENTARA EN CLASE

1b. Recetas memorables
Vamos a conocer mejor la cocina española y la mexicana. Tó vas a ser un famosos cocinero con tu show culinario. Con tus amigos vas a preparar un programa de cocinar.


a. tienes que filmar o fotografiar tu show culinario


b. debes mostrar y explicar en el show cómo se preparan los platos que tu grupo ha seleccionado.


c. tienes que presentar tus platos a la clase y vamos a probar tus especialidades. (You must choose your receta from the links. Your choices must be approved by me.)


Tienes que consultar estos enlaces y escoger un plato que te guste.


Si quisieras trabajar con un amigo, sí, tú puedes.


La cocina española


http://www.xmission.com/~dderhak/recetas.html


La cocina mexicana


http://www.euroresidentes.com/Recetas/Cocina_mexicana/indice-cocina-mexicana.htm


Debes hacer lo siguiente:


La Práctica:


a. escoger tu plato mexicano o español favorito de los platos que están en estos enlaces (links)


b. leer y estudiar la receta y preparar el plato para compartirlo con nuestra clase.


La Presentación:


c. explicar cómo se prepara este palto (Here you must use commands to explain the steps required in its preparation)


1. tienes que enumerar los ingredientes


2. explicar paso a paso cómo se prepara usando los mandatos y el subjuntivo


3. presentar un poster board con fotos de ti y tu grupo preparando este plato.


d. hacer un DVD de la preparación de tus platos o sacar fotos del proceso de la preparación.


e. incluir una copia de la receta para la clase




1c. Recetas memorables
Vamos a conocer mejor la cocina mexicana. La mejor manera de profundizar nuestro conocimeinto no es sólo comer la comida mexicana sino prepararla. Tienes que consultar este enlace y escoger un plato que te guste. Si quisieras trabajar con un amigo, tú puedes.


http://www.euroresidentes.com/Recetas/Cocina_mexicana/indice-cocina-mexicana.htm


Debes hacer lo siguiente:


La Práctica:


a. escoger tu plato mexicano favorito de los platos que están en este enlace (link)


b. leer y estudiar la receta y preparar el plato para compartirlo con nuestra clase.


La Presentación:


c. explicar cómo se prepara este palto (Here you must use commands & subjunctive to explain the steps required in its preparation)


1. tienes que enumerar los ingredientes


2. explicar paso a paso cómo se prepara usando los mandatos y el subjuntivo


3. presentar un poster board con fotos de ti y tu grupo preparando este plato.


d. investigar y explicar los orígenes de este plato (de origen indígena, español, y/o africano)

2. Una aventura con mis amigos en Chile y Argentina



Cada grupo tiene que hacer lo siguiente: (Each group does the following)
1. Siete (7) Tarjetas postales con mensajes e información sobre tu viaje con fotos de los lugares que vas a visitar o visitaste.



(You need 7 postcards with photos and information about your trip.)
Puedes incluir: sitios turísticos, comida, personas locales, experiencias



2. Artefactos típicos de los lugares que visitaste. (You need souvenirs/items typical of the places that you visited.)
Puedes incluir: estatuas, ropa, cosas típicas que son recuerdos de los sitios




3. Recomendaciones para turistas. (Recommendations for tourists.)
Puedes incluir: hoteles, restaurantes, transporte, observaciones personales,
problemas que ocurrieron



4. Diálogo/presentación oral sobre tu viaje
(Skit/oral reporting/formal presentaion/interview with famous people/T.V. show/role playing which focus about your trip)
Puedes incluir: un diálogo teatral, una presentación formal, una entrevista con personas famosas, un programa de tele



5. Mapa grande sobre los sitios que tú visitaste con tus amigos. (A large detailed map of your trip.)
Puedes incluir: un mapa grande con sitios que tu grupo visitó
con fotos, carreteras, sitios geográficos
Where can you go? Anywhere in Chile and Argentina.



Here are a few ideas:
Chile
un crucero(cruise) to Antártida y la Tierra del Fuego
una visita a Santiago, Valparaíso y Viña del Mar
la Ruta del vino, el Valle Maipo y el territorio Mapuche, los indígenas chilenos
una excursión de esquí a Portillo y Chillan
el senderismo por el Atacama y los Andes (una excursión senderista)
una visita a las Islas de Pascua para ver las ruinas y estatuas antiguas
una excursión culinaria y musical para conocer la cueca, el vino y la comida de Chile
una visita artística para conocer los poetas y artistas de Chile
Argentina
una visita a Buenos Aires y la Recoleta
una excursión a Las Pampas y Patagonia
una excursión de esquí a Bariloche y San Martín de los Andes
una visita a las Cataratas de Iguazú y la selva el Gran Chaco
una expedición para escalar la Aconcagua
una visita al Parque Nacional de los Glaciares y la Tierra del Fuego
una visita a las islas Malvinas
una excursión culinaria y musical para conocer el tango, y la comida de Argentina
una visita artística para concoer los escritores y cantantes



3. COSTA RICA: PURA VIDA



Vamos a visitar es Costa Rica. Tienes que investigar y preparar una de estas opciones.



Opción A:
Preparar un Diarama sobre Costa Rica
Preparar un Folleto Turístico sobre Costa Rica (Your travel brochure must be related to your diarama)
Preparar una Hoja Cultural sobre Costa Rica (Use the Fact Sheet provided.)



Opción B:
Preparar un CD/DVD con fotos de Costa Rica
Preparar un Folleto Turístico sobre Costa Rica (Your travel brochure must be related to CD/DVD with pcitures of Costa Rica)
Preparar una Hoja Cultural sobre Costa Rica (Use the Fact Sheet provided.)
Opción C:
Preparar una Presentación DVD de tu viaje a Costa Rica
Preparar un Folleto Turístico sobre Costa Rica (Your travel brochure must be related to Presentación DVD)
Preparar una Hoja Cultural sobre Costa Rica



(Use the Fact Sheet provided.)





4. MEXICO Y SU ARTE



http://comomexiconohaydos.blogspot.com/2007/06/muralistas-y-pintores-mexicanos.html



¡Hola, clase! Tu proyecto para este cuarto es pintar una obra de arte un pintor mexicano.



I. La Parte Escrita: Tienes que contestar estas preguntas:



a. Información biográfica:



1. dónde nació 2. en qué ciudad vivió durante su vida



3. dónde estudió el arte 4. qué familia tenía / quiénes eran sus padres



5. cuándo murió



b. ¿Cuáles fueron las grandes influencias en su vida privada y artística?



c. ¿Cuáles son los temas que son frecuentes en sus obras?



d. ¿Qué revelan sus pinturas sobre México?



II. La Parte Artística: Tienes que reproducir una de las obras de UNO de estos pintores.



(Paint your work on canvas. Michaels is the store that has it all; canvas, paint, brushes, etc.)



Choose from the following list.



You must consult the link and see the paintings before you choose an artist.



ENLACES (LINKS): Consult these links to see the artists and their works.



José Guadalupe Posada



http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=RNWE,RNWE:2006-46,RNWE:en&q=jose+guadalupe+posada&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi



http://www.acabtu.com.mx/diademuertos/posada.html



José Luis Cuevas



http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=jose+luis+cuevas&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi



http://tierra.free-people.net/artes/pintura-jose-luis-cuevas.php



Diego Rivera



http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=diego+rivera&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi



http://www.diegorivera.com/gallery/index.php



http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/r/rivera.htm
David Siqueiros



http://tierra.free-people.net/artes/pintura-david-alfaro-siqueiros.php



Frida Kahlo





http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=kahlo&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi



http://tierra.free-people.net/artes/pintura-frida-kahlo.php



http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/biografia/k/kahlo.htm



Rufino Tamayo



http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=tamayo&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi



http://tierra.free-people.net/artes/pintura-rufino-tamayo.ph



http://www.epdlp.com/pintor.php?id=380



José Clemente Orozco



http://images.google.com/images?q=jose+clemente+orozco&hl=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title



http://www.epdlp.com/pintor.php?id=331



Santiago Carbonell



http://www.arte-mexico.com/praxismexico/SantiagoCarbonell/selec.htm



http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=gmail&q=santiago+carbonell&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi












5. Vamos por España en tren
Vas a viajar en tren por España. Tienes dos semanas y aproximadamente $2,000 euros que puedes usar durante tu viaje. Debes empezar en Madrid y hacer estas actividades:
a. Viajar a estas ciudades: Sevilla, Valencia, Alicante, Barcelona
b. Indicar los nombres de los trenes que vas a tomar y el horario para tus trenes
c. Describir los trenes que tomas
d. Visitar y describir tu visita a estas cuatro ciudades
(Sevilla, Valencia, Alicante, Barcelona)
e. Mencionar los principales sitios turísticos de cada ciudad
Y tus aventuras en cada ciudad.
Format: Choose one of the following formats. This includes minimum of 10 pages which include narration and pictures/drawings.
This project must be written in the PAST.
USE pretérito & imperfecto.
a. Picture book with narration and pictures/drawings about the trains and the cities you visit
b. Travel brochure with description of trains and tourist sites in each city
c. Personal diary with narration and pictures/drawings about the trains and the cities you visit
Consult these links:
RENFE


http://www.renfe.es/http://horarios.renfe.es/hir/ingles.html


http://www.renfe.es/cercanias/barcelona/index_horarios.html


Sevilla


http://www.sevillacard.es/es/Ciudad.aspx


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_otNrDPrUc&mode=related&search


http://www.sevilla5.com/city-map/indice.html


Valencia


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leni71WYS5Q


http://es.geocities.com/hellovalencia/recorridos.html


http://www.cac.es/


http://www.red2000.com/spain/valencia/1valenc.html


http://www.callejeando.com/Mapa/Valencia/callejero-valencia.htm


http://es.24-fair.com/es/Valencia-Actividades.htm


Barcelona


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPMU_tplF7A


http://www.lodgingbarcelona.com/bsittur.shtml


http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/ramblas/barcelona-map-ramblas.html


http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/Europe/Spain/Catalunya/Barcelona-274654/Nightlife-Barcelona-MAREMAGNUM-BR-1.html


http://www.hotelbarcelonaprincess.com/es/guia_1.php


Alicante


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2j25-DREQo


http://www.sol.com/es/modulo.asp?IdProvincia=3&IdTipoContenido=1


http://www.alicante-spotlight.com/photos/alicante01/38.htm


http://www.benidorm-spotlight.com/costa-blanca/alicante.htm


http://209.15.138.224/inmonacional/m_alicante_city.htm







6. CUENTOS DE HADAS
a. Tienes que leer uno de mis libros en la biblioteca de nuestra clase. Hay cuentos infantiles, cuentos de hadas o cuentos de aventura.


Tienes que examinar los siguientes puntos:


1. el escenario 2. los personajes


3. el argumento y los conflictos que hay


4. la moraleja del cuento


5. los puntos de gramática


b. Tienes que escribir una continuación de este cuento con:
1. los mismos personajes o personajes nuevos
2. los escenarios similares o totalmente diferentes
3. un argumento original con puntos de conflcito
4. algunas ilustraciones originales
5. una moraleja original6. los puntos de gramática de este año



c. Tienes que presentar esta obra en forma de un libro.El lunes tendremos la famosa Feria del libro en clase.



7. Viajamos por Latino América
Una excursión en autobús, a pie o en moto por Sud o Centro América. Viajarás con un grupo de amigos por tres países contiguos. Uds. documentarán su itinerario con mapas, fotos y comentarios escritos.Uds pueden seleccionar su formata preferida.
Vamos a viajar por tres países latinoamericanos. Uds. pueden empezar en el país de su gusto.


Cada grupo tiene lo siguiente:


a. Una cámara para documentar su excursión.


b. Un diario y bolis o lápices para escribir sus observaciones y dibujar lo que ven.


c. Una suma de dinero limitada. ( No pueden alojarse en hoteles ... solo con gente nativa, pensiones o bajo las estrellas.)


d. Sólo pueden viajar a pie, en autobús o en moto.


e. Necesitan tener un mapa que indique su ruta con los pueblos, algunos sitios de importancia y las ciudades por donde pasarán Uds.



Claro, durante estas excursiones siempre hay eventos inesperados y personas desconocidas que nos impactan.


Siempre hay dificultades que resolver:


1. Alguien los asalta y les roba algo valioso.


2. Uds. se pierden.


3. Tienen que comer y beber cosas raras.


4. Se encuentran con brujos o gente supersticiosa


5. Conocen a gente necesitada que buscan su ayuda.


6. Están en medio de una revolución o un golpe militar.


7. No hay dónde dormir.


8. La geografía y el tiempo dificultan su viaje.


9. Hay problemas con los miembros de su equipo.


10. Hay animales peligrosos.


Empiecen Uds. a seleccionar sus compañeros de excursión y los países que piensan visitar. Los miembros de su equipo pueden venir de otras clases.





8. Mi viaje a México
Planeas viajar a México con dos amigos. Deciden
preparar un viaje a una de estas rutas o tal vez una combinación de las siguientes rutas ...
Use Project boards to present this information.



A. México: Rutas turísticas
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas turísticas visitando ciudades y sitios de mayor importancia turística.
Playas, ruinas, sitios de ecoturismo, ciudades principales y balnearios




B. México: Rutas históricas
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas históricas visitando sitios de interés histórico, ciudades natales de personas famosas, mencionando personas famosas y los eventos que mayor importancia.
La Conquista, La Independencia, La revolución,
La rebelión de los estudiantes en los años 60, La crisis petrolera, los problemas del narcotráfico, la inmigración, Felipe Calderón y sus dilemas




C. México: Rutas artísticas
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas artísticas visitando
los museos de mayor importancia, hablando de los artistas principales, sus vidas y sus obras.
Tamayo, Rivera, Kahlo, Orrozco, Siqueiros


D. México: Rutas musicales
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas musicales visitando
las ciudades donde los diferentes tipos de música mexicana se encuentran y presentando a los músicos y cantantes famosos de México.
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
Present in groups of three.
A project board or a DVD presentation.




9. El arte y yo


Los maestros modernos: Picasso, Dalí y Miró
Choose one from the three topics. All topics must be accompanied by a reproduction painted by the student.


1. Mi autobiografía:


Tú eres uno de los artistas españoles que hemos estudiado en clase. Tienes que contarnos tu historia personal. Acompañas la narrativa sobre tu vida con tus pinturas. Seleccionas uno (1) de estos tópicos. (Do one of the following.)


a. Un álbum personal con y una narrativa sobre tu vida que va acompañado por una de tus pinturas más importantes.
b. Una serie de cinco (5) cartas sobre tu vida con una copia de una de tus pinturas más famosas.
c. Una autobiografía personal que escribes e incluyes una copia de una de tus pinturas favoritas. Topic sentences:
1. Yo soy _______ y así es mi vida. 2. Este es mi mundo.
3. Así veo el mundo. 4. Mis pinturas pueden cambiar el mundo.


2. El análisis de una obra:


Tú eres un crítico de arte y trabajas para una revista de arte en Madrid. Tienes que analizar una obra de uno de los pintores que hemos estudiado en clase.
(Do all of the following.)
a. Identificas el estilo y las técnicas que usa el pintor.
b. Describes la pintura con detalles.
c. En tu opinión explicas por qué es esta obra tan importante en la vida artística del artista.
d. Incluyes una copia grande de la obra con tu crítica para publicación en la revista.



3. Soy artista también:


Produces una obra de arte también.
Seleccionas dos (2) de los tres. (Do two of the following.)
a. Pintas o construyes una obra original con la técnica y los temas de uno de los artistas que hemos estudiado en clase.
b. Escribes tres (3) poemas inspirados por diferentes obras de estos artistas.
Incluyes copias grandes de las obras que te inspiraron.
c. Compones una canción / música inspirada por una obra de uno de estos artistas. Incluyes un cassette con la música y la obra que te ha inspirado.



10. Trivia española
A. Design a game to teach our class the history of Spain. Tu juego de tabla nos enseña la historia de España, necesitas 30 preguntas, tarjetas y una tabla.
(A trivia game in Spanish with 30 questions, question cards, game board, etc.) You must include the 9 cultural groups we have mentioned starting with Altamira.


B. Un libro de dibujos sobre la historia española: Tu libro necesita 15 páginas y nos enseña la historia de la gente que vivía en España. Do a 15-page picture book to teach other students about the history of Spain. This will be a picture book which tells the history of the settlers and peoples of Spain. Mention 9 cultural groups starting with Altamira.


C. Un libro de mapas: Tu libro de mapas necesita 8 mapas que nos enseña quiénes vivían en España y dónde ellos vivían. Draw a series of maps which indicate where, when and who settled in Spain. Your book will have 8 pages, one for each civilization. A book of maps which tell the history of Spain by showing the peoples, locations, cities, and dates of their arrivals.


D. Una cronología: Tu preparas una cronología de las personas que vivían en España.
A time-line which shows the history of Spain through pictures, facts and pictures of the settlers of Spain.
Make a time-line of the peoples who came to Spain which has pictures, facts, the locations where they lived and/or the cities they founded. You must include the 9 cultural groups we have mentioned starting with Altamira.




11. Viajamos por España
Elije tú una de las siguientes opciones. Recuerda tú incluir toda la información de nuestra clase y de tus investigaciones durante su presentación.
Vas a viajar por España con un grupo de amigos. Debes visitar cinco (5) ciudades con ellos. Planea tú un viaje por España mencionando con un grupo de amigos.
Debes incluir las cosas siguientes:
1. las cinco (5) ciudades especiales de España y por qué son tan especiales
2. los sitios turísticos de estas ciudades
3. por qué los turistas estarán cómodos en estas ciudades
4. la gente famosa que ha vivido en estas ciudades
5. la cocina típica de estas ciudades (fotos y recetas de cuisine)
6. las fiestas y las celebraciones especiales de estas ciudades,
7. los artistas y su arte que se encuentran aquí.
7. recomendaciones especiales para estas ciudades.
NOTE:
PROJECT BOARD IS REQUIRED. INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
1. Map of Spain with the cities you will visit.
2. Photos of the cities and their tourist sites.
3. Written commentary about the cities, tourist attractions, local celebrations,
4. Velcro-backed bus, plane, tourist that will be moved around your map as you present to our class.
5. Give details about famous people from these cities
Work MUST be submitted on time. Late projects will NOT be accepted.
VISUALS ARE A REQUIRED PART OF YOUR PRESENTATION.



12. Mi viaje a México
Planeas viajar a México con dos amigos y deciden
preparar un viaje a una de estas rutas o tal vez una combinación de las siguientes rutas ...
A. México: Rutas turísticas
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas turísticas visitando ciudades y sitios de mayor importancia turística. Playas, ruinas, sitios de ecoturismo, ciudades principales y balnearios
B. México: Rutas históricas
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas históricas visitando sitios de interés histórico, ciudades natales de personas famosas, mencionando personas famosas y los eventos que mayor importancia.
La Conquista, La Independencia, La revolución,
La rebelión de los estudiantes en los años 60, La crisis petrolera, los problemas del narcotráfico, la inmigración, Vicente Fox y sus dilemas
C. México: Rutas artísticas
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas artísticas visitando
los museos de mayor importancia, hablando de los artistas principales, sus vidas y sus obras.
Tamayo, Rivera, Kahlo, Orrozco, Siqueiros
D. México: Rutas musicales
Uds. presentarán un viaje por rutas musicales visitando
las ciudades donde los diferentes tipos de música mexicana se encuentran y presentando a los músicos y cantantes famosos de México.
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS:
Present in groups of three. A project board or a DVD presentation.



13. Lectura independiente:


Este proyecto te da la oportunidad de leer, analizar y crear. Elegirás obras representativas de estos tres géneros; cuentos cortos, poesía y ensayos.


Todas las lecturas están en nuestro texto, Lecturas avanzadas: Spanish A.P. Reader.


Cuentos


a. Cajas de cartón, 6


b. El alcázar no se rinde, 17


c. A la deriva, 40


d. La intrusa, 45


e. No oyes ladrar los perros, 75


Poesía


a. Nocturno, 138 y Sin ti, 163


b. La guitarra, 140 y Danza negra, 152


c. Contra las injusticias de los hombres al hablar de las mujeres, 156 y Hombre pequeñito, 158


Ensayos


Mi religión,106


Máscaras mexicanas,113


a. Debes leer dos cuentos.


b. Debes leer dos poemas


c. Debes leer un ensayo.Después de leer ...


1. resumir cada obra en 50 palabras.


2. escribir una reacción personal de 100 palabras a cada obra.


3. explicar cómo cadauna de las cinco obras es representada en uno de los siguientes géneros en 50 palabras.


la pintura: show & explain what work of art captures the themes, time period and/or characters


la palabra: explain what other literary work in any language echoes the themes and characters


el pensamiento: explain what philosopher best represents the philosophy of your work


el canto: what song / musical composition expresses the themes and emotions of ur work


Choose one of these géneros for each work that you read.


Nota bene: Para contestar el #3 tienes que enfocar en ...


a. la pintura: imágenes que representen estas obras.


b. la palabra: otras obras que tengan temas y personajes parecidos.


c. el pensamiento: filósofos y sus ideas que sean similares.


4. el canto: canciones u obras de música que expresen los temas o eventos de las respectivas obras.


Final score is based on: 80% written / 20% oral



You are encouraged to accompany your oral presentation with both the painting and/or music.



Read works from the following authors:



Jorge Luis Borges, Juan Rulfo, Julio Cortázar, Octavio Paz
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Alfonsina Storn, Horacio Quiroga, Carlos Ruiz de Azilú, Federico García Lorca, Luis Pales Matos, Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz



Miguel de Unamuno, Brici Yolanda Gurrola, José Asunción Silva




Choose your authors and begin to read representative works from our reading list.



All works are to be found in Lecturas avanzadas. ¡Buena suerte!






14. ¿Quién soy yo?
1) Mi vida secreta que nadie conoce
2) No soy lo que parezco
3) Soy un libro abierto. Todos me conocen
a. Elije tú uno de los tópicos y escribe tú un cuento autobiográfico de 300 palabras,(cuatro párrafos) apróximadamente. Claro, esta autobiografía es pura ficción.
b. Acompaña tú este cuento autobiográfico con fotos y dibujos en forma de collage. Escribe tú este cuento autobiográfico que acompaña tu collage.
c. Presentación oral: Presentas tú trabajo oralmente en clase el martes, el 1 de noviembre.


15. Una aventura literaria
Choose one and write a story based on one of these topics:
A. Un cuento de aventuras en el mundo medieval:
1. Los caballeros andantes y sus hazañas2. Doncellas en peligro 3. Famosas batallas4. Reyes malos y traidores5. El mundo de los dragones
B. Un relato histórico:
1. Una biografía sobre un famosos personaje histórico de la época medieval en España.
2. Una historia ficticiosa sobre uno de estos tópicos:
a. Soy el califa de Córdoba y éste es mi mundo
b. Soy el traductor más famoso del mundo medieval. Me llamo rabino ... de Toledo. c. Soy el científico y mago muslumán más misterioso del mundo. Me llamo ... de Toledo.
C. Un cuento de fantasmas y misterio: a. Los fantasmas, las brujas y las supersticiones de mi pueblo medievalb. El gigante que vivía en las montañas
c. El rey moro y su mundo de fantasía
All projects must include:
1. 10-15 pages
2. Original narrative in the past (preterito, imperfecto, condicional, past subjunctive)
3. Original art work drawn by student
4. Information from our class


16. Mi antología poética



Tienes que escribir seis (6)poemas que se basan en las obras poéticas de nuestra clase o nuestras charlas.



1. Tu eliges los temas y los poemas que quieres imitar



2. Debes escribir seis (6) poemas imitando el estilo de las obras que mencionamos en clase.


3. Escribes los seis poemas en font 16 y tienes que ponerlos en tu antologíaen una manera organizada y presentable. Este miniproyecto será para la semana antes de las vacaciones de febrero.

17. ¿Quién soy yo?
(This project will ask you to focus on your family's origins as well as your roots and connections which began outside the United States. Your project must ultimately answer the question Who am I? )
Choose from the following:
1. Jorge Drexler y yo:
Estudie Ud. la biografía y las obras de Jorge Drexler enfocando en los siguientes puntos:
a. sus raíces y orígenes
b. los factores que figuraron en su desarrollo personal
c. cómo él expresa estos orígenes y raíces en su música
d. relacione Ud. esta información a tu familia y tu vida personal.
(Examine Ud. algunas de sus canciones: El pianista de Varsovie, De amor y de casualidad son algunos ejemplos que hablan de este tópico. Puedes escuchar e incluir otras canciones.)
2. Soy historiador de mi familia:
Prepare unárbol geneológico (un DVD con fotos y narración) que muestre los orígenes y raíces de tu familia. Indique Ud. los países de origen, las lenguas que tus parientes hablaban, las razones por su salida de su país natal, los problemas y los éxitos.
O
Escriba la historia dramática de tu familia basada en tu árbol geneológico con fotos/ilustraciones de la historia de tu familia. Incluya los países de origen, las lenguas que tus parientes hablaban, las razones por su salida de su país natal, los problemas y los éxitos.
3. Esta es mi historia oral: Entrevista oral:
Filme Ud. un DVD o haga una grabación de alguien de tu familia que sepa hablar español. Entreviste Ud. a ellos para saber más de tu familia. (Recording and transcript of work to be done in español.)
4. Yo soy ... Aquí tienes que asumir la identidad de un abuelo/abuela u otro ancestro/antepasado tuyo.
(Obviamente no puede ser tu papá ni mamá.) Cuéntame la historia de esta persona como sitú fueras él o ella.
Se presenta en forma narrativa con fotos/ilustraciones.



18. Ver el Mundo Tours:
¿Qué es Latino América?
Nuestra tarea es contestar esta pregunta. Usaremos el texto y otras fuentes para contestarla.
Texto:
Pasaporte al mundo 21
Misión: Tu agencia de viajes tiene que preparar una presentación completa que incluya:
un mapa detallado


un lema que ayude popularizar su país
una historia de su país


un repaso de gente famosa



una esquema de sitios turísticos
unos importantes momentos históricos



Tu grupo consiste en cuatro o cinco socios. Uds. deben elegir su zona y preparar una presentación escrita y oral para Ver el Mundo Tours, la gran compañía que posiblemente use su tour para sus clientes.


Para informes debes consultar el texto: Pasaporte al mundo 21 y otras fuentes de informes. Zonas de las cuales podrías elegir:



Zona 1: México y Guatemala
México
momentos históricos
gente famosa
artistas
Templo Mayor
Piedra del Sol
Teotihuacán: La ciudad de los dioses
Guatemala
momentos históricos
gente famosa
El Popol Vuh: libro sagrado maya-quiché
Rigoberta Menchú Tum


Zona 2: Cuba, República Dominicana, Puerto Rico
Cuba
gente famosa
momentos históricos
José Martí
Republica Dominicana
gente famosa
momentos históricos
Cristóbal Colón
Juan Luis Guerra y su música
Puerto Rico
gente famosa
momentos históricos
la política de la isla


Zona 3: Colombia y Venezuela
Colombia
gente famosa
momentos históricos
Simón Bolívar
El museo de oro
Venezuela
gente famosa
momentos históricos
Caracas: ciudad moderna
Zona 4: El Perú y el Ecuador
El Perú
gente famosa
momentos históricos
Tesoros de sipaán
Los incas: arquitetctos famosos
El Ecuador
gente famosa
momentos históricos
la zona amazónica
Las Islas Galapagos

Zona 5: Argentina y Chile
Argentina
gente famosa
momentos históricos
Duarte y Perón
Chile
gente famosa
momentos históricos
Frutería del mundo
Retorno a la democracia




19. Yo soy ...
TEXTO:
Pasaporte al Mundo 21
Use your text to find out who I am or what I am.
Consult: 74-78, 83-86, 90, 92-93, 101-103,113 or information from class


Indicate who the famous person or place is according to the following cues:
1. Soy el pintor de las Meninas y me interesan los efectos de luz y espacio.Yo soy _____________


2. Me casé con Fernando cuando era joven y era la mujer más poderosa de España. Durante mi reino terminó la Rconquista y empezó el Descubirmiento. Yo soy _______________


3. Soy el caballo de Don Quijote. Yo soy _____________



4. Soy un palacio y fortaleza que los moros construyeron y me sitúo en Granada. Yo soy ____________





5. Yo soy un antiguo edificio religioso que se sitúa en el barrio judío de Toldeo. Yo soy ____________





6. Yo soy el evento que en 1992 tuvo lugar en Sevilla.Yo soy ____________





7. Soy un antiguo hotel nacional en forma de castillo o monasterio. Soy muy popular entre los turistas. Yo soy ____________





8. Me localizo en Madrid y soy una estatua y símbolo de la capital. Estoy en la intersección de la Calle alcalá y el Pasep del Prado. Yo soy __________





9. Estoy en Segovia y los romanos me construyeron en los siglos I y II. Transportaba agua. Yo soy ____________





10. Yo fui el futuro rey de Aragón y me casé con Isabel y ella y yo unificamos España en un país. Yo soy ____________





11. Yo soy un escritor muy conocido del siglo 17. Nací en Alcalá de Henares. Mi obra era un estudio sobre la psicología humana. Mi obra más popular fue El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha. Yo soy ____________





12. Soy una escritora del siglo 20. Nací en 1925 en Barcelona. Mis obras son sobre la pobreza de los niños después de la Guerra Civil en España. Yo soy ____________





13. Soy una obra de arte famosa de un pintor que se llamaba Pablo Picasso.Yo soy ____________





14. Nosotras somos como estados o provincias en España. Hay una canción sobre nosotras. Yo soy ____________





15. Soy un amigo de Tiger Woods y todos me llaman El Niño del mundo del golf. Yo soy ____________





16. Soy una torre famosa que era parte de una mezquita. Estoy en Sevilla.Yo soy ____________





17. Soy un personaje en la famosa obra de Cervantes y descubrí los molinos de viento con mi amigo don Quijote. Yo soy ____________





18. Soy una hermana religiosa y una escritora y reformadora de la orden del Carmelo y nací en Avila. Yo soy ____________





19. Tengo obras de arte prehistóico de bisontes, ciervos y otros animales. Estoy en el norte de España. Yo soy ____________





20. Soy un poeta y dramaturgo famoso del siglo 20 y fui una de las primeras víctimas de la Guerra Civil española. Yo soy ____________





21. Soy pintor que nació en Creta pero viví, pinté y morí en Toledo. Todos me conocen por el nombre El Greco. Yo soy ____________





22. Soy una parte importante del episodio de los molinos de viento de don Quijote. Tengo muchos brazos y don Quijote piensa que soy un gigante.Yo soy ____________





23. Soy el rey principal cuando España llegó a ser una potencia mundial. Soy el nieto de los Reyes Católicos y yo tengo otro nombre, el emperador Carlos V. Yo soy ____________





24. Soy una persona famosa hoy. soy el jefe de la familia real de España. fui designado sucesor al trono por el general Franco en 1969. Yo soy ________





25. Nosotros llegamos a la Península Ibérica en barcos y establecimos colonias aquí. Creamos el alfabeto y la navegación por el Mar Mediterráneo.Yo soy ____________





26. Yo soy el artista más famoso del siglo y nací en Málaga. Soy uno de los creadores del cubismo. Yo soy ____________





27. Fui el dictador y el jefe del estado de España durante el siglo 20. Prohibí la Tomatina. Yo soy ____________





28. Soy la obra más famosa de slavador Dalí. Mi estilo es surrealista.Yo soy ____________





29. Soy un actor famoso del cine español. Yo nací en Málaga e hice la película La máscara de Zorro. Yo soy ____________





30. Nosotros contribuimos la lengua latín, la arquitectura y el gobierno a la historia de España. Yo soy ____________





31. Soy el Cid Campeador, nací en Burgos y soy famoso por mis campañas militares durante la Reconquista. Yo soy ____________





32. Yo soy un edificio. Los romanos me construyeron y la gente viene a ver obras de teatro aquí. Yo soy ____________





33. Nosotros invadimos España en 711 y conquistamos casi toda la Península Ibérica. Establecimos grandes centros intelectuales en Córdoba y Granada. Nuestra arquitectura es famosa también. Yo soy ____________





34. Soy un centro comercial que los griegos fundaron. Yo soy __________





35. Soy un famoso edificio religioso de Córdoba. Los musulmanes me construyeron. Yo soy ____________





36. Soy un rey muy conocido y en 1561 yo decidí cambiar la capital española de Toledo a Madrid. Yo soy ____________





37. Somos los fundadores de Ampurias y contribuismo aceite de oliva y vino a la cocina española. Yo soy ____________





38. Soy el rey de Castilla y León durante el siglo 13 y tuve un impacto en la cultura y la lengua castellanas. Yo soy ____________





39. Soy un gran cinesta y mi película cómica Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios fue nominada para un premio Oscar en 1988. Yo soy _________

40. Soy la ciudad dónde una fiesta el último miércoles de agosto tiene lugar. Rojo es mi color favorito. Yo soy ____________


B. USE THIS LIST TO DO THE MINIPROYECTO.
Lista de personas y cosas famosas:


Sergio García Las cuevas de Altamira Santa Teresa de Jesús
los fenicios Buñol Pablo Picasso Fernando de Aragón
Pedro Almodóvar Ampurias Sancho Panza Guernica la Mezquita de Córdoba


los griegos Rocinante Federico García Lorca La Alhambra


Alfonso X el Sabio Francisco Franco Miguel de Cervantes un anfiteatro
Juan Carlos de Borbón la antigua sinagoga Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
Felipe II La Expo 92 Domenikos Theotokópoulos


Antonio Banderas los musulmanes La persistencia de la memoria


el acueducto Briareo Diego Velázquez los romanos Carlos I


las Comunidades Cibeles un parador La Giralda


Ana María Matute


Reading selections for workshop





A. Italian
Il marito geloso di Luigi Barzini

Il barone Bettino Ricasoli, un gentiluomo fiorentino del secolo scorso, aveva una giovane e bella moglie di cui era molto geloso. Una sera i due andarono ad un ballo a Firenze. Lá la signora fu corteggiata da un giovane che danzó con lei alcune volte.
Il marito allora le disse: “Dobbiamo andare a casa, mia cara!” Laccompagnó alla carrozza e ordinó al cocchiere: “A Broglio.” Broglio era la sede originale della famiglia, un castello solitario e tetro, dove la famiglia Ricasoli non aveva abiato piu da secoli. La coppia ci passó il resto dell’esistenza. Mentre la povera signora si annoiava in casa, il marito si occupava de viticultura. Fu cosí che il barone inventó il famoso vino del Chianti. In questo modo il barone riuscí a tutelare la santitá della famiglia, il buon nome della moglie, il proprio onore e ad accumulare un patrimonio, tutto in una sola volta.



BIG iDEA:
How do we develop and maintain a trusting relationship?
What inspires us to create?
Essential Questions that drive our lesson:
- What are the keys to success to a healthy personal relationship?
- What actions undermine trust in a personal relationship?
- Do appearances deceive or are they accurate reflections of reality?
- What makes it difficult to be self-assured in our society?
- What stereotypical imagery and concepts found in the selection are common to our society?
- What conditions inspire creativity and is it typically a individual or a group?
- Does happiness or sadness inspire creativity?



Intrevista con una madre permissiva

Assitente in un centro comunale per bambini handicappati, Maria Grasso e stata sempre una madre permisiva per le sue due figlie, Laura di 16 anni e Rossana de 15 anni. “E stata una grossa delusione; non avrei mai creduto che un rapporto cosi aperto, cosi amichevole come quello che avevamo stabilito, concordi mio marito ed io, con le ragazze povocasse una reazione negativa. Noi le abbiamo sempre rispettate come individui, queste bambine. Fin da piccole potevano scegliere quello che volevano fare, vestire come gli piaceva, mangiare senza essere forzate, discutere libremente di tutto.”
Le mie figlie sono cresciute cosi, e oggi mi sono accorta che la liberta totale non le ha fatte felici. Si sentono senza guida, insicure, gli manca ubn punto fisso. E la cosa piu terribile e che non sono piu amiche nostre, non ci parlano piu, mi sembra che perfino ci odino. Non le ho mai obbligate a studiare con risultato che oggi non fanno un accidente. Oggi non mi dicono la veritá.
E stata una scopera dolorosa.”

BIG IDEA: Personal relationships
How do parents and children relate?
Essential Questions that drive our lesson:
- How do you undo and correct personal mistakes and misjudgments?
- What are ideal parents and what do they do and not do?
- Does intimacy and freedom for children develop responsible and appreciative adults?
- What restrictions, discipline and limits should characterize parent/child relations?
- How do we earn the respect and appreciation of others?
- What stereotypical imagery and concepts are common to raising children?
- What similarities/differences are their between parents and grand parents?




B.French
Les Trois Bagues
Il était une fois une femme qui avait trois filles. Elle était très pauvre et, comme c’était l’hiver, elle n’avait pas d’argent pour acheter du bois, elle s’en alla dans la forêt pour ramasser du bois. Une fois sur le chemin, elle rencontra une vieille femme qui portait du bois avec elle. Comme la vieille femme lui fit de la peine, elle décida de l’aider à transporter le bois jusqu’à sa maison. La vieille lui dit qu’elle pouvait y venir avec ses filles. C’était en récompense de son comportement si bon.
La fille aînée y est allée; la vieille femme lui dit qu’elle pouvait choisir et prendre l’une des bagues placées sur la table; l’une était en or, l’autre, en argent et la troisième bague, en métal. Elle prit la bague en or et la vieille femme lui dit qu’elle allait se marier aven un roi.
Après c’était la deuxième fillette qui est venue à la maison de la vieille et elle choisit la bague en argent. La vieille femme lui annonça: «tu vas épouser un prince». La troisième fille visita la vieille femme en prenant la bague en métal; elle lui répliqua: «tu vas être la femme d’un ouvrier»
La mère était très fière de ces deux filles aînées, par contre la fille cadette l’avait déçue. Des années s’écoulèrent et les filles trouvèrent leurs époux: quelque temps après leurs mariages, la mère pensa leur rendre visite. Quand elle rencontra les deux filles aînées, elle les trouva tristes car leurs mairs ne l’aimaient plus. La mère était triste mais elle espérait qu’au moins sa fille cadette serait heureuse. En arrivant chez elle, elle l’a vue contente en compagnie de son mari. Sa mère lui demanda pardon et lui dit: «L’amour vaut plus qu’un trésor»

BIG IDEA: Making good life decisions
How do we decide what is important for ourselves?
Essential Questions that drive our lesson:
- What makes it difficult to make the right personal decisions?
- What keeps us from making good judgments in life?
- What stereotypical imagery and concepts are common to our society?
- Who helps or prevents us from making good decisions?
- What life lessons can readings provide?
- What similarities/differences does this reading have with other fables and short didactic narratives?





C. Spanish
El hombre que tiene dos esposas


Cierto hombre d edad mediana tiene una esposa vieja y una esposa joven. Cada cual lo quiere mucho y desea verlo con la apariencia de un compañero adecuado para ella. El cabello del hombre se está poniendo gris, cosa que no le gusta a la esposa joven porque le hace ver demasiado viejo para ser su esposo. Así pues, ella lo peina y le arranca las canas todas las noches. En cambio, la esposa vieja ve encanacer a su esposo con gran placer, porque no quiere parecer su madre. Así pues, todas las mañanas lo peina, arrancándole todos los pelos negros que puede. El resultado es que pronto el hombre se encuentra completamente calvo.
MORALEJA:
“Entrégate a todos y pronto estarás sin nada que entregar.”


BIG IDEA: Self-perception
How do we see ourselves and others?
Essential Questions that drive our lesson:
- What makes it difficult to be self-assured in our society?
- How are appearance and its importance promoted in our society?
- What stereotypical imagery and concepts are common to our society?
- What makes a fable a unique genre?
- What moral direction and wisdom of the ages can readings provide? What is the importance of proverbs today?
- What is the difference between wisdom and knowledge?
- What similarities/differences does this reading have with other fables and short didactic narratives?


Erase una vez by Jose Agustin Goytisolo
(Barcelona, 1928 - 1999). Novelista y poeta con formación bilingüe catalán/castellano

Erase una vez
un lobito bueno
al que maltrataban todos los corderos.
Y había tambien
un príncipe malo, una bruja hermosa y un pirata honrado.

Todos estas cosas
había una vez
Cuando yo soñaba el mundo al reves.

Todas estas cosas
había una vez
cuando yo soñaba el mundo al reves.

Colorín colorado
Este cuento se ha acabado.
Colorín colorado
este cuento se abcaó.

BIG IDEA: Perception of reality
How do we perceive the world?
Essential Questions that drive our lesson:
- What things appear to be real and true and are not?
- What stereotypical imagery and concepts are common to our society?
- What criterion do we use to get to know and make friends?
- What is the importance of dreams and fantasy in our lives?
- What are key elements to distinguishing between reality and fantasy in literature?
- What similarities/differences does this poem have with other genre?




Unit Plan that integrates reading with listening, speaking and writing within a cultural topic.


Immigration: Unit & Weekly Plans

Lunes, 12/4: Introduction of Immigration Unit

Cajas de cartón: Reading selection to be examined

Oral discussion: ¿Quiénes son los inmigrantes hoy en día? ¿Cómo es la vida de un inmigrante a los Estados Unidos? ¿Problemas y dificultades especiales que ellos tienen? ¿Conoces a un inmigrante que acaba de llegar aquí? ¿cuales son las razones por su viaje a los Estados Unidos? ¿Cómo vinieron aquí? ¿Cómo reaccionan los ciudadanos americanos a estos inmigrantes? ¿Qué representa los Estados Unidos para ellos?

Algunas preguntas para reflexionar y pensar: ¿Qué representa los Estados Unidos, Sigue siendo la tierra prometida para el mundo, Podemos seguir abriendo puertas a inmigrantes, Deben ser legales los que vienen a nuestro país, Es importante vigilar nuestras fronteras, De dónde vinieron nuestras familias, nuestros abuelos, bisabuelos, etc., Qué lenguas se hablaban en casa, Por qué decidieron venir a los Estados Unidos, Qué dificultades tuvieron y qué perdieron cuando vinieron aquí, cuales son las ventajas y desventajas de ir a vivir en un pais extranjero?

H.W. (Consult the following link to answer the questions below. Click on site's tabs on top of page)La vida de los indocumentados

http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/newam/fperpetual1sp.html

a. Consulte Movimiento perpétuo (Read 1st 2 paragraphs) ¿ Quién es "todos" en este artículo?

b. Consulte Los riesgos del camino. Describe el incidente trágico de la familia Chávez Muñoz

c. Consulte Indios vaqueros ¿Cómo se influyen los dos mundos en la zona fronteriza?

Martes, 12/5

a. Charla: La vida de un inmigrante: Review content of links through discussion of the questions and students' reactions to content.

b. Si tuviera una caja de cartón, ... Review grammar structure previously taught in new context. If I had a box I would .....

H.W.

1. Bring an item that you think an immigrant to our country would need.

2.. Consult la fuente, Operación fugitiva and answer the questions below:

Consulte este enlace y conteste las siguientes preguntas: Univisión: Operación fugitivo

http://www.univision.com/content/video.jhtml?cid=1028754&channelName=Noticias&_requestid=99372

1. ¿Cómo se llama la operación que hace el gobierno federal?

2. ¿Cuántos indocumentados fugitivos se estima que hay en elos Estados Unidos?

3. ¿Quién es James Hayes y qué opina él sobre este problema?

4. ¿Quiénes son los fugitivos estadisticamente?

5. Según esta fuente ¿quién los arrestó y quién ordeno su deportación?

6. ¿En qué ciudad se localiza una tercera parte de estos fugitivos?

7. ¿De todos estos fugitivos¿ cuántos son criminales convictados de crímenes mayores?

8. ¿Quién es Victor Niebla y qué opina él sobre el proceso legal?

9. ¿Cuál fue el delito de la mayoría de los fugitivos?

10. ¿Piensa Niebla que funciona el corte de las apelaciones para los fugitivos arrestados?

11. ¿Qué hacen muchos de los fugitivos que sienten que no tuvieron su día en el corte?

12. ¿En cuántas ciudades ocurre esta operación?

13. Piensa el gobierno americano aumentar este programa o disminuirlo?

Miércoles, 12/6

a. Review Charla: Univisión: Operación fugitivo and questions.

b. Prop: cardboard box / Students put items in box and explain why they will be useful for an immigrant's trip

c. Role-playing Debate tomorrow: Preparación para el debate sobre la inmigración ilegal. Elegir los papeles. Consult Unit Plan on Immigration for a listing of the roles posted below.

H.W. Consulte Ud. estos enlaces

1. Los Minutemen en la zona fronteriza

http://www.minutemanhq.com/hq/article.php?sid=40

2. Himno nacional en español(Haga clic en Video)http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=848897#p


Jueves, 12/7

Debate: Students are preassigned roles. They dress for their parts and wear a name tag with original name and their role. Exercise is an oral exam.

DEBATE HOY: (Roles pre-assigned for role-playing)


H.W. Reading Comp.: Artículo: Los nuevos inmigrantes

UCLA on-line material Write reaction to this article. discussion tomorrow concerning same.


Viernes, 12/8

a. Oral Discussion of the points raised during the DEBATE sobre la inmigración ilegal

b. Discussion of the UCLA article on immigration

H.W. para 12/9-10 Reacción personal: ¿Qué es ser americano? Reflexione Ud. sobre esta pregunta. Me gustaría saber qué es ser americano hoy en día en los Estados Unidos? Exprese su opinión en 3 párrafos(200 palabras).Considere los siguientes puntos: a. asimilarse a la cultura principal/mantener su cultura nativa b. entender y hablar el inglés/mantener su propia lengua nativa c.seguir y respetar las leyes nacionales/vivir fuera de la ley d. abrazar los valores de la sociedad/mantener los tradicionales de su país nativo e. considerarse un ciudadano americano/considerarse un trabajador que vive en exilio f. defender y jurar fidelidad a su nación nueva/mantener fidelidad a su nación nativa Estos son sólo algunos puntos que Ud. podría considerar.

Morir en el intento: http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=580464#p

PROJECT: ¿Quién soy yo y de dónde vengo?

a. Preparar un árbol geneológico

b. Elegir un pariente del pasado de tu familia. Tú tienes que ser esta persona y escribir tu autobiografía.

Resources:

Música de Jorge Drexler: El pianista del ghetto de Varsovia, Amor y casualidad, Al otro lado del río

¿Quién soy yo? This project will ask you to focus on your family's origins as well as your roots and connections which began outside the United States. Your project must ultimately answer the question Who am I? Choose from the following:

1. Jorge Drexler y yo: Estudie Ud. la biografía y las obras de Jorge Drexler enfocando en los siguientes puntos: a. sus raíces y orígenes, b. los factores que figuraron en su desarrollo personal, c. cómo él expresa estos orígenes y raíces en su familia, d. relacione Ud. esta información a tu familia y tu vida personal. (Examine Ud. algunas de sus canciones: El pianista de Varsovie, De amor y de casualidad son algunos ejemplos que hablan de este tópico. Puedes escuchar e incluir otras canciones.)

2. Soy historiador de mi familia: Prepare un árbol geneológico (un DVD con fotos y narración) que muestre los orígenes y raíces de tu familia. Indique Ud. los países de origen, las lenguas que tus parientes hablaban, las razones por su salida de su país natal, los problemas y los éxitos.

3 Escriba la historia dramática de tu familia basada en tu árbol geneológico con fotos/ilustraciones de la historia de tu familia. Incluya los países de origen, las lenguas que tus parientes hablaban, las razones por su salida de su país natal, los problemas y los éxitos.

4. Esta es mi historia oral: Entrevista oral: Filme Ud. un DVD o haga una grabación de alguien de tu familia que sepa hablar español. Entreviste Ud. a ellos para saber más de tu familia. (Recording and transcript of work to be done in español.)

5. Yo soy ... Aquí tienes que asumir la identidad de un abuelo/abuelau otro ancestro/antepasado tuyo. (Obviamente no puede ser tu papá ni mamá.) Cuéntame la historia de esta persona como sitú fueras él o ella.Se presenta en forma narrativa con fotos/ilustraciones.

DUE DATE: JAN. 17


Lunes, 12/11

a. Repaso de vocabulario de Cajas de cartón. See Unit Plan below for list

b. Expresiones claves from the selection (tab: Expresiones claves 12/11)
H.W.¡Estudair las expresiones claves!

Martes, 12/12

a. Charla: ¿Quiénes son los americanos? ¿Qué significa ser estadounidense?

b. REVIEW: Expresiones claves and vocabulario from CAJAS DE CARTON

c. Encuesta personal: Poll prepared for students concerning topic

H.W.: Prepare a 10 question poll for your family anbout this topic. Present results tomorrow.

Miércoles, 12/13

a. Song: Carlos Santana: Consult Unit Plans below for links Hoy es adiós Examine lyrics and discuss relation to topic.

b. Examine results of the poll for your family.

c. Critical Questions: Should our national anthem be sung in another language? Does the US have a national language? Should we?
LISTEN TO THIS LINK: Himno nacional en español(Haga clic en Video)http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=848897#p

H.W. Read selection CAJAS DE CARTON

Jueves, 12/14 CAJAS DE CARTON: Begin reading selection. Consult packet from the workshop, Strategies and Activities for Developing Reading and Writing Skills in the LOTE Classroom. Choose activities.

Viernes, 12/15 CAJAS DE CARTON: Continue reading selection. Consult packet for procedures and activities.

Lunes, 12/18 READCT: Examine characters and plot line using writing activities from workshop's packet

Martes, 12/19 REREAD segments of the selection using activities from packet.

Miercoles, 12/20 REVIEW: Mind mapping of voabulary, characters and critical events of the story


UNIDAD SOBRE LA INMIGRACION

El problema
Reading:
Los Minutemen: Muerte y odio racista en la frontera
Luci Vicente Zamora
Ya hay leyes represivas contra los indocumentados y ahora están tratando de criminalizarlos y negarles los servicios básicos. Además, los que detentan el poder andan azuzando un movimiento antiinmigrante, nativista y fascista. Este movimiento de paramilitares caza inmigrantes a lo largo de la frontera, y está organizando capítulos en ciudades como Los Ángeles y Chicago y en condados del sur de California, Arizona, Nuevo México y Texas. De ellos, los Minutemen son el grupo más conocido; sus representantes salen como expertos sobre inmigración en cadenas reaccionarias como Fox, y en CNN y otros medios.
Enrique Morones, cuyo grupo Border Angels (Ángeles Fronterizos) pone agua en la zona fronteriza para ayudar a los que cruzan, es un fuerte crítico de los Minutemen y los demás grupos paramilitares, como Ranch Rescue, American Patrol y los Barnett Brothers. Morones dice que aunque no tienen miles de miembros, como afirman, esos grupos y la militarización de la frontera han causado un aumento de muertes.
En una entrevista, Morones nos dijo: "Antes de la Operación Guardián de 1994, había una muerte al mes a lo largo de la frontera. Desde esa fecha, han fallecido unas 4,000 personas al cruzar". Agregó que han encontrado 4,000 cadáveres, pero que en realidad han fallecido muchas personas más, "posiblemente hasta 10,000".
Es difícil contar los muertos porque aunque se encuentran esqueletos y huesos en el desierto, muchos cadáveres no aparecen. Morones dijo: "La mayor militarización y paramilitares como los Minutemen han empujado a los inmigrantes a zonas más extremas y remotas del desierto. Este año han fallecido más de 464 personas, más que en todo el año pasado".
En abril los Minutemen iniciaron una nueva fase de patrullas fronterizas. Además, han estado organizando conferencias, foros comunitarios y protestas en almacenes de madera, donde los indocumentados van a buscar trabajo. Jim Gilchrist (cofundador de los Minutemen) se postuló para el Congreso como candidato del Partido Americano Independiente (fundado por un gobernador de Alabama que se paró en las escalinatas de la Universidad de Alabama para impedir que entrara una universitaria negra, y declaró: "¡Segregación hoy, segregación mañana, segregación para siempre!").
Chris Simcox, otro cofundador de los Minutemen, planea darle un ultimátum a Bush a finales de mayo: o manda las reservas militares a la frontera de Arizona o los Minutemen construirán sus propias cercas en terrenos particulares a lo largo de la frontera. Según dijo Simcox, varios contratistas ya han ofrecido diseñar las cercas y contribuir el equipo necesario: "Vamos a mostrarle al gobierno federal lo fácil que es construir estas cercas de seguridad y lo baratas que salen cuando las construyen individuos y la libre empresa".
Altos funcionarios del gobierno apoyan a estas patrullas de ciudadanos armados que cazan seres humanos para, según su portal, "defender la patria" de una "invasión de extranjeros ilegales". Arnold Schwarzenegger, gobernador de California, elogió a los Minutemen en la emisora derechista KFI-AM. Dijo: "Hicieron un trabajo magnífico... Redujeron enormemente el cruce de inmigrantes ilegales. Esto demuestra que esforzarse y trabajar duro dan resultados. Es posible hacerlo".
Cuando los Minutemen se estaban organizando para patrullar la frontera en Texas, el gobernador, Rick Perry, no quiso prohibirlo y dijo que nadie tiene el derecho de impedir "que ciudadanos respetuosos de la ley viajen al estado o dentro del estado".
Tom Tancredo (congresista fascista de Colorado que propuso negarles ciudadanía automática a los niños nacidos en Estados Unidos de padres indocumentados) alaba y apoya a los Minutemen. En 2005 invitó a Gilchrist a hablar ante el Comité del Congreso sobre Reforma Migratoria. En una entrevista radial, Tancredo dijo que si se da un ataque terrorista musulmán contra Estados Unidos hay que arrasar La Meca y otros lugares sagrados islámicos. Cuando un periódico de Denver sacó un artículo acerca de un líder estudiantil de una preparatoria cuya familia no tiene papeles, Tancredo trató de deportarlos.
Bush ha dicho que los Minutemen son "vigilantes" [una palabra despectiva en inglés--Nota del traductor], pero distanciarse un tanto de ellos no es igual a oponérseles. Nunca ha criticado a los políticos de peso que los han alabado y no ha hecho nada para pararlos. Y el jefe del Departamento de Seguridad de la Patria acaba de iniciar una campaña de terror de la Migra con redadas y arrestos de unos mil inmigrantes. (El artículo "Bienvenidos los inmigrantes ¡Abajo el muro!" contiene un análisis de por qué los capitalistas, a quienes Bush representa, necesitan y a la vez temen a los inmigrantes; está en el #43 y en revcom.us).
Muchas fuerzas paramilitares, entre ellas los Minutemen, dicen que no son supremacistas blancos o los han condenado; pero los neo-nazis han participado en estos movimientos y reclutado abiertamente a sus miembros.
El Southern Poverty Law Center informó que la National Alliance (grupo neo-nazi) participó en las patrullas de los Minutemen y repartió propaganda nazi a los Minutemen y los residentes de la zona fronteriza. Un miembro de la National Alliance, que participó en las patrullas en Arizona, dijo: "Entendemos por qué Gilchrist y Simcox tienen que cuidar lo que dicen ante los medios. Está bien. Ellos están a cargo y tenemos que obedecer sus reglas. Pero cuando los Minutemen se vayan, vamos a regresar y hacer lo que nos dé la gana".
Este movimiento nativista apela a los sectores retrógrados de la clase media blanca y a los trabajadores blancos, pero también quiere atraer a los negros y a chicanos (e inclusive a inmigrantes con papeles) contra los indocumentados.
Todas las opciones de leyes migratorias que se están debatiendo en el Congreso son malas para el pueblo. Unas proponen construir una cerca de 1,125 km en la frontera y otras mandan que el Departamento de Seguridad de la Patria trace un plan para "mejorar la seguridad fronteriza" con "tecnologías de vigilancia aérea". Pero todas las formas de militarización de la frontera, junto con los grupos paramilitares, han causado más muertes y han creado una atmósfera represiva por todo el país que criminaliza a los inmigrantes y a los que los ayudan (ofreciendo servicios sociales a este sector superexplotado). La construcción de centros de detención y las patrullas de paramilitares hacen pensar en la Alemania nazi. Esto no se puede tolerar.



Hoy es adiós Santana - Shaman La música nos da entrada a cuestiones políticas y sociales. Escuche Ud. la canción Hoy es adiós para poder comprender mejor el punto de vista de un padre cuyo hijo ha ido al Norte y de quien no ha oído nada. Shaman es el álbum más recién de Santana. Hoy es adiós

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-IGNZGHs9w&feature=relatedhttp://www.santana.com/shaman/hoy.html

LETRA: Hoy Es Adiós (presentando Alejandro Lerner)

Él se fue con el invierno,

Él se ha ido a trabajar,

No me ha escrito en mucho tiempo,

Él dijo que volverá.

Pero el tiempo pasó

No preguntes por qué,

Él ya no regresó a nuestro hogar

La frontera marcó

Su destino final.

Y a mis brazos jamás volvió

Hoy es adiós,

Mañana quizás,

Sé que tú vas a volver

Hoy es adios

Mañana quizás

No hay fronteras en nuestro querer

Ya ha pasado un nuevo invierno,

Es de que te ví marchar,

No hay un mundo mejor que el nuestro,

Sé que un día volverás,

Pero el tiempo pasó

No preguntes por qué,

Él ya no regresó a nuestro hogar

La frontera marcó

Su destino final,

Y a mis brazos jamás volvióHoy es adiós,

Mañana quizás,

Sé que tú vas a volver

Hoy es adiós

Mañana quizás

No hay fronteras en nuestro querer

Shaman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VB0umNk1oMB.


Cajas de cartón por Francisco Jiménez
El autor
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/modulos/cajas/bio.html
Vocabulario ejercicios:Do the vocabulary exercise http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/modulos/cajas/ant.html
N.Y. Times Caught Crossing La nueva frontera
Read the article and consult the accompanying pictures
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/nachtwey/

A. Vocabulario Cajas de cartón (see weekly plans)
B. Debate: Inmigracion (see weekly plans)
C. Papeles para nuestro debate sobre la inmigración (see weekly plans)


Lectura: Cajas de cartón
Un cuento audio: Este cuento se puede escuchar. Haga clic en el enlace. Para leer el cuento sigue a continuación la narrativa.
http://hhh.gavilan.edu/fmayrhofer/spanish/cajas/p000010.html


Traditional assessment

D. TAKE HOME EXAM: 100 puntos


A. Identificaciones: 40 puntos


Identifique y explique la importancia de estas palabras o conceptos según el cuento en la forma más completa posible:


a. las cajas de cartón en agosto


b. la Carcanchita del padre


c. la olla para la madre


d. la cosecha de las fresas


e. los últimos días de agosto


f. la chocita


g. Fresno


h. el garaje


i. la viña, la parras y las uvas


j. el agua fría y su efecto


k. el camión amarillo de la escuela


l. los tristes ojos humedecidos del padre


m. la comida típica de esta familia


n. la primera semana de noviembre


o. la temporada de uva


p. la temporada de algodón


q. el señor Lema


r. sus ojos comenzaron a aguar


s. los corridos mexicanos y la trompeta


t. las cajas de cartón en noviembre


B. Redacciones: 60 puntos
Elija Ud. dos de estos tópicos. Recuerde Ud. usar sus expresiones DBQ. 150 palabras cada redación.
1. La mudanza: La mudanza significa cosas diferentes para el padre y la madre, Roberto, los hermanos menores y el narrador.
2. La esperanza y la desesperación: La esperanza y la desesperación son dos elementos constantes en las vias de los personajes de esta obra. Examine Ud. cómo estos dos figuran en las vidas de ellos.
3. Francisco Jiménez: Francisco Jiménez, el autor de este cuento, llegó a ser un profesor distinguido en la Universidad de California. (You are Jimenez and you have to give the commencment address at the graduation ceremony for the University of California at Santa Clara. Write this speech to explain how you prevailed against life's difficulties and what lessons you learned along the way.)
Escriba Ud. el discurso para inspirar a los graduados de la clase de 2007.
Copia del cuentoCajas de cartónpor Francisco Jiménez



Cajas de cartón por Francisco Jiménez
El autor
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/modulos/cajas/bio.html
Vocabulario ejercicios:Do the vocabulary exercise http://www.dartmouth.edu/~spanmod/modulos/cajas/ant.html
N.Y. Times Caught Crossing La nueva frontera
Read the article and consult the accompanying pictures
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010611/nachtwey/

Vocabulario: Cajas de cartón


las cajas de cartón


mudarse


la mudanza


la olla


a cosecha


los braceros = los trabajadores


las fresas


estar callado sin decir ni una sola palabrala


chocita


estaba empacándose


me llenaron los ojos de lágrimas


cariñosamente


los problemas mecánicos


una corbata azul


el colchón


la olla galvanizada


llena de abolladuras


la temporada


el garaje


enfermarse


el agua fría


sentirse mareado


el camión de la escuela


nuestro escondite


la viña


las parras


la uva


el algodón


el sexto grado


le pidió que el niño leyera


los corridos mexicanos


brincar de alegría


los ojos humedecidos


B. Debate: La inmigración ilegal y su impacto
Estos son los papeles para nuestro debate mañana. Escoja Ud. uno de estos papeles. Recuerde Ud. que necesitará una identidad apropriada para su papel y un nombre para su personaje.
Los papeles

1. un ciudadano monolingue de un pueblo en la frontera

2. un indocumentado que acaba de cruzar

3. una figura religiosa que da santuario

4. el gobernador de California

5. un inmigrante legal

6. un agente de INS

7. un americano en favor de la inmigración

8. un americano en contra de la inmigración

9. un Minuteman

10. un americano que perdió su trabajo en Walmart

11. un jefe de una compañía que usa idocumentados

12. un cantante del himno nacional en español

13. un mexicano que vive en México

14. el presidente de México

15. un senador en favor del muro

16. un senador en contra del muro

17. un policía que arresta a indocumentados criminales

18. un abogado especializado en cuestiones de inmigración

19. un defensor público de indocumentados

20. el padre/la madre de un indocumentado que ha desaparecido en la frontera




Understanding by Design framework presented by Maxine Argiz during the PDP course., Embedding Art and Culture in Foreign Language Lessons, Feb. 2 & 8, 2008 To contact Maxine Argiz dvlcinea@optonline.net
Stage 1: Desired Results
What goals will be met?
What should they understand?
What essential questions will students explore?
What knowledge and skill will students acquire?
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
What performance and products will reveal evidence of learning?
What evidence will be used to determine if they reached the goals?
Stage 3: Learning Plan
What activities, experiences and lessons will lead to achievement of the desired results (goals) and success at the assessments? How will you get them to the goals?
1. UbD is a way of thinking about curricular planning which provides a set of helpful design tools and design standards for curricular and daily lesson planning. Is there a cohesiveness and coherence to the planning process?
2. The end goal of UbD is student understanding and the ability to transfer learnings to enable learners to connect, make meaning of and use discrete knowledge and skills. Does the learner understand and make connections and link discrete knowledge and skills?
3. Evidence of understanding is revealed through performance – learners can transfer knowledge through facets – explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empathize and self-assess. Does the learner demonstrate functional and useful understanding of material?
4. Educators are coaches of understanding design and support meaning/connection making by the learner. Are connections and understanding of material acquired by learner?
5. Planning is best done backward from the desired results. Goals, assessments and learning activities must align. Does the planning of daily and weekly lessons tie into the final desired results/goals?
6. Content must be based on Big Ideas that focus and direct (Is there a central idea to the unit’s lessons?)
7. Design standards guide self-assessment and peer reviews of curriculum, instruction and assessment quality control (Do lessons reflect what will be tested?)
8. Continuous improvement forms the dynamic to design, use and learning. Desired results, quality of student work, degree of learner engagement are gauges for needed adjustments of design and plan. (Is the daily planning process and curriculum design flexible and subject to assessment and change if the desired results are not realized?)
Stage 1: Desired Results
What goals will be met?
What should they understand?
What essential questions will students explore?
What knowledge and skill will students acquire?
1. Big Ideas are the focus that drives the unit and lessons. They include important concepts, issues, themes, strategies that are the heart of learning for understanding.
2. Big Picture apparent which aides student understand the why of the lesson, and transfer their learning to new lessons, issues and problems and actual situations.
3. Clear and explicit goals provide focus for achieving desired results and aid in diagnosing trouble spots and misunderstandings.
4. Goals should be limited and focus on knowledge, skills, understandings and big questions that you will assess and teach.
5. Decide what ultimately the student should be able to do with all this content.
UNIT PLAN – Stage 1: Desired results
Established Goals: What relevant goals content standards, course or program objectives, learning outcomes does the unit address?
Understandings: Students will understand the Big Ideas that drive the unit
Essential Questions: What provocative hook questions or challenges will stimulate inquiry?
Key knowledge and skills: What students will acquire?
New abilities: What students will be able to do due to this knowledge and skills
Stage 2: Assessment Evidence/Performance tasks
What performance and products will reveal evidence of learning?
What evidence will be used to determine if they reached the goals?
1. Reflect goals: Valid evidence in the form of performance tasks must reflect desired results – goals
2. Explain and interpret: Performance tasks of the learner must be able to insightfully explain or interpret their learning – to show their work as well as justify and support their product with commentary.
3. Doing by applying their learning to new situations: Performance tasks require student to apply learning in new and varied realistic situations.
4. 6 Facets of Understanding: Explain, interpret, apply, different points of view, empathy, understand their own limits of understanding This framework will serve to build assessment tasks.
5. GRASPS:
Goal: the goal or challenge in the scenario
Role: the role the student plays in the scenario
Audience: the audience for whom is the student doing the task
Situation: the setting/context and its limits and possibilities
Performance: the specific performance or product expected
Standards: criteria by which work will be judged
UNIT PLAN – Stage 2: Assessment Evidence
Demonstration of desired understandings: What performance tasks will demonstrate new understandings?
Other Evaluative Evidence: What other evidence will demonstrate students’ achievement of the desired results?
(quizzes, tests, academic prompts, observations, homework, journals)
How will students reflect upon and determine what they do or don’t know?
Stage 3: Learning Plan
What activities, experiences and lessons will lead to achievement of the desired results (goals) and success at the assessments?
How will you get them to the goals?
1. Goal-based activities: Activities follow logically from the desired results/goals
2. Student-drawn inferences: Numerous opportunities provided for students to draw inferences and make generalizations themselves
3. WHERETO: Self–assessing key elements and logic of learning plan:
Where: Make the Big Idea clear, students have the big picture and final performance demands are known.
Hook: Pulling the student in with thought-provoking and challenging questions.
Equip & experience: Give student tools, resources, skills and information required to achieve the desired understanding and explore the Big Idea.
Rethink: Shifting perspective, considering different theories or interpretations, challenging prior assumptions, introducing new evidence/ideas as well as provide opportunity to students to revise and improve prior work.
Evaluate: Provide diagnostic and formative feedback
(pretests/prequizzes, non graded corrections, etc) to help students understand what they do or don’t know and self-adjust. Evaluate & adjust your plans as needed.
Tailor: Differentiate assignments and assessments when appropriate reflecting individual needs, interests, styles. Include options in performance tasks
Organize: Work is sequenced and flows based on your desired results/goals and aids success at the summative tasks which may be contrary to pace and flow of textbook.
UNIT PLAN - Stage 3: Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
1. What learning experiences enable students to achieve the desired results/goals and produce the required evidence?
Flow and Direction of Learning Activities:
How are the following points parts of the learning activities?
2. Where is the unit going and what is expected?
3. Does it Hook and Hold students’ interest?
Equip students to experience the key ideas and explore the issues.
Rethink/Revise their understandings and work.
Evaluate on several occasions student work and its implications.
Tailor and personalize to different needs, interests and abilities by providing multi-tiered assignments with numerous options.Organize to present clear direction and desired results to students.


Workshop: Looking for Connections: Startegies for Teaching Reading and Writing Skills in the LOTE classroom http://leccionesdehodum.blogspot.com/