Linda+GLT+2

Theme: Tu día en la escuela

Realidades Chapter 2A Pgs. 72-97 November 17- December 2

Content Objectives: · Read and compare typical school schedules in Spanish-speaking countries (focus on Costa Rica). · Become familiar with origins of ordinal numbers and Latin roots of Spanish words. · Use the 24-hour clock (i.e. 2:00 p.m. is 14:00).

Language Objectives · Ask and answer questions about schedules including what time things take place, and in what order. · Discuss school subjects including basic description (interesting, difficult, etc.) and supplies needed. · Tell who is doing an action.

Major Assessments: · In-class mini-essay · Vocabulary quiz · Dialogues · Chapter test

Goals: · Learn the names of common school subjects. · Learn to compare qualities – “ is more (adjective) than .” · Learn ordinal numbers up to 10th. · Apply new rules of verb conjugation to previously learned vocabulary

Possible learning activities: · Communicative activity from textbook- revised to use students’ own schedules. · Webquest with school websites in Spanish. · Create dialogues for a back-to-school scenario. · Put pictures from a wordless comic strip in order. · Write a mini-essay about a favorite class using guiding questions. · Read and compare student schedules to a sample schedule from a school in a Spanish-speaking country.

Tentative Schedule: Day 1- Fill out vocabulary sheets Make flashcards Write out personal schedule

Day 2- Review pronunciation of vocab Introduce “tener” for use with schedules (Tengo la clase de inglés) Practice with ordinal numbers- comic strip (or movie clip?) activity

Day 3- Comparisons (más __que, menos__ ___ que) More with schedules, tener

Day 4- Communicative activity 2A-1 (revised) Introduce subject pronouns- Guided Practice Activities 2A-2, 2A-2 Guided practice activities Review formal vs. informal address

Day 5- Watch GramActiva video “Conjugation back” Introduce –ar verb conjugation- Guided Practice Activities 2A-3, 2A-4 Fill in verb charts (color coded?)

Day 6- More practice with verb conjugation Listening activity Sentence prompts Dice game?

Day 7- Guided writing activity- mini-essay (mi clase favorite) Vocab review game

Day 8- Vocab quiz- correct in class In-class reading- school brochure and/or schedule

Day 9- Dialogues/skits 1. Spoken with partner 2. Written 3. Spoken in front of class

Day 10- Webquest- schools in Mexico

Day 11- Test review- clicker game

Day 12- Chapter test

Feedback: I'd specifically like feedback on the timing- whether I'm planning too much or too little time for practice before the quiz and test, and also how to work around Thanksgiving break (and the resulting 2 day week), which will fall right in the middle of the unit, after day 7.

As for timing -- this is a good question and certainly important to consider. However, since I don't really know what your activities involve, it's hard for me to give input on this. But I can give some general advice. You know how some workout programs ask you to rate your perceived level of exertion and they suggest you stay around a 7 to get a good workout? Well, you want a similar type of feeling during a lesson -- that the pace is vigorous enough to keep people challenged and active, but not so fast that people can't keep up or too slow so that little effort is required. You might want to periodically ask yourself, your mentor, and maybe even your students about the pace. A second key point is to be very clear about what the learning objective is and how you'll know if the students have achieved it. Once they can do something to the level you were hoping for, feel free to move on even if you had planned to spend more time -- and vice versa if your students need additional time and/or practice. As far as Thanksgiving break goes, I would just build in a little extra review time, but not worry too much about it. Of course, your students will be distracted because of the holiday, but otherwise, it shouldn't affect your lessons too much. This would be a good thing to consult with your mentor about.

P.S. You might want to look at Caitlin and Mara's units since they are teaching time and schedules in their Spanish 1 classes also and invite them to look at your plans because you have some great ideas too! user:Anny1

I think you have a good amount of activities planned for each day. It seems like you are spending enough time on each thing and yet have enough activities so that it doesn't get boring. I also think you did a really good job of incorporating reading, writing, listening, and speaking into the plan. As for the timing, I wouldn't plan a quiz the day the kids get back from the awkward break. If there isn't time to squeeze the quiz in before the break then have another day of review when they get back and then have the quiz. I think that students really do need time to regroup after a break and no matter how much they promise to study during the break, we all know it probably won't happen. I am curious as to what the test review clicker game is. Do you have a projector in your room? If you do, I am jealous... apparently ours is in but it's sitting in the media center waiting to be installed. I can't stop thinking about the fun and useful things I could do with it! Anyway, what is the clicker game? user:lucasme2