Ziroll+GLT2+Plans

Subject: World Language – Spanish section (2 classes) Grade: 7th grade

Content Obj: Students will help create classroom expectations and greeting other students and do a TPR activity Vocabulary handout Greet activity Commands HW: Paper bag activity ||  Lang Obj: Students will practice greetings Content Obj: Students will show five items in their paper bags about themselves, and greet each other again Greet activity Paper bag introduction HW: None ||  Lang Obj: Students will learn colors and practice greetings Content Obj: Students will do skits in front of the class and then listen and respond to a TL activity involving colors Skits TL color activity HW: None || NO SCHOOL || NO SCHOOL || NO SCHOOL ||  Lang Obj: Students will practice colors Content Obj: Students will draw pictures of objects that are a certain color and color them Commands Color sign activity Color Booklets HW: None || Lang Obj: Students will practice colors and numbers 0-20 Content Obj: Students will count the number of objects in the classroom Color booklets Classroom Count Activity HW: None ||  Lang Obj: Students will practice colors and numbers 0-20 Content Obj: Students will take a quiz and do math problems Color Quiz Math worksheet HW: || MSU CLASS ||
 * ** Monday 11/24 ** || ** Tuesday  11/25 ** || ** Wednesday  11/26 ** || ** Thursday 11/27 ** || ** Friday 11/28 ** ||
 * Lang Obj: Students will learn greetings and 2 commands
 * ** Monday 12/1 ** || ** Tuesday 12/2 ** || ** Wednesday 12/3 ** || ** Thursday 12/4 ** || ** Friday  12/5 ** ||

Assessment strategies: I will be constantly reviewing information previously covered to make sure that students still have it fresh in their minds. I will be giving a quiz or performance assessment approximately every 3 classes so that students will not be overwhelmed by the material covered. They are 7th graders and are not used to high school type testing. I need to keep activities fun and somewhat childish because it is an exploratory class and students are very young still. The language should be covered in increments and constantly recycled yet meaningful to students in their own way. Plans for target language instruction: I plan on using the target language less than I would in Spanish 1 because the grammar isn’t explained much in exploratory language classes nor is the material covered deep. My mentor doesn’t use the TL much in the French and German sections but I’d like to teach 2 or 3 commands every week so I can increase the use of the TL in directions. I plan on using much more speaking and listening activities along with visual aids to make the language more comprehensible so the 7th graders do not feel anxious.

Questions: I am teaching the 7th grade Spanish section of World Language which is not tested the same as Spanish 1, 2, 3 etc. It is not based on skill proficiency but rather on the ability to recognize what is said/what things look like. For example, the French benchmark at the end of the French section was a lot of multiple choice and didn't test all skill areas. Therefore, a lot of the class is simply repetition. I am wondering how I can make activities more meaningful rather than having students simply repeat over and over which my mentor frequently does and has told me I need to work on. They are all 7th graders which need to have very structured activities or else the class just gets too loud and disruptive. So what activities could I do to get students using the TL in a STRUCTURED ORGANIZED way, incorporating a lot of repetition, but still appealing to their childish side with respect to greetings/colors/numbers? I don't want to use the same games over and over such as hangman and race games that my mentor used for both French and German. You can tell students are getting bored by the same activities for each language.


 * Feedback:** In response to your excellent questions: I suggest you think of a few "tournaments" that will allow the kids to have a purposeful creative outlet while gaining exposure to the language. Then work towards these goals. For instance, you could have your classes prepare a market with a bunch of simulated shops. Both of your classes could contribute -- maybe even compete. The kids could make signs and things to sell -- all the products could be labeled in Spanish. In the meantime, the students could earn "money" to buy things at the market based on their participation in activities (drills and scrimmages) to prepare them for the market day. On the day of the market, people could take on various identities and roles and you could challenge them to spend the ENTIRE class period in Spanish with appropriate prizes and penalties. Another idea: the students could prepare a newscast in Spanish that included segments on weather, sports, national news, feature stories, celebrities, etc. The kids could work in groups and design newscasts for competing "stations." You could even videotape the broadcasts and show them in the other classes. Or there are a thousand other possibilities. But do you get my point? There needs to be something tangible and appealing that the kids are working towards. What do you think? user:Anny1