Un+Viaje+a+Venezuela+Comments

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**Unit Introduction**
__**Rationale**__ There are many important aspects of this unit plan that are essential to Spanish language and culture. The future tense grammatical structure, functional discussion on responsibilities, supporting a point of view, and conversation fillers, as well as discussions on Venezuela, it's culture, economy and political system will benefit the students in their personal lives and provide a well rounded point of view towards Venezuela. This will also enhance their Spanish speaking abilities. The future tense is used often in the Spanish language and is essential to build off of to further their knowledge in the language.

This is a great explanation for why a teacher would teach this. Why might the //students// find it worthwhile and compelling? user:Anny1

__**Proficiency Goals (based on MI Standards)**__

__**National Standards**__

Great specific descriptions user:Anny1

Final Project
I love this project! There is the potential for very rich learning outcomes. What will you do if the students don't have easy access to a computer or resources to buy and prepare food? user:Anny1

That's a good point. I think we will have to offer to somehow get the community involved and get them to donate food, or find easy recipes that when they have the food at home. As per the computer issue, we are in a district where there are plenty of computers available at the public library as well as at school. If the student doesn't have a computer at home, they will just have to approach us and we will work it out accordingly. user:litwins5

Unit Plan & Outline
This looks great. It gives a clear overview of the unit with key learning objectives. user:Anny1

Daily Schedule
How did you do this? Great use of googlecalendar! user:Anny1

We thought it would be really neat to be able to update this automatically in Google Calendars. It also looks nice and clean and is a good use of technology in the classroom. Plus, if you go to Google Calendars, you can update the calendar and it will automatically update it on your page. All you have to do is create the calendar, and then insert it as a widget on the Wiki page. It worked out very well. user:litwins5

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Technology - Based Lesson Plan
Great lesson! Love how you prepare students before they start to use technology by themselves. I'm wondering if you have a direction sheet for them to look at -- kids can get confused very easily in a computer lab! Especially when there are multiple steps to follow. -- Weiqing

Thanks for the idea. I didn't think to include a direction sheet, but it's a great idea! user:litwins5

Lesson Plan Two
Excellent job in contextualizing vocabulary learning. It would not hurt even if you have them view the movie a third time since tech words are generally more difficult to master. -- Weiqing

Where can teachers get this video? user:Anny1