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Spanish Final Tomorrow!

Don't forget that the Spanish final is tomorrow. It is comprehensive and will include 67 multiple choice questions. Be sure to look over the study guide, which you can download here if you have lost your copy. Download Spanish I Final Study Guide In addition, clean out your textbook and bring it tomorrow to turn in.

Homework: Review/study for final; bring #2 pencil and cleaned-out textbook

Spanish Final on Tuesday!

Students took their 4th Nine Weeks Post-Test today. Afterward, they worked on some vacation translations and got a copy of the study guide for the final on Tuesday. You may download that here as well. Download Spanish I Final Study Guide

Homework: Study for final

4th Post-Test on Friday

Don't forget that the 4th Quarter Post-Test is scheduled for Friday. Today, we did not have class because of field day. Yesterday, we talked about moods and physical conditions, including introducing the verb doler. We finished up with some vacation vocabulary, which the students will work with more on Friday. In addition, students took a quiz on Pobre Ana and got a few handouts to take with them to Spanish II. They also got a study guide for Friday's test.

Homework: Study for Post-Test on Friday

Pobre Ana quiz tomorrow

Don't forget that the quiz on Pobre Ana is tomorrow! Be sure to study the handout we went over in class last Thursday. Today, we celebrated Cinco de Mayo ... a little late. In addition to food and fun, we also watched a video about the holiday so that students had a little better understanding of it all.

Homework: Study for Pobre Ana quiz tomorrow

Discussing Pobre Ana

Today, we went over the Pobre Ana handout and discussed the novel in detail. Be sure to get with someone if you were out as the handout serves as your study guide for next Tuesday's quiz. Students also signed up for career day sessions.

Homework: Bring workbook; look over Pobre Ana handout for Qs

Individual Projects Due Tomorrow!

Don't forget that your individual food/clothing project is due tomorrow! Today, students turned in the Pobre Ana handout, which we will go over tomorrow. It will serve as your study guide for next week's quiz on the novel. In addition, students worked with a partner to create one-pagers (posters) on Spanish holidays, festivals and other cultural tidbits. They read a short article and then identified the major points discussed in the article in order to share with others. They will be presenting them tomorrow.

Homework: Individual food/clothing projects due tomorrow; will take Pobre Ana handout through homeroom tomorrow.

Special Note: Dedicate a luminaria (a paper bag filled with sand and a candle) to be lit and displayed around the track during the luminaria ceremony at Relay for Life of Cobb County this weekend at Jim Miller Park in Marietta.  Luminaria serve as symbols of hope as we continue to work for a cure for this disease,  The luminaria ceremony will begin at 10 PM on Friday, May 8, and everyone is invited to attend - you do not need to be a Relay for Life participant to take part or to dedicate a luminaria.  With your donation, you may designate an individual whose name will be printed on the luminaria bag.  Suggested donation:  $10.

Spanish Skits fun to watch!

Most of the students presented their Spanish skits yesterday and today. It has been an enjoyable experience for everyone, unless they were the ones presenting! Yesterday and today were also catch-up days for any who had to finish the Pobre Ana work or needed to work on their individual projects, which are due on Thursday. Be sure to check the assignment sheet for details on what's expected for the individual project. 

Homework: Pobre Ana handout due tomorrow; Individual project due on Thursday.

Skit work ends today; Pobre Ana begins tomorrow!

Today was the last day students had to work on their Spanish skits in class. They will be presenting them next Monday and Tuesday. I spent half the class finishing up some material from Chapter 9. Be sure to check out the gift vocabulary and related phrases on pgs. 269-270 in your textbook. We also talked a little more about indirect object pronouns (see gramática box on p. 271 ) and to practice, completed workbook page 71 as a class. Afterward, I introduced some location/direction words and phrases as well as stores vocabulary. See pg. 271 and pgs. 118-119 for that information and be sure to pick up the handout on location preposition phrases. To practice with the stores vocabulary, students were assigned workbook, p. 73 for homework.

For the rest of the week, students will be reading a novel in Spanish! Pobre Ana is a good little story, designed for level 1. It portrays a cultural message, while also serving to show students just how much they've learned this year.

Homework: Workbook, p. 73; Project Work -- Memorize your lines for the skits on Monday and Tuesday; Individual projects are due next Thursday, May 7th. You can pick up paper in Ms. Sicard's room if you want to go ahead and work on this.

CRCT starts tomorrow; family fun evening on Friday

Be sure to get plenty of rest for the the start of the CRCT! Then join us Friday evening for some family fun. Please see notice below. In Spanish today, students took a vocabulary quiz on the food and clothing items. Afterward, they had time to work on their group skits. It will be the class assignment for the week of testing.

Homework: Rest and relax in preparation for testing.

Special Evening Planned for Friday! We hope you can join us for Awtrey's Family Night this Friday, April 24, from 6:00-9:00 p.m. Enjoy a silent auction, craft fair, Awtrey student dance, family movie and food with other members of our school community.

Vocabulary Quiz on Monday

Don't forget that there is vocabulary quiz on Monday that will include the food and clothing items. Today, students started the food/clothing project Download Spanish Project -- Food, Shopping, which will be their assessment on this unit. They will be working on the group oral skit at first, and that will include class time all next week. Also, I told the students not to do the drawing assignment as I thought getting started on the project right away would be the best idea.

Homework: Study for vocabulary quiz on Monday; do not do drawing of dressed person