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10/3 - Vocab Quiz & started La Misma Luna

10/2 - Vocab Quiz moved to tomorrow, Friday.  Today we covered dates, ages, and birthdays.

10/1 - Classroom practice - p. 48 Act. 7, p. 49 Act. 8 & 9, p. 50 Act. 11 (in spirals).
HW - study for quiz tomorrow.

9/30 - We went over the graded Chapter 1 tests.  TEST RETAKES ARE TOMORROW MORNING AT 8:00 A.M. IN THE CLASSROOM. We continued taking notes on adjective/noun agreement and did Activity 1 on p. 46.  HW - Complete handout and turn in tomorrow.  Vocabulary quiz, Thursday 10/2.

9/29 - Brief notes on adjectives, in-class adjective handout.  HW - Write Vocabulario I on p. 73 in the Vocabulario section of your spiral. Make sure you use the correct format (Spanish on one side, English all the way on the other).  Vocabulary quiz, Thursday 10/2.

9/26 - Speaking section and Destinos.  No HW for the weekend. 

9/25 - Prepare for speaking part of the test (tomorrow) 

9/24 - STUDY FOR TOMORROW'S TEST  - see topics below 
*don't forget that the speaking portion of the test (which is very minimal) will be done on Friday.

9/23 - Students orgainzed their mandatory spiral notebooks by dividing each one into three sections labeled: Apuntes (notes), Vocabulario, and Actividades.  We began working with the verb SER (p. 24).  HW: Activity 33, p. 25  *do in "actividades" section of spiral. 
Chapter 1 Test - Thursday the 25th  Topics covered:
Vocabulary on pages 21 and 35
Phrases in the Exprésate boxes on p. 6, 8, 10, 11, 19, 21, 23
Greetings and Goodbyes p. 8
Subjects and Verbs in sentences p. 12
Subject Pronouns (memorized and translate)
Ser (conjugate by memory) - soy, eres, es, somos, sois, son

9/15 - Identifying subjects and verbs, subject pronouns.  HW: Students should make sure they have the ten subject pronouns memorized and can write them in the appropriate order.  See p. 14 for help.

9/16 - Dieciséis de septiembre!  Mexican Independence Day!  We did group work comparing the celebration of 9/16 with 7/4.  Each class created a collage of images representing the different celebrations/histories.

9/17 - Class conversation about yesterday's project.  Played classroom game using days of the week and months (chapter vocab).  HW: Textbook p. 21, Act. 27.

9/18 - In class review game for subject pronouns, days of the week, months, and seasons.  HW - Quiz tomorrow, students will be asked to write the 10 subject pronouns in the order we have learned them.  That is all that will be on the quiz.
yo           nosotros
tú            vosotros
él                   ellos
ella                 ellas
usted         ustedes

9/19 - Covered how to tell time.  Did Activites 25 and 26 in class (p.20) and used BK Nelson website to practice listening.  HW: Bring a 1-subject spiral notebook on Tuesday.

9/8 - We did the following activities from the textbook in class: 2,3,6,20,21. Went over the procedure for writing out a vocabulary list that can be used as a study tool.
HW - Write out all the words and definitions in Vocabulario 1.
Quiz on Thursday over Vocabulario 1.

9/9 - Practice Vocabulario 1. Learn different study techniques.  Subject pronouns (p.14).
HW - Study for Thursday's quiz.  Use one or more of the techniques we talked about today.

9/10 - Today we did a variety of listening based activities that involved numbers, letters, and elements of basic conversation.  We also continued to talk about subject pronouns.  STUDY FOR TOMORROW'S QUIZ.

9/11 - After the quiz, we began to work with vocabulario 2 on p. 35.  Students should have this copied down by tomorrow (including days, months, and seasons on p. 21).

9/12 - Destinos.  No homework.