música

Students arrived and competed attached information about the food students made on Friday. We went over it as a class.

Students will now explore information about music from their country. They were given a list of questions (attached) having to do with music that they needed to answer while researching in the computer lab.

Tarea: Create a rough draft of a page that will go in their book about their country about music. Students can adapt the questions they answered in class to create text educating their readers about music from their country. Several students will be on trips next week, so those students need to hand in their music page rough draft and their general information rough draft (including but not limited to their country's flag, president, and map with important cities and/or regions). Since students are working in pairs, they need to coordinate with their partner about who will do what.

Students arrived and quizzed each other on vocabulary they will see on the test:

Quiz your partner on these music vocabulary words:

• to dance
• to play (an instrument)
• to sing
• sound
• concert
• singer
• radio
• voice
• style
• song
• lyrics
• music
• rhythm
• artist
• instrument
• band/group

Quiz your partner on these past tense verbs:

• Nació
• se crió
• encontró
• empezó
• entró
• conoció
• le gustaba
• se mudó
• creó
• ganó

Students got in their artist group and had a chance to go to the computer lab and work on/finish their poster.

For Wednesday's test, students will need to:
* match a piece of information with the correct group or artist (Shakira, Maná, Calle 13, Ricky Martin).
* identify on a map the country and nationality of each artist/group
* Match a photo with the correct group/artist
* know past tense verbs (list above)
* know music vocabulary (list above)
* listen to a song a identify the correct artist/group

Tarea: study for test next Wednesday and complete poster on their artist. After the test they will present their poster to the class.

Students gave definitions to the following music words:

Escribe la palabra en español
to dance
to play (an instrument)
to sing
sound
concert
singer
radio
voice
style
song
lyrics
music
rhythm
artist
instrument
band/group

In a big group, we reviewed what we had learned about each artist/group. Using attached worksheet, we went over what is going to be on next Wednesday's (October 24th) test about music.

Students competed in their groups to answer review questions for the test.

Tarea: study for next Wednesday's test (including above music vocabulary, attached verbs, information about artists, identification of country/nationality, identification of artist by song).

Students wrote 5 more sentences about themselves in the past:
1. le gustaba
2. se mudó
3. creó
4. ganó
5. tuvo

In groups, students got a big piece of paper and visually represented what they learned for homework about the group Maná. After they finished, they presented their poster to the group and hung it on the wall.

I went over verb conjugations in the past:

for regular verbs that end in -ar (estudiar, caminar, cocinar), students drop the -ar ending and add the following endings (é, aste, ó, amos, aron). Ej.:
yo estudié
tú estudiaste
él/ella/usted estudió
nosotros estudiamos
ellos/ustedes estudiaron

for -er/-ir verbs, the process is the same with these endings (í, iste, ió, imos, ieron)
Yo comí
tú comiste
él/ella/usted comió
ellos/ustedes comieron

Tarea for this week has two parts:
1. students need to memorize verb conjugations in past (above)
2. answer questions on attached worksheet for 3rd artist we'll be looking at: Calle 13

Students wrote a sentence about themselves using the 6 verbs on the attached worksheet. The remaining 5 verbs are for next week.

At their tables, students talked about what they learned about Shakira during class on Wednesday and for homework. We talked as a group about what we know about Shakira.

We went over how class is going to be organized this year:
Spanish binder: Students have brought in 3 ring binders that will generally stay in the classroom and include their work and handouts. The first page (attached) keeps track of the quarter's attendance, homework and quizzes. Students added papers to divide the binder into different sections: apuntes (notes), tarea (homework), do now (an activity we do the first 5 minutes of every class), and música. Each student also has a folder that they will use to transport their homework and papers to and from class.
absences: if students miss class, they must make up work by reading the lesson plan and doing what we did in class. They should put their work in the tarea section next time they are in class.

Tarea: research music group Maná (nominated for a Latin Grammy this year) and write 5 sentences about group.