miércoles, el nueve de mayo

Spanish I:

• today was only a half day, and only 2nd, 6th, and 7th hour had Spanish class.
• they began the end of the year IB unit on All About Me. A rough draft of their writing is due by Monday, May 14th. This will be for a test grade by the end of June.

IB UNIT

All About Me

May 2012

IB Unit project:

Area of interaction: health and social education

Awareness and understanding : dealing with who they are as people.

Reflection: Thinking about the kind of person they are and why they like certain things.

Making choices: asking themselves why they do the things they do, why they act a certain way, and why they dress in a certain style.

Unit question:

What defines me?

¿Qué me defina? 

Significant concepts:

Self and image

Personal characteristics, what we look like, what we like, and what we choose to wear are all an integral part of who we are, or how we see ourselves. 

Assessment:

Students will have a written assessment. They will need to describe themselves: what they look like and what kind of person they are, showing they have grasped the difference between "ser" , "estar", as well as using :gustar" and "llevar". They will have to show that they know how to make nouns and adjectives agree in gender and number.

Students can decide how to present their All About Me project, by either writing it out in essay style or in a poem, or even as a song. They will then present it to the class, either reading it out loud, singing it, or acting it out.

Assessment Criteria:

B - Speaking (Language)

 C - Writing (Message and Organization)

D - Writing (Language)

Presentation:

It must all be in Spanish. No English at all.

You can present it in a variety of ways:

• on poster board
• in a book format
• on a power point
• in a song
• in a play style
• with drawings by the words

Those of you who are artistic can draw images/illustrations for your All About Me. You can also make up a song, perform it with an instrument, sing it in rap style, or turn it into a mini play for those budding actors/producers among you. You can use a variety of ways to present this project. You can have part of it written, part of it sung, since it will be a long project. You can add photos or illustrations you have drawn.

For now I want a rough draft done by Monday, May 13th. You can write it in English first, and then begin translating it into Spanish. You can use classroom dictionaries for words you do not know, or the textbooks.

Questions to be answered/information to give:

You MUST have the following information in your project:

• your name, age, and birthday (pg 21, 93)
• your eye color and hair color  (pg 69)
• where you live and where you are originally from (if you are not from Michigan originally) (pg 21)
• describe your family: how many siblings you have and tell me one thing about each one and about your parents. Talk about your grandparents, aunts, and uncles, and cousins. (pg 93)
• what you are like (2 adjectives to describe your personality and two adjectives to describe the way you look)  (pg 69)
• what you like to wear (list two things) (pg 69)
• what you like to do on the weekends or with your friends (list three things) * (pg 47,143,167,195)
• what sports you like to play (pg 217) (list at least one)
• what you like to read (or say you don’t like to read)
• what you like to eat (pg 143)
• talk about your school schedule and what is your favorite class (p143)

IMPORTANT

Use the book units we have done to answer these questions in the correct Spanish way!!!