Grammar Lesson: 12 Verbs

As the sememster comes to an end the students still have a few lessons to finish before the end of the semester final.

The lesson for Wednesdsay - Friday (May 12-14, 2010) is as follows : **Instructions: (1) Translate the infinitives (main verb) (2) Conjugate each infinitive using the Verb Charts provide (3) create a basic sentence using: subject pronoun, action verb, subject and noun/adjective

1. Amar: To Love
2. Aprender: To Learn
3. Arrojar: To Throw
4. Atar: To Tied up
5. Bailar: To Dance
6. Buscar: To Find
7. Cambiar: To Change
8. Confiar: To Trust
9. Creer: To believe
10. Dañar: To Hurt
11: Entrar: To Enter (Cognate)
12. Cuidar: To Take Care


Students may use the previous notes for completion of this assigment.
This packet is worth three grades.

Final Exam: Project

The Spanish class is doing an independent project for end of semester exam. The project will be count as 2 grades: research and presentation. Topics vary and every student has a different topic that they will need to find infomration and use it for their presentation.

The students can do power points, poster boards, phamplet, essays, handouts, act it out or any media resource that they can best use. The project can be in Spanish or English for better understanding.

Projects are due May 20, 2010
Presentations will start the same day: May 20, 2010.


I will provide a list of the topics and what each student picked.

5 de Mayo Posters

Here are some poster from the students who completed their 5 de Mayo project



















There are many more and I will post all of them once I get more time, but all the students who participated did an amazing job. Cogratulations to all of them!
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Cinco De Mayo Project

Cinco De Mayo Project:
Due Date: May 3, 2010 -- No exceptions
***Please read the instructions and guidelines of this project


1. Create a poster board of what Cinco de Mayo represent to you. – Your own perspective of this Mexican Holiday.

2. The last day to turn in the project is May 3, 2010. I will not give you more time to finish it. Starting April 23, 2010 --- to --- May 3, 2010, gives you10 days to work on the poster board.


3. I am only asking for a very unique and decorative poster board on Cinco De Mayo

4. I will pick the best ones to present on May 4th EACPA celebration.

5. This will count 50% of your grade.

The History behind Cinco de Mayo

The information below was copied from the website: www.wikipidia.com. if you would like any more information you can go to that site.

HISTORY:
In 1861, Benito Juarez stopped making interest payments to countries that Mexico owed money to. In response, France[11] attacked Mexico to force payment of this debt. France decided that it would try to take over and occupy Mexico.[12] France was successful at first in its invasion; however, on May 5, 1862, at the city of Puebla, Mexican forces were able to defeat an attack by the larger French army. In the Battle of Puebla, the Mexicans were led by General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín. Although the Mexican army was victorious over the French at Puebla, the victory only delayed the French advance on Mexico City. A year later, the French occupied Mexico. The French occupying forces placed Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico on the throne of Mexico in 1864. The French, under pressure from the United States, eventually withdrew in 1866-1867. Maximilian was deposed by President Benito Juarez and executed, five years after the Battle of Puebla.

The Battle of Puebla was important for at least two reasons. First, although considerably outnumbered, the Mexicans defeated a much better-equipped French army. "This battle was significant in that the 4,000 Mexican soldiers were greatly outnumbered by the well-equipped French army of 8,000 that had not been defeated for almost 50 years."[13][14] Second, it was significant because since the Battle of Puebla no country in the Americas has been invaded by an army from another continent.

OVERVIEW:
Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for "fifth of May") is a regional holiday in Mexico, primarily celebrated in the state of Puebla, with some limited recognition in other parts of Mexico. The holiday commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.

Cinco de Mayo is not "an obligatory federal holiday" in Mexico, but rather a holiday that can be observed voluntarily. While Cinco de Mayo has limited significance nationwide in Mexico, the date is observed in the United States (also voluntarily) and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride. Cinco de Mayo is not Mexico's Independence Day,[8] which actually is September 16the most important national patriotic holiday in Mexico.

Homework for April 21, 2010

We are celebrating EARTH DAY this whole week. EARTH DAY is on Thursday, April 22.

Vocabulary to study and use for the next two days:

1. Air -- Aire
2. Animals -- Animales
3. Clean -- Limpio
4. Conservation -- Conservacion
5. Earth -- Tierra
6. Ecosystem -- Ecosistema
7. Energy -- Energia
8. Fuel -- Combustible
9. Landfills -- Vertederos
10. Litter -- Basura
11. Oceans -- Oceanos
12. Oxygen -- Oxigeno
13. Ozone -- Ozono
14. Plants -- Plantas
15. Pollution -- Contaminacion
16. Preserve -- Conserva/Conservacion
17. Rainfores -- Selva / Pluviselva
18. Wetlands -- Pantanos
19. World -- Mundo
20. Waste -- Desperdicios

The first 20 words are for the homework; the crossword puzzle.
other vocabulary

1. Extinct -- Desaparecido
2. Habitat -- Ambiente
3. Home -- Casa / Hogar
4. People -- Gente
5. Recycle -- Reciclar
6. Resource -- Recurso
7. Reuse -- Reutilizacion
8. Volunteer -- voluntario
9. Water -- Agua
10. River - Rio
11. Sea -- Mar
12. Lake -- lago
13. Pond -- laguna
14. Creek -- Arollo
15. Swamp -- Pantano

Most of the vocabulary words are COGNATES.

***COGNATE: words that are similar in spanish and english and have the same definition and root.

Be very carefull with the false congnates.

***FALSE COGNATES: are pairs of words in the same or different languages that are similar in form and meaning but have different roots. That is, they appear to be, or are sometimes considered, cognates, when in fact they are not. Even if false cognates lack a common root, there may still be an indirect connection between them.
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End of second six weeks

Monday was the close of the second six weeks. Report cards will go out on Wednesday and the new and last cycle started Tuesday after 12:00 pm.

1. Wednesday, April 21, 2010, is the Ice Cream Party for all the students who had perfect attendance on this past six weeks.

2. Thursday, April 22, 2010, is the field trip for the students who made the A/B honor roll this past six weeks.

3. Friday, April 23, 2010, is the field trip for all of the students who are in the soccer team. (The Soccer Team trip)

4. Saturday, April 24, 2010, is ADVENTURE DAY for the ALL of the students. On Saturday, the students get to participate in activities that will released some stress due to TAKS. All Students are invited, but not required. In order to attend, make sure the permission slip has been signed by a parent or legal guardian.

5. Starting next week: April 27-28 the TAKS will be conducted at EACPA for all the Six (6th) graders. GOOD LUCK TO ALL OF YOU, YOU ALL WILL DO GREAT!