Mon. Oct 30 - Tues. Oct 31:
    • WEEK 10-A: Notes on cultural elements in the movie "The Book of Life"
Wed. Nov 1:
    • WEEK 10-B: Día de los Muertos Altar Project
​      LINK: Directions & Grading rubric
Thurs. Nov 2 - Fri. Nov. 3:
    SUBSTITUTE TEACHER
    • Work on Altar Project

Mon. Oct 23:
    • WEEK 9-A: Vocabulary page for Week 9
    • WEEK 9-B: Video notes on Día de los Muertos (Products, Practices & Perspectives)
    LINKS: Día de los Muertos videos:
            - Viva Calaca music video
            - MisCositas in-flight movie
            - Traditional village (British Airways commercial)            
            - Anthropology student explains traditions
            - CG animation
            - What is Día de los Muertos?    
            - Howcast: How to Celebrate Day of the Dead
            - La Catrina, Altar and Champurrado
            - Howcast: How to make a Day of the Dead altar
Tues. Oct 24:
    • Continue talking about Día de los Muertos
Wed. Oct 25:
    • WEEK 9-C: Notes on the Imperfect tense
    • WEEK 9-D: Inténtalo - Practice questions 1-10 (SEE NOTES LINK ABOVE, LAST PAGE)
    • WEEK 9-E: Group activity - Short story using preterite and imperfect
Thurs. Oct 26:
    • WEEK 9-F: Práctica con pretérito e imperfecto
    • Constructing a sample altar for Día de los Muertos
Fri. Oct 27:
    • WEEK 9-G: Class Activity - No English for 30 minutes

 Mon. Oct 16:
    • WEEK 8-A: Copy and complete the irregular preterite charts
      LINK: Chart with blanks, answers, notes on irregular preterite, and Assignment 8-B
      VIDEO: Irregular preterites song
    • WEEK 8-B: Write your own 5 sentence story summary using regular and irregular preterite. 
Tues. Oct 17:
    • WEEK 8-C: Practice with preterite and numbers
    • WEEK 8-D: 3 truths, 2 lies using preterite (e.g. Comí una pizza completa en 15 minutos)
Wed. Oct 18:
    • WEEK 8-E: Preterite regular and irregular translation (Harry Potter)
Thurs. Oct 19:
    • WEEK 8-F: Detective story - show reading comprehensions with either a translation of with paragraph summaries
Fri. Oct 20:
    • WEEK 8-G: Write the ending to the detective story, in Spanish using regular and irregular preterite, citing details from the story to support the solution you propose for the mystery.

 Mon. Oct 9: 
    • WEEK 7-A: Worksheet - Past tense conjugations in English
Tues. Oct 10:
    • WEEK 7-B: Practice with present & preterite
    • WEEK 7-C: Worksheet - Lección 1 - El Pretérito p. 1-2 (Basic practice with -AR preterite)
    • WEEK 7-D: Worksheet - Lección 1 - El Pretérito p. 4-5 (Basic practice with -ER/-IR preterite)
    • WEEK 7-E: Week 7 Vocabulary Retention sheet
Wed. Oct 11:
    • WEEK 7-F: Short Halloween-themed video clips, summarize in Spanish
       LINKS TO VIDEOS: The Colors of Evil, Bedfellows, Selfie From Hell, 
Thurs. Oct 12:
    SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TODAY
    • WEEK 7-G: Translation practice with preterite short story
    • WEEK 7-H: Write your own short story of similar length
Fri. Oct 13:
​    • Free day to catch up on work

Mon Oct 2:
    • WEEK 6-A: Audio practice with very large numbers
Tues. Oct 3:
    • WEEK 6-B: Textbook p.33, #1-5
Wed. Oct 4:
    • WEEK 6-C: Advanced practice with gustar-like verbs
    • Jeopardy - Gustar and similar verbs
    • Photos of notes from whiteboard: 1, 2
Thurs. Oct 5:
    • Review answers from last test, discuss errors
    • WEEK 6-D: Gustar Worksheets part 1
    • WEEK 6-E: Gustar Worksheets part 2
Fri. Oct 6:
    • Notes to study/review before the test:
       - Gustar and similar verbs, grammar explanation
       - A different way of explaining it, same concept
    • TEST: Gustar with IOPs, and verbs that behave like gustar

Mon. Sep 25:
    • Class discussion, follow-up on "Breaking Down Walls" assembly
       VIDEO LINKS:
       - "You Are Good Enough" - 7th Grade girl slam poem
       - Why the world needs you to be different
       - "Change the World by Making Your Bed" by Admiral William McRaven
Tues. Sep 26:
    • Review of gustar and similar verbs, working with Indirect Object Pronouns    (LINK: Photo of notes 1, 2)
Wed. Sep 27:
    • WEEK 5-A: Práctica - Translation using gustar and verbs that behave like gustar
Thurs. Sep 28:
​    • WEEK 5-B: Notes and practice on numbers from 0 to 999,999,999,999   
      LINK: Handout, Photo of whiteboard
    BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT - Click here to download presentation
Fri. Sep 29:
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Mon. Sep 18:
    SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TODAY
    • WEEK 4-A: Textbook pg.9 Activity 9; pg.19 Activity 24; pg.23 Activity 30
    • WEEK 4-B: Etapa Preliminar Worksheet 7 and Worksheet 9
Tues. Sep 19:
    SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TODAY
    • WEEK 4-C: Textbook pg.13-14 Activity 14 and Activity 15
    • WEEK 4-D: Etapa Preliminar Worksheet 8, Worksheet 10, and Worksheet 13 
Wed. Sep 20:
    • WEEK 4-E: Practice test, 27 questions
Thurs. Sep 21:
    • Review for test tomorrow
Fri. Sep 22:
    • TEST: Etapa Preliminar

Mon Sep 11:
    • WEEK 3-A: Práctica - Describe the characters using adjectives
Tues. Sep 12:
    • WEEK 3-B: Práctica - Vocab review: List all the verbs you can think of in 5 minutes
Wed. Sep 13:
    • WEEK 3-C: Week 3 vocab retention page
Thurs. Sep 14:
    SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TODAY
    • WEEK 3-D: Textbook p. 18, Activities 21-22
    • WEEK 3-E: Etapa Preliminar Worksheet 1, Worksheet 2, and Worksheet 3
Fri. Sep 15:
    SUBSTITUTE TEACHER TODAY
    • WEEK 3-F: Textbook p. 21-22, Activities 26-27
    • WEEK 3-G: Etapa Preliminar Worksheet 4 and Worksheet 5

Mon. Sep 4:
    NO SCHOOL - LABOR DAY
Tues. Sep 5:
    • Complete workbook page 2 before turning in Week 1 work
    • Go through routine for turning in weekly assignments
    • Week 2-A: Práctica - Describing likes & dislikes with gustar
Wed. Sep 6:
    • Week 2-B: Práctica - Helping a new student, translate the sentences (review of common greetings)
    • Review rules and tips for spelling, accents, and pronunciation in Spanish (PHOTOS: Notes from whiteboard 1, 2)
Thurs. Sep 7:
    • Week 2-C: Warmup - Translate, make sure nouns and adjectives agree in gender and number
    • Week 2-D: Group activity - Imagine a conversation between two characters or celebrities; write it down & share w/ class
Fri. Sep 8:
    • Share your character conversations with the class
    • Week 2-E:

Welcome to Señor Garnet's Spanish 2 class for the 2017-2018 school year!
¡Hola! Welcome to my class! You will be using this website throughout the school year, so make sure you know how to find it quickly (you can bookmark it, you can Google "senor garnet", or you can scan the QR code in the classroom). Also, take some time to explore what the website resources are (HINT: check the dropdown under "Spanish" to find the main Spanish page with lots of links, the  videos page, the "Did you know...?" blog, etc.)

Mon. Aug 28:
    • Week1-A: Senorgarnet.weebly.com Contact 
     Your first assignment (1-A means Week 1, Assignment A) is to use my contact page to send me an email.  This is to make sure you know how to contact me, and so we can work out any contact problems right at the start of the year. Please let me know if you have any problems!!!

To get credit, you must include:

• Your first and last name, class period, and a valid email address I can reply to if needed
• Tell me about something that has helped you be successful in a previous class, or really enjoy it
• Tell me something that frustrates you in school, or makes it hard for you to succeed

• Share something interesting about yourself, to help me get to know you and remember who you are
• BONUS POINTS: Show off your best Spanish!

Tues. Aug 29:
    • Week1-B: Practice Quiz for Etapa Preliminar - Part 1
Wed. Aug 30:
    • Week1-C: Notes on Tomatina festival (Click here if you missed the lesson)
     VIDEOS: Firsthand view of festival - GoPro footage; Gigantes y Cabezudos, the festival that started the tomato fight back in the 1940s
    • Week1-D: Worksheet - Tomatina
Thurs. Aug 31:
    • Begin going through textbook to review material from Spanish 1 (pages 2-5)
    • Review of gustar, indirect object pronouns, and words that behave like gustar
    • Week1-E: Workbook p.1
Fri. Sep 1:
    • Computer lab activities: 
       - Gustar practice game
       - Gustar quiz
       - Regular -AR/-ER/-IR conjugation practice
       - Regular AND common irregular verb conjugation - Battleship
       - Etapa preliminar review, flashcards, test, and games
       - Textbook publisher's site: Practice for Etapa Preliminar
    • Week1-F: Email me a screenshot of your Gustar quiz (above) once you achieve a perfect score
    • Week1-G: Workbook p.2