Ms.

Arango
Spanish 1
9th grade

The Accent Mark Hunt

Big Question:
How do you to appropriately apply the Spanish accent marks in words?

The Mission of This Assignment:

Are you ready kids? Ohhh who lives above vowels in various spanish words? Accent marks, do!
This assignment will be a fun and interactive learning process on how to appropriately apply the
spanish accent marks while reading, writing, and spelling in spanish. This treasure hunt will
check for your knowledge and abilities to surf the web and extract very important information.
The treasure hunt will take you to various websites where you are expected by the end of the
treasure hunt to be able to answer the question at hand.
Standard:
The Foundational Skills in grades 9-10 to appropriately address instruction of the Spanish
accent mark. The standard we will be addressing by doing this assignment is by combining all
aspects for appropriately applying the spanish accent marks while reading, writing, and spelling
in spanish.

Ms. Arango
Spanish 1
9th grade
Name:

Date:

The Accent Mark Questioner

1. What are four categories of multisyllabic words in Spanish, as far as stress is
concerned?

2. Why is it important to find where is the stress in a word before placing the
accent?

3. What are the rules to writing accent marks?

4. What is the difference between the Spanish system of diphthong and hiatus?

5.

What are tonas?

6. Why do some of the spanish words do not have an accent in the word?

7. When would an accent mark be placed over a word that ended in a consonant
(other than n or s) and it is not aguda?

8. Why In the exception that any Spanish word may have only one stressed
syllable, those adverbs that end in -mente, actually have two stresses?

9. When is it appropriate to write each of these words such as qu/que and

dnde/donde, with and without an accent mark?

10. Why are accent marks important while reading, writing, and spelling words in
spanish?

Ms. Arango
Spanish 1
9th grade

Directions for this assignment:

1. Print the the accent mark questioner.
2. Use the following websites to answer the questions on the accent mark
questioner;
Watch:Word stress and accent words
Watch: How to use Spanish accents
Read: Bowdoin
i.
Do exercise 1-8, on this website.
Read: FluentU
Read: About education
Read: A Complete Guide
3. After completing the accent mark questions, answer the big question;
How do you to appropriately apply the Spanish accent marks in
words?
4. Turn in by next week on Monday, October 17.