Los Pensamientos (Warm Up)

Homework on desk: syllabus scavenger hunt

Objetivos de hoy/ Today’s Objectives:

•Identify what the class expectations and procedures are, as
well as how they apply them to themselves in class
•Show what you know about Spanish on the diagnostic test.
Los Pensamientos:
Describe what you do and write during “Los Pensamientos”
time.
Who are Afro Latinos? What do you have in common with
them?
 Examen diagnóstico
Diagnostic Exam
• Put all your possessions underneath
your desk
• Turn in your Scavenger Hunt to the
box on the bookshelf
• Wait in silence for your exam, answer
sheet, and pencil
• Begin once you have your exam
 Once you finish…
• Turn in your test, answer sheet, and pencil to
the appropriate places on the bookshelf

• If you have not done the Scavenger Hunt: get

a new one and finish it silently at your desk
• If you turned in a completed Scavenger Hunt:
grab someone else’s from the box and correct
it using the answers posted on the walls
 If you finish correcting the
Scavenger Hunt…
You have two options:
• Correct another one
• Get out the “Country Poster Project”
description and “Country Fact Sheet”
from yesterday, read them, then use a
book from the bookshelf to fill out the
“Country Fact Sheet”
 Explanation of Country Poster
Project
1. Take out page 12, 13, and 14
“Country Poster Project”
“Country Fact Sheet”
Practice rubric and project
• Listen to Profesora Mehl as she
explains the rubric.
• Grade the example poster with Ms.
Mehl
Jose turns in a poster that has 3 sections
completed. There is a map with
Guatemala labeled, but nothing else
around it is labeled. It is hard to read
his writing, but he did include the
amount of Afro Latinos in Guatemala.
Jose wrote 4 facts about Afro Latino
culture in Guatemala. He included
another section about Willie Sims, with
a quote and his birthday. Everything is
organized on a poster so that it’s easy
to read.
 El cierre
Closing
Get out your Agenda Española and look at the box
“Pregunta del cierre” (Closing question)

In that box answer these questions:

• When is the project due?
• What country would you like to do your
project about?
 Antes de salir
Before leaving
• Make sure you wrote down ALL of the
homework
• Turn in the Scavenger Hunt you finished or
graded and the Practice Rubric
• Clean up your desk and the area near you
• Help the class clean up the room according
to the “antes de salir” list
• You may leave when Ms. Mehl dismisses
you