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Vamos a pasar un día mas estudiándolos- el jueves habrá juegos y varias actividades, y después un pequeño examen donde tú puedes mostrar lo que aprendiste.
Following are the dates of assessments of Chapter 9A: UPDATED as of March 27th. :)
- Tuesday, March 27: Vocabulary Quiz 9A, #2 of 2, PERIOD 2
- Wednesday, March 28: Vocabulary Quiz 9A, #2 of 2, PERIOD 3
- MONDAY, APRIL 2: EXAMEN, Capítulo 9A
¡Hola! Aquí vas a encontrar un interesante Frase Para Hoy---el joven es chistoso, y sabe Español muy bien.
¡Disfrútalo! Cada persona que pueda decirme a mi una de las frases del día, este viernes, recibe un premio.
In case you are wondering, here, again, is the rubric by which you'll be graded on your Timeline Presentation:
Rubric for Timeline Presentations:
· 6 points for correct grammar
· 6 points for clear speaking
· 2 points for interesting, colorful sentences
14, plus:
· 1 point for each of the 2 comments you write about another student’s presentation
In case you are wondering, here, again, is the rubric by which you'll be graded on your Timeline Presentation:
Rubric for Timeline Presentations:
· 6 points for correct grammar
· 6 points for clear speaking
· 2 points for interesting, colorful sentences
14, plus:
· 1 point for each of the 2 comments you write about another student’s presentation
Vamos a tomar el Quiz sobre Vocabulario del Capítulo 7B, el segundo Vocab Quiz, este JUEVES.
Period 2 Homework, due Tues. 11/29:
- WAVA 142 & 146 are regular practice of 7B Vocabulary
- WAVA 148 & 149 are over the topic of 'car and 'gar verbs....use your textbook.
Nos vemos. :)
- Write your 6-8 sentence Past Tense story, using "ar" verbs.
- Bring to class Thursday, bright and early.
Vamos a tomar el Quiz de Vocabulario #1, Capítulo 7B, este viernes.
Update: El Día de los Abuelitos (GrandParents' Day).
As it turns out, solamente la 2a Hora (B) will have Abuelitos visiting their class. So, 2nd Period, we'll finalize a brain-storm plan tomorrow, and we'll get to work on it! May take a little of your time outside of school but it will be worth it. ¿Churros? :)
Burrito Builder- link to website. By Wednesday morning, make sure that both periods have built 5 Burritos in the Present Tense and 10 in the Preterite Tense. :) Enjoy!
Update: El Día de los Abuelitos (GrandParents' Day).
As it turns out, solamente la 2a Hora (B) will have Abuelitos visiting their class. So, 2nd Period, we'll finalize a brain-storm plan tomorrow, and we'll get to work on it! May take a little of your time outside of school but it will be worth it. ¿Churros? :)
Chicos, very nice job making the Exchange Students feel loved at the little Despedida this afternoon in the Lecture Center. Me encanta ver que tienen muchísimos amigos aquí. ¡También ahora Ustedes tienen nuevos compañeros que pueden ir a visitar en México!
Hoy no hay tarea- next week you will be assigned to work with Burrito Builder a bit more, and be studying 7B Vocabulary- we'll have our first quiz over it next Wednesday & Thursday.
Monday: plan for GrandParents' Day!
What ideas have you come up with for Grandparents Day thus far?
Note: over Thanksgiving you will be assigned independent study time using the Online Activities, Realidades website, 7B. Be thinking about which activities you will do. Upon returning from Thanksgiving Break, you will turn in a print-out of your final draft of the assignments you chose- first make all corrections, then when you get final products that have no errors, print them off, write your name on them, and turn them in.
¡Muy buen trabajo en el examen del capítulo 7A, alumnos!
Mañana comenzamos a estudiar un nuevo capítulo.By the time we have finished Chapter 7B, you'll be able to talk about going out and buying gifts for the people on your list, all in Spanish.
¡Empieza a estudiar ahora!
TAMBIEN: ¿Qué ideas magníficas tienen Ustedes de algo que podemos hacer para los abuelitos que vienen el Dia de los Abuelos?
Be thinking about it!
RECETTE DE MACARONS
INGREDIENTS
280 GR SUCRE GLACE
140 GR POUDRE D’AMANDES
4 BLANCS D’ŒUFS (160gr)
PROCEDE
1 - MELANGER LA MOITIE DU SUCRE GLACE AVEC LA POUDRE D’AMANDES POUR OBTENIR UN TANT POUR TANT. PASSER A ROBOT MIXER AVEC LAME POUR OBTENIR LA POUDRE LA PLUS FINE POSSIBLE.
TAMISER ET RESERVER.
2 - PREPARER UN BAIN MARIE EAU FREMISSANTE. DANS LE BOL D’UN ROBOT MELER LES BLANCS D’ŒUFS ET LE RESTE DE SUCRE GLACE. LES ŒUFS DOIVENT ETRE A TEMPERATURE AMBIANTE. DEMARRER UNE MERIGNUE ITALIENNE AU FOUET MANUEL. QUAND LES BLANCS SONT A ENVIRON 60 DEGRES, SORTIR DU BAIN MARIE ET CONTINUER LA MERINGUE AVEC UN ROBOT A VITESSE MOYENNEJUSQU’A COMPLET REFROISISSEMENT (environ 10 min). ATTENTION A NE PAS CASSER LES BLANCS EN LES TRAVAILLANT TROP LONGTEMPS OU TROP VITE.
3 – LORSQUE LA CONSISTANCE DE LA MERINGUE EST DEVENUE FERME ET D’ASPECT BRILLANT, AJOUTER COLORANT SI NECESSAIRE, 5 GOUTTES D’EXTRAIT D’AMANDES AMERES, ET LE PARFUM DE VOTRE CHOIX.
4 – MELANGER A LA SPATULE EN BOIS LE TANT POUR TANT ET LA MERINGUE ITALIENNE JUSQU'A L’OBTENTION D’UN MELANGE HOMOGENE ET LEGEREMENT COULANT. MELANGER EN FAISANT TOURNER LE BOL ET EN EVITANT LES MOUVEMENTS BRUSQUES.
5 – DRESSER A LA POCHE A DOUILLE DE 1CM SUR UNE PLAQUE EPAISSE RECOUVERTE DE PAPIER SULFIRISE. LAISSSER POSER 1H AU MOINS.
6 – CUIRE A FOUR (180 DEGRES TH 6) PENDANT 11 A 12 MIN EN MAINTENANT LA PORTE DU FOUR LEGEREMENT ENTROUVERTE. EN FIN DE CUISSION VAPORISER SOUS LA FEUILLE DE PAPIER UN PEU D’EAU ET LAISSER REFROIDIR
7 – DECOLLER LES MACARONS FROIDS ET GARNIR A VOTRE CHOIX EN LES ASSEMBLANT DEUX PAR DEUX.
8 – SI POSSIBLE LAISSER REPOSER 24H AU FRIGO AVANT DE DEGUSTER, C’EST MIEUX.
And here are just 2 shots of the morning hour outside La Providence.
Though I wasn't able to capture more hugs, emotions ran high as 8th graders processed the feelings in a 'goodbye' that's far away from home.
Great friendships were formed during the last 2 weeks...and it's exciting to know that each Holland Hall student will discover that one does often have the choice of returning to those new friends in the future.
Kids didn't even feel like posing by this time... :(
Au revoir was setting in, though this was soon replaced with a readiness to see the U.S.A. and HOME!
Parents showed a few tears at the goodbyes as well!
And thanks to everyone who shared a laugh with us, as, after 24 hours of being awake and traveling successfully across the Atlantic, we all got stuck in the revolving glass door of the Tulsa International Airport, had to back ourselves out...and then make our heroes' entrance through a different port.
This has been wonderful; hope you've enjoyed this perspective.
My apologies: no Wednesday entry as I was gone the entire day helping teach classes at another school with English teacher Julie Demuynck.
Bonjour! Please enjoy last photos of the trip- there was no time to upload a thing during our last 48....or was it 72....hours?!
Having some fun in the Hall of Mirrors
We had a frigid lunch- at least there was no danger of food going bad! The girls found it less windy if they crept behind the trees!
Imperfect, but live! An exciting moment.
La Providence's German exchange students had just arrived on Wednesday evening. Their first day of touring was today, and they generously shared their tour bus with us. Here is a shot of them playing as we wait for our bus to go to the river.
Fellow LaPro exchanger Francois Sara, with German teacher Zurta, Mr. Garnier and German English teacher Natali.
At the Arc de Triomphe, huddling to keep vital organs from freezing as students made a heroic attempt to focus on the cultural value of their surroundings.
The incredible ceiling...
Goodbye-ing, upon our return to campus.
And after an entire morning in classes accompanying a designated highschool student, here are some faces....
...and now wide awake. Ready for another historic tour.
...and now wide awake. Ready for another historic tour.
Hmmm, looks like the Teacher's happy....but sleep-walking with her coffee!!
Hello to all!
This morning everyone returned to our meeting room here at school full of interesting, funny and informative stories about the weekend. Many families took their American guest to Paris, Christian's family made the Normandy coast, Grant saw EuroDisney...and there is probably more that I cannot remember at the moment.
We often start off these class days with a time of de-briefing, and today each student got to tell one wacky story and one more of cultural interest...an observation or such.
Here are the comments of students who shared...
Morgane
French people are much more open about things. We went to this store and it was like a weird adult store and all the parents except my family’s dad went in and no kids are allowed in there. And in America they have those but there are no windows, but this time, you could see the whole store from the outside.
Sydney
I noticed that everything looks like it’s really old but it’s still modern; houses are made out of wood, not brick.
Max
“There was no border! It wasn’t like when you cross from the United States into Canada…..there’s no government and no laws.”
Max took a trip to Belgium over the weekend with his family and discovered the vacancy of government existing in that country at the moment- an unresolved election stemming from the differing interests of the Flemish and the Walloon.
"By the Eiffel tower there were 3 soldiers with big guns…just walking around with big machine guns!"
Matthew
· They play sports a lot differently than we do. I had to go to his soccer game and they’re really good. But they run weird and have their hands up.
· Their mom kept trying to tell me things; I learned so much about English because she’s taking classes. I kept saying ‘zut’ and now she told me what it meant. Her English teacher’s from Britain and he said that it meant ‘sugar’.
· And when they say ‘mm mmm that’s awesome’, like for food, the say ‘miam’, and they also say ‘aille’... And they kick their dog whenever it barks.
Audrey
They’re not as friendly to random people as we are. When I went to the mall in Paris on Saturday we were going to the Louis Vuitton store and they let a certain number of people in there so it wouldn’t be super full and they said, no, it’s closed, and my mom said, no, she’s American and the guy let me in but wouldn’t let my family in.
Katherine
Ok so we were at the Eiffel Tower and these ladies kept coming up with these papers and they were just standing there trying to get us to read them and it was like for homeless kids and…my dad was standing on the other side of the Eiffel Tower and started yelling, No! No!
Katherine’s French dad was trying to protect her from the group of organized pick-pocketers who try to distract you by signing a petition and try to take your wallet.
Trey
· All the stereotypes the Americans make of the French are so not true. Like I mean I was expecting to be called an ugly American and I haven’t and I thought that was gonna happen but my family has been really nice and they actually ask people on the street for directions. They were polite and the people they asked were polite back.
· After WW II they were afraid that France was becoming Americanized- all the buildings or food… if I lived here I would do away with McDonald’s! That’s how strongly I feel. I would be really sad if instead of cafes on every corner there were McDonald’s.
Lucas
Yeah, they are so good at sports I wouldn’t be good at like foosball- and they’re so good at dribbling.
Christian
Yesterday when we went to the American cemetery there was really, really heavy security to get into the museum and my family was really weirded-out by that and they asked why and the guards said oh, that’s what the Americans make us do.
Grant
· We went to Disneyland and about 5 minutes after we got on the highest roller coaster, at the really high part, the electricity went off and it was off for like an hour. And right after it went off it started raining- and these tour boats would go by and they would laugh at us. It’s not funny!
· It’s weird here- they’re almost like too nice, if you tell them you like or don’t like something that is all that you get- I told them once that I didn’t like McDonald's so they took me to a pizza place on the other side of town because they thought that I didn’t like it. They are so respectful.
Anna
So like it wasn’t weird but different. If you don’t know them personally you don’t say hello to them. We were at this center and I was saying bonjour to people walking by and our French people were like you don’t say that unless you know them personally; they found it really gutsy to do that.
Headed to First Period
In the afternoon we hit the streets on foot...downtown Amiens is within a very comfortable walking distance of La Providence, and it's a fun experience noticing differences in architecture, dodging traffic (!!!) and trying out the phrase, "May I pet your dog?" in French on random ladies out for a stroll with Rover. FYI, it didn't work- she wasn't sure exactly what to think of our enthusiastic French-learners. :)
On our way downtown...
...we saw a house with a beard,
...and a Jules Verne Kindergarten.
Host guys and girls arrived with parents to take students home directly from Town Hall
One last group picture before snacks and gift-bags provided by the Mayor's Office!
In the bus!Morning classes in La Providence and afternoon in Middle Ages cathedral!
It was a full day. With each additional day that the students spend around their French hosts and hostesses they can be seen with more and more new friends, and interacting with more and more meaning in their second language. It's SO great to see. I think they feel just as at home in La Pro as they do walking into Holland Hall at this time!
Group in front of the Cathedral...
An example of typical older construction styles
The Cathedral from a distance
Interior Shots
Ancient channel and moat
Awwww!!! 
