Spooky Spanish!
11/6/2017
Pacific Northern Academy 7th and 8th graders have Spanish class four times weekly - the most of any students in the school. This more frequent contact allows for students to get regular repetitions of comprehensible input that put them on the path to fluency.
Language fluency comes in four areas:
A student of a language must have heavy doses of the first two, or the receptive, before they can move into the second two, or the productive. At this point in the year, PNA Spanish students in the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades have heard multiple classroom stories, read varying versions of those and other stories, and done a fair bit of speaking, both extemporaneous and scripted. This leads students to their first big productive project on paper - the "Cuento de Terror" - Spooky Stories! Halloween time is a natural motivator for students to engage with classroom material that is creepy and scary. After creating a classroom story that was scary, as well as Spanish discussions on what things we were afraid of or not, students got an opportunity to exercise their creative powers of terror in a written story. This story was to utilize a limited set of classroom vocabulary to maximize repetitions on high-frequency terms used in class. The story would then be presented orally with a visual element - students would use pictures as well as physical movement while they told their stories to the class in order to promote understanding. As usual, the students did not fail to impress. Please follow the link below to view the presentation of one story which was above-and-beyond the expectations. Above-and-beyond is almost the commonplace at Pacific Northern Academy. http://bit.ly/2zH05mr Comments are closed.
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