Cuento de terror: Halloween short story project

The rough draft to your Halloween story is due by 6pm on Halloween (Saturday). You must publish it by then. If you are not sure if your story posted go to this blogpage (spanish34classpage) and click on your initials under your class. Whatever comes up on your page from my page is what I will be seeing/grading.

The short story rough draft is worth 50 points. To receive the full 50 points you should fulfill the following requirements:

-There should be no English words in the story. Look every word you don't know up.

-It should be written in the present tense.

-Any verb that you have studied in this class needs to be conjugated correctly. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ALL OF YOUR NOTES IN FRONT OF YOU AS YOU WRITE.

-You should have a setting in your story: a description of the physical appearance and personality of your characters, a description of the place and the time that the story takes place.

--You should have a beginning, middle and end to your story. An incomplete/unfinished story will result in a big loss of points.

--Usually a story has a problem that is resolved at the end of the story. You can take a story you already know and change it to a Halloween version if you don't feel very creative...

--Make sure to mention how your characters are feeling and what they are thinking as things are happening in the story.

--The short story should be a minimum of 2 paragraphs (4-6 sentences in each paragraph) to a maximum of 4 paragraphs. It is possible to get the full 50 points by just writing two paragraphs as long as you fulfill all of the requirements listed here.

-REMEMBER to write your story on microsoft word and add your accents there. Cut and paste into text box of blogpage from there. This way you don't lose your work if there is a problem publishing your story. If you don't know how to put accents on your work go to "Help" and type "international characters".

--YOU SHOULD HAVE THREE IMAGES THAT ACCOMPANY YOUR PUBLISHED STORY.

Buena suerte!!! Good luck!! Y hay que divertirnos!---and let's have fun with this!! Feliz Dia de las Brujas!!!!

HW schedule 11/3-11/20

11/3 or 4/09
Hacer in expressions of time G21 ex b and ex c
11/5/09
Hacer CDA 43
11/9/09
Direct object pronouns G23
Ex b and ex c
11/10/09
Directo object pronouns G24 ex ch
11/12/09
**Quiz on La laguna del Diablo and Bailó con un bulto
11/13/09
Direct object pronouns CDA 55-56
11/16/09
Possessive adjectives
G25 ex a
G26 ex b
CDA 56
**Final draft of Halloween story due
11/17/09
Possessive adjectives G26 ex c and ch
11/18 or 19/09
**Quiz on La familia real y La nuera
11/20/09
**Examen: Hacer, direct object pronouns, and possessive adjectives, adjectives on pG26

Work to do at computer lab on Monday 11/2

Read two Halloween short stories and make 2 comments about each story. They can be corrections if you see a mistake on their story or they can be questions/suggestions about what to include about a character or something that happened in the story.

Read the story: La laguna del diablo and fill in the blanks with the vocabulary missing. Post your answers on your own blog page. To do this: copy and paste the story from this page onto your text box for a posting on your own page and just fill in the blanks with the words that should go there.

La Laguna del Diablo

En el pueblo de Alicia, en Tejas, hay un ________ que se llama el Puente del a Amargosa. Muchas personas creen que es ___________ pasar por ahí. El puente esta ________ de la Laguna del Diablo, en el valle del Rio Grande. Dicen que hace mucho, en el año 1895, una __________ tiene un terrible accidente. La diligencia, el cochero, _________ y los pasajeros, todos desaparecen totalmente, sin dejar una sola ________.

Una noche, muchos años después, unos muchachos juegan fútbol. Uno de los muchachos empieza a __________ de los fantasmas y también del puente de la Amargosa. “No es burla; allí sí pasan cosas muy __________”. dice David, uno de los muchachos. El va al puente una noche y ve cosas terribles. Los otros muchachos se burlan de él. “Ves __________ películas de _________” le dicen a David. ¿Ah sí? responde David. “Si están tan ________ de que no hay nada, por qué no van esta _______? “Pero yo no voy” continua David. “Ir a la Laguna del Diablo una vez en mi vida es _________”. Así que los dos muchachos deciden esa noche ir a la Laguna del Diablo a ver si es _________ lo que dice David.

___________, después de llegar los muchachos ven _______ en el agua. Ven una _______ extraña en el agua de la laguna. Los muchachos no quieren ________, pero tienen mucho _________. Tienen tanto miedo que no __________ correr al carro, están paralizados. Hay __________ extrañas y horrorosas que salen del agua, y luego _________. Una figura se _________ a una diligencia flotando sobre el agua. Los muchachos pueden escuchar los __________ de los pasajeros de la diligencia. En unos pocos ________ la diligencia desaparece, sólo hay unas _________ figuras extrañas en el agua. Luego todo desaparece. No hay nada—sólo la __________ en el __________…y la laguna, totalmente __________. Los muchachos corren como locos __________ llegar al carro. No pueden hablar. Los dos no pueden __________ lo que han visto. ¿En realidad ven la diligencia y _______ los gritos? Realidad o no estos muchachos __________ vuelven por la noche ni al Puente de la Amargosa ni a la Laguna del Diablo.

HW 10/7-10/28

La fecha
La tarea
10 pts
5 pts
0pts
10/6/09
Ser wkshts (2)
Ser vs Estar wksht (2A-6)



10/7/09
Vocab. Wkshts 1A-1 &1A-A



10/8/09
Ser o estar wksht
Vocab Wksht 1A-4



10/12 or 10/13
Tener que
AP 10 ex C
G19 ex C
Idiomatic expressions with tener wksht 1



10/14/09
School Skit due



10/15/09
Quiz 1: Greetings, school vocab and tener



10/20/09
Irregulars with “yo”
AP 7 ex D
G15 Ex and b and c



10/21 or 22
Irregulars with “yo”
AP27-28
Ser vs conocer wksht IB-6
Wksht 1ª



10/23
Stemchangers
AP 6 B and C
G 12 and 13 (ex b)



10/26/09
Stemchangers
G 14 ex C
AP 24-25



10/27/09
Stemchangers
AP 26 ex D 27 ex E



10/28/09
Halloween story rough draft

Skit Project

Three students will participate in this skit.
It is worth 30 points.
Students will be graded individually on the following criteria:

effort

grammar

correct use of new vocabulary


To do on skit:
One student introduces a student to another student
They all ask each other what their favorite class is
They all mention their favorite class, why it is their favorite class and the activities that they do in that class.
They all talk about the class that they have in common--Profe Carsillo's Spanish class. They talk about the rules of that class and the activities that they do in that class.