World Languages
Week of November 10th
Spanish Language and Culture (Mr. Fontalvo, Ms. Gonzalez)
Spanish I (Mr. Donaldson, Ms. Cuffee)
We will continue reinforcing numbers, colors, and clothing vocabulary. For classwork, students will complete a classwork activity on large numbers (2PA2.Num). On Thu., Nov. 13, students will engage with 2FormB1, a formative reading assessment focused on clothing and numbers. Although all modalities will be practiced in this unit, the formative and summative assessments will be reading and speaking assessments.
This week, students will also start to review vocabulary for weather, seasons, months, and days of the week. Homework assignments on SpanishDict.com for these topics are due on Fri., Nov. 14.
Spanish II (Ms. Wooten, Ms. Henderson, Mr. Almanza)
This week, we continued our vocabulary study and read chapters 5-8 of Esperanza. Next week, we will finish up the book, adding additional vocabulary and learning about political asylum. The week of November 17th , we will have a final review of all vocab and events of the book Esperanza before taking our final test of the unit. Looking ahead, in our second unit, we will focus on the 2 past tenses in Spanish and how we use them together to tell stories about the past. Students will interpret a variety of different stories and build up to describing them on their own in the past, and eventually creating their own story, told in the past tense!
Please encourage your student to be reviewing ALL of their dictionary pages from this unit in preparation for the upcoming test.
Spanish Humanities, grade 6 (Ms. Balestra)
This term we are focusing on Organizing and Producing Text. This first week of Term 2 we reviewed some grammar points and focused on the verbs VENIR, TRAER, SABER, and CONOCER. We also did some listening comprehension activities with authentic audio from Spain.
Next week we will discuss immigration in the US, especially amongst Hispanic populations.
On Monday, November 17th, we will begin our novel, Esperanza Renace. I do not currently have enough copies for every student. If you are able to provide your student with their own copy, please use this link to purchase the correct edition. If you are able to contribute a second copy for another student, please have it sent to me: Patricia Balestra, c/o ADCA, 3815 Fort Dr., NW, Washington, DC 20016
Thank you!
Este cuatrimestre nos estamos enfocando en Organizar y Producir Texto. Esta primera semana del Segundo cuatrimestre revisamos algunos puntos de gramática y nos centramos en los verbos VENIR, TRAER, SABER y CONOCER. También realizamos algunas actividades de comprensión auditiva con audio auténtico de España.
La próxima semana discutiremos la inmigración en los EE. UU., especialmente entre las poblaciones hispanas.
El lunes 17 de noviembre comenzaremos nuestra novela, Esperanza Renace. Actualmente no tengo suficientes copias para cada estudiante. Si puede comprarle a su estudiante su propia copia, por favor use este enlace para comprar la edición correcta. Si puede contribuir con una segunda copia para otro estudiante, por favor envíela a mí: Patricia Balestra, c/o ADCA, 3815 Fort Dr., NW, Washington, DC 20016¡Gracias!
French Language & Culture (Ms. Bullock, Mr. Almanza)
This week students will be learning about the seasons in French. We will also be learning about the weather--both here in DC and around the world. See if your students cn tell you about the weather in French. :) Students should spend at least 5 minutes reviewing every night to ensure a strong start to unit 2! Students have resources from class and/or on Canvas.
In Madame Bullock's class, students came up with a list of incentives they would like to work towards. If you have the means and will to donate (or you're just interested in what middle schoolers like), you can find their list here. :)
French I (Ms. Balestra, Mr. Osei)
This term we are focusing on Reading Comprehension and Speaking. This first week of our unit we focused on vocabulary words (food) and the verbs, MANGER, BOIRE, PRENDRE.
Next week we will work on partitive articles and then practice different scenarios to use the spoken language.
Please remind your student that they can access online practice materials through our Canvas page. From the home page, just click on "Unit 2 Activities page."
French II (Dr. Mbayu & Mr. Osei)
🌸 Les repas et la culture alimentaire
Students compare French and American eating habits, discussing mealtimes and traditional dishes.
They review partitive articles (du, de la, des) and expressions of quantity.
🧠 Metacognitive focus: What patterns help me use articles correctly when speaking about food?
Chinese (Ms. Liang)
Grade 6
Last week our students continued lesson 3 School supplies and learned new characters through etymology. We have a summative speaking and written assessment of lesson 3. We finished learning Lesson 3 School Supplies last week and started learning about family members. I will have a formative assessment next Monday on family members. We are excited to see their progress as they build their foundational reading and writing skills in Chinese.
Grade 7
Last week our students continued learning Lesson 3 My house locality words about describing the house and how to say different rooms. We had a formative assessment last Friday. Next week we will continue to learn Lesson 3 and have a formative assessment on rooms and furniture on Friday. We are excited to see their progress as they build their reading and writing skills in Chinese.
Grade 8
Last week our students presented the speaking summative assessment on Dream China Trip project and had a written summative assessment on Friday. We practiced typing in class. Next week we will start learning Lesson 3 Extracurricular Activities. We are excited to see their progress as they build their presentational speaking and writing skills in Chinese.