https://padlet.com/v_yaniree/u8mn90jgfrbd Links to TOK, CAS, EE en-us 2019-03-15 05:53:37 UTC 2019-03-15 06:56:31 UTC hello@padlet.com v_yaniree https://padlet.com/v_yaniree/u8mn90jgfrbd/wish/341628441
Students are asked to serve as Parent Conference Night translators. They are assigned a teacher who does not know how to speak Spanish. My students serve as translators and this promotes community building at school as well as it fosters social engagement via the development of social relationships. ]]> 2019-03-15 05:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/v_yaniree/u8mn90jgfrbd/wish/341628441 v_yaniree https://padlet.com/v_yaniree/u8mn90jgfrbd/wish/341630332 Themes:        Identity 
Topics:           Language & Identity

TOK Links:  
 If people speak more than one language, is what they know different in each language? 

What would be lost if the whole world shared one common language?

Integration to syllabus of TOK 

Activity 1:     Idioms
Students will analyze literal meanings and figurative meaning via the study of idioms. Then they will compare the differences in idioms from one language to another 

Activity 2:      Insults & Praises / Insultos y Piropos 

Students will analyze the various words used to praise people in their home language and in Spanish. Students will realize that contexts play a major role in morphology and that languages differ in level of connotation to some words. 

Activity 3:    False cognates 

Students identify on a text all the true cognates and make a list of the false cognates. Then, a discussion begins in class about our knowledge of why these false cognates are out of context. 

After completing these activities student should be able to answer at least one of the TOK questions above.

]]> 2019-03-15 06:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/v_yaniree/u8mn90jgfrbd/wish/341630332 v_yaniree https://padlet.com/v_yaniree/u8mn90jgfrbd/wish/341630718 Theme:           Identities
Topic:             Health and well being
                         Beliefs and values
Extended Essay:
Category 3 (“literature”) provides an opportunity for students to explore one or more works of literature in order to widen their understanding of the target language and culture from a literary angle. 

Question to consider: How effective is the second person narrator in Aura by Carlos fuentes?

Activity 1:    
Students write narrative of  a typical daily routine in the second person.
Students then present these narratives to the class in order to compare the effective nature of second persons narratives and the author's purpose. 

Activity 2: 
Students make a narrative in second person of a minor accident i.e. a soup spill, breaking a mug, accidentally ripping a book page, falling, paper cut etc. Students will present their narratives without revealing what the accident is and the class has to guess. 


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