Fantasy Notebook Project Shared in Class!

 

Señor Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 classes celebrated completing their Fantasy Scrapbooks and shared them with each other in class.  Students chose a fantasy life, produced a scrapbook of images and realia and wrote a 300+ word autobiography.  Students could be anyone and anything!

Bento in Japanese Classes!

Mr. Blackwelder's Japanese 5-6 classes are celebrating the end of the school year by designing and creating their own Japanese bento, or boxed lunch. Each lunch is the topic of an oral presentation which covers a "bento essentials" checklist including theme, number of food groups, wrapping, usage of color, shape, and positioning of food, asymmetry, inclusion of odd-numbered items (as odd numbers are lucky in Japan), etc.

Congrats to all 5-6 seniors on graduation!!

Finals Approach & French Wedding Project

Students of all levels are reviewing for their finals in Madame Leidhoff's classes.
  

Students of Advanced French are working in finishing their French Wedding project...

Spanish 5-6 & 7-8 Reviewing

Spanish 5-6 and 7-8 students in Dr. Jacobson's classes are reviewing grammar, engaging in literacy development activities through reading, writing and critical thinking activities in textbooks.  

Additionally, students engaged in listening, reading and vocabulary development through video clips and practice quizzes at: http://spanishear.com/

Students' fluency was assessed through the activity '¿Qué dice?' where students relate what they perceive a person to be saying in a picture projected for the class to see, adding to one another's responses through a continued activity of   '¡Pase!', as students pass their paper to a partner.

Careers, Cyrano & Cheese in French Classes!

Madame Leidhoff's students of second year French are learning professions and wrote an essay on their futures.

Students of third year French completed their productions of Cyrano de Bergerac and are contributing to a cheese tasting next week with cultural presentation on the origins and legends of Rocquefort and the success of La vache qui rit.

Planning reviews and skits about restaurants

Students in Ms. Ranzolin's Spanish 5-6 class are working on planning a lesson that they will teach the class in order to review for the final. In the 3-4 classes, students are working on putting together a funny skit about ordering food in a restaurant, which they will be presenting to the class next week.

Mi Marciano Project & Writing Books in Spanish

Señora Trott's Spanish 1-2 classes have just finished individual class presentations called Mi Marciano.  My Martian.  This project reviewed almost the entire year of grammar and vocabulary.  Projects were creative and often very funny.
Spanish 3-4 students finished writing books called Cuando Era Niño/a.These books told the story of their lives using the preterite and imperfect tenses.  Students used photos to show important events
in their lives.  They read their story to the class.  Classmates learned many new things about each other.

Language in context- it's how we learn best.

Señora Lemaitre's Spanish 1/2 class had a "Rastro"  or "Mercado" in the style of the flea markets of Spain.  Students made commercials on video advertising what they were going to sell.  Using Monopoly money, the mercado was open for business on Wednesday and students negotiated prices, made purchases and sold hand made artisan goods while employing all acquired vocabulary thus far.  Afterwards, students exclaimed how much fun that was, and shared the new vocabulary they learned. 

Fantasy Scrapbook Projects Almost Complete

Student's in Señor Lawhead's Spanish 5-6 classes are putting the finishing touches on their Fantasy Scrapbooks.  Students have chosen to be whomever (or whatever) they wish to be and have written an autobiography and put together a scrapbook of pictures, realia and memorabilia of their fantasy lives. The autobiography will show students' mastery of the two major concepts for the year:  Imperfect vs. Preterite and the Subjunctive and the scrapbook part is "muy divertido"!

Ecuador: The Middle of the World

Spanish 1-2 students with Profe Bañuelos completed a modified version of chapter 5.1 that covered ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.) and culturally highlighted the South American country of Ecuador.  Profe shared his photos from his trip there in 2009.  Pictured is Profe with one half of his body in the northern hemisphere and the other half in the southern hemisphere.

French Commercials, AP Test & Cyrano de Bergerac

Madame Leidhoff's students of first year French viewed French commercials, learned the comparative structure, imperatives and wrote and performed their own clever commercials.

Students of AP French discussed with French 7-8 Honors strategies that will help them during testing this week.  All students felt very confident about doing well!!!

Students of third year are ready for their production of Cyrano de Bergerac.

Analyzing Text & Critical Thinking Activities

Dr. Jacobson's Spanish 5-6 and 7-8 students are currently working on analyzing text through critical thinking activities. Students, parents and teachers can access an overview of the principles of higher cognitive analysis as well as examples of text analysis questions and responses through models available on Dr. Jacobson's SRHS web page.  The information is also available on the Spanish 7-8 'anuncios y tarea' page.

 

Dr. Jacobson attended a World Language Workshop presented by College Board on May 18, 2013. She reports that the invaluable benefits of the course included in depth pedagogical principles, online resources and instructional strategies designed to enhance and assess students' interpretive, presentational and interactive language skills through reading, writing, listening and speaking proficiencies. 

 

Félicitations! Grand-mere!

Although it's not classroom-related, the World Languages Department is excited for Madame Leidhoff and the birth of her new grandson, Mayson!  Madame Leidhoff will be back in the classroom this week once her daughter is home.  Happy for you!

ASL 2 begin final presentations

Mrs. Redelings's ASL 2 began their final presentations: This final project focuses on individuals who have significantly influenced the Deaf community. Students started out by researching and creating a fact sheet. Next, students will be scripting their signed presentation using gloss. Finally, students will create a visual timeline using PowerPoint to illustrate their signed presentation.

Una Historia Breve de España

Students is Spanish 1-2 with Profe Bañuelos learned a brief history of Spain that covered from when the Romans brought the language of Latin there, the arrival of the Moors, the Spanish Empire, the Spanish Civil War, and up to current day issues of the country.  Profe finds it important that his students have knowledge of the country of the language that they are learning about.

AP expectations, reading to pre-schoolers and writing skits

 

Dr. Jacobson's AP students took the AP Spanish language and culture test this week!  Students clearly put forth their best efforts.  We have the highest expectations for outstanding results! 

Spanish 7-8 and 5-6 students read classical stories in Spanish to preschool students in the Childhood Development Center, located on campus.  We thank Mrs. Hillman and Mrs. Ledbedder for their hospitality and collaboration with all classes. Working as peer tutors provides Spanish language learners a wonderful opportunity to practice reading and speaking skills within a context of leadership roles.

Students have begun writing skits based on vocabulary related to careers and common scenarios in daily life presented in Dr. Jacobson's book Spanish Across America

Class activities and discussions continue to focus on expanding vocabulary, refining grammatical proficiency and improving critical thinking and writing skills in preparation for district final exams.  

Kodomo no Hi in Japanese Classes

Mr. Blackwelder's students learned about May 5th, Kodomo no Hi (Children's Day), on Monday and Tuesday of this week. The significance of carp streamers, the legend of Kintaro the Nature Boy, and a special food (Kashiwa Mochi - mochi wrapped in oak leaves symbolizing strength) were shared and discussed. The hope for strength in growing children and young adults, a central theme of Kodomo no Hi, couldn't have come at a better time. We are now in AP season!

Entreviesta de Empleo 2013 complete!

¡Felicitaciones!

 

Spanish 5-6 students of Señor Lawhead, Señora Ranzolin and Dra. Jacobson participated in the annual mock-job interview project this week.  Over 300 students were interviewed in Spanish by thirteen wonderful members of the community.  The students researched their careers, dressed for success, honed their interviewing skills and represented Scripps Ranch High School in an exemplary manner.

Japanese Students Earn Top State Honors!

Omedetou gozaimasu!

 

Eight students in Mr. Blackwelder's Japanese 3-4/5-6 combo class took the National Japanese Exam just before Spring Break to test their abilities in a second language. The results are in! Alice Kim, Yvette Tan, Anita Ho, Brandon Lim, and Alysha Ali ranked 1st (!!), 3rd, 5th, 7th, and 9th in the state of California among 2nd year Japanese students! Additionally, Leila Adel, Sanhloc Le, and Hy Cao placed 19th, 14th, and 4th (!!) respectively among all 3rd year Japanese students in the state! Your sensei is so proud!

 

Vacances, Autobiographies et AP!

Madame Leidhoff's students of first-year French are beginning to write an autobiography using the past compositions they have written.

Students of second-year French are learning language relating to camping, outdoors, animals - and the passe compose and imperfect.  They are currently writing episodes of SURVIVOR.

Students of AP French are gearing up for their AP exams and are reviewing vocabulary related to employment..