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Feet up and feeling “fine” on a Tuesday
Good Lord, people. It is week 6 of school, Homecoming week, and it was 85 degrees today on October 1. In Michigan. With no air conditioning. Did I mention it was Homecoming week? Yesterday was pajama...
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Bring your classes to life with MUSIC!
I LOVE using music in my classroom every day! It is motivating, cultural, popular, fun, and if you ask my students years later what they loved most about my class they will most likely tell you it was...
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The Spanish Civil War
Some posts I’ve written about teaching the Spanish Civil War in Spanish 4: Art Gallery Final Assessment for the unit Instagram project Timeline Activity
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Songs as a culture hook!
Everyone who knows me knows that I love using music in my classes. The teachers next door and upstairs from me DEFINITELY know it. If the bass is pumping it must be Placido’s class. Music is SO...
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Class jobs
A staple in elementary classrooms since forever, class jobs have in recent years been increasingly part of world language teachers’ classrooms too! It makes sense! We have pretty intense teaching...
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My scope and sequence
Carrie Toth recently published a great set of documents of her scope and sequence of units and activities for each of her classes, and it made me realize that I have not updated my own “What I teach”...
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Numbered Heads Together
We are reading Noches misteriosas en Granada in Spanish 2 right now, and we needed a little ease back into school after Thanksgiving and a little review before we moved forward with the reader. This...
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Creating interactive input by combining resources
If your students are like mine (normal American teens), they are probably a little antsy right now. We are halfway through the semester, a week away from Thanksgiving, they are still hyped up on...
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Simple, slow, fun
My mantra for Spanish 2 is all about simple, slow, and fun. And the underlying foundation of everything I do is showing them that I adore them, and that they are special, and that they CAN DO THIS....
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Cashnip Kitty
I got a tip from a follower on my facebook page about this story. Sir Whines a Lot, aka the CASHnip Kitty is collecting money for the homeless! I took the news story and made a powerpoint with the...
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Music Videos as Movie Talk
One of my favorite aspects of my classes is teaching with music, and nothing makes me happier than to hear students say they downloaded the songs I taught them in class! I spend about 6-8 class days on...
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Planning my “El Salvador Civil War” Unit for Spanish 4
One of my favorite units to teach is my unit on the Civil War in El Salvador leading up to my MS-13 unit. I teach this in Spanish 4 and it is generally really well-received by my students. I think it...
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Making Authentic Resources Comprehensible – CSCTFL 2017
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/La-Abuela-Verizon-Commercial-Authentic-Spanish-Resource-Activity-2888051...
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Learning about Christmas in Spain and Latin America
It’s such a fun time of year, and it is a really important time of year for millions of Spanish-speakers around the world. There are some really cool opportunities to use this holiday time to show some...
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Creating comprehensible input with commercials
Commercials are a really great way to infuse your language classes with a short burst of authentic language, but they are also really valuable as a vehicle for storytelling and discussion. Commercials...
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An idealist meets the real world
Something I have always struggled with is the way that my own pie-in-the-sky huge teaching ideas don’t always play out in real life the way they worked in my head. I start the year with these awesome...
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Back to School Raffle Winners!
Ladies and Gentlemen! We have our lucky 3 winners! The winner of any one item from my Teachers Pay Teachers store is Maino Graham! The winner of a $25 Amazon.com Gift Card is Jenna Keller Bryant! The...
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Lesson Planning doesn’t have to be a nightmare
In my district we have been required to turn lesson plans in to our administration for about 5 years or so. It seems to have gradually become a more and more cumbersome process, but through lots of...
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Back to School Raffle!
I’m doing a back-to-school giveaway! 1st prize is a $50 gift card to Teachers Pay Teachers! 2nd prize is a $25 Amazon.com gift card! 3rd prize is your choice of any resource in my TPT store FREE! How...
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