All Blog Posts Tagged 'Spanish' (6)

“Los hongos nacen en silencio” por Marosa Di Giorgio es una prosa poética realista que utiliza el simbolismo para agrandar el tema de lo corrupto que es el sistema en donde se localiza el narrador. No se puede saber exactamente a lo que se está refiriendo la autora con el texto sólo, pero la resolución descubre la posibilidad de explotación de trabajadores de clase baja.

La analogía o metáfora más importante en la prosa es entre los hongos y la gente de la raza de la narradora. Di…

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Language learning can be such an interesting process. Speaking from experience, learning a new language can be so overwhelming that it becomes blurry and may affect the way we perceive aspects of a culture.  It can throw all additional and non-language related details to the second shelf of your memory, so that the mind can comprehend and make sense of the new structure of communication.  I recently spoke to my mother about her childhood and I was very intrigued when she mentioned a few…

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¡Bienvenidos a todos! 

COURSE OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

Students will…

-  Further develop communicative competence within the cultural context of the various regions of the Spanish-speaking…

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I recently assigned a typical Spanish 1 project about the family. While I gave students several format options I also hoped to encourage a few students to reach beyond their technology comfort zone and try something different than PowerPoint. So I gave students a brief demo on how to create a Prezi. I was hoping that a couple of students would give it a try. When the day came for the students to present in class I was surprised by the number of students who decided to use Prezi. Between three… Continue

I recently spent an afternoon goofing around on youtube.com searching for Spanish and Latin American music to use with students. As much as I adore mariachis, Celia Cruz, Plaza Sésamo, and Marc Anthony, I…

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Cross posted from the Global Education Collaborative ning:



I'm meeting with a group of middle school world language teachers on Monday to discuss technology integration ideas. Languages taught in this school district include: Chinese (Mandarin), Japanese, German, Italian, French and Spanish.



This school district is also developing courses involving world cultures and global perspectives and are particularly interested in… Continue