David and I read about different types of technology used in schools. Some were older technologies like buses, books and the like and others were newer like mobile phones, the internet and others.
David had a great question about why so many of the newer pieces of technology appear to have English names.
We discussed the vocabulary from our readings. David and I also looked at a regular -AR conjugation at the end of class.
The first reading was a conversation between two students at their lockers. They discussed what they were doing and where they were intending to go after school.
The second reading spoke about an exchange student from Peru studying in New York. It presented differences in the school system.
The third reading compared the culture around professional work and highschoolers in different countries.
David took a quiz today. I gave him the typical amount of time to refresh his understanding and an additional 4 minutes of time in which I personally quizzed him.
He then took the quiz. He scored approximately a 50% on this quiz.
For quiz format reasons, this quiz was a practice quiz for both him and my other students in this same Spanish class.
After the quiz, we had a discussion about the correct answers for the quiz.
We also discussed how we will need to cover a little more material in each session of our class and how David would benefit from doing a little more work outside of our session time.
David acknowledged that he understands the need for this and will do his part. He was already discussing plans to study Wednesday night for our quiz scheduled for Thursday.
She was immediately "regiven" the quiz from yesterday. She did much better today receiving a 100%. Great job, Kaitlyn.
She then was given 2 minutes to review the second set of vocabulary from this chapter. After reviewing, she was introduced to the interactive textbook online in the form of her and I working together to complete two sets of exercises from the interactive text. As expected, she stumbled a little with using the new vocabulary to complete sentences during the first excercise. She showed reasonable improvement by the second exercise. By the end of class, she could pass a quick oral quiz on the vocabulary.
Kaitlin copied down a list of -ar vocabulary verbs to learn. They are incredibly useful words.
She received a 6 out of 9 on this quiz which seemed to reflect her knowledge fairly accurately. She seems to know the majority of the information but needs to learn the remainder. I would recommend that she study this information further prior to the test.
Prior to the quiz she was permitted to refresh her memory for 4 minutes.
After the quiz we discussed each question and why she got each answer correct or incorrect.
Kaitlin and I focused on her acquisition of the vocabulary that we covered in our readings yesterday.
To this end, she was given two sessions of about 2 minutes at various parts of the session to study the vocabulary list and ask me for any translations she lacked.
We looked briefly at the reading from yesterday. I quizzed her (not for a grade) on the vocabulary. She got all but 3 answers correct.
She answered some questions drawn from her text to use the vocabulary in appropriate conversational situations.
We interspersed some grammar into today's exercises. We conjugated 4 verbs taking turns with the conjugations.
We read two additional pages in her text full of new vocabulary.
