Progress Report Change

**All 6th, 7th, and 8th grade students will be receiving progress reports on February 3rd rather than January 28th. Students will be able to hand in any late work or re-take any quizzes or tests up to January 31st. Please check with your children and encourage them to check in with me for any missing work.**

8th grade Spanish students continued with their unit on La Quinceañera. They have now read articles, watch short clips of a Quinceañera and the traditions that are typically practiced. This week and into next week they will be completeing a "WebQuest." This is somewhat like an online Scanvenger Hunt and they will investigate the Quinceañera of a girl named Carmela. They will need to relay her account her party and of the activities in Spanish. Carmela's website is also entirely in Spanish, so they will need to use their prior knowledge of the Quinceñera to decipher what happened at Carmela's event.

7th grade Spanish students have an additional opportunity to make-up their Objetos de la Clase tests if they were unhappy with their grades as the grading period has been extended school-wide. Students are currently learning about the Mexican-American war and how Mexican territory became part of the United States. We are looking at California specifically so students can better understanding the Spanish-speaking demographic on our country,

6th grade Spanish students have continued with "Partes del cuerpo." They will start describing things in Spanish using body parts (blonde hair, long legs, big eyes, etc, etc). The unit will be synthesized in a brief project/assignment where the must create a "monster" and describe the monster in Spanish.