Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Final Reflection

Reflection 5/25/11


During my time during Spanish 2 I have learned so many things. Mrs. Langley is a great teacher and gives us a lot of work to keep us improving our spanish vocabulary and spanish grammar. We do many different activities in and out of class that can improve the way we speak, type, and write spanish. Learning spanish can possible help me in my future for reason I do not know yet. I think it is important for me to learn spanish because I could end up needing the knowledge of speaking or writing spanish in the work force later on in my life. Some of the things we have learned this semester is how to conjugate a lot of different verbs and how to speak them. We have learned the rules of many irregular things in spanish also. We use garage band to learn how to speak spanish and it allows us to listen to ourselves to catch mistakes and help improve our speaking. We post many activities that we complete on our blog so that other students may look at our work and admire what we have completed during the time we have spent in this class. I enjoy being able to go back and look at my work because I can go back and see my improvement. I do not know how I plan on using spanish in my future but I know that it is important to learn what I can because it may come into use anytime during my time in the workforce. If I do not learn spanish now I will not have the as good of an opportunity as I do now to learn spanish as I do now. I have enjoyed learning spanish this semester and I plan on continuing my learning until I can speak, type, and write spanish fluently.
file:///Users/433649/Desktop/La%20Bandera%20Mexicana.m4a

Spanish Reading 3

Start Time: 10:00

El símbolo en el centro de la bandera mexicana ilustra una leyenda sobre los orígenes de Tenochitlán, la capital de la civilización azteca. Dice la leyenda que los aztecas debían construit una gan ciudad donde veiran un águila qu comía una serpiente encima de un nopal. Caund los aztecas llegaron al lago Texcoc, vieron ese símbolo y decidieron construir Tenchtitlán sobre el lago.
Escribe una Composición sobre este símbolo. ¿Qué piensas de las imágenes? Copara el águila de la bander mexicana a águila de Estados Unidos. ¿QuEe tipos de águilas son? ¿Qué caliades o ideas representan? ¿Cómo son similares o diferentes?

End Time: 10:06

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Reflection

During this semester of Spanish 2 I have learned many things. I have worked on many packets of work but in my opinion it does not help me a lot. The things that help me learn the most in Spanish class is working together on the board. When Mrs. Langley holds group activities and we complete worksheets on the board I learn best. This helps the most because I get to work with my classmates at my table and the ones working at the board. When we are working on the board Mrs Langley gets to work one on one with us but at the same time is helping the whole class by changing errors that we make while writing on the board. We also use garageband and keynote to enhance our Spanish learning ability. Garageband helps use speak spanish and be able to play it back to catch out own mistakes. This also allows Mrs. Langley to listen to us and help us correct speaking mistakes. Keynote helps us use our creativity with spanish. We can put pictures and words in spanish on out keynote to help us stay involved in spanish.

Friday, May 6, 2011

cinco de mayo

Cinco de mayo is a holiday held on May fifth and is celebrated by the Spanish. This holiday came about in 1852 when the spanish won an unlikely victory over the French. General Zaragoza lead the Spanish to this big victory. Zaragoza and his troops fought in primarily in the state of Puebla.
The reason this battle was such a surprise is because the French double the number of soldiers with 8,000 when the Spanish only had 4,000. The French had not lost a war in over 50 years so the defeat was even greater. The United States celebrates cinco de mayo because of Mexican heritage and pride. Also to commemorate the freedom of America.