shortened schedule for Friday

Reminder:  SLA will be on shortened schedules for Thursday and Friday this week.  All classes will meet on the usual days, just shorter classes.  If you happen to have an X AND Y on the same day, please discuss with the teachers about which class you will be attending.  (this should only impact a handful of you)  Also, don't forget to schedule your parent conference!

Friday May 4th

  • B– 815-905
  • C – 910-1000
  • X/Y – 1005-1055
  • D - 1100 - 1150
  • E – 1155 - 1245

Proyecto de Coversacion 2


  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

    I spoke with man from Mexico named Vidal. He actually messaged me first and I decided to continue the conversation.
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    I learned that he like sci-fi, mystery, romance, and just about every other kind of movies except for cartoons.We also talked about areas where I thought I needed work in Spanish. He gave me examples of times when certain tenses are used in everyday conversation. I also learned that he nearly perfected his English accent by listening to music.

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

    My goal was to find examples of when the subjunctive and imperfect tenses are used in everyday conversation. This conversation was some what helpful in meeting that goal. Vidal had some difficulty thinking of specific examples, but was able to give me a few that helped me get the general idea.
  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

    I did well with being able to reply in Spanish and not pausing to ask what he meant or use the dictionary for every word I did not know. I was able to use context clues to get the general idea of what he was saying and respond. 
  • What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

    I still need to work on not using WordRefrence as much. I also need to solidify my understanding of ser v. estar. There was a  point in the conversation where I was confusing the two verbs.

    "Soy en colegio..."

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Carter conversation 2

In this conversation  I talked to my mom about when we went to a feeding program. I did not learn anything about my mom but she did tell me that she liked that I learned how to make tortillas when we were there. This helped me reach my goal because I was able to talk about the chicken story, el cuento del pollo.   
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Spanish Conversation

Why are things the way they are? 



Conversation


Me: What does Music look like in Puerto Rico? 


Mom: Es como aquí pero casi no hay canciones en ingles 


Me: Why is the beat different from other spanish speaking places to puerto rican music? 


Mom: Porque cada lugar tinei el clase de música y toda son diferente 


Me: Why don't people in puerto rico like music from other countries? is because of the grammar or pronunciation? 


Mom: Porque como las canciones y el clase de música es different porque haci es como las personas en Puerto Rico se crio. 


Me: Why are things pronounced different? 


Mom: Porque aveces las palabras se use diferente en mucho lugares y tiene diferente significado


Me: Why are their the same words but different meaning. 


Mom: Porque las personas se crio different y hoeyendo la mia y pai hablando haci y ell ss acostrunbro



How do you anticipate your partner will respond to your questions? 


I think that she (they) will tell me it's just the way it is and how they were raised


What are you looking forward to about this conversation?

To understand why are the same words have different meaning depending where you go in the spanish world.


What are you nervous about? 


Saying things wrong in spanish or not knowing how to say some words or the meaning of some words.


Reflection questions


  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

My mother and my grandmother because spanish is their main language and they have a lot of experience with spanish


  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them? I learned that my grandmother knows no english what so ever and my mother knows just a little. I learned what i was asking them and why are things the way they are and said ect.


  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal? It helped me stop being lazy and finally asking them the questions that i wanted to ask them so it helped me finally understand.


  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? I finally understand why things are said the way they are and i understand why music is different and why people have their way of saying a word and others have their own way of saying it was just the way they were raised. 


  • What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)r Saying words in spanish right and working on my accent.




Conversación 2: Televisión en Lima,Peru

​What is television like in Lima, Peru?

  • What did you learn about your partner?  

    I learned that my partner, Felipe, is from Lima, Peru. I also learned that Felipe likes to watch American Series. He doesn't like reality shows, including the Kardashians. He likes comedies and also serious shows. He likes 2 and a Half men, just like I do. He watches American Idol and is routing for Jessica Sanchez to win. 
  • What did you learn from them?

    I learned that American shows do get watched in Lima, Peru. I thought that they would have their own television series to watch but American series are aired there. 
  • What did you learn about yourself?

    I learned that what I like to watch on television will not always be the same as others. Others might not enjoy these shows like I do.
  • What were you surprised about?

    I was surprised at the fact that American series do get watched in other countries such as Peru.
  • What are you proud of?

    I am proud that I got to achieve my goal of researching what type of television is watched in other countries. 
  • What follow-up questions do you have?

    Do other countries watch the same movies as Americans?

  • What will you improve on for next time?  How?  s


    Next time, I will try to move into that conversation a little more easier. It seemed weird to jump to a subject like that. I might chose a subject to talk about that is more broad because the conversation seemed a bit awkward.
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Negative and Positive Space


A. Negative space is the space around and between the subjects of an image. 


B. I found the negative space by just seeing the outer layer of the picture. The negative space is the the picture that seems to be the picture but it's really just the outline of the actually object.


C. I think it helps an artist because if an help you see your drawing in a different point of view or it can help you see a picture in an abstract type of view as well.


D. Yes because again as I said, It can help you see your picture in a different point of view.

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Negative Space


Hello today I'm going to tell you about negative space. What is negative space? Negative space is a cut out part in the picture. Look at the bird picture, do you see how the black is in the back. The blue was the one I cut out. I used half of the blue paper to cut out the bird and place it to look black and blue (a pattern). That how I know its negative space. 
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1) Negative Space is the sketch and or drawing that shouldn't be drawn by someone. This can be known as the background of an image.


2) To find where the negative space is all I did was realized what the outer surface of the object is in which basically to me is know as the outer layer. This what I did for the first project. For the second project it's very difficult to explain therefore it's better for people to visualize it instead. 


3) Seeing this type of art made me see that art can really be exact and perhaps precise. This made me change my opinion about art because this shows that art is something that needs to be drawn almost close to being perfect. 


4) Yes, this does help the artist because it helps me see the difference between an image and just random space that actually makes up the particles of any image. 

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Negative and Positive Space by Sadie

A. Negative space is the space that would generally be left white in a picture. It is the background of the drawing and the spaces that are left empty. 

B. Negative space in our drawing with color is our reflection of negative space in each drawing. You are taking the negative space and making them into a reflection. Making the negative space the positive space and vice versa.

C. It helps an artist to see negative space because it can help you even out lines and see what should really be in each spot. It provides for more accurate drawings and a better view on being an artist.

D.  seeing in negative space enhances the perspective of the drawing and knowing what is going on in the drawings. It helps you get a better understanding of how to draw.

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Negative and Positive space

A. What is negative space (explain this concept to a fourth grader that has never heard of it)
Negative space is the space between and around the object. When you draw a picture the blank space around the picture is considered the negative space.

B. Explain how you found negative space in 1. your cut out?, 2. in your stool drawing?
When I was finding the negative space in my cut out I just looked around the edge of the tree. When i was doing the drawling of my stool i just looked in the spaces where the stool wasn't drawn. 

C. Why does it help an artist to see in negative space?
It helps an artist to see negative space cause the can see where the lines stop in the drawling and you can see the detail in the picture.

D. Does seeing in negative space enhance drawings, why or why not?

Yes seeing negative space enhances the drawings cause you eyes will be more focused on the picture.
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Negative Space, Aateeyah Sharrieff

​1) Negative space is thew space around the object thats being drawled.

2) I found the negative space in my stool by looking at the empty spaces around it. In my cut out, I found negative space by cutting out the outsides of the drawling.

3) It helps a artist see negative space because it helps them see all of the details in the object they are drawling.

4) In my opinion, it sometimes help for certain people to draw the negative space, and for others, it sometimes doesn't. People have different ways of drawling. Not everyone does it the same. So it depends on the person.
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Kenyatta's Negative Space Drawing


A. Negative space is the space between an object, and not the actual object. When dealing with negative space, you always draw the actual space around the object but not the object itself.


B. The way I found negative space in my stool drawing, was I just looked around the stool, and drew all of the empty space surrounding it. The way I saw negative space in my cut out was, I looked at how the cut out had the 2 different colors, and saw how the cut out showed the space that was actually between the cut out.


C. The reason it helps an artist to see in negative space, is it allows them to see every single detail not only in the thing they want to draw, but also around it, causing you to be able to see every single detail.


D.I believe seeing in negative space does enhance a drawing. With seeing in negative space, you see things in a different perspective and are able to see every single detail of a drawing.

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Blog Post #2

  • Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner

    - I spoke with Enrique Matos and I picked him because he is from Peru and is trying to learn Spanish, as well as that he is 19 so close to our ages.

  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    - I learned that he loved to eat and enjoys anything that is good, but he can not cook himself. He also knows how to keep a conversation going.

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

    - I think I primarily enjoyed talking to him because he knows how to talk about something that I enjoy myself. He is able to keep this conversation going and can say more than just the little things

  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

    - I think I did well responding to him and asking him questions in order to keep this conversation going. We were able to have a civilized conversation and I know for a fact that this was the best person I talked to so far. 

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Conversacion #3

Pre-Conversacion

What will your topic of conversation be?  

In this blog post I will talk about is traveling to places.

What are 5 questions related to your conversation goal that you can think of ahead of time to ask your partner?

Have you ever traveled outside your country?

Do you want to visit other countries?

Have your family traveled to other countries?

Is traveling hard for you? 

How is the country?

How do you anticipate your partner will respond to your questions?
I believe that they are going to respond in English mostly because since that Is the language they are practicing, they will want to feel comfortable answering in english, while I ask in spanish.

What are you looking forward to about this conversation?
I am looking forward to learning about the person, and where they want to travel. Also if they like to travel

What are you nervous about?

I am nervous about getting something wrong or saying something that they will not understand. Hopefully they can help me if I am wrong. For the most part I am not as nervous because I am more comfortable now since I have done this 2 other times before.

Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

I spoke with Vidal from Venezuela. I Choose him because he was learning English but was a spanish native. He also started talking to me first so I thought why not create and continue the conversation. He also likes sports like me.Also his conversation was getting a little more interesting than the others because, he ask questions and helped me when I was wrong.

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
I learned that never traveled before but would like to travel to japan, alemania,londres, and francia. He also works in a little cafe in his town. 

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

He made me feel comfortable about asking questions about sports because he felt comfortable about answering. Also, he helped me out because he was answering questions that I was asking which made it easier to talk about my topic.

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

I did well was greeting him properly, I asked many questions and was respectful about what I said to him. I kept with the topic of conversation and made sure that that is all we talked about. 

What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

I improved on talking to someone in spanish and they understanding me. I also improved on learning my spanish more and being more comfortable about speaking it.
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Turning Off the Translator Part 2


  1. Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner:

    1. - SharedTalk; Peter

  2. What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

      - I learned that Peter is 20, doesn't go to school/college and wants to improve his english while learning russian. He's from a city in España that can be pretty at times. He's read a novel about my city and he was into anime but never really wanted to learn japanese. 
  3. /How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

       - I think this was helpful to me because i got correct on errors that I make frequently and now I know for the next conversation, how to say different things. My goal was to do as much as i could without the translator which i tried but couldn't. I could understand what he was saying for the most part but when I tried to say something back I couldn't always remember the right word or conjugation so I had to look it up. 
  4. What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on?

    - Quiero continue talking to people and getting comfortable because I'm noticing that the more I talk to people, the more words I have to look up, use, and then repeat until they're known to me. Things like telling people "Soy de un cuidad en los Estados Unidos" is now very easy and I don't have to look up those words. They've been memorized from repetition. My new goal is to have a truck load more conversations so that phrases become more known to me and in turn i can have less need for the translator. 
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Blog Post #1

  • Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner

    - I spoke with a woman name janet and I chose her because she was also trying to learn spanish

  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    -I didn't get to learn much from her because once I said that I was in school she logged off the chat.

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

    -One thing that this did help me do was get a conversation started
  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)


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    I was able to get a conversation started even though this person logged off the chat, and I'm going to continue to chat with people and help bring my confidence up of speaking spanish.
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Espanol Blog Post 2

    • Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner

      - I spoke with two people but I forgot to screenshot my other chat because I accidentally quitted out of it. I had a nice long conversation with Rafael from Brazil in spanish. He was helping me a lot too but anyway, the chat that I've screenshot is the one below. His name is Vidal and he was from Venezuela. 

    • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

      - I learned that he doesn't like running and he loves walking because he thinks it's relaxing.. I also learned that he likes learning new languages, he is currently learning japanese. I learned a couple of new words, 

    • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

      - Last week, I posted my blogpost saying I wanted to have an conversation and record it but I wasn't able to do that but I skimmed through sharedtalk. I really liked how you get to meet new people and they were really friendly. So I chose to chat with them and they helped me with asking questions and awkward phrasings. 

    • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

      - I tried to keep my conversation going and for some part, I didn't know what else to ask because I ran out of questions to ask. Therefore, for next week, I'm definitely going to have a list of questions that I'd ask before talking to someone. 

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Goal #4: Be Natural

  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
    -I spoke with a guy who name is Luis Angel. The reason why I chose to speak with him is because he's from Mexico. All my other conversations were from people who lives in Spain.

  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?
    I learned that he's a very happy person. He's the type of person that always has a smile, no matter what. He doesn't like to be sad. Even at the toughest times, he wants to smile.

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?
    Well, my goal was to be natural with my conversation, it worked kind of well, but not really. During the time that I was talking to him, I was super happy and it was interesting to talk to a person who was also happy. What a coincident! I tried to natural with my typing and not having to double think about what to say, but when I did that, my sentence didn't make sense ): it sucked, but he corrected me.

  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?
    I think I did well on pushing myself to say the right things.

  • What specifically do you need to improve on? 
    When I try to say a lot, I get all mixed up. So maybe I should stick with what I know instead of jamming a whole bunch of words together. 
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Maggie's 2nd blog post


  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?
    I spoke with Cristy. She lives in Chile. I chose her because I liked her name and I knew she spoke Spanish.
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    She was good at spanish, but needed help with her English. I learned a couple things from her. She helped me spell. 
  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

    It helped me speak more spanish and try not to use a translator. Having her there to help me made me more confident. 
  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

    I didn't translate. I did use word reference though. But for individual words, not whole phrases. 
  • What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

    I would like to try to keep the conversation going. 
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Español Conversation

Preguntas

¿Cómo hago insultar personas, yo quiero aprender cómo a usa ironía y aprende cómo usar sufijos correcto en español?

 

¿Que tipo de limpieza expresión, tono y rapidez yo tengo quein yo insulto personas estar comico?

 

¿Cómo hago usa ironía para comedia?

 

¿Que son algunos chistes común que use ironía en un comico forma?

 

¿Es hay un especial forma ecribir plabras con sufijos? ¿Es hay un principio para sufijos?

 

 

 

Conversation


I'm Red, Partner is blue 

hola

hola :)

como estas puedo pedir tu algunos preguntas en cómo hago insultar personas, íronía y sufijos en español

 

pues es muy dificot por que  hay un montón de maneras de insultar una persona.

puedas dece mi algunos forma a insulta personas

pero por que ceres insulta una persona?

 

penso lo haría esta diversión a hace diversión de personas en español

pero eso es malo >:-)

lo es pero no cuido y yo uso les cuando personas deces insultas a me

Pues si quieres que te tiga las malas palpras?

palabras*

yo quieres solo chistes pero no cuido si tu diga mi palabras malas

no se tegon chistes :\ !

tu tienes malas palabras

no muchos. pero no te quiero decir, por que es malo

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así

¿hola?

si?

no se mala palbras

perdon

puedas enseña me cómo usar ironía o sufijos

cuando estas ablando de una nena, usas la "a" como, "ella es bonita" y cuando estas ablando de una nene usas "o" el es bonito"

so tu cambias la letra passado de la palabra para un sufijo

o ironia

 

Hola

 

¿Hola como estas?

 

Muy bien que haces aprender sobre hoy

 

Yo quiero aprender sobre sufijos.

 

Puedo ayuda tu con que

 

¿Gracias es hay un reglas para aprender sufijos?

 

Sí en ingles hay es un raíz palabras para el sifijo en español lo es el mismo

 

¿Puedas usa un ejemplo de sufijos?

 

Sí, pero algunos sufijos cambia el sentido de la palabra todo. Algunos sufijos son –ado y ada es –ed in ingles, para –ly lo es –mente y para palabras que refera a algo menor son –ito, -ita, -cito, -illo, -zuelo. Estos son solo algunos de el sufijos pero son comun en espanol

 

¿Que es el otro sufijos?

 

Hay es mucho mas pero algunos cambia sentido de la palabra.

 

Oh gracias para su ayuda.

 

 

 

Blog #2

  • Who did I speak with and why did I choose that person?

    I spoke with the same person I did for the first blog. His name is Alex, and he's from Columbia. 
  • What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

    For this conversation, we were speaking about a few different things. He was telling me about how he admired the United States... a lot. And we talked about his favorite food... which happened to be American food, and Columbian food. And we talked about movies. 

  • How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

    With this only being our second conversation, I wasn't as nervous as before. But, he noticed that my responses were better than before. I feel a bit more confident in asking questions and replying. 
  • What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations?

    I did better with asking questions, and being able to reply without much hesitation. 
  • What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again)

    I think I should start making a little list of things to talk about during the conversations. 

    *Because my person is trying to learn English, he was responding to my questions in English.*
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Blog post 3

Who you spoke with and why you chose that partner

I spoke with Thea a senior at SLA. She is one of my friends who is fluent in Spanish and I felt comfortable talking to.

What did you learn about them? What did you learn from them?

She is reading a new comic series, I learned that talking to someone you know vs someone on livemocha is easier to keep a conversation because you know the basics about them.

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Donde es Brasil


Goal: Asking follow up questions.

How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goals?

I learned new things about Brazil and asked questions as much as I could about her and her college. Although  Some stuff I sai in english because she was learning english.

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? What specifically to you need to improve on?

I did well asking questions about her college and how she likes it. Wanted to ask others but she had to go when I thought of a good question.

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#2

Who did I speak to and why did I choose that person? 
I spoke to Elizabeth from Venezuela and I picked her because like I said in class back then, I am more comfortable to speak to girls than speaking to guys. I also like her because she's nice and we're both learning how to speak different language. Me spanish, and her english. Our conversation was pretty brief because she said that she have to help her mom on something. She's pretty proficient in English already so she pretty much helped me the whole time. 


How did this interaction help you move towards achieving your personal goal?

Talking to her helped me to speak spanish sort of fluently. I know I still have some problems on how to construct a good and grammatically correct sentence. But she helped me a lot and she even helped me to use some new vocabularies. 

What specifically did you do well according to your goals/expectations? 

The conversation was not awkward and kind of monotone-ish. Both of us are asking and answering things rather than one person doing the whole interaction. 

What specifically do you need to improve on? (Quote specific things you said or did and what you would have done or said if you could do it again) 

I still need to speak Spanish fluently.