Valerie's+Spanish+lesson

**Spanish 3** **Theme: My future**

**Objectives:** TSWBAT  · Identify different professions and characteristics needed to obtain them  · Present information about a profession to the class

**Activities:**  · Do now- Students will identify the professions they see in the pictures on the powerpoint, and discuss with a partner what those people do.  · Students will work in pairs, and each pair will receive a profession. Students will write a paragraph to describe what that person does, where they work, who they work with, characteristics that that person should posses, etc.  · Each pair will create a wordle(using wordle.net) with their paragraph. They will then use their wordle to guide them in presenting their profession to the class.  · As the class listens to the presentations they will jot down any words they see in the wordle that are new to them.  · Discussion of new words/ what they like or disliked about using wordle.net to help them present

**Closure:**
 * Students will respond to question posted on class wiki about which of the professions discussed today they would want in the future and why.

**Assessment:**
 * Rubric to grade presentations/ individual answers to wiki question

Explanation of lesson: I like the idea of using wordle.net, especially in a Spanish class. When the students present, I don’t want them to simply read off a page, I want their speech to be more natural, so wordle is a great tool that they can use to remind them of key words as they are speaking. It’s also very visually stimulating, and a unique way to present information. This can also address students’ artistic talents, and provide support for those students who are not as comfortable presenting in front of the class. <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">The use of the class wiki is a good way for all students to give answers to a question at the same time. It is different than answering a question posted in a textbook, and allows students to use creativity since there is no correct answer. It will also allow me to assess for individual understanding of vocabulary.