Optional assignment #1: Do this if your comprhension/confidence/grade is good, and you just want extra credit:

Reading the news and learning more about the Spanish-speaking world

Answer the following questions about your assigned country and region:

1) what is happening in your country/region?  Read the news at least four times, and keep a journal.  Each entry should include:

• date
• title of article
• The website you found in on
  
• what you learned, IN YOUR OWN WORDS

2) science plug:  Have there been any earthquakes/tremors today in your assigned country?  Where can you find this information?  Are there any volcanoes in your country?  Is it on a fault line?  Is it earthquake-prone?  Research, and write a entry IN YOUR OWN WORDS describing WHAT you found out and WHERE you found the info.

Good places to look:           BBC.com -->news --->world news ---->your region or country
                                            NYtimes.com -->international news--->your region / country
                                       


Optional assignment #1: Do this if your comprhension/confidence/grade is not where you want it to be:

1) Print out the following chart.  Fill it in for all the verbs we have used in class (about 3/4 of these).
2) Go to http://conjuguemos.com/home/docs/php/login.php?who=student   Play around with the site until you figure out how to select verbs to create your own conjugation quizzes.  Find and choose some of the verbs from your chart and quiz yourself.  If you want credit, DOCUMENT that you did this (writing them down, parent note with signature etc.)
3) Practice writing some sentences with different subjects, and using the correct conjugations.