I earned both my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Mississippi State University (Go Bulldogs!) and taught in Mississippi for a few years and in Mexico for a semester before coming to McEachern. I love Spanish, traveling, reading and of course, my fur children (3 dogs and 1 cat).
Monday, May 11, 2020
We are continuing with AP test prep, Zoom meeting on Monday at 1:00 to practice cultural comparisons and on Wednesday at 1:00 to work on simulated conversation.
Remember that senior grades are due tomorrow. Seniors, if you are planning to turn in any work, today is your deadline!!
Monday, May 11, 2020
This is our last full week of class! We will continue with our abbreviated work with Chapter 4. We will have a vocabulary quiz today and will begin with the verb ir and two sets of stem changing verbs (a group of irregular verbs that follow a pattern).
We will have Zoom tutoring sessions Tuesday and Thursday at 1::00 to work on this week’s verbs. Zoom codes will be sent out closer to meeting time.
Monday, May 4, 2020
We will continue to work with simulated conversations this week on Zoom Monday and Wednesday.
Continue reading, listening to and speaking Spanish as much as possible.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Good morning! This week we will take the Chapter 3 test and begin our last unit.
The Chapter 3 test will be Tuesday beginning at 2:00 after an optional Zoom session at 1:00 when I will be available to answer questions until 1:45. I will send the Zoom code out via Remind Tuesday morning. The test will be available on vhlcentral from 2:00pm until midnight Tuesday. I do not expect the test to take more than one hour.
Wednesday and Thursday we will begin with the pastimes vocabulary fo the last unit.
Monday, April 27, 2020
We will have a Zoom meeting today to practice the simulated conversation.
AP Test Info:
- The test is May 22 at 4:00. It will not take any more than 45 minutes but is expected to be much less.
- World Language tests can ONLY be taken on a smart phone or tablet.
- You must be able to download a free app on this smart phone or tablet.
- The app will be available for downloading 1 week before the test.
- There will be English examples to practice with using the app during that week.
- You will receive a test ticket electronically through My AP Classroom and the email address you registered with College Board.
- Long before the test (I suggest today), make sure that you are:
- Able to log in to College Board, and/or
- Receiving emails from College Board (check junk mail and your spam filter)
- The test has only 2 parts this year:
- A simulated conversation
- Instead of the outline we practiced with, this will be more in the style of a telephone survey or interview. You will be asked 5 questions and you will need to respond with as much detail as possibly for 20 seconds each response. The questions will all be related to the same topic. Pay attention during the initial instructions when they tell you the premise and the topic.
- A cultural comparison
- This will be exactly like we did in class. You will be given a topic and will have 4 minutes to prepare and then talk for 2 minutes. In your comparison, be sure to talk about BOTH a Spanish speaking community AND another community you are familiar with.
- You are allowed to have notes during the test but remember that the test is timed. You do not want to have so many notes in front of you that you waste precious moments in your 4 minutes of cultural comparison prep time. 😊
- A simulated conversation
