Author Archives: senorab72

I’ve spent the last few weeks in El Salvador with my husband visiting his family, and I got this hair-brained idea that teachers might like to participate in a tour specifically for them. The fact that El Salvador doesn’t have … Continue reading →

The Spanish-born Mexican artist Remedios Varo is my current fascination, and I’m trying to see how I can make her the subject of a lesson. I learned about her from a reading the the textbook Temas, but I find the reading … Continue reading →

As I mentioned in a previous post, I’ve been working with pre-service teachers, and I find myself digging through my resources from when I taught Spanish at the lower levels in order to give my student teachers strategies to add … Continue reading →

Here is a post of notes. I have not developed any of this into lesson plans as of yet, but hope to do so one day. 🙂 The film “No” starring Gael García Bernal http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2059255/ Top 10 Chilean protest songs http://soundsandcolours.com/articles/chile/top-10-chilean-protest-songs-28270/ Los … Continue reading →

Here are my syllabi for pre-AP and AP Spanish Language and Culture from last year. They have this year’s date, but I am having to cut out and re-arrange some things because the schedule this year has shorter class periods. … Continue reading →

It’s the time of the school year where we are finishing the first semester on the fumes of the energy we had in August or September, and may be eyeing next semester with some apprehension. While I am a big … Continue reading →

Estoy un poco obsesionada con un movimiento que promueve el uso correcto del la ortografía en español, y las tildes en particular. Todo comenzó con el siguiente comercial de Sprite que encontré en Internet mientras planeaba una lección sobre la … Continue reading →