With midterms in most of their classes on Wednesday and Thursday, I did not want to do anything really difficult in my classes on Friday.
Since we have looked at the Incas in Spanish II, I decided to have them go on-line and look at some descriptions in English of ten different places to visit in Peru. They were all on the same website. Students wrote down the name of the place, two facts, and if they wanted to visit or not and why.
To keep kids from sitting all period, I also posted ten little charts around the room. Each one had the name of the site and then two columns: Quiero Visitar or No Quiero Visitar. After reading about a site, students had to go write their name on the side that matched their opinion. Really a simple idea but it allowed them to get up and stretch their muscles a little. This tiny shift in the activity also decreased the possibility of boredom slightly as well as creating the opportunity to compare opinions.
In the future I might change up which side of the column is the positive and which is the negative just to make them pay attention...I definitely want to use different vocabulary on some of the signs as well (viajar instead of just visitar for example).
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