tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67752183779885528182024-02-19T00:45:09.552-06:00Spanish SíBlogging about learning and teaching Spanish language, Latino culture, Hispanic literature, and service learning.Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-24317517972340402852018-02-21T14:26:00.004-06:002018-02-22T12:21:25.058-06:00El género no binario en españolHoy en la clase de conversación, escuchamos el podcast "En busca de las palabras" de Radio Ambulante acerca de cuestiones de género no binario en el idioma y en la vida.
Luego, en grupos, los estudiantes hablaron de una serie de preguntas acerca de la historia de Micah.
1. ¿Qué sabemos de la historia de Micah? ¿Cómo era su niñez?
2. ¿Cuándo Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-35262412856072371712018-02-16T12:49:00.000-06:002018-02-16T12:53:25.427-06:00El cultivo de flores en Colombia y Ecuador para el Día del Amor y de la AmistadEn clase para el Día del Amor y la Amistad, miramos una serie de Videos muy breves (1-3 minutos) acerca del cultivo y producción de flores, y los efectos económicos y éticos de la industria:
1. Enfermedades y condiciones (una lista de problemas de salud)
2. Una madre soltera que trabaja en la flora
3. Unas hijas hablan del trabajo de sus madres
4. Una promo de la Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-72952546620389662772017-07-05T08:06:00.000-05:002018-02-22T12:16:20.674-06:00Resources to Inspire Empathy about ImmigrationI presented at the #AATSP17 conference in Chicago this week on:
"Discussing sensitive current issues in the Spanish classroom:
A Humane Education approach"
I've gathered some resources for inspiring empathy in civic dialogue when talking about political change and about immigration policy. Here are links to some activities and materials I have used in the Spanish language classroom to Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-87193356581957050762017-05-09T22:04:00.002-05:002017-05-09T22:04:46.738-05:00Piñatas políticas in Colorado and in Latin American TraditionIn Mexico, political piñatas are a "thing." To celebrate holidays, families and friends gather to take turns swinging a stick (palo) to hit the swinging paper maché piñata until it breaks open to disperse evil (el mal) and to scatter candy (dulces) for children to gather and enjoy.
Piñatas to express political dissent are a form of popular satire, such as those made to represent the former Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-45521143702548574702016-10-18T10:31:00.002-05:002016-10-18T10:39:14.032-05:00Campañas electorales en español para la presidencia de los EE. UU. en 2016The 2016 election season feels more volatile than promising. Like a woman in transition during childbirth, we all need words of encouragement to stay engaged in the democratic process. I've reminded my students multiple times to register to vote. We've talked briefly about the debates during class. I'm working on a lesson plan about Spanish-language campaign efforts to get out the Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-36416706975447573182013-10-16T20:40:00.001-05:002013-10-16T20:40:15.498-05:00Spanish Poetry Day
Here is an outline of my presentation for the Indiana Foreign Language Teacher's Conference this weekend
Poetry
Recitation as a literary / social event
El día de poesía en español ~ Spanish Poetry Day at Valparaiso University
--April
23: El día del libro / San Jordi
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Today, April 9th, is a day to END IT! For practice with simultaneous translation, today I showed this brief video about slavery in the world today. As the subtitles ran in English, I offered an interpretation in Spanish of the video's script.
I provided students with a few key terms that appear in the video, including:
la esclavitud
la mentira
las fábricas
la amenazaSarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-57072056742659596992013-03-06T11:12:00.004-06:002013-03-06T11:12:46.402-06:00Local Hispanic Food Markets / Mercados locales
El Salto has just opened a new Mexican grocery store in Valparaiso.
It's on Lincolnway right next to Domino's pizza and Au Naturel Market.
They carry fresh produce, dry goods, pan dulce sweet breads, meat,
fresh tamales, and household goods and toiletries. They provide
excellent service. The selection of fruits and vegetables is a mix of domestic and imported Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-22950537548899829402013-02-25T20:33:00.003-06:002013-02-25T20:33:56.875-06:00"Inocente" gana un premio Oscar
Inocente Get More:
Inocente, Full Episodes
Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-91689628525438378052013-01-15T06:59:00.003-06:002013-01-15T06:59:56.578-06:00A Tale of Two Villages<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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My students wrote 8 page stories in Spanish 203 this semester. The creativity of writing a narrative to accompany the art available to them in StoryBird got them out Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-69822128103655314652012-11-15T08:11:00.000-06:002012-11-21T12:24:20.599-06:00Viaje virtual con muñecas de papelVirtual Travels through the Hispanic World with Paper Dolls
A Geography Lesson
We're planning a new project about countries in the Hispanic world in the Spanish Club at my kids' school. We are making "Flat People" (kind of like a "Flat Stanley" paper
doll) wearing traditional Latin American clothing. For an example of a traveling paper doll project, see:
Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-66906006932257541402012-11-04T09:28:00.000-06:002012-11-04T09:28:19.730-06:00DREAMer Deferred Action Event:
The
Valparaiso University Immigration Law Clinic is hosting an event for
DREAM-eligible youth and their families about the Deferred Action
program. You're invited!
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For El Día de los Muertos, we're enjoying "Pan de Muerto". Papa brought home a loaf in the shape of a person. The kids can't wait to have a bite of the melt-in-your-mouth sweet cake. We talk about the red sugar, a color which represents life and health since Aztec times. In the wake of Halloween, El Día de los Muertos, Reformation and All Saints Day can easily get Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-11610029449023478062012-10-16T14:33:00.003-05:002012-10-16T14:33:53.193-05:00Videos electorales<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-42140845488979742272012-09-16T15:15:00.005-05:002012-09-16T15:15:50.454-05:00Local Latino Immersion ExperiencesThe first culture projects for this fall semester are due on Friday.
Students in intermediate Spanish have been going into the community to discover businesses, churches, cultural centers, clubs, stores, restaurants, events, and homes where they can be immersed in Spanish language.
During the first visit to their cultural immersion destination, students are encouraged to ask questions that the Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18187893893044293716noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-66150495652777433302012-07-12T15:53:00.001-05:002012-07-14T08:55:51.050-05:00Experience the local flavors of Mexico right here in Valparaiso--and bring home ingredients for your favorite regional cuisine at Tarimoro Guanajuato. The fruit market / ethnic grocery store has opened a new location at 908 Roosevelt (at the corner with Evans, right behind Phil B's restaurant and the gas station).
Prices can't be beat. I recently bought 15 limes for $1, two green Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-90975331628833795842012-04-02T08:19:00.002-05:002012-04-02T08:19:33.396-05:00NaPoWriMoDecidí participar este año en el NaPoWriMo, el "mes nacional para la composición de poesía" y publiqué mis poemas, sean melodramáticos, ridículos o triviales, en un blog. Visítenlo si les interesa....
http://poemasenabril.blogspot.com/
Si quisiera participar, hay información sobre el NaPoWriMo aquí:
http://www.napowrimo.net/
¡Hasta pronto!Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-76950719779548491112011-10-13T14:35:00.001-05:002011-10-13T14:35:29.792-05:00TardanzaCon sangre de atole....comienzo el semestre del otoño sin haber escrito nada en el blog Spanish Sí y quisiera pedir disculpas por mi tardanza. La llegada de nuestro recién nacido hijo me ha dejado, "girando come una trotola" como dicen los italianos, "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" como se dice en inglés, corriendo de aquí por allá y en poco tiempo podré regresar a la Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-73126286215735670612011-05-09T12:17:00.001-05:002011-05-09T12:18:53.191-05:00Immigrants Mentoring Students and Vice Versa: The Mutuality of ServiceToday as part of the final exam in the Spanish for Service Professionals class, the students will be interviewing a panel of recent immigrants about their experiences in becoming integrated into life in the United States. What are the local institutions and agencies that have been welcoming, and how? What challenges do newcomers to the US and to NW Indiana face? How can we be a community ofSarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-70754891792029241792011-04-11T17:30:00.000-05:002011-04-11T17:30:08.336-05:00Reflexiones acerca del trabajo en la comunidad localHoy en la clase de Español para Profesionales de Servicio Social, hicimos una actividad de reflexión y evaluación de varios aspectos del servicio que se está llevando a cabo este semestre en varias agencias de la comunidad local en Valparaiso: La escuela Central Elementary, la Misión Hispana Luterana Gloria Dei, el Centro Internacional de Valparaiso, la clínica HealthLinc, Porter Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-79148148592927458412011-01-31T14:06:00.000-06:002011-01-31T14:06:08.280-06:00A Pioneer in Self-Correcting Grammar Exercises / Online Culture ActivitiesColby College is a college in Maine. Prof. Barbara Nelson teaches Spanish and for over 10 years she has been sharing self-correcting grammar exercises and culture activities online, for students to practice the concepts they're learning in class.
http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php
My favorites are the song "Ojalá que llueva café" and the beautiful images for the Día Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-14566689089594324742011-01-20T09:04:00.000-06:002011-01-20T09:04:45.411-06:00Para practicar la interpretación oral / traducción simultáneaAyer en la clase de Español 308, Spanish for Service Professionals, los estudiantes hicieron una práctica en clase de la interpretación. Una representante de HealthLinc, una clínica médica local, vino a dar una orientación al trabajo en la comunidad con su organización. Los estudiantes se turnaron para traducir la plática de la representante del inglés al español para Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-40818439177044056562010-12-14T08:35:00.000-06:002010-12-14T08:35:40.952-06:00Motivating Language ImmersionLanguage immersion camps have been around for a long time. Middlebury in Vermont is an example with a long history: http://www.middlebury.edu/ls/approach/pledge Like study "abroad" at home, the programs offer students an academic environment for learning the language through immersion without leaving the country. In the Midwest, there are the Concordia Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6775218377988552818.post-38678629433312431322010-11-05T00:37:00.000-05:002010-11-05T00:37:24.848-05:00Prayers: CPH's En el nombre de JesúsOmar Weber published a book of prayers, a series of conversations with God about day-to-day matters of joy and concern, written in Spanish, which was a delight to me when I ordered a copy from Concordia Publishing House, entitled _En el nombre de Jesús_. Our God is not just a god who sits in the heavens and looks down on us as sinful scoundrels making mistakes as he points and Sarah Degner Riveroshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15839139441584966854noreply@blogger.com0