Welcome to Beginner/Intermediate ELD!

Today is a “B Day”

While we are waiting,

My favorite holiday post in the chat:
movies are Elf and What is your favorite holiday
movie? If you don’t have a
The Year Without a favorite, what holiday movies
Santa Claus. have you seen?
¿Cuál es tu película navideña
favorita? Si no tiene un favorito,
¿qué películas navideñas ha
visto?Tipo en el chat.
 Beg/Int Agenda 12/07/20
1. Happy Birthday, Lucas!!!
2. Asynchronous Day (Wednesday, 12/9)
3. Time to Read
4. End of Unit Project Overview (BREAK)
5. Choose a writing draft
6. Project Goals (BREAK)
7. Simple and Complex Sentences
 Asynchronous Day
● On Wednesday this week (12/9) we will not meet for a zoom
● El miércoles de esta semana (12/9) no nos reuniremos para
hacer zoom
● This is a day for you all to take a step back from the screen
and take some time for yourself to relax!
● I will post a short activity on Schoology for you to complete
on Wednesday
● Publicaré una breve actividad en Schoology para que la
complete el miércoles
● NO ZOOM
 Time To Read
(Leer por diez minutos)
 Unit 3 Project
● Unit 3 (How do families affect us?) will be ending when the
first semester ends (1/25/2...after break!) La Unidad 3
(¿Cómo nos afectan las familias?) Terminará cuando termine el
primer semestre (25/1/2 ... ¡después de las vacaciones!)
● This project will count as your final exam grade Este
proyecto contará como calificación del examen final
● We are going to work on the final project in parts Nosotros
vamos a trabajar en el proyecto final en partes.
● The final project is a digital story El proyecto final es
una historia digital
 Unit 3 Project
● We will be using Powerpoint/Google Slides to create this project
Usamos Powerpoint / Google Slides para crear este proyecto.
● The project will include parts of your writing, pictures, an
interview with a family member, and a recording of your voice El
proyecto incluirá partes de su escritura, imágenes, una
entrevista con un miembro de la familia y una grabación de
su voz.
● We will start working on the project today by choosing a piece of
your writing to use and by setting some goals Comenzaremos a
trabajar en el proyecto hoy eligiendo una parte de su escritura para usar
y estableciendo algunos objetivos.
Choose a draft...
● Throughout this unit we have had a lot of “Time to Write”
● We have been writing about different family stories
● Take some time to go back through all of the different memories and
topics you have written about in the past few weeks
● Do any of these stand out to you? Which one is your favorite? What
memory could you add more details to?
● Remember, part of your digital story will be interviewing a family
member, so choose a family memory that you could interview a family
member about!
● Type in the chat “Done” when you have chosen one of your writing
drafts to work with
 Project Goals
● Use either the PDF in Schoology or the Word document, whichever
you prefer
● I will go over the different levels of Speaking and Writing
● Highlight in yellow what level you think you are at right now in
speaking and writing
● Highlight in green the level you would like to be at the end of the
semester (after completing the Unit 3 Project)
● At the end of the semester we will reflect on whether you reached
your goals.
 Simple and Compound Sentences
● What is a simple sentence?
○ A sentence with one subject and one predicate
○ Ex: Joe waited for the bus.
○ Ex: Mary ate cake.
● What is a compound sentence?
○ A sentence that contains 2 simple sentences (independent clauses)
connected by a coordinating conjunction
○ Ex: Joe waited for the bus, but the bus was late.
○ Ex: Mary ate cake, so her stomach hurt before bed.
● So, how can 2 independent sentences become a complex sentence?
○ Add a comma
○ Add a coordinating conjunction (FANBOYS)
 Coordinating Conjunctions

● F- for
● A- and
● N- nor
● B- but
● O- or
● Y- yet
● S- so
How can we turn these simple sentences into
compound sentences?
Simple Sentence 1 Simple Sentence 2 Coordinating Compound
Conjunction Sentence
(FANBOYS)

1. Everyone was 1. I went to the so Everyone was busy,

busy. movies alone. so I went to the
movies alone.

2. Italy is my favorite 2. I’m going to Italy and Italy is my favorite

country to visit. next summer. country to visit, and
I’m going to Italy next
summer.

3. She slept for eight 3. She was still tired. but She slept for eight
hours. hours, but she was
still tired.
Look at the piece of writing you selected...
● What kind of sentences do you have?
● Simple or compound?
● Are there any simple sentences you can combine to make a
compound sentence?
● Add two compound sentences to your paragraph
○ Either combine 2 simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction
○ Or add two new compound sentences!
 Welcome to Beginner/Intermediate ELD!
Today is a “B Day”

While we are waiting,

post in the chat:
Ms. Ross is going Ms. Rick is going to What is something fun that
to exchange gifts attend a virtual you plan on doing this
and watch holiday book club party with weekend?
movies with her her teacher friends! ¿Qué es algo divertido que
friends this planeas hacer este fin de
weekend! semana? Tipo en el chat.
 Beg/Int Agenda 12/11/20
1. Time to Talk: Which draft did you choose for your project and
why?
2. Time to Read (BREAK)
3. Simple/Complex Sentences- Draft #1
4. Breakout Rooms: What did you like about Ms. Ross’ example
project that you want to have in yours? (BREAK)
5. Read Hey, Kiddo
 Time to Talk
“I chose my family cruise story
as my writing draft for my Unit
3 project because I have very
good memories from that
vacation. There are a lot of
details I can talk about from my
family cruise.”
Which writing draft did you
choose for your Unit 3 project?
Why did you choose this family
story? What do you like about
it?
¿Qué borrador de escritura
eligió para su proyecto de la
Unidad 3? ¿Por qué elegiste
esta historia familiar? ¿Qué te
gusta de ello?
 Time To Read
(Leer por diez minutos)
Look at writing draft you selected...
● What kind of sentences do you have?
● Simple or compound?
● Are there any simple sentences you can combine to make a
compound sentence? (by adding a comma and FANBOYS)
● Add two compound sentences to your paragraph
○ Either combine 2 simple sentences with a comma and coordinating
conjunction
○ Or add two new compound sentences to your writing draft!
○ After you are done you should turn in your updated paragraph on
Schoology (Draft 1- Compound Sentences)
 Breakout Rooms
● In your breakout rooms, look over what you turned in on our
Asynchronous day (Wednesday, 12/9)
● You should have watched Ms. Ross’ example Unit Project
● You should have written down a list of 5 things you liked about it that you
want to include in your project
● In your breakout rooms, tell your classmates what you saw, and write
down anything your classmate says that you would also want to include in
your final project!
 Read Hey, Kiddo Together
● There is a PDF in Schoology (Unit 3 Folder)
● It is titled “Hey, Kiddo Part 2”