Mi Verano in English is My Summer. This is a story,fictional or non-fictional, that depicts a summer event. All the words of thisproject had to be in Spanish and it had to have either recorded audio orspeaking during the presentation. My story is completely fictional. Its about ateenager that travels from a Spanish speaking country in Africa to America. Theteen goes to Florida for a motorcycle racing championship event. After the racethere is a whole scene with a shark and a rioting group of animal protectors. Afterthe teen returns home in time for the release of a popular movie.

    For our Spanish Benchmark we had to create a Spanish guide. We had to make a brochure teaching people basic Spanish. The hard part was it was not just for people who spoke English but people who spoke Japanese, Chinese, etc. So we had to incorporate pictures to go with our phrases.

    I used popular images and faces to show what I was talking about. I used big font and bold lettering so that my words would stick out on the page. I wrote in Spanish and a little bit of English. I also used common themes so that the viewer would understand.

For the Quarter 1 SpanishBenchmark, students were told to write a story about their previous summer, andseven activities that were executed during that time. They were then asked tomake a presentation to this story that would be narrated by them. The conceptof this project was to exercise the student’s ability to use the past tense, thepronunciation words, and to overall become more fluid in speaking.

In Spanish 1 in the first quarter, Don Marcos told us to each create a travel guide. The travel guide was to help and educate a tourist visiting a foreign Spanish country. The brochure was to not contain anything from the English language, but only composed only of Spanish. So how was the tourist going to be able to learn anything from a brochure that only had Español and the traveler spoke anything BUT Spanish? Well, by visual aids, of course! For example, in my brochure, I have the phrase: Buenos Diez. Next to that phrase, an arrow coming from Buenos Diez would point to a depiction of dawn. Would you know what that phrase meant?

1. Basically what we had to do for our Spanish benchmark was provide a Spanish survival guide for someone who doesn’t speak Spanish, yet they would be able to comprehend our brochure. We had to include nothing but Spanish and many visuals. We had the choice of 5-7 topics such as conversation, weather, time, etc. The project was graded on our ability to display what we learned, while being able to teach others with it at the same time.