You are Meant to give Your Best! / Estás Destinado a Dar lo Mejor de Tí!

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Continuous Evaluation Criteria:

20%  Quiz
20%  Speaking ability
20%  Projects
30%  Classwork
10%  Homework

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Activities done in November

Chapter 2.- Circulation and Respiration.

Section 1.- The Cardiovascular System.

* Definitions and functions of the cardiovascular system

* The three parts: Heart, blood and blood vessels

* The heart: Parts and how it works

* Arteries, capillaries and veins

* Pulmonary and Sistemic circulation

* Problems: Atherosclerosis, high blood pressure, heart attack

Project: A puzzle of the heart includying names

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Activities done in November

Unit 3.- House and Home

* Vocabulary: Urban and rural landscapes

* Vocabulary: Prepositions of movement (across, over, past, through, along)

* Grammar: Quantifiers some, any, much, many, a lot of, a little, a few 

* Word skill: Fox hunting vocabulary

* Grammar: Articles a-an-the
* Vocabulary: Farm lexis

* Vocabulary: Holiday activities

* Grammar: Extreme adjectives

Quiz on verb tenses and uses

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Activities done in November

Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature

Section 1.- The Cycles of Matter

* Questionnaire on
  - Carbon Cycle: processes

 - Nitrogen Cycle: natural and fixation

Section 2.- Ecologycal Succession

* Primary succession
 - pioneer species
* Secondary succession
* Mature communities
 - climax species, biodiversity

Project: A double page chart with the visual process of succession

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Activities done in November

Collection 2 .- The Thrill of Horror

Reading 1.- The Tell Tale Heart
 Critical vocabulary: synonyms
* Analysis: Ingerence, analisys, drawing conclusions

Reading 2.- Scary Tales
* Elements of style: word choice, syntax, figurative language
* Language convention: Subject-verb agreement
  
Reading 3.- What is the Horror Genre?
* Critical vocabulary: Using suffixes
* Discussion about horror categiories

Quiz to present reading about The Monkey's PawProject: An oral presentation of the differences between a a book that has been made into a movie. 

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Activities done in November

Chapter 2.- Cycles in Nature

Section 1.- The Cycles of Matter

* Questionnaire on
  - Carbon Cycle: processes

 - Nitrogen Cycle: natural and fixation

Section 2.- Ecologycal Succession

* Primary succession
 - pioneer species
* Secondary succession
* Mature communities
 - climax species, biodiversity

Project: A double page chart with the visual process of succession 

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