Task

You will prepare a Power Point project in Spanish for presentation in class. The presentation will serve as both a cultural review of your reading book, La Gran Aventura de Alejandro, and expansion of your topic. The presentation will last from 3 to 5 minutes. You should use a minimum of seven slides. You are invited to use more so long as you remain within the given time constraints. Included in the seven slides will be a title slide and a hypertext bibliography slide. You should use a minimum of five graphics, which may be photos , maps or clip art.

Topics

Cities:

• sites of Madrid(1): Barajas, la Gran Vía, la Plaza de España
• sites of Madrid(2): la Puerta de Sol, la Plaza Mayor, el Rastro
• Santiago de Compostela
• Valencia
• Toledo (y el Alcázar y el Tránsito)
• Burgos

Art:

• el museo Prado
• Diego Velázquez
• las Meninas
• la arquitectura y el arte de los moros

Literature:

• Miguel de Cervantes y don Quijote
• Lazarillo de Tormes y la tradición pícara
• Camilo José Cela

History:

• doña Juana la Loca
• el Cid
• los reyes católicos (Ferdinand and Isabella)
• Carlos I
• los moros en España (the Moors)
• los gitanos (the gypsies)
• los judíos y la Inquisición española (Jews and the Spanish Inquisition)
• la Guerra Civil Española de 1936 (the Civil War)
• Francisco Franco

Other:

• la Semana Santa (Holy Week)
• el dinero: el euro
• Ladino
• el Flamenco

Procedure

1. Gather the pertinent facts about your topic. Make notes in Spanish. Look for or think of pictures that you can use for your presentation. Use multitasking to keep a record of the resources that you use in Word, so that you can submit a bibliography to your teacher on the day of your presentation.
2. Open your STORSRV account. Save all your work to the server.
3. Write the text for your presentation. You may write it out in your own handwriting or you may use Microsoft Word. Before you begin to type, remember to change the spell checking feature to Spanish.
4. Have a peer proof read your work. Then ask the teacher to proof read it. Make sure that all grammar usage is correct. Check for noun/adjective agreement, verb forms, etc.
5. Open Power Point to create your presentation. Change the spell checking feature to Spanish. From your researched text develop the key ideas which will constitute each slide.
6. Select appropriate graphics and /or photos. You may use ArtToday.com. and save graphics in your folder on Curricular Projects.
7. Add your graphics to your slides. Check your work again for correct grammar usage and spelling.
8. Your last slide should be a bibliography with hyperlinks to any web resources.
9. Make sure all your work is saved to your Curricular Projects folder.
10. Print out a copy of your Power Point in outline form. Give this to your teacher.
11. When completely finished print out a copy of your presentation which will include your bibliography, using the 3 slide per page method.
12. On the day of your presentation give a copy of your presentation , including your bibliography, in the three slide per page method, to your teacher to be graded according to the project rubric. Include a vocabulary list if necessary.

Conclusion

By completing this project, you have helped your classmates identify and review the cultural material of La Gran Aventura de Alejandro. You have utilized research skills in the acquisition of facts and the preparation of a bibliography, you have honed your organizational skills in preparing the presentation in outline form, you have expanded your Spanish vocabulary, and you have practiced your oral skills in presenting this project to your classmates. You have gained technical experience using Power Point.

This project designed by Debbie Mersky, Spanish Teacher for Germantown Academy Middle School. With site design and technical assistance from Carol Siwinski, Curricular Technology Specialist.

December, 2003