  Inside: Activities and my plans for teaching Episode 3 of the Disney+ show Tierra Incógnita.
Hola and welcome back to another chat about teaching the show Tierra Incógnita. In this blog I'm talking about Episode 3. If you haven't read my blogs about Pre-teaching, Episode 1, or Episode 2 I recommend starting there to get a feel for how long my classes are, student abilities , and my planning patterns. As always we start by simply watching Episode 3 as a class. I do this in one class period and I play the show with Spanish subtitles. Students know that we will review the episode in more comprehensible Spanish and that I'll help clarify next episode -- their goal is to 1)enjoy and take in what they can and 2) complete their viewing guide. The viewing activity for this episode had students read a series of sentences in level appropriate Spanish, but it would periodically come to a spot where they had to make a choice between two words to accurately complete the sentence based on what we had seen. I chose the words pretty strategically, so that even if the correct word was a new or unknown word for my students they should confidently know they other word so that they could accurately assume the unknown word was correct and hopefully acquire that word from context. For example: Carmen le muestra (shows) a Eric (una caja/un libro) llena (full) de cosas de su mamá. - Libro is a known word for my students, but caja is not. However, if they are watching the show it is pretty easy to see that Eric's aunt does NOT hand him a book, but a box and thus students can interpret the unknown word from context visually and hopefully acquire that caja means box as we move forward. I also like this activity, because the sentences are in order of what we are watching , so lower students can use it as an aid as they watch to understand what is happening. After viewing activities: The next class period we spent the class reviewing and comprehending what we had seen. We did a clip chat of the episode in comprehensible Spanish, checked their answers from their viewing guide, and then played a game of 2 truths and 1 lie. Students write two true things that happened in this week's episode and 1 lie in Spanish and then I collected them and read them out loud having students say 1, 2, ,3 as the one they thought was the lie -- I collect and read them so I can edit and make their writing more comprehensible -- they got writing practice and listening practice all from the one activity and had fun trying to trick their peers. If you are interested in grabbing my ready made viewing guide (plus a bonus 'advanced' version of the viewing activity), clip chat slides, and student hand outs for 2 truths and 1 lie you can grab them HERE.
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