  Inside: Activities and plans for teaching Episode 4 of Tierra Incógnita from Disney+. Hola and welcome back to another chat about teaching the show Tierra Incógnita. In this blog I'm talking about Episode 4. If you haven't already I recommend going back and joining me on the journey with pre-teaching and Episode 1, Episode 2, and Episode 3, so you can see the whole scope and sequence. As always, we start by watching the Episode. Episode 4 is a fun one with lots of new information revealed. It's also pretty easy to follow what's happening for my Spanish 3 students , so I really wanted to lean into letting them have the opportunity to really focus on what was going on, but still wanted to accountability piece of a viewing activity as well as a way to collect data that they were comprehending what they watched quickly and effectively. Students watched the episode and completed a Glyph comprehension worksheets. Glpyh worksheets are a great tool in the world language classroom. Here is a great blog by The Comprehensible Classroom that lays out all the awesomeness of using them in your classroom to access and get in repetitions of structures. I like using this as a way to make multiple choice a little more engaging and as a way for students to get in exposure and repetitions of question structures. Students watched the episode and there were 10 questions to answer that went chronologically with the episode. They read the comprehension questions and then read potential answers to them. Each answer had a corresponding color attached to it (yay for sneaky receptions of colors), they then used their answers to figure out what color corresponded with what number -- if they were correct aka comprehended the show and questions accurately then their coloring pages would be colored in correctly. So for example , if for question one their answer they chose had (amarillo) after it then they should color all the ones on the coloring by number aka glyph yellow to represent their answer. Bonus: sometimes even teenagers need an excuse to color!  The next Monday we did not do a ClipChat for the first time since starting the show. Instead we reviewed what had happened so far and practiced for a listening assessment. We played Resentimiento which you can learn more about and how to play at my blog here, but it is always a huge hit . I also assigned this Gimkit HW that my lovely coworkers helped co-create (Hola, Lili and Grace if you're reading this -- you guys are literally the absolute best!). The listening assessment was structured to follow our grading scales using proficiency based performance scales. We read out sentences describing characters in the show students should be familiar with -- we started out with simple statements like "Esta persona es sobreprotectora y estricta. " (Santiago) that were more obvious and our higher level sentences were more about things characters did and required understanding more of the details like -- "Esta persona entró en el parque abandonado con sus amigos y fue atacado en las cavernas por su primo." (Agustín). We did 3 at each level of our proficiency scale and in my resources I laid out more examples of how we went about accessing for proficiency. Overall, it was a difficult assessment for some, but many students also excelled - -and this is most likely not shocking to any of my fellow teachers out there -- the ones that practiced with the Gimkit and consistently completed viewing guides and participated in class ClipChats Ep1-4 were in the upper percentage. You could potentially decrease the difficulty by making it so no characters are repeated, but we liked that students had to demonstrate truly knowing who we were describing, by making it, so that ANY character could be the answer for ANY question.  There's a bonus activity in this episode's resources -- part because I didn't inlcude ClipChat screenshots slides, which are some of my favorite and also the most time consuming parts of these episode lesson plans, but mostly because one year ago I was teaching in a school that required we use an incredibly outdated approach -- not even a textbook but lists of verbs and vocab determined by a teacher years ago and I was required to teach vocabulary surrounding "dar consejos", so I was doing everything I could to incorporate those structures and vocabulary into engaging activities. From this was born a bonus set of posters called "Dar consejos". I had students simply complete a gallery walk, rotating around the room, and write advice for each character based on the scenario the character gave and they we had some people share out their advice. You could also give them to small groups and have each group share their ideas with the class. Either way, it's not a bad set of vocab or structures to learn in an engaging context students find it entertaining to give advice to characters we all know. I wanted to add it to this in case there was even one teacher like me a year ago that this would help.
So if you are interested in grabbing my ready made viewing guides (a novice and intermediate version of the questions), Resentimiento review game questions, dar consejos character gallery walk posters and 3 versions of a listening assessment you can grab them ALL HERE.
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