¡Buenos días! Me llamo Erick y soy estadounidense. En septiembre de 2017, el huracán Irma entró por la Florida. Mi familia y yo sentíamos miedo porque fue el primer huracán en que vivíamos. Los vientos fuertes causaron erosión en las playas, inundaciones y daños a las propiedades. Muchas personas tuvieron falta de electricidad. Después del huracán, ayudamos a limpiar las playas y compramos comida para las personas sin electricidad. Based on the text, what might a person from Costa Rica have done similarly immediately after the natural disaster? Flee the location. Shelter their pets. Volunteer to assist. Write the governor.

Becoming a lifelong learner learning a language opens doors to a world of opportunity. of course, in order to really benefit from your studies, you’ll need to do more than just complete assignments. you’ll need to set habits that will tie you to spanish and its cultures even beyond the classroom. students who become lifelong learners of spanish have some basic characteristics and habits that you should develop if you want to get the most from your experience learning spanish. lifelong learners: have friends with whom they regularly converse in the target language. (this could be friends in school, neighbors or friends in the community.) regularly get information from target language sources (newspapers, magazines, internet spanish related news group (with parent’s approval), tv programs, radio, etc. that are produced by and for native speakers.) participate in activities of the target culture (celebrating holidays, seeing movies or plays of/in the target culture, preparing or eating dishes from the target culture, reading books or magazines from the target culture, etc.) someone who has developed these habits is on the way to becoming a lifelong learner. these types of habits reinforce a strong connection to the language and culture and develop a love and better understanding of that culture. think for a minute about the resources available. do you have friends who are native spanish speakers? do you ever watch spanish channels on television? you can probably think of several online sources. maybe you have some stores or restaurants in your community that are owned or frequented by spanish speakers. also think about when you could participate in spanish-related activities on a regular basis—remember that it’s setting the habits that will make the most difference. using the table below as a guideline, write out a plan for starting new habits. for the language or culture resources column, try to identify three different resources: 1. a friend or contact 2. an information source, and 3. a cultural activity. in the what i will do column, describe as specifically as you can what you will do. and in the when i will do it column, write when you plan on doing these activities. see the sample below to see how you might fill out your own table. you will have opportunities to follow up and report on your regular practice of engaging spanish resources close to home. you will be asked in a follow up assignment to report on what you have done.

Instructions: create a public service announcement in spanish on severe weather procedures to encourage the community to be prepared. use the graphic organizer to organize your ideas and to write the vocabulary that you need to create your public service announcement. refer to pages 1, 2 and 3 of the lesson area for terms and ideas to you fill out the organizer and, ultimately, create your psa. this announcement can be a flyer, a radio message, or a tv message. you can select the severe weather event that is approaching or imminent. describe the severe weather event and tell the community how to protect themselves before, during, or after the weather event. include at least 10 ideas related to the severe weather event and the procedures to get prepared

2. ¿qué hay en el escritorio? (three pens, seven books, a stapler, and some papers)