{"id":1382,"date":"2015-04-22T16:26:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/?p=1382"},"modified":"2015-04-22T16:26:48","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T20:26:48","slug":"using-the-spanish-subjunctive-mood-in-the-real-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/using-the-spanish-subjunctive-mood-in-the-real-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Spanish Subjunctive Mood in the Real World"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Students Get the Opportunity to See the Spanish Subjunctive Mood Applied\u00a0to the Realities of Their World<\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<div class=\"post-bodycopy clearfix\">\n<p>After a thorough introduction to and MANY practice activities with the uses of the Spanish Subjunctive Mood in Noun Clauses, students then read a cultural unit on Central America and watch a video about the growth of tourism in post-revolution Nicaragua.\u00a0 After some in-depth discussion of what they observed and learned about this region of our western hemisphere, students are assigned to write at least 5 sentences integrating the Subjunctive Mood with what they recently learned.\u00a0 Here are a few actual examples:<\/p>\n<p>Me alegro de que los nicarag\u00fcenses hayan logrado paz y seguridad en su patria.<br \/>\nI am glad that the Nicaraguan have achieved peace and security in their homeland.<\/p>\n<p>El profesor quiere que preparemos las pupusas salvadore\u00f1as para nuestra fiesta final.<br \/>\nThe teacher wants us to prepare salvadorian pupusas for our final party.<\/p>\n<p>Es interesante que el Canal de Panam\u00e1 abriera hace en siglo.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s interesting that the Panama Canal opened a century ago.<\/p>\n<p>Muchos hondure\u00f1os temen que la violencia vaya a empeorar.<br \/>\nMany Hondurans fear that the violence is going to get worse.<\/p>\n<h3>Challenges or Obstacles:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Students need to grasp the importance of using the Subjunctive Mood to express their true feelings about what people in other parts of the world are experiencing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Benefits and Successes:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Students expand their knowledge of and empathy for people who live in a dramatically different socio-economic culture than ours.<\/li>\n<li>They gain an understanding of the history of Central America and an appreciation of how much influences the reality of what&#8217;s going on there now in 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Submitted by:<\/strong>\u00a0Christopher Reid,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bsu.edu\/academy\">The Indiana Academy for Science, Mathematics and Humanities<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students Get the Opportunity to See the Spanish Subjunctive Mood Applied\u00a0to the Realities of Their World After a thorough introduction to and MANY practice activities with the uses of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,46,48,10,29],"tags":[86,99],"class_list":["post-1382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-showcase","category-indiana-academy","category-instructional","category-jr-highhigh-school","category-world-languages","tag-learning-styles","tag-spanish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/espace.bsu.edu\/bestpractices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}