ASSIGNMENT TOPICS SEARCHING THE SHELVES LEARNING RESEARCH HUB INTERNET SITES

• Select a famous Spanish speaking person, living or dead: king, author, singer,

composer, politician, explorer, Spanish teacher (chiste…), etc. from the lists below.
Students must receive topic approval from the Instructor.
 
• You are to video tape an "interview" with that person.  The interview must include:

 
a.  Biographical information
b.  Life experiences/persons that influenced the person.
     (good place for preterit vs. Imperfect, p. G51, 58)
c.  What person does/did to make him/her famous (or infamous)
d.  Thoughts, fears, hopes, regrets, predictions, sage advice, etc.
     the famous person has for the audience.
e.  Extensive use of the grammatical  structures from the killer verb chart (=KVC)
     including WENDI structures, p. G77 - 79,   Sequence of tenses, p. G120,121,
     each type of  "Si"clause,  p. G 123,  la voz pasiva, p. G66
     (KVC:  1,4,8,10,12,16,17,21,27,28,29)
• The person being interviewed must be dressed in the style of the famous Hispanic.

 
• There must be visuals/music, etc.  (e.g. a work of art, photo/painting of aftermath of a famous battle, picture of his/her invention,  song /music playing in the background, etc.)

 
• You must submit a transcript of the entire conversation, with grammatical requirements underlined or highlighted.

 
• The conversation must be memorized (or appear to the viewer to be memorized…)

Student topic selections must be approved by the Instructor.

Pintores	Musicos, Compositores, etc.	Escritores	Politicos, etc.
Francisco de Goya y    Lucientes  el Greco (Domenico     Theotocopulos)  Pablo Ruiz de Picasso Joan Miró Salvador Dalí Diego Velázquez	Isaac Albeniz Enrique Granados Manuel de Falla Pablo Casals Andres Segovia Monserrat Caballe Placido Domingo Jose Carreras Julio Iglesias Manolete ( matador)	Alfonso X, el Sabio Miguel de Cervantes    de Saavedra    (OR Don Quijote)  Federico Garcia Lorca Ana Maria Matute	Francisco Franco Fernando e Isabel Juana la Loca

Pintores	Musicos, Compositores, etc.	Escritores	Politicos, etc.
Diego Rivera y    Frieda Kahlo Jose Clemente     Orozco Rufino Tamayo Wilfredo Lam Fernando Botero	Carlos Chavez Agustin Lara Cantinflas  Desi Arnaz Ruben Blades Celia Cruz Gloria Estefan Ricky Martin Jimmy Smits Selena Cristina Saralegui Oscar de la Renta	Bernal Diaz del     Castillo Simon Bolivar Jose Marti Nicolas Guillen Pablo Neruda Octavio Paz Gabriel Garcia     Marquez Carlos Fuentes Isabel Allende	Oscar Romero   (Salvadoran hero and     martyr)  Fidel Castro (Cuba) Fulgencia Batista     (preceded  Castro)  Rigoberta Menchu    (Nobel Peace Prize -     Guatemala)  Daniel Ortega (Nicaragua) Juan Domingo Peron    y  Eva (Evita )Peron  Salvador Allende      (Chile) Pancho Villa (Mexico) Oscar Arias Sanchez   (Nobel Peace Prize -    Costa  Rica)  Antonia Novello    (Surgeon General, US)  Javier Perez de     Cuéllar (Sec. of UN )
Atletas
Roberto Clemente Fernando Valenzuela Sammy Sosa Ramón Martínez Roberto Clemente

All computers in the library can access the Media Center's Electronic Card Catalog.  It is located on the Global Access Menu under Media Center Programs.  The Catalog identifies all the holdings (books, etc.) of the WJHS Media Center.  It is also possible to search for materials on the MCPS Library Catalog Online.Be sure to set the limits of your search to Walter Johnson HS only.

  For this assignment, the following call numbers will be helpful: 92  and 920 (Biographies)

Learning Research Hub

Walter Johnson’s Learning Research Hub provides access to a catalog of all books and materials located in the Media Center, and to a wide variety of general and subject-based online reference materials.
The links below provide useful research tools for this project.
 
 

General Resources* Encyclopedia, Almanacs, Dictionaries, Atlases  Literature Resources* News & Magazine Resources*

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INTERNET SITES

Use the following Internet Sites for information on this project.  If you discover other useful Internet sites complete the Internet Checklist (copies available in Media Center) to authenticate the site.

Famous Hispanics in the World and History

Biography.com

Composers with Biographies

Classical Net - Composer Master Index

Ready Reference:  Artists and Musicians Biographies

WebMuseum, Paris

Art History Resources on the Web

Famous Hispanics -- Writers and Artists

People:  Biographies

People - Kansas City Public Library

Hispanic Culture

People

ZonaLatina (Latin American Magazines)

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