Jenna Rhatigan

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Spanish Culture
Grade Level 7-8 Graders
Jenna Rhatigan
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Lesson Objective(s) By participating in a
simulation of a bullfight, held in Spain,
students will gain an understanding of what a
real bullfight consists of.
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Lesson Objective(s) The students receive a full
insight on how risky and dangerous this form of
entertainment really is. Throughout this process
they will be using specific websites I have
pre-approved to get a clear understanding on what
a bullfight consists of.
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Lesson Objective(s)

• The students will also be able to
• identify each person involved in
• a bullfight.

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Introduce the Learning Activity

• I will begin the class by simply asking the
  students What is a bullfight? I will then pass
  out a worksheet to the class listing bullfight
  vocabulary. There will be words provided in
  English and Spanish.

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Provide Information For this lesson I will
provide a definition worksheet that includes any
information the students will need for basic
knowledge of this topic.
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Provide InformationI will also give a list of
websites I feel are necessary in showing the
students how a bullfight is conducted and by
accessing these websites the students will be
able to give a step by step outline of the many
steps and procedures of a bullfight.
http//www.sharkonline.org/?P0000000423
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Provide Information

• They will be able to clearly read about each
• person involved in a fight as well as there
• specific role. After they get a more detailed
• idea of how the fight is conducted, they will
• be asked to follow along with the worksheet
• they were handed out in the beginning while
• I read the steps listed.

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Provide Information Each matador and his team
walk out together in a procession across the
arena. The first bull is engaged by the first
bullfighter's assistants, with large purple
capes, to see how it moves in the bullring.
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• Provide Information
• The judge signals the entry of one or two
  picadores, one of whom is to pierce the bull's
  neck in a limited way. The aim is to plunge their
  lances into the bull's neck, thus weakening its
  strong neck muscles.

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Provide Information

• The first of three banderilleros
• (usually older bullfighters who form part of the
  matador's team)
• individually run towards the bull,
• making him charge. Their job is to insert two
• banderillas (decorated wooden sticks with spiked
  ends) over the horns into the bull's neck muscle.

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Provide Information

• The matador engages the bull with his
• cape in a series of passes. When the
• bull is weak and unable to charge
• much longer, he pulls out a curved sword, with
  which he kills the bull by inserting the sword
  between the cervical vertebra and into the bulls
  heart.

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Provide Information

• Then I will show the following clip
• http//youtube.com/watch?vsaNNLzRwEosfeaturerel
  ated

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Provide Practice

• The students will have an opportunity to
• practice this task because over a two
• week period. The students will stand in
• front of the class in there group and
• conduct a bullfight with any props they
• may need and also they will describe to
• the class who they are and what there
• role is in the bullfight at all times.

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Provide Practice

• Finally after the approval of the school,
  parents and students, I will use a video camera
  to tape each group as they do there skit and they
  we will enjoy watching them as a class.

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• Provide Knowledge of Results
• Prior to the students getting on camera I will
  monitor there skits throughout the time I give
  them to practice to make sure they have
  everything clear about the correct steps of the
  bullfight.

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Provide Knowledge of Results In order to
critique each student individually I will pull
them aside and ask them which website they used
in order to learn there role and if they enjoyed
working with that specific website. To provide
written feedback I will have each student hand in
a daily log of what they have been practicing and
there feelings on how it is coming along and the
things that need improvement.
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• Review the Activity
• The students will review the activity daily by
  practicing there skits and using the websites to
  acquire any information they are lacking. There
  daily log will also inform me whether or not
  anyone is behind.

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Review the Activity

• About twenty minutes prior to the end of every
  class I will have each student get into a group
  they havent worked with keeping there same role
  just working with different people to insure that
  there knowledge is accurate even when they arent
  working within their comfort zone.

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• Method of Assessment
• In order to assess that the students have
  acquired the proper knowledge about the Spanish
  culture, specifically keying in on the spectator
  sport of bullfighting, they will be graded
  partially on there video which they should be
  able to identify the people involved in a
  bullfight.

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Method of Assessment

• Also on a short composition regarding their
  feelings of the sport of bullfighting now that
  they know the inside story because most of which
  we will be covering goes unsaid. They will be
  asked to include whether they think if this
  sport should be abolished or if it is simply a
  part of there culture.