Class on March 8

Today we worked on final drafts of our basketball stories. You will need to write your stories in your best penmanship in PEN!!
Your illustration needs to be on white computer paper. I would like you to color them, but you don't HAVE to. Your final drafts of your stories are due TOMORROW, and your illustrations are not due until we are putting together our final book.

We will be writing stories for every sport in this section. I feel like I need to remind you. DO NOT USE GOOGLE TRANSLATE!!!! It is INCORRECT! First of all, you do not know how to use many of the verb tenses that they will give you. Second, the grammar is completely wrong. Third, the vocabulary does NOT always translate correctly from English. It is SO obvious when you use translators. Not only is it creating incorrect stories, but it isn't helping you at all with your grammar. YOU need to be writing your stories because YOU are the one that needs to know how to write in Spanish. As much as I love correcting a million mistakes on papers, I don't. And I particularly get upset when the mistakes are happening because you were too lazy to do your homework yourself.

I would like to thank the students who did their own homework without using a translator. I'm sure you can share with your classmates that you hardly had any corrections to make on your stories compared to the people using a translating site.

I will thank you to NEVER use a translator again. Please TRUST that Mr. Lingle and myself are teaching you everything you need to know for the level of Spanish you are in. We would not lead you astray!!