This document outlines a lesson plan for teaching 9th and 10th grade Spanish students about the San Fermin Festival in Spain. The lesson will use hands-on activities like a bull-running game and tasting traditional Spanish food to teach students about the history and traditions of the festival in an engaging way. Students will learn vocabulary related to morality, ethics, and Spanish traditions. They will also write a paper arguing either for or against the festival to practice using the past and imperfect tenses as well as the subjunctive mood. The lesson aims to incorporate different learning styles and draw on principles of adolescent development.

1. My Project First
Class
Meghan Shephard
TAL103

2. Why did you choose the
topic?
• Eliminate Negative
Reputation:
• Boring
• Unnecessary
• Difficult
• Create Positive Change
• Less drilling
• more hands on activities

3. Who is the intended
audience?
• Secondary Spanish
• 9th/10th grade
• Non-native/non-heritage speakers

4. What will you teach?
• History of San Fermin
• Bishop Saturninus - death of his mentor
• San Fermin Festival
• Creation
• Purpose
• The running of the bulls
• connection to St. Saturninus
• Event characteristics
• Spanish tradition
• Morals and ethics

5. What will you teach?
• Rhetorical function
• New vocabulary
• morality, ethics, traditions, religion, and the San Fermin
Festival
• Grammatical Function
• Stress use of
• Past tense (history)
• Imperfect (habitual traditions)
• Subjunctive (defending your argument – convincing
reader)

6. How do you plan to teach
the content and assess
the student learning?
• The Running of the Bulls Game
• Modeled after “Tag”
• Dress up in red and white
• Act the roles of bull or fighter
• Youtube.com videos
• Running of the bulls  bull fight
• traditional Spanish food
• Discussion paper
• Choose side – for or against
• Morality and ethics – defend argument

7. Which principles from the sociological and
psychological foundations course will guide
you in planning and teaching your lesson?
• Learning preference
• Kinesthetic – game, food
• Visual – videos, food
• Auditory – videos, game, music, discussion
• Multiple intelligences
• interpersonal - game
• bodily-kinesthetic - game
• Musical – music, video
• Spatial – game
• linguistic – discussion, paper

8. Which principles from the sociological and
psychological foundations course will guide
you in planning and teaching your lesson?
• Erik Erikson
• Moral developmental stage
• Identity versus role confusion – adolescence
• Independence in forming opinions
• Defending argument
• Conforming or non-conforming
• Peer pressure

9. THANK YOU