UNIT 4: THE PATH TO MODERN SPAIN

1. THE RESTORATION

Monday, 18th April 2022

HI EVERYBODY!!! I'M ALMA, THE GRANDMA AND I TRY TO HELP YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS NEW UNIT CALLED: THE PATH TO MODERN SPAIN. 

Like all the changes that happen in history, this one brought consequences like the second republic or a civil war. Yes, yes, they spent their lives fighting, but don't worry, we're going to see everything that happened little by little.

As you know, at this time, Spain was in a republic, that is, we did not have a king. For this reason, the next point that we are going to study is called:

The restoration was the return of the Bourbon dynasty to power. It was a time of economic growth and stability, but it came at the cost of democracy and freedom.

As you know, the foundations of the restoration were based on the 1876 constitution, so the first activity that we are going to carry out is to read the main characteristics of this new constitution:

The main characteristics of the Constitution were these: Sovereignty shared between the King and the Cortes:

- Legislative power is shared between the Cortes and the King, who can last to veto laws and dissolve the chambers

-The Crown has the executive power, being able to appoint the head of government and the

ministers.

- The Courts are bicameral, with a Senate formed by royal appointment and a congress elected by direct suffrage

-It also establishes a catholic confessional state, although other religions as long as they respect it.

-It does not pronounce itself regarding the type of suffrage nor regarding the type of electoral procedure, until the year 1890 in which it becomes suffrage masculine universal.

-City councils and councils are under government control, central organization.

-Rights similar to those of the Constitution of 1869 (inviolability of domicile, freedom of residence, conscience, profession...).

In pairs, you will have to relate each article that we have read aloud with the characteristics that the constitution had in order to understand what each of these refers to.

Wednseday, 20th April 2022

Good morning dear students!!

Another day studying the wonderful restoration and when we talk about it we cannot forget the bipartisanship of the political forces that governed.

On this occasion, we are going to hold a meeting as if we were part of these parties that wanted to govern.

We will divide again into 4 groups, two of them will belong to the Liberal Party and the other two to the Conservative Party. We will do it by lottery.

Once each group knows which party they are going to represent, they should look for information on the internet about the bases on which they were based and prepare an electoral program to later present it to the rest of the classmates. You have to choose a spokesperson who will be the one to speak. When we finish the meeting, we will vote for the party that seems best to us.

Monday, 25th April 2022

Hi guys!! The end of the restoration came when the oppositions to the system were presented since they weakened the system. As you well know, these oppositions were: the republican parties, the labor movement and nationalism. 

Each group that formed the opposition was divided into subgroups, that is, there were different republican parties, various labor movements and various nationalisms.

We will make different murals with the characteristics that each of these had. In total, there were 8 so each group will do two of them. You can search for information on the internet.

2. THE SECOND REPUBLIC 

Wednseday, 27th April 2022

Good morning guys!! As you know, after the restoration was finished, the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera began, a military man who took power in Spain although he kept Alfonso XIII as king. Primo de Rivera had no support and elections were called, from which the second Republic emerged.

To better understand exactly what happened, we are going to watch a video that explains a little about how the Second Republic began and ended.

After watching the video you must fill in this form. To do this we will see the video 3 times: the first time you cannot write anything, just watch and understand the video, the second time you will collect as much data as possible and the third time, it will serve to fill in the data that you have missed.

Afterwards, we will play a trivia game about the second republic. For this we will use the clasdojo application where each of you will have an emoji. There we will collect the groups with their names, the application will name a member of the group and they will have to go out and say the correct answer. If they are correct, all the members of the group will have a point. The one with the most points will win.

Link: Genially

In the next class, we are going to see what happened in the Spanish civil war. It is possible that your grandparents or great-grandparents lived through that event or have a lot of information about it. For this reason, I ask you to collect all the information you can only with what your relatives tell you.

3. THE CIVIL WAR

Friday, 29th April 2022

Happy Wednseday my dear students!! I hope you have had a good bridge, that you have rested a lot and compiled a lot of information about the civil war as I asked you. 

First of all, we are going to brainstorm on the board with everything you have written in your notebooks. As we copy them on the board, you must copy the data that you do not have so that we all have the same information and can work with it.

Next, each one of you will vote for 4 ideas that we have written down and then distribute one of them to each group and do a job.

Wednesday, 4th May 2022

Happy Friday guys!! Today, we are going to do our project about the Spanish Civil War. 

The four most voted ideas in the previous session were:

1. Spain was divided into two large factions that fought each other.

2. Conflicts were carried out in the name of God.

3. Franco was appointed “Generalissimo of the national land, sea and air forces” and “Head of the Government of the Spanish State”.

4. The events of May 1937.

Each group will choose one of the following facts and must choose all the relevant information on the subject and must carry out a project of free choice, you can make a power point or an infographic, a mural, whatever you want and you can think of. To give to the imagination!!

Friday, 6th May 2022

It's the end of the topic!! Today we are going to see some painting. We are going to plunge into the world of art with one of the most famous paintings by a very famous painter from Malaga as well. Can you guess what I am talking about? Of course, it is Pablo Picasso's Guernica.

For 5 minutes you will be able to observe the painting, look at every detail and think about the relationship between this painting and what is seen on the agenda. To do this, you will have to be totally silent and write down in the notebook that the image suggests and what you are discovering about it.

Then, in groups on continuous paper, you are going to make a version of the table including those most outstanding aspects that you have studied.

Review Unit 4

 Monday, 9th May 2022

Good morning guys! As I told you last week we have already finished this topic and next Wednesday we will have the activity that I will evaluate to see what you have learned in this unit. So today we are going to review what we learned.

As in the previous topic, we are going to make a timeline with the most important dates that we have learned, the names of the main characters, etc. Each group will do their own with the information that you have been collecting throughout the unit since each group has different information.

When we finish we will hang it in the class so that it can help us tomorrow in the evaluable activity.

UNIT 5: OUR RIGHTS, OUR COUNTRY, OUR CONSTITUTION

 1. THE SPANISH CONSTITUTION

Friday, 13th May 2022

NEW UNIT GUYSS!!!!!

OUR RIGHTS, OUR COUNTRY, OUR CONSTITUTION.

As you know, after the civil war in Spain, the dictatorship of Francisco Franco began, which lasted 36 years. Upon his death in 1975 the people of Spain decided to begin a peaceful transition to democracy.

After the death of Francisco Franco on November 20, 1975, the Regency Council assumed the power of the State, who on November 22 named Don Juan Carlos King of Spain.

WHAT HAPPENED IN JUNE 1977?

This date was very important for the democracy of our country. So in groups, you must investigate this fact and write a 100-150 word essay on this important fact and the consequences it had.

When you have the redactions you will have to expose it and tell your colleagues what you have found because it is possible that some of you find information that others do not.

Monday, 16th May 2022

Hi guys!! Good start to the weekend! 

As you know because we studied on December, on sixth  December 1978, the citizens of Spain voted in favour of the Constitution through a referendum. It established Spain as a democracy by creating a constitutional monarchy and guaranteeing Spanish citizens' rights, like equality, freedom of expression and voting. 

Travel back in time to 1978, The Spanish people have just got a lot of new rights, rules and systems, but they need a tam of experts to help explain it all. 

So to explain the new Spanish rights and systems, we are going to record a news report for the class to see. For this, you will use the small book that we made on the day of the constitution. Imagine that you are part of the parliament and you have to explain what our new political system is going to be based on and what its new bases are.

2. DIVISON OF POWER

Wednesday, 18th May 2022

Good morning!! 

One of the great changes brought about by the approval of the new constitution was the separation of the three powers, as we have already seen in class.

In groups, we are going to make a model of the separation of powers. That is, you must create some resource to exemplify the three powers. For example: a prism with three faces where each of them represents each power with its characteristics. You can make a model of anything that has three sides, faces, etc.

Friday, 20th May 2022

Good morning guys!! I hope you are ready for today's class. In this case we are going to see the institutions of Spain through the following power point:

https://www.slideshare.net/maestrablank/the-institutions-of-spain?from_action=save

When we see the power point, we will make a lapbook with all the points that we have seen in the presentation.

Monday, 23rd May 2022

Good morning and happy start to the week dear students!! To better understand how the Senate works from the inside, we are going to investigate the following web page where they tell us how the work inside the Senate is. In addition, we can play different games to understand how it works. In groups we will read all the information and investigate the page.

https://www.senado.es/pequenosenado/es/med/cuanto_sabes

3. AUTONUMUS COMMUNITIES, PROVINCES AND MUNICIPALITIES

Wednesday, 25th May 2022

Good Wednesday guys!! As we have already seen in class, the autonomous communities are going to play a card game. Each couple will receive cards with the name of the autonomous communities and cards with the different provinces, as is logical you will have to find and match the cards of the provinces with their autonomous community. In addition, the autonomous cities will be incognito. 

The first couple that finds the autonomous cities will have one more point since we will score as the couples finish and have matched the provinces and autonomous communities.

Autonomous communities and provinces

Review Unit 5

Friday 27th May, 2022

Finally Friday guys! In addition, we have already finished the topic so today it is time to review for the final activity in which you will demonstrate everything you know.

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First of all, let's watch the following video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1T0NLXcDyM

Afterwards, in groups will make a short summary of the video that will serve as a guide for tomorrow's activity, which, as you know, will be evaluable. you can add drawings, colors, the more beautiful the better

UNIT 6: THE EUROPEAN UNION

1. THE EU AND ITS HISTORY

Wednesday, 1st June 2022

Hi guys! As you know, with me you are going to see the EUROPEAN UNION. Learn about the history of the EU, its institutions, the euro,… I love everything related to this topic and I hope you do too! In addition, this is the final stretch and summer vacations are coming. 

Today we are going to start to see which countries belong to the EU. As we have already seen in class, not everyone entered at the same time, since they started with six founding countries, and then 22 more countries joined. This has made a total of: 28 strong countries!

In addition, there have also been four treaties and agreements which have shown the evolution of the fundation: Treaty of Rome, Maastricht Treaty, Schengen Agreement and the Lisbon Treaty.

In order to make it clearer to us when the different countries have entered and dealt with, the activity that we are going to carry out is a time line. We are going to do it in the notebook and it will be something so cool.

As you have noticed, the United Kingdom has left the EU… Do you know the reasons? To find out about them you have to do a research activity in which you have to look for 5 reasons why this has happened. We will review it the next day! 

Friday, 3rd June 2022

Good morning guys! Today is the last day of the week and today we are going to do a research project. I love to investigate and that is why in this unit we are going to carry out a lot of investigations.

First of all we are going to correct the exercise of the previous day. Have you found many reasons and consequences? Hope so! We will put them all together.

We are going to move to the ICT classroom and in pairs, we are going to look for the advantages and disadvantages of belonging to the European Union. I'm sure you find more advantages than disadvantages! To help you a little, I suggest you search about economic aspects, health, travel, activities and programs, politics and education.

You will have all class time to look for information. At the end, you will publish everything you have found in the blog forum with your name and surname.

Guys remember! Today in class we have talked about the fact that we are going to do a grupal final project (between 3-4 people): Explain a country of the European Union. You have to deal with the following aspects: location, culture, health, education, economy and its flag. On June 15 you will expose it in class, so we will all learn together! You can be as creative as possible and you can use any resource: powerpoint, cardboard, genially, video, … Work hard!

2. INSTITUTIONS OF THE EU

Monday, 6th June 2022

Hey guys, happy Monday! I hope you have rested the weekend, but also worked hard on your projects.

Today we are going to see the institutions that are part of the EU. We have seen that they serve to pass laws and make different decisions. To get to know them better, we are going to complete the following table with the institution, composition and its location.

As you know, we have seen all the contents of the table in class but we don't know where they are located. Then we have to search on the Internet where each institution is located and next to it I will give you a photo of each one in which you will have to paste next to the one that corresponds.

3. THE EURO AND THE SINGLE MARKET

Wednesday, 8th June 2022

Hi guys! Today we are going to start the last section of the topic. First of all we will explain what the single market is and the functions it has. To do this, we are going to watch this very short one-minute video.

After watching the video and understanding what it consists of, we are going to answer the following questions:

1. How long ago was the single market created?
2. With what purpose?
3. For whom has he removed obstacles?
4. How did the EU achieve this?
5. What has the single market achieved?

Don't worry if you don't have time to complete the questions because we will watch the video three times.

On the other hand, since I like you to investigate this unit, I want you to publish in the forum 3 positive aspects of the single market. See you next day!

Friday, 10th June 2022

Hello, guys and welcome to the last class of the topic! To finish the topic, we are going to carry out another research project. Right now we are detectives from investigating so much!

As we have been seeing in the other classes, the currency we currently use is the euro, but did you know that the peseta existed before as a monetary form? Surely your parents and grandparents have lived with it.

Therefore, in addition to investigating today the differences between the two currencies in class, you will ask your family at home about their experience with the peseta and which currency they prefer, and the next day you will give it to me in class.

Review Unit 6

Monday, 13th June 2022

Hi guys! Today we are going to review all the contents that we have seen in this topic. But first we are going to see the opinions of your families about the peseta and the euro. There sure is variety!

First, let's start by reviewing the countries that belong to the EU. To do this, we are going to start playing this game in which all the countries of Europe appear. Click the pictures to start the games.

In this game we have to select all the countries that belong to the European Union. Be careful because we cannot repeat the countries that we have selected!

Link: Toropa.eu

To review section two, that is, the institutions, we are going to play a game that I have created: A trivia game! The game consists of 6 questions, about each institution. There will only be one correct answer. Good luck! 

To finish the revision class, we are going to see the euro section, we are going to play another game in which we have to know the countries that belong to the 'Eurozone'. To do this, we will drag the currency with a value of one euro to the country that we believe uses it.

Link: Toporoca.eu

THIRD QUARTERLY REVIEW

Friday, 17th June 2022

UNIT 4: THE PATH TO MODERN SPAIN

Nowadays, all major events are recorded on social media with photos or videos.

Imagine you were at one of the historical events above and had a mobile phone to record it. In your notebook, write what event that we study in the unit 4 you would take to post online and why you chose it. Then draw what you think it would look like.

UNIT 5: OUR RIGHTS, OUR COUNTRY, OUR CONSTITUTION

Imagine that you have to create your own class constitution taking into account all the aspects that we have studied in unit 5. In groups, create your own constitution with your own democratic system. 

Then, you will have to expose it in class explaining each point that you have included and why.

UNIT 6: THE EUROPEAN UNION

For the last unit, which is the most recent, we are going to make a sheet in which we will review the EU countries, the institutions and the single market.

Review Sheet to download