1. PUT YOUR COURSE CONTRACT HW IN THE BLUE BASKET ON THE PODIUM.
9 de septiembre 2014
Aim: How can students understand the benefits of studying a foreign language?
Objetivo: ¿Cómo pueden los estudiantes a entenderlos beneficios de estudiar un idioma extranjero?
II. Homework: Write a paragraph of how you feel learning a foreign language will impact your future.
III. Do Now: In your own words, explain the objective of this Spanish course (two paragraphs).
IV. Course Description: 
Watch video "Foreign Language Study Benefits"
1. What are the benefits of studying a foreign language?
2. What do you think Margaret Spelling meant when she stated "more than ever, success in the world depends on what you know, not where you live?
3. Why do you think speaking a foreign language is the highest skill on demand?
4. Why do you think studying a second language, and becoming bilingual, increases cognitive development and flexibility?

2. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS:
1. What are the benefits of studying a foreign language?
2. What do you think Margaret Spelling meant when she stated "more than ever, success in the world depends on what you know, not where you live?
3. Why do you think speaking a foreign language is the highest skill on demand?
4. Why do you think studying a second language, and becoming bilingual, increases cognitive development and flexibility?