Station4

=**Station 4: Words, Word Counts, and Vocabulary (Languages Required**)=

You are a junior (11th grade) Spanish language student in Mrs. Brown's Spanish 3 class. You have learned many words, phrases and constructions in Spanish, but she wants you to compare and contrast English and Spanish as used in everyday media.
 * Introduction**


 * What you will need:**
 * Your job is to find two online news stories on the same story - one in English, and one in Spanish (or, insert language of choice). Find these articles from the websites established newspapers in each language, and they need not be longer than 500 words.
 * MS Word
 * Wordle (just "Google" for it)


 * What you need to do:**

Using Wordle, create a Wordle "word picture" for each of the articles. Then, take a paragraph (minimum three sentences) from each article and paste it into a Word Document (make sure you cite/label each article in the Word document).
 * Choose a color for each major part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, article)
 * For all occurrences of that part of speech, highlight it in that color in both articles
 * Compare the counts of each part of speech in the English article versus the Spanish article, and compare the Wordle pictures for each. Then, answer the following questions:
 * What similarities and differences are there?
 * What conclusions can you draw about the languages based on these similarities/differences?
 * What conclusions can you draw about the languages based on the Wordle pictures?
 * What difference in emphasis can you infer from the Wordle pictures?


 * At the end of the station, you should have...**
 * The save image and/or screenshot of each Wordle picture.
 * The highlighted Word document, with counts at the bottom of each article for the parts of speech for that article
 * Your answers to the questions above.


 * When finished, post the items you have "at the end of the station" to your blog (making sure to label the blog entry with the station's name and number, and labeling all sections. Then, if this is your first station - go to the next station.**