9/1 - Masculine vs. feminine nouns, body parts

1. Esponja, check homework.
2. Discussion of masuline and feminine nouns. In Spanish, all nouns have a gender. There are general rules as to what makes a word masculine or feminine, but they have many exceptions. Masculine words take the article "el" to mean "the", feminine ones take "la" to mean "the."In general, words that end in "o" are masculine, and ones that end in "a" are feminine. We have only learned one exception to this rule so far, la mano. It is important to memorize the article together with the noun, so never practice "libro", always practice "el libro."
This discussion is also in the text on page 11.

3. Students had to draw a person and label all 18 body parts from our list.

La tarea: finish your drawing if necessary.