Spanish 1

Spanish 2

The Course: In Spanish 2, you will be further acquainted with both the Spanish language and the culture of Spanish-speaking countries. We will discuss many topics including: school, past-times and leisure activities, clothing, celebrations and festivals, travelling, courtesy customs, etc.. Vocabulary will be functional, yet expressive in that you will be able to more creatively express your needs and opinions. Many of the structures and much of the vocabulary used in Spanish 1 will be reviewed this year. Many new structures and new vocabulary words/phrases will be introduced and used throughout the course. I strongly recommend that you keep your papers in a folder or binder. This will keep your papers handy when you need them to review and will save the binding on your textbook. It is your responsibility to keep your book, workbook, notes, paper, pen/pencil available for you to use during class. This year you will continue developing the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In using and practicing these skills, you will be able to express your basic needs and opinions, and you will be able to understand basic reading and basic conversation. While you will still not attain complete fluency, you will have the ability to communicate, to understand, and to express more in the language. Fluency is a goal for which you should continue to strive.

Testing and Grading:

Your grade will consist of three major components:

Daily Work: Daily work includes written, oral, and listening assignments. Daily work also includes your appropriate participation in oral drills, games, and other activities.

Quizzes: There will be periodic quizzes, both oral and written, over vocabulary, pronunciation, questions/answers, verb conjugations (forms) and cultural information presented throughout the course. You will usually be informed of quizzes in advance, but “pop quizzes” are possible.

Exams: At the end of each unit we will have an exam over the material discussed in the unit. These tests might also include material from previous units as well as listening and oral sections.

You are responsible for keeping unit materials until after you have successfully demonstrated mastery of the unit outcomes.

Grading Scale: The following is the grading scale for Spanish 2:

A+ --101+ Outstanding work, far surpassing required outcomes.

A --90-100 Excellent work, surpassing required outcomes.

B --89-80 Very good work, passing required outcomes.

C --79-70 Good work, passing required outcomes.

INC – 69 and below. Not yet meeting outcomes. Additional opportunity to demonstrate mastery available. INC+ and INC- are used for KSHSAA eligibility requirements.

NC –69 and below. Did not meet required outcomes. No further opportunity to demonstrate mastery.

Policies and Procedures: In order to create a good learning environment and in order for things to run smoothly, the following policies and procedures will be used.

1. You will respect the teacher and one another. You will demonstrate this respect by:

A. Listening respectfully while your classmates ask questions, answer questions, make observations etc during class. All of you will be taking some risks during the year. You will be working in groups on occasion and must be able to work with everybody. Allow everyone to practice and to take risks without laughing at them or putting them down.

B. Listening attentively without talking while the teacher is instructing the class. This includes listening during the videos, labs,etc. and includes attentive behavior for substitute teachers, visitors and student-teachers.

C. Taking notes and doing all work (oral and written) to the best of your ability.

D. Remaining in your seat while the teacher is talking to the class. You need to sharpen your pencils, throw away trash, go to the bathroom, etc. before or after class. These activities are distracting and hinder the learning of the class. If you have to go to the bathroom, you may ask when I am not busy with the class or with another student.

E. Cooperating with all substitutes, visitors, student-teachers who come into the room. Rude behavior will not be tolerated.

2. You will arrive to class on time. “On time” means you are in the room and at a minimum

moving to your seat. Tardies count and do have consequences. 1^st tardy—verbal warning, 2^nd tardy—verbal warning, 3^rd tardy—15 minute detention to be served before school, 4^th tardy—30 minute detention to be served and parent contacted. 5^th tardy—30 minute detention to be served, 6^th tardy----referred to office for 3 hour detention. Further tardies, referred to the office. Also, I call the tardies. I don’t expect this to be a problem for you. If it is, I will talk to you individually.

3. You will complete your homework assignments on time. Studying your Spanish outside of

class and doing a good job on your assignments is essential for your learning. Do a good job on your homework. If you practice and do your assignments carefully, you will do better in the class and will learn more. If your assignment is not turned in on time, (I will tell you when each assignment is due), you will receive a 0 for that assignment. This will affect your grade. If completing your homework is a problem, I will talk to you and to your parents. You will be required to complete your assignments in GS or in TGA in order to receive credit on late work. For make-up work policy see the Student Handbook. All make up tests and quizzes and/or retakes will be completed before school, after school, or during your unscheduled time.

4. You will complete all written work using pencil, or blue, black or dark purple ink. Please do not

use markers, highlighters or ink other than blue, black, or dark purple ink.

5. You will bring your book, workbook, and folder/binder to class with you everyday. You will

also need a pen/pencil for note-taking and other writing. These should be in your possession when you arrive to class.

6. You will work during the class hour until the teacher tells you that you may quit working. We

have only about 50 minutes to get our work done during class. I expect you to make the most

of the time we have in class.

Closing Thoughts: I will work very hard to make this a good learning experience for you. I want you to learn Spanish and to enjoy learning Spanish. Not everything we do will be fun, but I will vary the activities so that it will not be boring. I want you to look back on this year knowing that you have learned a lot and to look ahead to what you want to learn about Spanish in the future. To be most successful, spend 15-20 minutes a day outside of class on your Spanish.

Spanish 2 Outcomes

This course is a continuation of Spanish 1 and it is understood that the outcomes for Spanish 1 will be reinforced, reviewed, and expected of students enrolled in Spanish 2. The student will develop the basic skills to a greater degree and will be introduced to more detailed cultural and grammatical material. An intermediate level of supplemental readings is presented to the student.

The student will:

1. read and comprehend in Spanish by interpreting most headlines, titles, and main ingredients of a recipe; by identifying the main ideas in advertisements, high interest articles from a local paper or an age-appropriate magazine, by comprehending material produced and/or written for second year students.

2. speak with competency in Spanish by narrating about subjects of interest in the present tense; making simple requests; relating personal information; expressing or creating questions about subjects of interest; requesting most travel information and individual wants and needs; narrating about past and future events within a limited range; expressing very basic medical needs in an emergency.

3. write comprehensibly in Spanish by writing a simple sentence, question, and response; creating and writing guided works structured for 2nd year students; completing a personal information form; creating and writing an informal letter; writing a paragraph of opinion or narration with supporting detail.

4. listen to and comprehend basic conversation in Spanish by comprehending anticipated replies to student-produced questions in the past, present, and future; comprehending standard questions; comprehending statements and questions on topics of interest; comprehending listed narrations; responding appropriately to personal questions in the past, present, and future; comprehending basic abstractions, such as opinion; comprehending simple commands.

5. recognize the countries and capitals of the Spanish-speaking world on a globe or world map by identifying countries and capitals and major geographical features of South America; identifying countries and capitals of the Caribbean; identifying the major geographical features of Spain and the historical significance of several of its cities and regions in English; relating in English the significance of location of Spanish-speaking countries in current events.

6. compare and contrast some of the cultural differences of Spanish-speaking countries in both English and Spanish by relating the differences of customs of courtesy found in Spanish-speaking countries; relating how foods native to the Americas were shared with the western world; identifying some of the typical dishes of Mexico and South America; relating some of the important family celebrations found in Mexican and Mexican American families.

7. demonstrate the use of basic grammatical applications and functions by making adjectives into adverbs; making comparisons in Spanish utilizing adjectives and the expressions más que/menos que, el/la/los/las más de; comparing people and places, and things using tan /tanto como and descriptive adjectives; conjugating regular verbs, some radical, reflexive and common irregular verbs in the preterite and imperfect tenses; distinguishing the difference in usage of the preterite and imperfect tenses; recognizing and interpreting verbs used in the present and past progressive tenses; demonstrating a knowledge of and use of direct and indirect object pronouns; recognizing and interpreting verbs used in the present perfect tense; recognizing and using prepositions and prepositional phrases.

8. demonstrate a knowledge of important historical events and figures as well as other cultural events of importance among Spanish-speaking people by relating a knowledge of who El Cid was and of his importance in Spanish history; relating a knowledge of who Don Quixote was and his importance in Spanish literature; identifying important Hispanic-Americans and their contributions to our country; relating a knowledge of the events and people involved in the conquest of America.

Spanish 3

The Course: In Spanish 3, you will be further acquainted with both the Spanish language and the culture of Spanish-speaking countries. We will discuss many topics including: describing yourself, daily living, art and artists, television, Mayan civilization, employment, etc. Vocabulary will be functional, yet expressive in that you will be able to more creatively express your needs and opinions. Many of the structures and much of the vocabulary used in Spanish 1 and in Spanish 2 will be reviewed this year. Many new structures and new vocabulary words/phrases will be introduced and used throughout the course. I strongly recommend that you keep your papers in a folder or binder. This will keep your papers handy when you need them to review and will save the binding on your textbook. It is your responsibility to keep your book, workbook, notes, paper, pen/pencil available for you to use during class. This year you will continue developing the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. In using and practicing these skills, you will be able to express your needs and opinions and you will be able to understand basic reading and basic conversation. While you will still not attain complete fluency, you will have the ability to communicate, to understand, and to express more in the language. Fluency is a goal for which you should continue to strive.

Testing and Grading:

Your grade will consist of three major components:

Daily Work: Daily work includes written, oral, and listening assignments. Daily work also includes your appropriate participation in oral drills, games, and other activities.

Exams: At the end of each unit we will have an exam over the material discussed in the unit. These tests might also include material from previous units as well as listening and oral sections.

You will also participate in oral presentations and will write short papers which will be graded as exams.

You are responsible for keeping unit materials until after you have successfully demonstrated mastery of the unit outcomes.

Grading Scale: The following is the grading scale for Spanish 3:

A+ --101+ Outstanding work, far surpassing required outcomes.

A --90-100 Excellent work, surpassing required outcomes.

B --89-80 Very good work, passing required outcomes.

C --79-70 Good work, passing required outcomes.

INC – 69 and below. Not yet meeting outcomes. Additional opportunity to demonstrate mastery available. INC+ and INC- are used for KSHSAA eligibility requirements.

NC –69 and below. Did not meet required outcomes. No further opportunity to demonstrate mastery.

Policies and Procedures: In order to create a good learning environment and in order for things to run smoothly, the following policies and procedures will be used.

1. You will respect the teacher and one another. You will demonstrate this respect by:

B. Listening attentively without talking while the teacher is instructing the class. This includes listening during the videos, labs, etc. and includes attentive behavior for substitute teachers, visitors and student-teachers.

C. Taking notes and doing all work (oral and written) to the best of your ability.

E. Cooperating with all substitutes, visitors, student-teachers who come into the room. Rude behavior will not be tolerated.

2. You will arrive to class on time. “On time” means you are in the room and at a minimum

moving to your seat. Tardies count and do have consequences. 1^st tardy—verbal warning, 2^nd tardy—verbal warning, 3^rd tardy—15 minute detention to be served before school, 4^th tardy—30 minute detention to be served and parent contacted. 5^th tardy—30 minute detention to be served. 6^th tardy—referred to office for 3 hour detention. Further tardies, referred to the office. Also, I call the tardies. I don’t expect this to be a problem for you. If it is, I will talk to you individually.

3. You will complete your homework assignments on time. Studying your Spanish outside of

4. You will complete all written work using pencil, or blue, black or dark purple ink. Please do not use markers, highlighters or ink other than blue, black, or dark purple ink.

5. You will bring your book, workbook, and folder/binder to class with you everyday. You will

also need a pen/pencil for note-taking and other writing. These should be in your possession when you arrive to class.

6. You will work during the class hour until the teacher tells you that you may quit working. We

have only about 50 minutes to get our work done during class. I expect you to make the most

of the time we have in class.

Spanish 3 Outcomes

This course reviews previously learned material from Spanish 1 and Spanish 2 and it is understood that outcomes from those courses will be reinforced, reviewed and expected from students enrolled in Spanish 3. More complicated structures and vocabulary are introduced. Students will be striving for fluency using intermediate vocabulary.

1. The student will read and comprehend Spanish by comprehending and examining materials such as stories, and novels which are reduced for intermediate level students; by comprehending and examining original texts selected for intermediate level students; by comprehending and examining articles of high interest and/or of which students have some previous knowledge; by comprehending directions; by comprehending the main details of most packaging information.

2. The student will speak with competency in Spanish by producing questions about many subjects; narrating about events in the past, present or future; speculating some about the future; verbalizing some abstractions; stating an opinion with supporting details.

3. The student will write comprehensibly in Spanish by creating simple opinion essays with some supporting details; by producing both guided and original written journal entries on a regular basis; by producing a two or three paragraph research paper.

4. The student will listen to and understand basic conversation in Spanish by comprehending most student and teacher produced questions as well as many produced by native speakers; by understanding most directions and instructions; by comprehending most statements used in a general conversation on everyday topics; by comprehending the main details of an uncomplicated narration.

5. The student will recognize the countries and capitals of the Spanish-speaking world on a globe or world map by locating and identifying the countries and capitals of most Spanish-speaking countries on a world map; by identifying the major geographical features on many Spanish-speaking countries.

6. The student will compare and contrast some of the cultural differences of Spanish-speaking countries in both English and Spanish by applying knowledge of customs of courtesy when speaking in Spanish; by comparing and contrasting foods of Spain with foods of Mexico; by identifying typical dishes of Spain; by comparing and contrasting holidays celebrated in the United States with their equivalent in a Spanish-speaking country.

7. The student will demonstrate the use of basic grammatical applications and functions by conjugating, choosing, and using most verbs in the present past, future and conditional perfect tenses within a limited range; by using the present subjunctive tense within a limited range; by recognizing and using higher level grammatical applications.

8. The student will demonstrate the knowledge of important historical events and figures as well as other cultural events of importance among Spanish-speaking people by describing briefly the events and causes of the Spanish Civil War in Spanish or English; describing briefly the Moorish occupation of Spain and their ouster in Spanish or English; by recognizing the major figures of the South American revolution in Spanish or English; by relating information about the major artists of Spain and some of their works in Spanish or English; by recognizing and describing major tourist attractions of Spain in Spanish or English.