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Orange Coast College Fall 2015

Spanish 180 –Syllabus

M, W 8:25 am – 11:00 am

Instructor:Jeff Brown

Office:Lit. and Lang. 207

Office Hours:T, Th 11:00 am – 1:00 pm

Telephone:Voice mail – (714) 432-5046

E-mail (I prefer emails)

Website:

Text:TU MUNDO (1st. Ed.) by Andrade, Egasse, Muñoz, Cabrera Puche.

!Hola!

The main focus of Spanish 180 is on listening and speaking with reading and writing as supporting skills. Content areas include: expressions relating to daily life, environment, routine activities, and descriptions of people and places. Vocabulary will include simple greetings, leave takings, courtesy expressions, family members, numbers, time, dates, weather, colors, and basic objects in the immediate environment. You will be able to demonstrate the ability to comprehend and produce simple sentences dealing with schedules, addresses, telephone numbers, weather reports, short information articles, signs, and postcards. You will also learn about various aspects of Hispanic cultures.

The course and the text are based on the Natural Approach to foreign language acquisition. That is, you will be acquiring language in the classroom, as opposed to learning it, much like a child acquires a first language. Emphasis will be on acquisition and not on learning.

EXAMS

We will cover chapters 1-6. There will be 6 vocabulary/culture exams, an oral exam and a cumulative final exam. Of the vocabulary/culture exams, the lowest exam score will be dropped and, therefore, will not count. Each exam will be worth 50 points. If you miss an exam, that’s the exam you get to drop. Please do not ask if you can make up an exam. If you miss an exam, you get to drop that one.

The oral exam will be given on the second to last day of class, Monday, December 7, 2015. The oral exam will be a story exam. In each chapter we will be acquiringat least one short story. At the end of the course you will know at least 6 short stories that you’rebe able to retell, using the correct personal pronoun(s). Each student will randomly choose from one of the six or more stories to retell as well as a personal pronoun to retell that story. Plus, there will be 5 or more simple questions about the story. Retelling a story is often is the easiest exam that students take. The following is the grading rubric that goes along with the oral exam.

Click here for an example of one of the stories:

Click here for the grading rubric for the stories oral exam:

Exams will be given on the following dates. (Note, the vocab/culture exams are approximate dates. The only exam dates that are set-in-stone are the oral exam and the final exam.)

Vocab/Culture exam chapter 1Wednesday, September 9
Vocab/Culture exam chapter 2Wednesday, September 23
Vocab/Culture exam chapter 3Monday, October 12
Vocab/Culture exam chapter 4Wednesday, October 28
Vocab/Culture exam chapter 5Wednesday, November 18
Vocab/Culture exam chapter 6Wednesday, December 2
Oral ExamMonday, December 7
Final ExamWednesday, December 9

HOMEWORK: You have 3 outside HW assignments

This course is worth 5 (five) units. The homework is appropriate for a 5-unit course. Plan to study 10 to 20 hours a week outside of class in order to keep up in class. Homework will be assigned from the Quia Centro online workbook, from the text, and from other outside resources.

Connect online homework

Infórmate textbook assignments from the textbook

Written assignments (3) and practice the mini stories

Connect online homework assignments

You have online homework to do from the Connect website. Each Connect online workbook chapter is worth 100 points.
One online homework chapter assignment will be dropped.
You may do Connect online HW late but will lose 25% per day that it is late.
click here for the instructions on how to register for Centro, including the course code

Connect assignments are due by midnight the following days:

Ch. 1Thursday, September 10

Ch. 2Thursday, September 24

Ch. 3Tuesday, October 13

Ch. 4Thursday, October 29

Ch. 5Thursday, November 19

Ch. 6Wednesday, December 9

Text book assignments (infórmate)

Each chapter contains grammar exercises, at the end of each chapter.
Students are responsible for reading these pages, before class, and then completing the exercises that go with them.
Each chapter’s HW assignment should be done on a HW template provided.

After completing each assignment (template), students need to correct their own work using the back of the book (p. A-1)

Students need to use a red, green, or purple pen to correct their work.
Work turned in without corrections will not be accepted and will be late.

Turning in late homework: Students may turn in written homework up to one class period late with a 25% deduction in points.

All infórmate homework assignments are due on the day of the corresponding vocabulary/culture exam.

Here is the list of Infórmate HW templates:

Ch. 1

Ch. 2

Written Assignments

There will be three (3) written assignments from chapters 3, 4, and 5. Each written assignment is worth 100 points and will be due after the day it is assigned. Do not use google translate to do these assignments. I will be able to tell. I will ask you to do it over if you do it with google translate.

OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

Spanish Dictionary

Your Spanish dictionary will be your first 5 point assignment due the second week of class Wednesday, September 2.
I recommend buying a good Spanish dictionary and spending at least $5.00. Electronic dictionaries can be purchased online and are an excellent resource. Smartphone dictionaries may no be not used at any time.

ATTENDANCE & PARTICIPATION:

Attendance is extremely important.
Attendance is worth 20% of your grade
You are allowed 1 free absence
Beginning with the 2nd absence, you will lose 10% of your attendance participation grade which comes out to 2% of your final grade.
Students absent 2 times will lose 2%, three times will lose 4%, four times 6%, etc.
Students who leave early will lose ½ an absence.
3 tardies equals one absence
There is no such thing as an excused absence.

English in the classroom

In class, you’ll be encouraged to speak Spanish at all times. In fact, you’re required to speak only Spanish during class, except for the last ten minutes of class.
Before the break, students who speak English will not lose any points.
After the break, students who speak English will lose 1 point of their class participation grade.
Spanglish is not permitted nor may you say, “Como se dice + English word.”
Proper nouns are fun and are completely acceptable. Those are words that start with a capital letter, such as Walmart, iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Orange Coast College, UCI, Huntington Beach, etc.
Yay!

EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT:

Your grade will be based on the following criteria:

Vocabulary/Culture quizzes40%

Attendance and participation 20

Connect online HW15

Final Exam10

Textbook assignments, written assignments, etc. (blue pages)10

Oral exam5

Total100%

*Can drop one

90-100% = A

80-89 = B

70-79 = C

60-69 = D

0- 59 = F

CELLULAR PHONES, COMPUTERS, AND SLEEPING IN CLASS

Cell phones, ipads, and laptops are not allowed at any time
Do not put them on the desk for any reason
Students caught texting or looking at their phone will lose 5 pts of their attendance grade per infraction.
Students who sleep will lose 5 pts (1/2 absence) or 10 pts if they sleep before and after the break.

ADDITIONAL PRACTICE AND STUDY AIDS

Dos Mundos Website ( ) under “student edition”
501 Spanish verbs,
English Grammar for Students of Spanish (available at the bookstore).

Student learning outcomes for Spanish 180:

The student will be able to:

1.Recognize and produce the Spanish language at the high-beginning level in the four primary areas of communication: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

2.Demonstrate a better understanding and appreciation of the cultures related to the Spanish language by comparing and contrasting them with the students’ own culture(s).

3.Use current technologies to further develop their language and cultural competencies.

HAVE FUN AND BE CREATIVE!

Practice! Practice! Practice!

*Some items may be changed or revised as need be.

PRINT THIS PAGE

Calendar. We’ll be working on the following chapters on the following dates. (May be changed as need be.) Remember to read the grammar pages BEFORE class.

INF = Informate textbook HW pages, WA = Written Assignment

DateMaterial Read before class Due

Monday, August 24Course introduction + ½ of Ch. 1

Wednesday, August 26Course introduction + ½ of Ch. 1 20-21

Monday, August 31Chapter 1 21-22

Wednesday, September 2Chapter 1 23-24 Spanish Dict.

Wednesday, Sept. 9Chapter 1 and 2 24-28, 52 Vocab/Culture Quiz 1, INF1

Monday, September 14Chapter 2 52-53

Wednesday, Sept. 16Chapter 2 53-54

Monday, September 21Chapter 2 54-55

Wednesday, September 23Chapter 2 and 3 55-56, 85 Vocab/Culture Quiz 2, INF2

Monday, September 28Chapter 3 85-86WA 1

Wednesday, September 30Chapter 3 87-88

Monday, October 5Chapter 3 90-91

Wednesday, October 7Chapter 3 92-93

Monday, October 12Chapter 3 and 4 93, 118 Vocab/Culture Quiz 3, INF3

Wednesday, October 14Chapter 4 118-119WA 2

Monday, October 19Chapter 4 121-122

Wednesday, Oct. 21Chapter 4 122-124

Monday, October 26Chapter 4 125-126

Wednesday, Oct. 28Chapter 4 and 5 126, 152-153 Vocab/Culture Quiz 4, INF4

Monday, November 2Chapter 5 152-154 WA 3

Wednesday, November 4Chapter 5 156-157

Monday, November 9Chapter 5 158-159

Monday, November 16Chapter 5 159-160

Wednesday, November 18Chapter 5 and 6 160, 186 Vocab/Culture Quiz 5, INF5

Monday, November 23Chapter 6 186-188

Wednesday, November 25Chapter 6 189

Monday, November 30Chapter 6 191

Wednesday, December 2Chapter 6 191-192 Vocab/Culture Quiz 6

Monday, December 7Oral exams

Wednesday, December 9Exam Chapters 5 and 6 Final Exam, INF6