Spanish Supply List
All Spanish courses use the same supply list. Many items will be useable from year to year and you will only need to purchase new items when yours wear out.
Required:
1) a 3-inch 3-ring binder. Yes a 3-inch! We will have many, many pages, a
workbook, a dictionary and other items in it and by the end of the year, it
really will be full.
2) colored pens, markers or crayons in Red, Blue, Orange, Green, Purple,
and Yellow. We will color code all verb notes so make sure that your
choice is legible when you write. Experience has proven that highlighters
do not work well for this reason and that colored pencils always have to be
sharpened in the middle of class which causes students to get behind in
notes.
3) a good Spanish-English dictionary. You should look for a reputable one
that has a minimum of 50,000-80,000 entries. If you check size, you will
find that most of them are about 5”x 7” and about 1 ½” thick. The
smaller ones will not be sufficient beyond the first few weeks. If you go to
a reputable bookstore (Ivy’s Books- on the road behind Sonic, WKU
Bookstore on Glasgow Campus, Walden Books in the BG Mall, Books a
Million or Barnes and Noble Bookstore both near the mall) most
dictionaries offered should be fine. You will need to bring this dictionary to
class each day so any super sized editions would be for home use only.
Suggested:
1) A pencil bag for 3-ring binders. Many students find that the zippered pencil bags for binders are the perfect size to carry their dictionary and colored pens/markers. Things don’t get lost as easily when contained.
2) plastic page protectors. These are by no means required and have no
effect on the notebook grade. However, for students who tend to be hard
on their binders or frequently loose papers, the page protectors will rarely
tear out even when binders are dropped repeatedly.