Stacie Taylor, Rm 314, Telephone 926-2012

Stacie Taylor, Rm 314, Telephone 926-2012

Spanish 1, Course#105120

2010-2011

Realidades

This course will be an introduction to the Spanish language and the cultures that speak it. The course will be taught in the target language, and students will be required to demonstrate proficiency in the four areas of language arts: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Students will also demonstrate an ability to make connections between their realities and those of others.

Materials Required:

Textbook: Boyles, Peggy P. and others. Realidades. Upper Saddle River: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004.
Realidades workbook
1”, 1 1/2” or 2” 3-ring binder with pockets
paper and pens/pencils
composition notebook
flashdrive

Supplemental materials available:

Textbook on cd rom
Mindpoint Quizshow, a cd rom game
Publisher’s website, including textbook online and audio/video tutorials
Spanish/English dictionary

Course requirements:

Projects to be announced.
Oral assessment/Partner dialogues
Quizzes
Tests
Daily grades/Written work
Maintain a notebook, including handouts and lecture notes

Our room will maintain an academic atmosphere, with everyone sharing one goal, to become increasingly proficient in Spanish. In order to sustain an environment conducive to learning, the following guidelines must be respected:

All workers must be completely in the room when the bell rings, otherwise a tardy will be issued.
Everyone must be equipped everyday with the necessary materials.
Eyes front when the teacher or a presenter is speaking.
All materials not necessary for Spanish must be out of sight.
All work must be done as it is assigned. We are BUILDING Spanish knowledge.
Transitions between tasks shall be quick and quiet.

Behavioral expectations:

Self-respect and professional treatment of colleagues, their ideas, their quirks, their strengths and downfalls are expected at all times
Back-talk and bickering among students are not permitted
Ownership of teacher-identified misbehaviors is not only honorable, but imperative

Classroom procedures and guidelines:

Enter quietly and take a seat.
Students must be seated in order to be dismissed when the bell rings.
A roll of toilet paper will on the TV cart. If you need some, take enough to keep at your desk all period. Blowing your nose is not a hall pass!
Once in the room, no one is permitted to leave the room.
Questions are always welcome; they are the best part of the classroom dynamic! If an off-topic idea occurs to you, please write the question down and wait for the appropriate moment to pose it, or raise your hand and wait to be addressed.
Extra help is available from 3:40 pm to 4:15 pm Monday-Friday by appointment, or by phone at night after 8:30pm.

Tardies will be counted and addressed by the school policy.

Attendance is registered for each class separately. Four unexcused absences results in loss of credit for the class. Excuses for absences must be turned into the attendance office, not the classroom teacher.

Make-up work: Missed work must be turned in, at the latest, at least three days before the distribution of the progress report for the period of the missing work. Questions about what to do need to take place before or after school or by phone, not during class. On the make-up work, please write“ABSENT” and thedateyou were absent in addition to the other information required on all written assignments. Students must initiate inquiry about makeup work. I will not track missing make-up work. Information about our day in class appears daily on my website and can be requested from me before or after school or by phone.

Progress reports will be sent home according to the WSFCS schedule; it is posted on my website. Progress reports showing grades lower than a C will be accompanied by a phone call to parent(s). Grading policy: Each of the following areas will contain multiple opportunities for graded responses. Rubrics will be distributed. The final grade will be composed of:

Culture 5%

Vocabulary 10%

Structures 10%

Speaking 10%

Listening 15%

Reading 15%

Writing 20%

Participation 5%

The Winston-Salem Forsyth County Schools grading scale is:

93-100 A 85-92 B 77-84 C 70-76 D 69-below F

Class website: Log on to the WSFCS homepage. At top in schools box scroll to bottom and find Carver. Click faculty/staff webpages. Find Stacie Taylor

I want to know how to serve you. I love questions!

Calendar for Spanish I, Fall 2010-2011

Wednesday, Aug 25 to Friday, Aug 27:

Receive books, workbooks, syllabus, expectations, procedures, library training, online passwords, grading policies. Practice, practice, practice PROCEDURES. Pronunciation, subject pronouns and the alphabet. Assess of prior knowledge. Introduction of learning format.

Monday, Aug 30 to Friday, Sept 03: Para Empezar, p1-23

Greetings/Introductions, Classroom commands, Numbers, Time, The Body, The Classroom, Gender of Nouns, Alphabet, Calendar, Weather

Tuesday, Sept 07 to Friday, Sept 10: Para Empezar, p1-23

Greetings/Introductions, Classroom commands, Numbers, Time, The Body, The Classroom, Gender of Nouns, Alphabet, Calendar, Weather

Test: Para Empezar

Monday, Sept 13 to Friday, Sept 17: Chapter 1A, p24-47

Activities

Infinitives

Me gusta.../no me gusta...

Negative expressions

Agreement/Disagreement

Monday, Sept 20 to Friday, Sept 24: Chapter 1B, p48-71

Descriptive adjectives

Gender agreement (irregular endings)

Ser

Sentence structure vs. Question structure

Placement of "No"

Placement of Adjectives

Definite and indefinite articles

?Que es?

Monday, Sept 27 to Friday, Oct 01: Chapter 2A, p73-97

School schedules

Subject pronouns

Conjugations of regular verbs

Introduce Tener

Test, Chapters 1A, 1B, 2A

Monday, Oct 04 to Friday, Oct 08: Chapter 2B, p98-121

The Classroom

Estar (location)

Prepositions of location

Plurals of nouns and articles

Hay (Questions with hay)

Monday, Oct 11 to Friday, Oct 15: Chapter 3A, p122-145

Breakfast and lunch

Present tense of ER/IR verbs

Structure of questions and statements

Me gustan/ me encantan

Short answer and reading practice

Test, Chapters 2A, 3B, 3A

Monday, Oct 18 to Friday, Oct 22:

Review for Exams

Exams: Para Empezar through 3A

Tuesday, Oct 25 to Thursday, Oct 28(END QUARTER): Chapter 3B, p146-169

Procedures and assessment of prior knowledge

Dinner and the food pyramid

Preferir/ Deber/ Creer

Review time and the clock

Estar de acuerdo

Plurals of adjectives

Review ser

Monday, Nov 01 to Friday, Nov 05: Chapter 4A, p170-195

Community locations

Question vs statement

Question words

Monday, Nov 08 to Friday, Nov 12: Chapter 4B, p196-219

Leisure activities and sports

Ir+ a+ infinitive

Stem-changing verbs (Jugar and Tener)

Invitations (Querer, Poder)

Two-verb structures

Monday, Nov 15 and Friday, Nov 19: Review, reteach, remediate

Monday, Nov 22 and Tuesday, Nov 23: Test 3B, 4A, 4B

Monday, Nov 29 to Friday, Dec 03: Chapter 5A, p221-245

Families/parties

Tener

Possessive adjectives

Monday, Dec 06 to Friday, Dec 10: Chapter 5B, p246-

Physical characteristics of people

Restaurant/ table settings

Venir

Ser vs Estar

Test Chapters 5A, 5B

Monday, Dec 13 to Thursday, Dec 17: Chapter 6A, p??

Bedroom items

Electronic equipment

Colors

Comparisons

Superlative

Monday, Jan 03 to Friday, Jan 07: Poder/Dormir (stem-changing Chapter 6B, p??

Rooms in a house

Household chores

Affirmative Tu commands

Present progressive

Test, Chapters 6A, 6B

Monday, Jan 10 to Friday, Jan 14: Exam Review/preparation, Reteach, Remediate

Overview of remaining chapters:

Clothes

Quedarse

Pensar, Querer, Preferir (stem-changing)

Demonstrative adjectives

Preterite of AR (won’t address)

Direct object pronouns

Preterite of ER/IR and preterite of IR (won’t address)

Personal A

Present of Decir

Indirect object pronouns

Preterite of Hacer/Dar (won’t address)

Acabar +de +infinitive

Gustar and similar verbs

Technology

Pedir and Servir (stem-changing)

Saber/Conocer

Monday, Jan 17 to Thursday, Jan 20: Exams