The program will offer three levels

• Introduction to Spanish for 7th and 8th grade students
• Spanish Level I for grades 9th through 12th.
• Spanish Level II for grades 9th through 12th.
• Spanish Levels III and IV may be offered in the near future however they are not offered or required at this point

Introduction to Spanish Language
 

Objectives:    The learners will (TLW) be introduced to basic Spanish language        during a six-weeks period.  These basic skills will include: learning the alphabet , the numbers, basic expressions, greetings, how to ask questions in Spanish in order to gather information

Activities: There will be lots of oral drills, written practices, games, class projects, group work, home works, skits, quizzes, and tests.   Also, there will be projects to be projects to be done at home or the community, field trips, and special guests to speak to the class, whenever possible.

Materials:  Textbook to be used is NUEVOS AMIGOS, edited by Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Publishers, Inc. Edition 1989.  Also, the workbook that comes along with it.  Other materials used on an everyday basis are notebooks, paper, pencils and/or pens
 

Assessment:  Students will be assessed on the spot, during language drills, quizzes, projects & tests.  The grading system in place will be
 

A= 95-100%
B=85-94%
C=75-84%
D=70-74%
F=00-69%
 

• Understand and produce isolated words and learned phrases in Spanish
• Understand and use different greetings at different times of the day and with different kinds of people
• Be able to ask basic questions such as "What is your name" or "How are you" or "Where do you live"
• Know how to tell time and talk about the weather
• Know how to say much how much things cost and be able to gather information by knowing ot ask questions properly
• Know little more about the world that speaks the spanish language and their curltrural aspects

Goals:

•  Communicate in a language other than English
• Connect with other disciplines and acquire information
• Develop insight into the nature and clutter of the other language.
• Participate in multicultural activities in the school and in the community

• The learner will communicate in Spanish language, provide information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
• The learner will be able to understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
• The learner will be able to present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience o listeners or readers on a variety of topics
• The learner will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of daily life, traditional ideates, and respective
• The learner will reinforce and further the knowledge of other disciplines (including their own English Language) thorough the study of the spanish language.
• The learner will acquire information and recognize the distinctive view points of that are only available through the foreign language and its culture
• The learner will demonstrate understanding on the nature of language through comparison of languages studied and their own.
• The leaner will use the language for leisure and personal enrichment and fulfillment

• Teacher instructions as to the objectives for that class.
• Teacher modeling speech
• Student repeating exercises.  Taking notes.
• Students practicing with other students and groups.
• Students reading aloud when asked.  Silent reading for later questioning
• Projects and games and many other activities geared to enhance learning (video, scavenger hunts, field trips).

• Textbook:  Paso a Paso,  ScottForesman, Edition 1996.
• Notebook, pencils, or pens.
• Other materials in the classroom and the internet when available

• The students will be assessed constantly during oral drills; their use of the language to ask for things; use of ht language to communicate with one another in the classroom and outside (since learning a language is an ongoing process).
• Through spoken written work in class, projects, etc.
• Quizzes at different times (end of chapters).
• Mid-term exams and/or final test

A= 95-100%
B=85-94%
C=75-84%
D=70-74%
F=00-69%

Class work     11%
Homework    11%
Projects       12%

34% all together

Quizzes  33%

Midterm and Final Tests 33%

Total 100%
 

Level I Spanish:

At the end of the course students should be able to:

• Give and follow simple instructions
• Express personal likes and dislikes
• Express basic needs and courtesies.
• Exchange greetings and personal information.
• Comprehend simple oral messages
• Understand everyday brief  written messages and short personal notes
• Give simple oral presentations about family, friends, school, home, personalities, biographies
• Use appropriate gestures and oral expressions for greetings, leave-talkings, and common courtesies in the classroom
• Experience products of the culture: songs, stories, foods, traditional celebrations and enjoy art.
• Talk about prices, economic problems, politics, family, interpersonal relationships, weather, situations, temperature, dates, ambitions, sharing dreams and a variety of topics.
• Ask questions to gather information and give directions to a lost person looking for directions.
• To find places to live, buy, rent, eat, have fun in the classified sections of spanish news media or spanish internet.

At the completion of this course the students should be able to:

• Create written and spoken dialogs in past, present, and future tenses.
• Keep a conversation going in a way that can be understood by a naive spanish speaker without much difficulty
• Initiate and sustain basic communications and describe in sentences and/or group of sentences about different topics of interest in their lives.
• Read and understand short written passages from newspapers, magazines, books, internet information in Spanish.  Compose short messages, simple letters to friends, relatives or pen pals.
• Have mastery of an ample vocabulary and good knowledge of the use of proper verb tenses, proper grammar and proper diction in the target language
• Failure to meet this criteria, might result in having to take it again