AP Spanish IV
Sra. Brown, Spanish
School phone: (972).923.4600 EXT. 136
E-mail: cabrown@wisd.org
Course Overview:
This course follows the Advanced Placement guidelines and focuses on the mastery of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills with emphasis on advanced conversation and composition. Students use college level texts and authentic reading materials including literature and periodicals. AP Spanish IV students will continue to learn grammar and vocabulary. Culture and communities will be taught through readings and research using current technologies.
Classroom Rules:
1. Be in your seat at the sound of the bell and do not leave it unless given permission.
2. Raise your hand to get the teacher’s attention.
3. Follow all directions promptly and accurately.
4. Be prepared to participate. Sharpen pencils before class. Bring all necessary materials to class.
5. Treat other people and their property with respect. No put-downs or improper language. Don’t take what isn’t yours. Give others the physical and emotional space that they need.
C onsequences:
1. Verbal Warning
2. Conference with teacher
3. Detention or parents called
4. Detention and parents called
5. Office/Counselor referral
Severe infractions of the rules will result in elimination of the earlier steps.
Rewards:
1. Fun learning activities (as opposed to boring book work)
2. Class time for doing homework
3. Good performance prizes such as stickers, candy, etc.
4. Lots of encouraging praise from the teacher!
When you are absent:
1. See fellow classmate to find out what you missed. Or you can check out Mrs. Candice Brown’s website: http://www.hs.wisd.org/cabrown/default.htm during your absence to get your daily assignments.
2. Show teacher completed homework due during absence. This must be accomplished within the time frame established in the student handbook.
3. Pick up handouts and corrected papers that were handed back in your absence from the teacher or go online and print out the attachments.
4. Turn in any work collected in your absence to the teacher.
5. Make-up any quizzes or tests taken in your absence during tutoring times.
Tutoring Times: Monday – Friday: 8:00 - 8:30 in the morning
Monday – Thursday: 3:35 - 4:00 in the afternoon
Monday nights from 4:00-6:00 pm
Thursday nights from 4:00-6:00 pm
MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES
Proper materials should be brought to class each day. They include:
1. Textbook, correctly covered (replacement cost: approximately $50.)
2. Workbook (replacement cost: approximately $15.)
3. Black or blue pen
4. White notebook paper
5. 1 Kleenex box
6. A Spanish / English Dictionary for personal use
G RADING
Your grade average will be determined by the following factors:
1. Homework/Daily Participation 30%
Homework and Written
Assignments
Homework should always include:
· Name:
· Date:
· Course Title and Period:
· Assignment Name:
2. Weekly Quizzes 20%
3. Tests 50%
Extra Credit
Each semester you may if you choose to come to three Monday and/or Thursday
night sessions (4:00 – 6:00) or six 30-minute sessions as a one time extra credit
opportunity during the semester to bring your average up if need be. During this time
the student needs to be actively engaged with the teacher learning Spanish material or
the credit may be denied.
Teaching Strategies
Reading Library – The Spanish library contains books which range from beginner to advanced levels. Students will choose books on a level that they are comfortable with and will read silently for 20 to 30 minutes. They are allowed to use a dictionary and to keep a list of words that they are unfamiliar with. At the end of each reading session, students take about 1 or 2 minutes to write a two to three sentence summary of what they read in the target language. They also record the book, author and date that in which the reading took place. This enables the student to remember what he/ she read the time before so that they can pick up where they left of the next time. Through this activity students can reinforce and recognize vocabulary already learned in a context while also extending their knowledge to new vocabulary words.
Other reading skills – The textbook Continuemos contains a section called Lecturas periodisticas. Students read lecturas followed by comprehension questions. There are also reading throughout the text book as well that are not included in this section. Before each of these sections there is something called Saber leer and in this section the students receive information to grow their reading skills and to read for understanding.
I also have a magazine that the students will be reading out of called Think Spanish. There are many authentic articles in these magazines that have history and culture information that the students can read and learn about along with a grammar review in the back of the magazine. This magazine is accompanied by an audio CD as well.
Listening skills – The Continuemos book comes with an audio CD for listening activities. Also, there is a separate student interactive CD-ROM
Writing skills – Each chapter of Continuemos contains a “piense y escriba” section to help develop students writing skills and pieces of advice to help the students write a good developed paper on a particular topic. The student interactive CD-ROM also contains a writing section as well and teaches students how to write all kinds of genres.
Speaking skills – Continuemos provides brief roll playing for the students to practice called “Una encuesta, ¿Qué dirían ustedes?, ¡De ustedes depende! and Mesa redonda/debate”. Of course the supplemental book “Conversemos” will be used primarily for student to practice speaking also.
Course Planner:
***Semester 1
Week 1: Review of summer homework, test over summer packet, classroom rules, syllabus, play jeopardy as an ice breaker and to get to know other students in the class, pass out textbook: Continuemos. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 1
Week 2: Continuemos – Lección 1: present indicative, present progressive, la a personal, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 3: Continuemos – Lección 1: formas pronominales en función de complemento directo e indirecto, construcciones reflexivas, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 4: Continuemos – Lección 1: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 1, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 2
Week 5: Continuemos – Lección 2: usos de los verbos ser y estar, adjetivos y pronombres posesivos, pronombres de complementos directos e indirectos usados juntos, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 6: Continuemos – Lección 2: usos y omisiones de los artículos definidos e indefinidos, el pretérito, el imperfecto, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 7: Continuemos – Lección 2: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 2, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 3
Week 8: Continuemos – Lección 3: verbos que requieren una construcción especial, el pretérito contrastado con el imperfecto, verbos que cambian de significado en el pretérito, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 9: Continuemos – Lección 3: los pronombres relativos, expresiones de tiempo con hacer, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 10: Continuemos - Lección 3: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 3, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 4
Week 11: Continuemos – Lección 4: comparativos de iguldad y de desigualdad, usos de las preposiciones por y para, el modo subjuntivo, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 12: Continuemos – Lección 4: el subjuntivo con verbos o expresiones de voluntad o deseo y impersonales de emoción, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 13: Continuemos – Lección 4: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 4, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 5
Week 14: Continuemos – Lección 5: el imperative: Ud. y Uds., el imperativo de la primera persona del plural, el subjuntivo para expresar duda, incredulidad y negación, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 15: Continuemos – Lección 5: el subjuntivo para expresar lo indefinido y lo inexistente, expresiones que requieren el subjuntivo o el indicativo, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Thanksgiving Break
Week 16: Continuemos – Lección 5: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 5, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 6
Week 17: Review of Lección 1-5, conversemos, reading library, articles from reading magazine.
Week 18: Mid-term
***Semester 2
Week 19: Continuemos – Lección 6: el imperative: tú y vosotros, el participio, el pretérito perfecto y el pluscuamperfecto, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 20: Continuemos – Lección 6: posición de los adjectivos, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 21: Continuemos – Lección 6: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 6, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 7
Week 22: Continuemos – Lección 7: El futuro, el condicional, el futuro perfecto y el condicional perfecto, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 23: Continuemos – Lección 7: Género de los nombres: casos especiales, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 24: Continuemos – Lección 7: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 7, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 8
Week 25: Continuemos – Lección 8: El imperfecto de subjuntivo, el imperfecto de subjuntivo en oraciones condicionales, el pretérito perfecto de subjuntivo, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 26: Continuemos – Lección 8: el pluscuamperfecto de subjuntivo, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 27: Continuemos – Lección 8: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 8, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 9
Week 28: Continuemos – Lección 9: el subjuntivo: resumen general, usos de algunas preposiciones, verbos con preposiciones, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Spring Break
Week 29: Continuemos – Lección 9: el infinitive, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 30: Continuemos – Lección 9: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 9, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 10
Week 31: Continuemos – Lección 10: La voz pasiva, contrucciones con se, usos especiales de se, reading library, articles from reading magazine, conversemos.
Week 32: Continuemos – Lección 10: algunas expresiones idiomáticas comunes, lecturas periodísticas, saber leer, piense y escriba, reading library. Vocabulary Quiz.
Week 33: Continuemos – Lección 10: teleinforme, correlating workbook practice, and interactive student CD to reinforce material learned, test over lección 10, reading library. La Catrina: El últimos secreto episodio 11
Week 34: AP Exam practice
Week 35: AP Exam practice
Week 36: AP Exam Week
Week 37: Watch and discuss María Candelaria
Week 38: Final Exam
***This is subject to change***
Texts:
Jarvis, Ana C. ¡Continuemos! 7th Edition: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2003.
¡Conversemos! 3rd Edition: Houghton Mifflin Company,
Authentic listening and reading resources
Curland, David and Verano, Luis. La Catrina El Último Secreto: Scott Foresman – Addison Wesley, 1999.
Think Spanish
*** look forward to having a very exciting year with you in class. ***
--Señora Brown--