Syllabus for Spanish I
Course # 614
Academic Year: 2007 – 2008
Instructor: Senor Kramer
Voice Mail: (302) 654 – 2495 (ext 242)
e-mail: jkramer@salesianum.org

1. Course Description:
   This first year course of Spanish aims to develop in the student an active, flexible basis in the target language, as well as an appreciation of the cultures of Hispanic people. With the aid of modern multimedia, students see and hear native speakers in natural settings.The textbook and class activities reinforce and embrace comprehension of vocabulary and structures to be learned.
   
2. Course Objectives
   
   1. The student will select the appropriate response to an oral question
   2. The student will produce the correct oral response to an oral statement or question.
   3. The student will respond to oral questions after hearing a selection based on learned material.
   4. Given a topic or situation, the student will speak individually or in a group.
   5. The student will read a selection aloud using correct pronunciation and intonation.
   6. After reading selected material, the student will select a correct answer to a question or statement based on the material.
   7. After reading a selection in the target language, the student will summarize the selection in English or in the target language.
   8. The student will write correctly from dictation.
   9. Using a basic vocabulary, the student will write sentences.
3. Classroom Procedures
   
   1. You are expected to be in your seat ready to work when the bell rings to start the class.
   2. Take care of all “extra-curricular” activity (i.e. going to the bathroom, sharpening your pencil, blowing your nose, signing a trip form, etc.) before the bell rings.
   3. Bring all required materials to class every day.
      
4. Required Materials
   
   1. Textbook: En espanol! Estella Gahala, Patricia Hamilton Carlin, Audrey L. Heining-Boynton, Ricardo Otheguy and Barbara J. Rupert (authors);
      McDougel Littell (publisher); 2004.
   2. Workbook: En espanol! – Mas Practica. McDougal Littell (publisher).
   3. Student planbook.
   4. Pocket Folder
      
5. Learning Experiences
   Students will be quizzed orally on a daily basis as well as having daily written quizzes on the vocabulary section of each chapter. The student will also have a written verb quiz every two cycles as well as a major written and oral test upon completion of each chapter. Mini oral presentations (one to two minutes) and major (five minutes) oral presentations in Spanish will be required every quarter.
   
6. Grading Policy
   
   1. Your quarter grade will be calculated based on grades received for your written vocabulary and verb quizzes, your oral quizzes, written and oral tests and your major oral presentation. All quizzes will be calculated as one test grade.
   2. Letter grades will be assigned based on the following scale:
      A=90-100 B+=85-89 B=80-84 C+=75-79 C=70-74 D+=65-69 D=60-64 F= 0-59
   3. Final course grade will be based on your quarterly numerical average and your final exam numerical score.
      
7. Homework
   Students have homework EVERY night. Vocabulary and grammar must be done on a daily basis. Review of the chapter story should be done at least twice a cycle and workbook exercises will be assigned every two cycles.
   
8. Absences
   Students are responsible for making-up all missed work. If a student is absent for a test, a presentation or a quiz, it will be taken the day the student returns to school. Consultation with the teacher is recommended.
   
9. Course Outline
   Unit One
   1. Lesson One
      1. Familiar and formal greetings
      2. Subject pronouns and the verb ser
      3. The verb gustar
   2. Lesson Two
      1. Definite articles
      2. Indefinite articles
      3. Adjectives describing their noun in number and gender
   3. Lesson Three
      1. The verb tener
      2. Expressing possession using de
      3. Possessive adjectives
      4. Giving dates: day and month
      
   Unit two
   1. Lesson One
      1. Present tense of –ar verbs
      2. Expressing frequency with adverbs
      3. Expressing obligation with hay que and tener que
   2. Lesson Two
      1. The verb ir
      2. Telling time
      3. The verb estar
      4. Asking questions: interrogative words
   3. Lesson Three
      1.Saying what you are going to do:ir a …
      2. Present tense of –er/-ir verbs
      3. Irregular yo forms of present tense verbs
      4. The verb oir
      
   Unit Three
   1. Lesson One
      1. Saying what just happened with acabar de
      2. The verb venir
   2. Lesson Two
      1. The verb jugar
      2. Stem-changing verbs: e>ie
      3. The verb saber
      4. Phrases for making comparisons
   3. Lesson Three
      1. Describing the weather
      2. Special expressions with tener
      3. Direct Object pronouns
      4. Present Progressive tense
      
   Unit Four
   1. Lesson One
      1.The verb decir
      2. Using prepositional phrases to express location
      3. Regular affirmative tu commands
   2. Lesson Two
      1. Stem-changing verbs: o>ue
      2. Indirect Object Pronouns
      3. Placement of indirect object pronouns
   3. Lesson Three
      1. The verb gustar
      2. Affirmative and negative words
      3. Stem-changing verbs: e>i