Teacher Name: Maribel Squibb
Teacher Email: esquibb@sharylandisd.org
Available Tutoring: Tuesday 4:00 – 5:00 pm
Course Outline/Timeline:
Emphasis is on communicating in Spanish through speaking, listening,
reading, and writing in various aspects of time. Students also study Hispanic culture,
geography, and history. Students will
review the Spanish grammar.
Students are expected to meet
the requirements prescribed by the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Languages Other Than English by developing the four basic language competencies
(reading, writing, speaking, and listening) and engaging in the five Cs:
Communication, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities.
This
course also supports the Standards for Foreign Language Learning by providing
clearly defined objectives, a variety of pair- and group-work activities so
that students can use the Spanish in a wide range of settings and contexts, and
offering culture-related activities and questions that develop students’
insight and encourage them to develop observational and analytical skills.
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Week
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Topic
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Week 1
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Lo Indigena:
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Los incas y los aztecas
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Grammar: the preterite
of irregular verbs
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Week 2
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Lo Indigena. El gobierno
- Los
regionalismos
- Political
terms in Spanish
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Week 3
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How Geography affects life in Latin America
- Health and
nutrition
- Los
regionalismos
- Fables
- Grammar: Stem
changing verbs in the present and preterite tense
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Week 4
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A letter from Cortes to the
King of Spain.
- Computers and the internet
- Spanish ballads and Mexican corridos
- Grammar: How to use the imperfect tense
- Spelling of B and V.
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Week 5
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Literature: Abenamar. Federico Garcia Lorca. Elena Poniatowska
- Lectura: El recado
- Grammar: Oraciones compuestas,
the imperfect tense.
Compras en España y Latino América
- Zonas urbanas
y rurales
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Week 6
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Mercados municipales, mercados al aire libre,
de tiendas, supermercados e hipermercados
- Comercio y contabilidad
- Grammar: The preterite and imperfect
tenses used together.
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Week 7
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Pasatiempos culturales.
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Study hispanic
music and dance. Theater and critiques. Styles and genres of
music and dance in Spain and Latin America. History of theater in Spain and Latin
America.
- Literature: Mi adorado Juan – Miguel Mihura. Danza Negra – Luis
Pales
Matos. A Santos Vega, Payador
Argentino – Bartolome Mitre.
- The future tense.
- Grammar: Comparative and
superlative. Spelling: uses of G and J
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Week 8
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History of Spain
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The hotel industry
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Comercio y contabilidad
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Grammar: The
preterite and the imperfect tense together
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Week 9
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Don Quijote de la Mancha
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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra.
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Various projects will be completed throughout the semester. They may
include but are not limited to researching a Hispanic country, region and/or
city, famous Hispanic painter, etc. Students will also write and perform various
skits based on topic studied (i.e., introducing themselves, shopping, ordering
food and drinks.) There will be a test after each chapter is completed, as well
as quizzes throughout the semester and a semester exam at the end of the
semester.
Grades will be based on a variety of assignments, projects,
daily work, journals, quizzes, and tests. Minor assignments will count 40% and
major assignments (tests and projects) 60%.
Please visit the following link to inform yourself of the
new Sharyland ISD Grading Guidelines:
Textbooks/Materials: El español para nosotros.
Please refer to the web links.
Classroom
expectations:
Course Policies: Policies regarding grading guidelines, late
work, and absences can be found on the Sharyland High School website: Refer to the link.
Guidelines for
grading, late work, and absences
All
students are expected to follow SHS rules. They are also expected to bring a
positive attitude to class, be willing to learn, and participate. Foreign
languages open up the world, but only to those willing to discover it.
Therefore, enthusiasm is key to success.
Statement
for Academic Dishonesty:
Academic integrity is fundamental to the
activities and principles of our school. No student shall cheat or copy the
work of another. Plagiarism, the use of
another person’s original ideas or writings as one’s own without giving credit
to the true author, will be considered cheating, and the student will be
subject to academic discipline that may include loss of credit for the work in
question.
Statement
for Academic Dishonesty:
Academic
integrity is fundamental to the activities and principles of our school.
No student shall cheat or copy the work of another. Plagiarism, the use of another person’s
original ideas or writings as one’s own without giving credit to the true
author, will be considered cheating, and the student will be subject to
academic discipline that may include loss of credit for the work in
question.