Spanish 3SyllabusMiss Henriques

Course Description:! Welcome to Spanish III! In this course, students continue developing oral language through in-terpersonal and interpersonal and interpretive communication on topics related to them and their larger environment with emphasis on hearing, understanding and responding to spoken language. They begin oral presentational communication. Students continue developing literacy and improve their textual interpretive communication skills through reading increasingly complex texts (both leveled novels and authentic texts).

Classroom Expectations: Because I have high expectations for you, I also have high expectations for myself. I expect you to be respectful, responsible students, and I will in turn be a respectful, responsible teacher.

when participating in creating stories in class:

1. Listen with the intent to understand

2. Suggest cute answers, avoiding English

3. One person speaks, everyone else listens

4. Do your part

5. Use the hand-in-first gesture if you don’t understand

6. Actors match actions in story

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Spanish 3Syllabus

Teacher: Ana Cláudia de Cima Henriques

E-mail: achenriques@hudson.k12.ma.us

Extra Help and Make-up: Tuesdays at 2.15 pm in room G206.

Student Responsibilities:

1. Speak Spanish, not English!

2. Be respectful of yourself, your teachers, your classmates, and your school.

3. Be respectful of myself, my students, my colleagues, and my school.

4. Come to class prepared with the materials you need to do your work.

5. Come to class prepared with an organized lesson plan and all materi-als needed.

6. Pay attention to your teacher.Listen to my students.

7. Do your part. Participate actively, ask questions when you do not un-derstand.

8. Spend at least 15 minutes outside of each class each day looking over stories, vocabulary.

9. Spend time reviewing material in class each day, build on information students already know.

10. Complete all assignments on time.

11. Grade and return assignments as they are submitted.

12. Practice and redo everything until you understand!

13. Help you practice and allow you to redo until You understand.

 14. Attend class every day. Daily short quizzes in reading and listening comprehension are the norm and are based entirely on the content of the day’s or week’s story or chapter in our current novel. Retakes for these quizzes are available before or after school.

Leaving the Room: (These things should all be done before leaving class every day)

1.Return borrowed materials (books or writing utensils) if applicable.

3.Clean your desk area.

4.Wait at your desk to be dismissed. Do not line up at the door.

Absences and Make-up Work:

Believe it or not, every day I speak to you in a way that you understand is a day in which you’re naturally acquiring and internalizing language. The more I speak to you in Spanish and the more you are able to decode what I say, the more language you will ultimately acquire. Therefore, when you are absent, you will miss our conversations (and trust me, we will have very interesting conversations) and you will fall behind in pick-ing up the language. It won’t matter how many worksheets you try to com-plete to make up a grade. Our goal is to absorb language and I promise you it’s MUCH easier to do this if you are present and listening to our crazy stories and conversations every day. But If you are absent:

• Know that you may have to spend time with me in before or after school tutorials.

• Have five school days (one week) to turn in missed assignments, if any. After the fifth day, it will be marked as zero.

• Missed reading or listening quizzes and timed-writes (test grades) must be made up before/after school or during my conference period.

Homework:

 You should expect to spend at least 15 minutes a day practicing Span-ish outside of class.

there will be a weekly assignment requiring students to retell our class stories to you in Spanish. Please remind your student to do this, and please sign off on the sheet they bring home.

 

Academic Integrity:

Academic integrity is being honest and responsible in regards to your schoolwork. It means that your work is your work, and anything you have found somewhere else is credited to its source. Students will receive a non-negotiable “0” on any assignment in which academic integrity has been breached.

• You may not copy another student’s work or allow someone to copy your work.

• You may not use online translators to write sentences or essays.

• You may not pass off work completed by a native speaker as your own.

• You must cite any website, book, article, etc., from which you gather information.

Material needed:

A bilingual dictionary (provided)

• A binder with sections to organize all the materials used and pro-duced in class.

• Pens (one red, one blue, one green), a pencil, an eraser and paper organized in a binder or a notebook to be included in the binder together with all the other materials)

• A black or blue white board marker

• For specific projects the teacher will requested the material in ad-vance.

Assessment: Grading procedures and distributions:

• Interpersonal Performance Assessment 25%

• Interpretive Performance Assessments 25%

• Presentational Performance Assessments 25%

• Homework, Class Participation, Other Assessments 25%

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Policies

1. Class attendance – If you are not in class, it is your responsibility to get the notes and homework assignments from a classmate or from the teacher that day. This will enable you to complete the work and be pre-pared for the following day. If you are absent, you must present me with your excused note from the office (see student handbook for specific details on attendance).

2. Conduct – While in class students will behave at all times in a manner befitting a responsible student. This means that students will respect themselves, their fellow students and the teacher. Any behavior which causes a disruption of the learning process will not be tolerated. After school detentions will be given at the teacher’s discretion. Failure to re-port to detention may result in Saturday School.

3. Tardy – Class begins when the bell rings. Students have an obligation to arrive on time for class. Class tardiness is a matter between the stu-dent and the teacher. It is understandable that a teacher cannot tolerate a continuous interruption by student tardiness and has the right to take disciplinary action and require the student to report to the teacher after school.

4. School and personal property – Students must demonstrate respect for school and personal property. This means that defacing classroom furniture (like writing on students desks), technical equipment, or per-sonal property of a fellow student or teacher is strictly prohibited. Stu-dents will neither loiter around the teacher’s desk, nor remove any item from the teacher’s desk or cabinets without prior permission of the teacher.

5. Dismissal – The teacher ends class. Students should not begin put-ting papers away before class has officially ended.

6. No cell phones, iPOD or MP3 players and other electronics. Students are advised to turn off their phones and put them away before class.

7. Dress code. Refer to HHS Student-Parent Handbook for details on dress code. You must notice, however, that hoods are not worn in school.

8. Food/drink – Only water is allowed in the classroom. The only excep-tion to this rule will be if the class has scheduled a cultural event which features food and drink.

9. Cheating – A student that is caught cheating during a test or quiz will immediately be asked to leave the classroom. The student is to report to his/her appropriate administrator. The student will receive a zero for the assignment.

10. Language - Class is conducted primarily in the target language. Eng-lish is used at the teacher’s discretion.

Syllabus Agreement and Technology Use: A Letter to Students, Par-ents and Guardians

Dear HHS family,

Welcome to Miss Henriques Spanish class! This year, we will be utilizing an amazing variety of resources, both digital and in print, to ensure that foreign language learning at HHS is both meaningful and fun! Whether it be through art, music, film, literature, or web-based technology tools. I am 100% committed to work our 21st century skills in developing and refining our Spanish-language skills.

In an effort to make our use of technology as transparent as possible, listed below is an overview of some of tools we may utilize in class.

Parents, please read the descriptions and indicate whether or not your child may participate.

Class notes, handouts, and announcements will be made available on my class website, which is accessible by students and parents.

Throughout the school year, I may feature photos, videos, or work of indi-vidual students (identified by first name only) or student group activities on either of those platforms. If you prefer that I not publish your child’s photo, video/audio recordings, or school work, please just let me know.

If you have any questions regarding the course or information listed on this syllabus, please feel free to call, come by, or e-mail. My conference hours are 1:15pm-2:00pm, Monday through Thursday. I’m looking for-ward to a fantastic new year at HHS, and promise to do everything I can to help my students reach success.

Sincerely,

Cláudia Henriques

 

I have read and understood the Spanish III Pre-AP course policies, proce-dures, and expectations.

I have read and understood the course policies and procedures. I am aware of the expectations of the student for this course. I understand that I may contact the instructor or access IPass to view my child’s grades.

(student printed name)(student signature)

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(parent printed name)(parent signature)

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(contact number)

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