Spanish

2 Grade 10 Mrs. Karen Rodriguez 2012/2013 Course Overview Class Goals: To teach students to communicate in Spanish their basic feelings, needs and desires both orally and in writing. For students to communicate in Spanish with excellent accent and reasonable grammatical accuracy. To bring students to the point where they can freely converse in the Spanish language on their own. To build students knowledge and understanding of Spanish-speaking cultures and people. Course Methods: Grammar Review; Pronunciation; Conversation Bible Memory Verses Vocabulary Practice Notes, lectures, discussions, videos Oral reports, projects and activities Homework, quizzes and test Notebook checks Course Concentration: Review of regular verbs, introduction and practice of regular preterit verbs, irregular preterit verbs, demonstrative adjectives and pronouns Pronoun placement, prepositions, adverbs, comparisons Future tense, irregular future tense, using para, por vs. para, conditional tense Past participles as adjectives, using preterit and imperfect tenses, present perfect tense, irregular verbs in the present tense Sources: En Espaol! 2, McDougal Littell, a division of Houghton Mifflin Company. 2004 Spanish Dictionary, Second Edition. An Amsco Publication. Amsco School Publications, Inc. 1987 Harraps Concise Spanish. Harrap Books Limited. 1991