2021-2022

Intr o to Spanish
"Thel imit s of my
l anguagear et he
WITH SRTA. YOUNG l imit s of my wor l d"
Ludwig Wit t genst ien
Nor t h l it t l e r ock middl e school
In this course, our goal will be to acquire
Spanish language. ?Acquiring? a language
is very different than ?learning? a
language. When you
learned how to

CLASS speak your first

language, you
EXPECTATIONS acquired it naturally
by listening to other
1. Respect for m e, people speak it
for you, for all around you for a long time; not by studying it. Therefore, my
goal is that almost all of our class time will be spent using
2. Keep it Safe Spanish--not using English to talk about Spanish. We will use
3. Listen and methods and strategies that are based on Dr. Stephen
Follow Dir ections Krashen?s Input Hypothesis and Blaine Ray's TPRS (Teaching
2.
Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling).
We will spend our class
CLASS time reading, listening to
music, telling stories, and
SUPPLIES interviewing one another.
We will use our real lives
Paper Folder w ith and the real world to use
Pr ongs and the language as we acquire
Pockets the most useful phrases to
communicate in Spanish.
Recom m en ded: By the end of the year, I
Headphones and hope each of you is
Color ed Pencils confident in your abilities!
2.
CLASSEXPECTATIONS
your keys t o success
St u den t 's Respon sibilit ies
Speak Spanish, not English!
Be respectful of yourself, your teachers, your
classmates, and your school.
Come to class prepared with materials you need
to do your work.
Pay attention to your teacher.
Participate actively and A ask questions when you
don't understand.
Spend at least 15 minutes outside of each class
each day looking over stories, vocabulary lists, etc.
Complete all assignments on time.
Practice and re-do everything until you understand Help you practice and allow you to work until you
it!
Attend class every day.
W i t h Sr t a. You n g:
Em ail: youngm o@nlr sd.or g
School Phone: (501)771-8250
Class Webstie: nlr sr tayoung.w eebly.com
Teach er 's Respon sibilit ies
Speak Spanish, not English!
Be respectful of my students, myself, my
colleagues, and my school.
Come to class prepared with an organized lesson
plan and all materials needed.
Listen to my students.
Check to make sure that students understand
what I am teaching; help the until they do.
Spend time reviewing material in class each day;
build on information students already know.
Grade and return all assignments when thy are
submitted.
understand it.
Attend class every day.
STAYINGINTOUCH
W i t h w h at 's goi n g on i n ou r cl assr oom :
* Check HAC for updated gr ades
* Check Google Classr oom for lessons and r esour ces
* Check our class w ebsite for infor m ation on units of
study
To r equ est a con f er en ce:
Em ail m e a w eek in advance so
w e can set up a digital confer ence Special thanks to
Martina Bex. This
syllabus was based on
her example.
 Pr of icien cy Con ver sion M ean s Gr ade

GRADING Level t o Span ish I

You are confident and are

Novice High Advanced - A - 95%
SYSTEM ADV reaching for the next level.

Novice Mid Proficient - You consistently meet the B - 85%

Gr ades w ill be enter ed and
PROF standard without help.
calculated on a poi n t s-based
system . Your gr ade for each You can meet the
Novice Low Developing - C - 75%
assignm ent w ill be deter m ined standard in familiar tasks
DEV
by your pr oficiency (see char t), and situations.
by com pletion, or by
cor r ectness. I w ill specify the Emerging Emerging - You know what to do to meet D - 65%
gr ading for each assignm ent. EM the standard and can meet
some, but need help
accomplishing it.

Gr adingCat egor ies Beginning Beginning - You know what the standard
is, but you are confused and
F -55%
BEG
Par t icipat ion probably frustrated. You
need som hep toget started.
Cl ass Wor k No Attempt Insufficient - You have not done enough to F - 0%
be evaluated.
Quiz N/S

Pr oj ect s The tar get pr oficiency levels and the

cor r esponding expectations for
speaking, w r iting, r eading, and Pr oj ect s
listening w ill var y depending on Exampl es; Wr it ing st or ies,
the cour se level and tim e of year. r esear ch pr oj ect s, or
ot her bigger assessment s
Par t icipat ion Cl asswor k Detailed
Point s: 50- 100
Exampl es; Whol egr oup Exampl es; Independent expectations
wor k gr aded on compl et ion wor k t hat is gr aded on w ill be given
Point s: 5- 20
cor r ect ness
for each Quizzes
Point s: 20- 40
assignm ent. Exampl es; Quick Checks,
Ex it Ticket s, and ot her
smal l assessment s
Point s:
15- 30
Tar dy pol icy AbsencePol icy
You ar e tar dy if you ar e not in the If a student is absent, they should
Gr adeRepor t ing classr oom w hen the bell r ings. com plete the lesson and any
Tar dies ar e r epor ted in HAC and attached w or k by the next w eek . If
Updated gr ades w ill be posted to consequences w ill follow school a student m isses an assessm ent or
HAC, tw o gr ades per w eek . policies. pr esentation, it w ill be m ade up
Additionally, students w ill have the next class day they ar e
access to digital copies or I w ill
r etur n the physical copies.
l at ewor k pr esent.

Unless other w ise ar r anged, * If this tim e fr am e isn't possible,

assignm ents that ar e tur ned in late just r each out to m e and w e can
w ill lose one letter gr ade for m their com e up w ith a plan!
final gr ade. No l at e w or k accept ed
af t er bi -qu ar t er l y deadl i n es (t h e
w eek bef or e gr ades ar e du e.)