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2021 - 2022

Spanish Dual
Language
Bobby Duke Middle School & Teacher: Guillermo Soria
E-mail: guillermo.soria@cvusd.us
Toro Canyon

Course Overview
In this Spanish course students will develop their skills and knowledge of the Spanish
language through listening, reading, speaking, and writing. Students will increase their
awareness of the customs, arts, literature, history, and geography associated with Spanish
speaking countries. In addition, students develop insight into their own language and culture.
MAJOR UNITS:
SEMESTER ONE
Describe yourself and friends. Activities you and your friends do. Talk about school and
recreational activities. Discuss weekend activities. Narrate in the present and in the past. Outdoor
activities, such as camping. Art in all expressions: theater, painting, dance, and music. How to
describe them. Compare how artists express their ideas. Research a famous artist.
SEMESTER TWO
Jobs and activities in the workplace, personal qualities and skills needed to get a job, volunteering
in the community. The environment, conservation. Environmental problems and solutions. Make
suggestions to protect the environment.

Expectations and Procedures

Expectations:
1. Actively participate using the target language. It is expected that everyone employs
Spanish in the classroom to the best of your abilities in order to practice and incorporate what we
have learned.The improvement of your oral skills is essential for your own success in class. Hence,
I encourage you to not be afraid of making mistakes. That is part of the process of acquiring a
second language.
2. Follow all school-wide rules. These include tardy, dress and safety expectations. Please
review CVUSD Parent and Student Handbook:
3. Demonstrate you are a scholar at all times: be open to knowledge and growth.
4. Contribute to a safe and productive learning environment by practicing respect,
responsibility, and integrity towards yourself, your classmates and your teachers everyday.

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Procedures & Logistics

Course communication will occur via updates or mail through Google Classroom. Lessons will
be sent via Google Classroom prior to each class period. Lessons could include links to
pre-recorded videos, Google slide presentations, and assignments to be submitted online through
Google Forms, Google Docs into Schoology

Homework: All due dates and instructions for submitting assignments will be provided to students
in person. All assignments will continue to be posted to the course calendar, so they are easy to
track. Check each assignment’s due date and mode of submission individually to ensure you are
submitting to the proper place and will receive credit for your work.

Late Policies
Students will have two weeks after the due date to turn in an assignment for partial credit. Students
might ask me for an extension; however, after the deadline students will receive only partial credit.

Essays
I will give you extra points for correcting the errors mark on your writing. You have one week to
correct the marked errors after the document is returned.

No Retakes
- Projects
- Presentations
- Controls (vocabulary quizzes)
- Categories that are not written production.

Attendance: Attendance is mandatory for all students during our class meetings. Classes meet
five times per week beginning Monday August 16. Make sure you arrive on time, students
who arrive more than 3 minutes late will be marked as tardy. If a student must be absent due to
illness or another excused reason, and is unable to attend class, the parent should call the BDMS
attendance line as usual (760) 398-0139 or the absence will be marked “unexcused.”

Required Materials:
- Classroom notebook
- Pencil/pen
- Colored pencils

Communicating with me

● During our regular class periods: every class period has a 45-minute block of time when I
will be available specifically for that class.

I will be online and answering emails regularly throughout the school day (9am – 4pm). You should
expect a response within 24 hours, excluding weekends.

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Consequences for breaking classroom procedures:

**In the case that a student does not comply, he/she will be subject to
one or more of the following consequences:
1. Warning
2. Meeting with the teacher
3. Call/email Home
4. Parent-teacher meeting
5. Meeting with principal

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Attendance and absences:
Regular attendance is essential to every student’s success in this class. We will do many
Spanish-speaking activities in class that cannot easily be made up if a student is absent. Therefore
every student is expected to attend and be ready to participate. If a student has an excused
absence, he/she must communicate with the teacher about any missed work by checking the
weekly plan on Google Classroom. On Wednesdays, I will give students a short asynchronous
assignment to check for classroom engagement and attendance.
Additional steps the student can take:
● Attend office hours

Grading
The weighted percentage system will be used.

Assessment Categories/Standards Tasks

Homework
Essays
Produción escrita Exámenes
Pruebas
Controles (memory quizzes)
Discussions
Dialogues
Skits
Produción oral
Speeches
Presentations
Homework
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Participation
Exámenes
Audios
Videos
Comprensión e interpretación Canciones
a auditiva Comprensión del maestro
Exámenes
Controles (memoria)
Textos, pasajes, artículos, narraciones, cuentos
Exámenes (todas las destrezas)
Comprensión e interpretación e
Pruebas (gramática o una destreza en
e escrita
particular)

Grading scale
4 - Advanced
3 - Meets expectations for target
2 - Partial mastery of target. Demonstrates partial understanding
or can perform portions of the target with assistance.
1 - Little or no mastery. Cannot demonstrate mastery, even with
instructional assistance.

Code of academic honesty

I attest to the following (please read and check each statement) :

❏ I understand that the purpose of this assessment is to demonstrate my understanding of
the current course material.
❏ I will not use any resources beyond what is in my brain while completing this assessment
unless specifically authorized by my teacher.
❏ I will not collaborate with anyone while taking this assessment.
❏ I will not share the contents of this assessment with any of my classmates.
❏ I understand that this assessment is only a reflection of my current understanding in one
area of Spanish and does not define me as a student or a person.

Please review the following chart as a reminder of the resources available to you as you work in
Spanish.

Use Google Ask Ask the

Use my Use
Use my notes Translate for full questions teacher
book WordReference
sentences / of a tutor for

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paragraph / clarificati
classmat on
e

Homework /
In-class
practice
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Open-note
assessment
✅ ✅ ✅
Closed-note
assessment
✅
Project /
Presentation
✅ ✅ ✅ ✅ ✅
Spontaneous
oral response
✅
Any violation of this contract will be addressed according to the district’s Academic Honesty Policy.

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