Spanish I Syllabus

Teacher Information: 

Maestra Korth

Room: 610

Phone: 626-8427 ext 4610

Email: hkorth@ksd.k12.wi.us

Website: www.kewaskumschools.org/faculty/hkorth

Topics:

1. Daily classroom vocabulary
   1. Students learn to say greetings and farewells
   2. Students are able to recognize numbers and tell time
   3. Students learn to say the calendar and weather expressions

2. Activities people like and dislike
   1. Students conjugate gustar and encantar and use with infinitives
   2. Students identify and use negatives
   3. Students are able to express agreement and disagreement

3. Ask and tell what people are like
   1. Students are able to describe things using adjectives
   2. Students can identify and use definite and indefinite articles
   3. Students recognize the order of words in a sentence

4. Discuss what students do during the day
   1. Students can identify and use subject pronouns
   2. Students can conjugate the present tense of –AR verbs

5. Describe where things are located in a classroom
   1. Students are able to recognize and use the verb estar
   2. Students recognize and use the plurals of nouns and articles
   3. Students identify and use the location prepositions

6. Talking about food and beverages
   1. Students can conjugate and use the present tense of –ER and –IR verbs
   2. Students use the verbs gustar and encantar with nouns

7. Food, health and exercise choices
   1. Students can identify and use the plurals of adjectives
   2. Students are able to conjugate and use the verb ser
   3. Students learn the Food Pyramid and about maintaining good health

8. Locations in community and activities done there
   1. Students can conjugate and use the verb ir
   2. Students are able to form and ask questions

9. Extend, accept, and decline invitations
   1. Students are able to talk in the simple future tense: the verb ir plus a plus an infinitive
   2. Students are able to conjugate and use the verb jugar

*Each topic area includes activities in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Major Assignments/ Requirements:

• Students will write several short papers in Spanish on topics learned in class.
• Students will present/act out plays in the front of class in Spanish.

Common Assessments: Students take a quiz after each chapter.  At the end of the semester students will complete an activity to demonstrate what they learned.

Special Texts and materials:  Realidades I (purple book), workbook, folder, notebook

Spanish III Syllabus

Teacher Information: 

Maestra Korth

Room: 610

Phone: 626-8427 ext 4610

Email: hkorth@ksd.k12.wi.us

Website: www.kewaskumschools.org/faculty/hkorth

Content Topics

1. Autobiography
   1. Students are able to describe themselves
   2. Students are able to state where they are from
   3. Students are able to state likes and dislikes

2. Classroom rules and activities
   1. Students are able to recognize and conjugate stem-changing verbs
   2. Students recognize and use affirmatives and negatives
   3. Students use the verbs se prohíbe and hay que

3. Extracurricular Activities
   1. Students are able to make comparisons
   2. Students identify the uses of the verbs saber and conocer
   3. Students conjugate and use the verb hacer plus time expressions

4. Daily Routines
   1. Students conjugate and use reflexive verbs
   2. Students understand the uses of the verbs ser and estar
   3. Students recognize and use possessive adjectives

5. Shopping and Fashion
   1. Students identify and use the preterite tense of regular verbs
   2. Students are able to recognize and use demonstrative adjectives
   3. Students recognize the ability to use adjectives as nouns

6. Talking about things done in the past and where they were done
   1. Students identify and use direct object pronouns
   2. Students are able to conjugate and use irregular preterite verbs:  ir, ser
   3. Students are able to conjugate and use irregular preterite verbs:  hacer, tener, estar, poder

7. Driving and Directions
   1. Students recognize and use the direct object pronouns: me, te, nos
   2. Students are able to form irregular affirmative tú commands
   3. Students are able to conjugate and use the present progressive irregular forms

8. Childhood
   1. Students distinguish the imperfect tense from the preterite.
   2. Students conjugate and use irregular verbs in the imperfect tense

9. Holiday Celebrations
   1. Students are able to describe a situation in the imperfect tense
   2. Students understand and use verbs with reciprocal actions

*Each topic area includes activities in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Major Assignments/ Requirements:

• Students will write several papers in Spanish on topics learned in class.
• Students will present/act out plays in the front of class in Spanish.
• Students will research illegal immigration and create a project that represents their views
• Students are required to participate every day.

Common Assessments:  Students will take a quiz after each chapter and take a final exam at the end of the semester worth 100 points.

Special Texts and materials:  Realidades II (blue book), workbook, folder, notebook