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COURSE DESCRIPTION: A rigorous course designed to develop all four language skills with an emphasis on effective communication through interrelated aural/oral work, language analysis, reading and writing. The course will be focused around various themes including fashion, global issues, relationships, human diversity, languages and the media. A wide range of authentic texts, including ten short stories and one novel, will be studied in view of their communicative purpose and related cultural aspects. Students will write in multiple formats with attention to language, message and context. Speaking and listening skills will be advanced through discussions, presentations and dialogues. The language will be taught within cultural contexts to promote intercultural understanding and respect.

GOAL: For students to acquire a level of fluency that will enable them to use Spanish in a variety of real world contexts including conversing with native speakers, reading newspapers and novels, watching movies, and appreciating literary and artistic movements.

VALUES: Respect Honesty Responsibility Compassion

MATERIALS : __Conexiones __ text, pen, paper & class binder, assignments, positive attitude

GRADING : Grades will reflect students’ level of mastery of course objectives, content and skills and will be based on the four language competencies: listening (10%), speaking (25%), reading (25%) and writing (40%). Every effort will be made to assign material that will prepare students for the IB assessments. IB rubrics will be used for all oral and written work. Grades will be updated in PowerSchool every week in order for students and parents to be aware of the students’ progress and learning throughout the course.

EXPECTATIONS: Respect: Class begins each day with a warm-up on the white board. Students must be in their seats working on the warm-up when the bell rings or they will be marked tardy. After three tardies a quarter, students must serve an afterschool session for each tardy. Students are expected to support their classmates and respect everyone’s unique input and contributions. Disrespectful behavior will be reported to the administration.

Honesty: Do your own work: plagiarism, cheating and the use of translation websites are unacceptable and will be reported. Dishonest behavior will be reported to the administration and consequences will be issued in accordance with the student handbook. Success in the course will be determined by students’ honest effort to acquire the language. Students must speak in Spanish only during class. Three infractions will result in an afterschool session.

Responsibility: Students must have all required materials for class or they will serve an afterschool session. Completed assignments must be in the assignment basket when class begins or they will be marked late. Students <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">with late work must serve an afterschool session for each late assignment. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students who do not serve these sessions and/or who turn-in assignments <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">more than five school days late will not be assessed. When absent, students <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">must see the teacher the day they return for missing work and turn in the work <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">within one school day. If an absence is anticipated, the student must notify <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">the teacher ahead of time.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Compassion: Students who are struggling to master the course material <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">and/or deadlines must speak to Profesora Hill ahead of time.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Consequences: Students who do not meet the course expectations must <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">serve an afterschool session. Sessions will be from 3:10-4:10 on Mondays <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">and Thursdays. Students must serve the closest session when assigned.

CONTACT <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ahill@asd.edu.qa <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">HS 1103 daily 7:30-8:00, Monday & Thursday 3:10-4:10