Philosophy: In a nation of cultural diversity and international activity, the need to communicate for spiritual and commercial reasons increases. The study of another language gives a student the opportunity to develop sensitivity to the culture of others, which enables the student to live more fully a life of Christian citizenship in a changing global society.
Two
Semesters
Text: Bravo (McDougal, Littell, Houghton Mifflin)
This
class develops a basic vocabulary, sentence structure, and verbal
communications.
Spanish students begin to acquire a listening understanding of basic questions
and responses dealing with personal, weather, health, and time
information. Immediate immersion into the Spanish language continues as
students repeat and learn basic vocabulary and phrases. Correct oral
pronunciation begins the first day and continues throughout the year.
Students develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they learn
appropriate greetings, description of items, and cultural information. A
variety of short, culturally interesting readings aid in expanding vocabulary as
well as aid in providing opportunities to learn elementary aspects of
grammar. Present tense verbs, sentence structure, and adjective agreement
are emphasized in oral and in written materials.
Students play games to drill on grammar and on cultural facts. They see
videos to learn more about Spanish-speaking countries as well as to hear Spanish
spoken by various speakers. Audio tapes enable students to hear more
examples of native speakers.
Exit
Skills
1. Knows numbers 1-1000
2. Knows daily living vocabulary including days of the week, weather, time,
family, clothing, colors, body parts, places, buildings, rooms, food, and
sports. Understands question words.
3. Knows present tense of most regular and irregular verbs.
4. Can use expressions involving tener.
5. Understands some rules about plurals and adjectives.
6. Understands and answers questions about personal experiences.
7. Can respond to questions about health, weather, and time.
8. Orally or in writing can give a brief description about a given topic or a
visual aid.
9. Can express likes or dislikes on topics such as colors, food, or clothing.
10. Can pronounce accurately familiar written materials and much unfamiliar
material.
Two semesters
Text: Bravo 2 (McDougal, Littell, Houghton Mifflin)
This class expands daily living
vocabulary, grammar knowledge, and cultural backgrounds. A variety of
instructional methodologies are used.
Spanish 2 students expand their daily living vocabulary. They continue to
develop listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills as they learn to
respond to questions and to commands. They learn to describe situations
and to give accounts about a known topic.
Ample oral opportunities including skits, interviews, games, and classroom news
enable total student participation. Music, videos, and audio tapes give
students many examples of native speakers.
Exit Skills
1. Will expand vocabulary: jobs, diversions in the city, nature, pastimes,
travel, money, expenses.
2. Will learn reflexive pronouns and reflexive verbs, present progressive tense,
comparisons, superlatives, familiar affirmative commands, adjectives of
nationality, stem changing verbs, familiar negative commands.
3. Will continue learning irregular verbs in the present tense.
4. Will learn regular preterit tense, irregular verbs in the preterit, and the
stem changing verbs in the preterit.
5. Responds to questions.
6. Describes situations.
7. Uses tener expressions.
Exit Skills
1. Will expand vocabulary: movies, television and radio, newspapers, magazines,
school year, market.
2. Will learn irregular preterit verbs.
3. Will learn double object pronouns.
4. Will learn imperfect tense.
5. Will learn irregular verbs in the imperfect tense.
6. Will learn demonstrative adjectives.
7. Will learn formal commands.
8. Will learn por vs. para.
9. Will learn past progressive tense.
10. Will learn subjunctive.
11. Will learn present perfect tense.
12. Will respond to questions.
13. Will be able to describe situations.