Michael E. DeBakey High School for Health Professions
LOTE Department
Spanish 3 PAP Syllabus: Fall, 2011
Mrs. Hartley, Professional Team Leader
E-mail: mhartley@houstonisd.org
Text: Realidades 3 (Scope and Sequence details are provided at the beginning of each unit.)
Objective 1: Communication
Students develop communicative abilities in the three modes: interpersonal, interpretative, and pretational,
integrating the skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, and showing.
Objective 2: Cultures
Students learn about and experience other cultures.
Objective 3: Connections
Students use language to acquire new information and knowledge in other subject areas.
Objective 4: Comparisons
Students learn the nature of language and culture by comparing other languages and cultures with their
own.
Objective 5: Communities
Students use language to participate in communities both at home and around the world.
Cycle 1
Objectives: Reading, speaking, writing, and listening applications of past tenses – preterit and
imperfect indicative – with appropriate vocabulary and syntax.
Introductory Unit
Grammar: Review formation and usage of present indicative. Revisit all rules for ACCENT placement
Vocabulary: Biography, family, dining, sports
Reading Comprehension: 3 short stories, selections from El sol
Orals: Initial introductions of shoulder partners, “Yo” oral presentation, El sol presentations
Writing: Journal entries
Listening Comprehension: Zarabanda, episodes 1 – 3
Major Review Test
Capítulo Uno
Grammar: Double object pronouns, Indirect Object Pronouns, Preterit and Imperfect, Pluperfect,
impersonal “se”, review of “gustar” and like verbs, Commands (familiar and formal)
Vocabulary: athletic events, competitions, goals, prizes
Reading Comprehension: Dos aventuras
Orals: Una experiencia inolvidable, Una competencia escolar, un viaje al parque
Writing: Journal entries, one paragraph to turn in
Listening Comprehension: Zarabanda, episodes 4-6
Culture: Outdoor activities in the Spanish-speaking world (video), Puente a la cultura
Major Project: Los mayas
Cycle Exam (common assessment)
Cycle 2
Objectives: Reading, writing, speaking, and listening applications of “ser” and “estar”, familiar and
formal commands, and several applications of the present subjunctive mood.
Capítulo Dos
Grammar: Uses of “ser” and “estar”(including use with participle), Negative and Affirmative Expressions,
“conocer” versus “saber”, adding emphasis to a description, Imperfect and Preterit verbs with distinct
meanings
Vocabulary: Music, dance, arts, drama
-2Cycle 2 (cont’d)
Reading Comprehension: El mundo de Francisco Goya, Naturalezas muertas, Cuando era puertorriqueña
Orals: Artista del Milenio
Writing: El major candidato
Listening Comprehension: Zarabanda, episodes 7-9
Culture: Artists project
Cycle Exam (common assessment)
Cycle 3
Objectives: Reading, writing, speaking, and listening applications of “por” versus “para”, all
command forms, and continued usage of the present subjunctive.
Capítulo Tres
Grammar: Future and Conditional Tenses, Statements of wonderment and probability using future,
conditional, Future Perfect, Conditional Perfect and applications
Vocabulary: Profesiones, relaciones
Reading Comprehension: La arquitectura del futuro, Cuando sea mayor, Mi escuela del futuro, El futuro
según el presente
Orals: Yo en el año 2021
Writing: ¿Cómo será el mundo de 2050?
Listening Comprehension: Zarabanda, episodes 10-12
Culture: Las ciencias sociales
Major Project: A design of something (house, school, work station, car) as it may be in 2050
Cycle Exam (common assessment)
Semester Exam Review
Semester Exam