SYLLABUS
Centennial High School
2011-2012
Course #: Spanish 8163
Course Name: Spanish 2A
Semester 1
Prerequisite: Spanish 1B with a grade of C- or better
Teacher Name: Victoria Bosin
Room Number: W442 Phone #: 763-792-5123
E-Mail: vbosin@isd12.org
Credit Earned: 1 semester
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Some colleges expect additional years of language study.
Password: centennial
Course Description:
Students will continue to work on the vocabulary and sentence structures needed to communicate in real-life context. Students
will expand listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in Spanish while investigating the culture of the Hispanic people.
Course Objectives – What you will learn and do:
Lección preliminar - Mis amigos y yo - Florida
 Review material already learned to talk about yourself and your friends: descriptions, likes and dislikes, what you do.
 Review verb conjugation and sentence structure, including stem-changing verbs and using an infinitive verb.
 Investigate the Hispanic heritage of Florida.
Unidad 1: Vamos de viaje y de vacaciones – Costa Rica
 Learn vocabulary needed to talk about travel preparations, traveling by air and staying in a hotel.
 Compare Costa Rica and Minnesota, especially outdoor tourism.
 Use direct and indirect object pronouns appropriately.
 Conjugate regular verbs and some irregular verbs in the preterit to describe events that happened in the past.
 Practice asking and answering information questions.
 Roleplay being a tourist going on an air flight.
 Write a post card about a trip, real or imaginary, that you took to Costa Rica.
Unidad 2: Somos saludables – Argentina
 Talk about sports and athletes.
 Discuss ways to stay healthy.
 Investigate world soccer, the World Cup, and Argentina’s soccer history.
 Continue to learn the preterit tense to talk about things that happened in the past.
 Use the demonstratives to point out things.
 Describe your daily routine using reflexive verbs.
 Tell what you are doing at the moment by conjugating verbs in the present progressive.
 Roleplay a sports activity and a skit of siblings or roommates trying to share a daily routine.
Course Expectations: Learning a language requires active participation!!!
Checklists, homework, tests – For each chapter, you will receive a checklist of the activities that we will be doing.
 You are expected to participate in class actively (1 point), have your workbook and worksheet assignments
completed before class starts (1 pt) and speak Spanish with the teacher (1 pt), for a total of 3 points per day
(approximately 250 points per semester). If you are absent, you can make up the class activity and speaking points by
speaking Spanish with me within the next 5 class days. You also need to show me the completed worksheet and
workbook assignments within 5 class days.
 You will have a written question every day worth 2 points. Questions are due by the end of the week. (approximately
170 points per semester). If you are absent, you must hand in the questions within 5 class days.
 Assignments or quizzes on the checklist marked with an asterisk (*) are graded. These may include video, listening
or writing activities, dialogues, presentations or reading assignments (approximately 200 points per semester). If you
are absent, you have 5 class days to make up the work. A graded assignment that is late will lose 10% of the grade
per day it is late.
 There is limited extra credit available, including the online review in @HomeTutor.
 You will hand your materials in to your folder.
Tests and quizzes–
 There is usually a vocab quiz at the beginning of each chapter, a test at the end of each chapter and one or more
grammar quizzes throughout the chapter (approximately 400 points per semester). If you are absent, you have 2
weeks to make up the test or quiz before or after school, or during Advisory.
 You may retake any test or quiz you fail, but you must do so within two weeks.
 There will be a cumulative final test at the end of the semester (60-80 points).
Attendance - We will the school policy.
 Check the daily wall chart for make-up work.
 It is your responsibility to get the assignments and turn them in on time.
Tardy is defined as walking in the door after the bell has rung.
Behavior: Be respectful and responsible.
 Six passes per semester are allowed for lockers, bathroom, or office. Unused passes = extra credit.
 Sign out any time you leave class and sign in when you return.
 If you cheat (including copying an assignment) you will receive a zero for that assignment or test.
 No electronic devices such as cell phones in class.
 I expect you to follow the school dress code.
Materials Needed:
 Avancemos 2 workbook distributed to you. There will be assignments in it almost every day.
 Various worksheets and handouts.
 A folder to keep your materials in.
Textbooks:
 We will be using a classroom set of texts. You share responsibility to care properly for the text at your desk.
 Students who wish may check out a textbook from the White Media Center to take home. This textbook must be
returned or renewed in the White Media Center by the end of the semester.
 You can also access the online text by computer (www.classzone.com; user name – student@isd12.org; password –
centennial)
Miscellaneous:
 No beverages, gum, or food once class has started. Water bottles are o.k. Please throw your trash (including gum!) in
the garbage and recycle your containers and paper.
 Due to allergies, please do not apply anything ‘scented’ in class like lotion or perfume.
GRADING
A = 100 – 93
A- = 92 – 90
B+ = 89 – 87
B = 86 – 83
B- = 82 – 80
C+ = 79 – 77
C = 76 – 73
(Exemplary work – 90%-100% mastery of subject goals)
(Proficient/thorough work – 80%-89% mastery of subject goals)
(Acceptable work – 70%-79% mastery of subject goals)
C- = 72 – 70
D+ = 69 – 67
D = 66 – 63 (Mediocre work – 60%-69% mastery of subject goals)
D- = 62 – 60
NC = 59 – 0 (Unacceptable work – less than 50% mastery of subject goals)
NCA = (Grade Reduced due to Attendance)
NC$ = (Book missing or Fees due)
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