Course Title:
Spanish VI
1st Semester
Course Number:
(H) 0168
Teacher:
Classroom Number:
Contact Information:
Ballard
4142
email – ballardp@tantasqua.org
voicemail – 1508
Tuesday
Extra-Help Night
Course Description: This course is designed for the self-motivated student. It is the next
step in the Spanish sequence for advanced students. Students are expected to have mastered all
previous grammatical constructions. Grammar study will focus on more advanced concepts and
constructions. Further development of writing and speaking skills will be stressed as well as
intense vocabulary expansion. Compositions will be assigned weekly on selected topics. Students
will be required to speak at length on familiar personal topics. Students will read short stories and
excerpts from literary adaptations. After successful completion of Spanish VI, students will be
able to write compositions using a variety of verb tenses, moods and more advanced grammar,
speak at length about matters that are important to them and understand Spanish spoken at a
normal rate of speed.
Academic Expectations from the Mission Statement:
• Select educational pathways consistent with interests, abilities and goals.
• Assume responsibility for academic achievement.
• Acquire, interpret, analyze, integrate and apply information in a discerning manner.
• Exhibit ability to read, write and communicate.
Reading Materials:
Spanish Readers: El Novio Robado
La Casa Embrujada
El Concierto Siniestro
El Secreto de la Llama
Lecturas Básicas: A Literary Reader
Don Quijote de La Mancha
Cultural Unit:
Three Spanish Painters
Course Outline: Six readers and, time permitting, one teacher-prepared lesson on
three Spanish painters will be covered throughout the course. “¿Qué hiciste?” will
be presented by each student only on the first school day of each week. This is a
speaking exercise in which she/he will talk about what she/he did over the weekend.
One composition, hand written, consisting of minimum one side of a sheet of paper
will be handed in and accepted only on the first school day of the week. Students
will also present 4 oral presentations without notes on topics chosen by the teacher.
The course addresses the national standards for foreign language learning as
outlined in the Massachusetts Foreign Languages Curriculum Frameworks, second
edition, adopted by the Board of Education in March 1999.
Grading/Evaluation of Learning: 1. Students receive a daily grade for attendance,
homework (done in its entirety) and
preparedness to class.
2. Quizzes and test for each reader
3. Compositions
4. Oral presentations
5. “¿Qué hiciste?”
6. Final Exam is 1/5 of final average. It does not
impact the quarter grade.
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Expectations:
You are expected to be in your seats by the time the bell stops ringing.
After that, you are considered late. Late arrival without a pass is an
unexcused tardy: two unexcused tardy = a detention. If you are late leaving
your previous class, please get a pass from that teacher as you will not be
allowed to leave to obtain one.
No hovering around the door or in the hall.
You are expected to come to class prepared. This means having with you a
writing utensil, your covered textbook, your workbook, notebook and any
pertinent worksheets. Failure to do so will result in a zero for the day.
You may not leave the room except for emergencies. No trips to lockers,
phone or to do errands are permitted.
You may expect homework most nights.
You will need to have a Spanish-English dictionary for at home use.
Quizzes may be either vocabulary or teacher-prepared quizzes. You may
expect several every week.
Tests are given at the end of each reader.
Compositions will be handed in and accepted ONLY on the first school day of
each week. A list will be supplied with the topics and dates due.
Compositions will be accepted early. NEVER LATE. NO EXCEPTIONS.
“¿Qué hiciste?” will be done only every Monday or the first school day of
the week. Students will be expected to talk in depth about what they did over
the weekend. If you are absent you will not be allowed to make it up.
In order to receive credit for your homework, it must be completed and you
must be present when we correct it. If you are absent, you may either come in
early the following day(s) or stay after school the next Tuesday and go over it
with me.
Missed quizzes and tests may be taken before class or after school the next
Tuesday. You have 5 school days to make up a quiz or a test. IT IS YOUR
RESPONSIBILITY TO COLLECT YOUR MISSED WORK, DO IT AND
CORRECT IT WITH ME.
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UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL YOU BE ALLOWED TO
MAKE UP WORK IF YOU HAVE CUT CLASS.
Substitute teachers will be treated courteously and with respect. I expect
you to complete the work I leave behind. Misbehavior will be punished by
detentions and zeroes for work not completed.
Cheating is lying and stealing. It is not tolerated. I will call your parents.
It will be uncomfortable in class for a time. A zero for cheating is never
dropped. It is far better to receive any grade honorably than to risk losing
your credibility and the respect I have for you.
If you are having health or personal problems, please notify me quietly
before class starts so that if I notice you acting differently from normal, I will
not get upset with you. You may have the option of just sitting quietly, taking
a zero for the day and the following day, when things are better, come to me
in the morning, we’ll go over your missed work and the zero will disappear.
This will eliminate undue stress on both of us.
You are not to touch anything in the room that does not belong to you
unless given permission.
Materials: needed for class every day
-writing utensil
- current reader
- workbook
- notebook
- any pertinent worksheets.
Examination Schedule:
- Weekly compositions
- Vocabulary quizzes
- Quizzes on completion of every or every four chapters read
- Tests upon completion of each reader
Academic Integrity
Academic integrity provides the foundation for educational achievement and personal
growth within Tantasqua’s school community. Integrity guides the choices which lead
toward honesty, respect, and responsibility. A student with academic integrity gains
knowledge through hard work and honest effort. The result is genuine accomplishment
and learning.
Academic Integrity promotes:
• positive relationships based on trust
• work that reflects one’s own best effort
• respect for the intellectual property of others
• responsibility for one’s own actions
• real learning
Violations of Academic Integrity
Violations of academic integrity include cheating and plagiarism.
Cheating is an unacceptable form of behavior. Real learning stops when cheating begins.
It casts a shadow of doubt on the credibility of a student’s academic performance
preceding the cheating incident, and may have an effect on how people perceive the
student for the consideration of future honors, awards, or letters of recommendation.
Test or homework dishonesty is the use of any means not specifically accepted by the
teacher to obtain answers to a test, quiz, or homework assignment. Test or homework
dishonesty includes giving, receiving, passing, or using in any way specific information
about the test, quiz, or homework assignment, whether in oral or written form.
Plagiarism is the use of another person’s words, ideas, or facts as if they were your own,
without giving credit to the original source. Plagiarism may occur in any medium,
including written composition, oral or artistic presentations, and technology. Plagiarism
in any form is unacceptable. During the first weeks of school, teachers will clarify their
specific policies on plagiarism.
Consequences
A student found in violation of academic integrity may face one or more of the following
consequences:
• loss of credit for the assignment/paper/test, and a grade of zero
• notification of parent or guardian
• disciplinary referral to the assistant principal and resulting penalty
Repeated violations of academic integrity will result in:
• a meeting including the student, parent(s) or guardian(s), teacher, counselor,
and/or an administrator
• loss of credit and a failing grade for the course