OPEN HOUSE
La Preparatoria de Clayton
El martes 21 de agosto, 2011
Profesora Heather Mullins Moomey
Español 3 y Español 1
Salón 140
Welcome Parents!
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Educational Background
Professional Experience
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Facilities: classroom/computer & language labs
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Curriculum
How parents can support their child’s
learning.
Website: expectations, course
guidelines, grading scale
Powerschool
Curriculum Goals
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Español 3
Course Essential Learning:
To build an understanding of:
Structures, expressions & cultural norms in
order to live & travel in the Spanish
Speaking world;
A variety of present and past tenses to
describe and narrate;
Structures and expressions to talk about
future and possible events;
Structures and expressions to express
hopes, doubts, and to give advice
Curriculum Goals
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Course Essential Questions:
How do I initiate, carry on and conclude a
conversation?
How do I write effectively in Spanish?
How do I share cultural understanding?
How do I talk about present and past
events/preferences?
How do I ask for and offer information?
How do I express plans for the future and /
or possible events?
How do I communicate
doubts/hopes/wishes?
How do I ask for and give advise /
recommendations?
Curriculum Goals
Course Essential Skills:
 Use regular and irregular verbs the present,
preterit and imperfect tenses
 Use preterit and imperfect combined
 Use regular and irregular verbs in the true
future and conditional tenses
 Use the present subjunctive in noun clauses
 Integrate appropriate vocabulary,
structures, tenses and moods
 Integrate idiomatic expressions, transitional
phrases and organizational strategies
interdependently in speaking and writing
Materials & Resources:
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The Spanish Language Course is primarily
taught using the Expresate 2 (Holt) text as
well as the accompanying workbooks and
supplementary materials. The text is used
to present grammar and vocabulary and
incorporate them into realistic
communicative contexts.
Additional materials will be used and placed
in student binders. Culture will be
presented through literature, media
activities, and research of traditions within
the Spanish-speaking world.
How you can be proactive:
Some possibilities to consider to help your
child learn Spanish include:
* Watching movies in Spanish
* Eating at restaurants where the staff
speaks Spanish
* Visiting a Spanish-speaking place
* Being part of an exchange program with
someone in a Spanish-speaking country
* Finding a native Spanish speaker to talk to
* Participating/attending multi-cultural
events
* Playing games in Spanish (quia.com)
* Learning amount famous Spanish-speakers
and their backgrounds!
Website
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Click on Heather Mullins in the staff section
of the CHS page on the district’s site.
Click on your child’s class to view course
guidelines, behavioral expectations and
grading scale.
In the sidebar click icons for weblinks,
powerpoints, etc.
Homework is not posted on the web, it is
the student’s responsibility to write
homework in planner.
CHS is now using Quia…
The district’s site can answer many
questions and acquaint you with school
policies, events, faculty, facilities…
Get Involved!
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Please e-mail me if you are interested in
helping plan special projects, celebrations,
etc. for our class.
Volunteer opportunities
Classroom guest speakers