1. Welcome to Susan E. Wagner HS
September 26, 2019
¡Vamos a aprender español!

2. Srta. Castro - Spanish 7 Scholars
This is a 4th level Advance Spanish Scholars course. This is a college accredited course with St. John’s University. Students may take this class for 3 college credits in the spring.

3. Srta. Castro’s Schedule
per. 1 - Spa 7S room 216 per. 2 - PREP room 210 per. 3 - Spa 5 room 216 per. 4 - Spa 7S room 216 per. 5 - Spa 5S room 216 per. 6- PREP room 210 per. 7 - Spa 5 room 216 per. 8 - Spa 3 room 216 You may contact me at (718) ext

4. Graduation Requirements
Each student is required to have at least 8 credits in Social Studies to meet graduation requirements
Regents Diploma student must achieve a 65 on 5 Regents:
10th grade students- Global History
11th grade students- US History

5. Grammatical topics covered throughout the year will include:
Preterit and Imperfect Tense Compared
Future and Conditional Tense Compared
Imperative (Commands, Formal and
Informal - all forms )
Perfect Tenses including Future Perfect &
Pluscuamperfecto
Subjunctive & Imperfect Subjunctive

6. Thematic Vocabulary School / Identity / Family
Leisure Activities / Travel /
Movies / Medical
Food / Restaurants
Home / Home furnishings
Clothing / Shopping
Daily routines

7. Projects For The Year Projects will vary from teacher to teacher.
Some projects will be:
Mi diario durante vacaciones / Past
El cuento de niños – Children’s book
Diálogos / Dialogues with all thematic units
¿Quién soy yo? – Spanish personality
Una revista de moda / Clothing & Shopping
Las noticias en el mundo
El menú de su país hispanohablante

8. Common Core Standards:
All lessons and assignments are aligned to the Common Core Standards through text based evidence in discussion and writing.
Common Core projects or dialogues, one per term.
Academic vocabulary: teachers address Common Core Standards by integrating academic vocabulary into each unit.

9. Assignments
All assignments will be posted to PupilPath in a timely manner. Homework is written on the board daily and students are responsible to copy it.
Classwork is assigned daily.
Portfolios will be created by the students and will include contracts, goals and written assessments.

10. Resources used in this class
Situaciones Mastery 3 – Text
Situaciones Mastery 3 - Workbook
Spanish Three & Four Years - Workbook
Any online resources such as:
magazines
Conjuguemos.com
StudySpanish.com

11. LESSON PRESENTATIONS TECHNOLOGY WORD WALLS ACCOUNTABLE TALK
I CAN STATEMENTS
STUDENT ENGAGEMENT
ASSESSMENTS – FORMATIVE, SELF AND SUMMATIVE
RUBRICS AND CHECKLISTS

12. Grading Rationale: Assessment (Totaling 60%)
Project/ Performance Task (25%)
Full- Period Assessment (30%)
Quiz (5%) *If you do not give quizzes, add the 5% to Full-Period Assessment
Class Participation (Totaling 30%)
Entrance/ Exit Ticket (10%)
HOWL (20%)
Homework: 10%