Spanish

Teachers:

Ms. Lisa Hayes, Mr. Gustavo Ruiz, Ms. Crystal Waggoner

 

Levels: 

Spanish 1

Spanish 2

Spanish 3

Spanish 4

AP Spanish

 

Registration guide information

• Spanish I provides the beginning-level student with immediately useful language skills in Spanish. It allows maximum conversational interaction both among students and between teacher and student. Speaking, reading, listening, and writing activities, based on real-life situations, are incorporated through-out the program. The student explores culture through authentic readings and video tapings. The program is designed to enable the students to function as accurately as possible in the situations that they are most likely to encounter.

• Spanish II further develops and advances the skills of speaking, listening, writing, and reading. These skills are incorporated with cultural units. The program continues to provide for the student practice in real-life situations encountered in Hispanic cultures.

• Spanish III is designed to increase the student’s ability to understand and speak functional Spanish as effectively as possible. The student reads longer, authentic selections that are used to generate more meaningful writing. Listening comprehension focuses on real-life experiences, and cultural knowledge will include the Hispanic world with their varied customs and points of interest.

• The focus of Spanish IV is to continue the development of proficiency in speaking, listening, writing, and reading skills. The student will communicate ideas more effectively by linking together the four skills and integrating culture into everyday situations, study authentic readings, and write more complex material which may include activities that follow the format of the Advanced Placement Spanish Language Examination.

• The Advanced Placement Program in Spanish Language is intended for those who have chosen to develop their proficiency in all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course covers the equivalent of a third-year college course in advanced Spanish writing and conversation. It encompasses aural/oral skills, reading comprehension, grammar, and composition. Course content might include intellectual interests shared by the students and teacher (the arts, history, current events, literature, culture, sports, etc.). Materials may include recordings, films, newspapers, and magazines. The course seeks to develop language skills that are useful in themselves and that can be applied to various activities and disciplines rather than to the mastery of any specific subject matter. Extensive training in the organization and writing of compositions must be an integral part of the Advanced Placement Spanish Language Course. Students who choose this program should have a basic knowledge of the language and culture of Spanish-speaking peoples and should have attained a reasonable proficiency in listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing.

 

Makeup Test Information

 

If you are making up a chapter or unit test, and arrive more than 5 minutes after the starting time listed below, you may not be permitted to enter.

 

Go to the corresponding room number for the day and time listed. For example, if you are making up a test/quiz on a Tuesday afternoon, you report to room 119. Your test will be there waiting for you.

 

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
7:35 - 8:15 AM	- None -	Mr. Maronic Room 124	Mr. Ruiz Room 125	Dr. Spence Room 121	Ms. Waggoner Room 123
3:30 - 4:15 PM	Ms. Hayes Room 122	Mrs. Hathi Room 119	- None -	Ms. Rice Room 126	- None -