Espaol I

Seora Pryor

CONTACT INFORMATION
Phone #: 512-858-3146
Email: katie.pryor@dsisd.txed.net
Room: D116
Conference Period: 2nd
Teacher Webpage: www.pryorspanish.weebly.com

TUTORIALS
Tutorials will be held from 8:20-8:50 am daily.

GUIDELINES FOR SUCCESS
1. Choose to be curious.
2. Choose active participation.
3. Strive for your personal best.
4. Choose integrity and honesty.
5. Help create and maintain a positive and safe learning environment.

CLASSROOM RULES
1. Treat everyone with respect, kindness, and dignity.
2. Treat personal and school property with respect.
3. Come to class on time and be prepared for learning.
4. Abide by all school and district rules and regulations.
5. Participate at all times.

MATERIALS
- One 1 binder with 3 tabs labeled:
essentials, notes, worksheets
- One journal notebook, preferably not a spiral
- Pens, pencils, 2 red pens
- Dry Erase Expo Marker (to be turned it)
- One sock or rag (to be turned in, used for white board activities, used but clean is ok)
- Kleenex

Additional needed supplies:
kleenex, hand sanitizer, crayon, markers, hanging file folders with tabs

COURSE DESCRIPTION
Spanish 1 constitutes a two-semester study of level 1 Spanish for high school credit. Proficiencies of
listening, speaking, writing, as well as language learning skills will be covered in this class. Cultural
aspects of the Spanish-speaking world are emphasized throughout both semesters. The students
are expected to develop some communicative competencies through participation in a variety of
oral and written activities. Students will communicate in the present tense and will be using a broad
range of vocabulary.

ACADEMIC POLICIES

GRADING
Six week grades will come from tests, quizzes, daily work, homework, and writing assignments.

Summative Grades (70%)

Tests/Projects will be weighted twice as much as a quiz. Students will have at least 2 tests/projects
each six weeks.

Quizzes are given almost weekly. Quizzes are weighted once.

Formative Grades (30%)

Daily work is homework and in class assignments. Expect 10 - 20 minutes of homework/study time
per night. Practice and review at home are crucial to the success of learning a new language.

Formative quizzes are counted twice and may include: warm up sheets, pop quizzes, in class
assignments, more challenging and time-consuming homework assignments.

Practice and Participate In class students will have many opportunities to practice Spanish!
Students earn this grade by contributing answers during class, reading stories out loud, acting in
stories, etc. They earn stamps demonstrating their growing proficiency which I will collect at the end
of every 6 weeks.

MAKE UP WORK FOR EXCUSED ABSENCES
The student is to be given one day for each day absent. It is the student's responsibility to make up
any work missed. Work assigned prior to the first day of absence is due the day the student returns
to class. Any quizzes or tests missed during your absence must be made up during tutorials one day
after your return unless other arrangements are made with me. Failure to follow through with
make-up test or quiz arrangements will result in a zero. Homework is posted on my webpage.
Students are expected to check my webpage for missed assignments when absent.

Assigned work and/or assessments missed due to a school-sponsored extracurricular absence
shall be due upon the students return to class unless arrangements are made with the teacher in
advance of the absence.

LATE WORK POLICY
Homework: Students are allowed 2 late passes a semester. This means students can turn in an
assignment one day late for a maximum grade of a 100%. After two assignments, no late work will
be accepted.

In-class assignments will not be accepted late and cannot be turned in the next day with a pass.

Summative (Projects): Projects will be given a due date. Projects turned in one day late will be
given a maximum grade of a 70. Projects turned in two days late will be given a maximum grade of
a 50. Projects will not be accepted after the second late day and the student will receive a zero.
QUIZ/TEST CORRECTIONS
Students may retake tests for up to 70%. Retakes must be done within a week of the test being
graded. All retakes must be done in morning tutorials (8:20 am).

THERE ARE NO QUIZ RETAKES/CORRECTIONS.

TARDY POLICY
Students are allowed two unexcused tardies each semester. At three unexcused tardies, students
will be asked to turn in their phone and can pick it up at from the office at the end of the day. Four
tardies will result in a referral which usually results in an afterschool detention, but is at the
discretion of the administration.

CELL PHONE USE POLICY
Cell phone use will not be allowed during class unless specifically requested by the teacher for
curriculum related activities. Students using their cellphones in class will have it taken up and turned
into the office. During a test or quiz I will collect student cell phones.

EXPECTATIONS
Pre-AP students will be expected to master a considerable amount of vocabulary and grammar in
order to prepare them for success at the upper levels of Spanish. Therefore, a mastery of basic
vocabulary and language skills from Spanish 1 is presupposed. Students should expect to be
assigned at least one major project per semester, along with smaller mini-projects and speaking
assessments, in which they will demonstrate their language-related skills. The following is an
overview of the target material for each of the six weeks.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES FOR THIS YEAR

Affirmative t commands
Adjective Agreement
Subject-Verb Agreement
Infinitive verbs
Direct Object Pronouns
Personal A
Present Progressive
(Ir + a + Infinitive)

Present indicative
Preposition
Stem-changing verbs
Indirect Object Pronouns
Interrogatives
Negative Expressions
Likes/Dislikes (Gustar/Encantar)

Object of Preposition
Possessive Adjectives
Masculine vs. Feminine
Adjective Agreement
Subject Pronouns
Ser and Estar
Reflexive Verbs



VOCABULARY SUBJECTS
body parts, classroom nouns, verbs, shapes, sports, colors, numbers, school subjects, likes and dislikes, time,
date, weather, months, days, feelings and emotions, greetings, food, meals, house nouns, conversation
starters, prepositions, location and building names, clothes, time references.




ACADEMIC DISHONESTY


Cheating--Plagiarism--Academic Dishonesty (Student Handbook)
Academic dishonesty includes cheating or copying the work of another student, plagiarism, and
unauthorized communication between students during an examination. The determination that
a student has engaged in academic dishonesty will be based on the judgment of the classroom
teacher or other supervising professional employee, taking into consideration written
materials, observation, or information from students. A student found to have engaged in
academic dishonesty will be subject to disciplinary penalties per the SCC [two days], as well as,
academic penalties. Teachers who have reason to believe a student has engaged in cheating or
academic dishonesty will assign a zero for the work in question.

Plagiarism: a form of academic dishonesty in which you use other peoples words or ideas
(pictures, art, charts, graphs, computations, scientific data, music, etc.) as your own by failing to
credit the others at all or by improperly crediting them. If you use someone elses exact words,
you must put quotation marks around them and give the person credit by revealing the source
in a citation. Even if you revise, rearrange, or paraphrase the words of others or just use their
ideas, you still must give them credit instead of pretending the words or ideas are your own.
*Any use of electronic or on-line translators, and use of translations by native speakers
or other students is considered plagiarism.

Your teachers will instruct you how to properly credit your sources. While some plagiarism is
obviously intentional and some might be considered unintentional (missing or improper
citation due to carelessness, often because of hurrying to do an assignment at the last minute),
both types are still subject to the same penalties. If in doubt, ask your teacher before you
turn in your assignment!

NONDISCRIMINATION STATEMENT
Dripping Springs Independent School District does not discriminate on the basis of race, color,
national origin, age sex, or disability in its employment, practices, activities and programs.

El districto independiente de la escuela de Dripping Springs no discrimina en base de la raza,
del color, del origen nacional, de la edad, del sexo, o de la inhabilidad en su empleo, practicas,
actividades y programas.