Spanish 3

Syllabus
Miss Henriques

Spanish 3

Syllabus

Course Description:
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Welcome to Spanish III! In this course, students continue developing oral language through interpersonal and interpersonal and interpretive communication on topics related to them and their
larger environment with emphasis on hearing, understanding and responding to spoken language.
They begin oral presentational communication. Students continue developing literacy and improve
their textual interpretive communication skills through reading increasingly complex texts (both
leveled novels and authentic texts).

Classroom Expectations:
Because I have high expectations for you, I also have high expectations for myself. I expect
you to be respectful, responsible students, and I will in turn be a respectful, responsible teacher.

when participating in creating stories in class:

1. Listen with the intent to understand
2. Suggest cute answers, avoiding English
3. One person speaks, everyone else listens
Teacher: Ana Cludia de Cima Henriques
E-mail: achenriques@hudson.k12.ma.us
Extra Help and Make-up: Tuesdays at 2.15 pm in room G206.

4. Do your part
5. Use the hand-in-first gesture if you dont understand
6. Actors match actions in story

Student Responsibilities:

Have five school days (one week) to turn in missed assignments, if any.
After the fifth day, it will be marked as zero.

1. Speak Spanish, not English!

2. Be respectful of yourself, your teachers, your classmates, and your
school.

Missed reading or listening quizzes and timed-writes (test grades) must

be made up before/after school or during my conference period.

3. Be respectful of myself, my students, my colleagues, and my school.

Homework:

4. Come to class prepared with the materials you need to do your work.

You should expect to spend at least 15 minutes a day practicing Spanish outside of class.

5. Come to class prepared with an organized lesson plan and all materials needed.
6. Pay attention to your teacher.Listen to my students.
7. Do your part. Participate actively, ask questions when you do not understand.
8. Spend at least 15 minutes outside of each class each day looking over
stories, vocabulary.
9. Spend time reviewing material in class each day, build on information
students already know.
10. Complete all assignments on time.
11. Grade and return assignments as they are submitted.

there will be a weekly assignment requiring students to retell our class

stories to you in Spanish. Please remind your student to do this, and
please sign off on the sheet they bring home.

Academic Integrity:
Academic integrity is being honest and responsible in regards to your
schoolwork. It means that your work is your work, and anything you have
found somewhere else is credited to its source. Students will receive a
non-negotiable 0 on any assignment in which academic integrity has
been breached.
You may not copy another students work or allow someone to copy
your work.

12. Practice and redo everything until you understand!

You may not use online translators to write sentences or essays.
13. Help you practice and allow you to redo until You understand.
You may not pass off work completed by a native speaker as your own.
14. Attend class every day. Daily short quizzes in reading and listening
comprehension are the norm and are based entirely on the content of the
days or weeks story or chapter in our current novel. Retakes for these
quizzes are available before or after school.

Leaving the Room: (These things should all be done before leaving class
every day)

1.Return borrowed materials (books or writing utensils) if applicable.

3.Clean your desk area.
4.Wait at your desk to be dismissed. Do not line up at the door.

You must cite any website, book, article, etc., from which you gather
information.

Material needed:
A bilingual dictionary (provided)
A binder with sections to organize all the materials used and produced in class.
Pens (one red, one blue, one green), a pencil, an eraser and paper
organized in a binder or a notebook to be included in the binder together
with all the other materials)

Absences and Make-up Work:

A black or blue white board marker
Believe it or not, every day I speak to you in a way that you understand is
a day in which youre naturally acquiring and internalizing language. The
more I speak to you in Spanish and the more you are able to decode
what I say, the more language you will ultimately acquire. Therefore,
when you are absent, you will miss our conversations (and trust me, we
will have very interesting conversations) and you will fall behind in picking up the language. It wont matter how many worksheets you try to complete to make up a grade. Our goal is to absorb language and I promise
you its MUCH easier to do this if you are present and listening to our
crazy stories and conversations every day. But If you are absent:
Know that you may have to spend time with me in before or after
school tutorials.

For specific projects the teacher will requested the material in advance.

Assessment: Grading procedures and distributions:

Interpersonal Performance Assessment 25%
Interpretive Performance Assessments 25%
Presentational Performance Assessments 25%
Homework, Class Participation, Other Assessments 25%

Syllabus Agreement and Technology Use: A Letter to Students, Parents and Guardians

Policies
1. Class attendance If you are not in class, it is your responsibility to
get the notes and homework assignments from a classmate or from the
teacher that day. This will enable you to complete the work and be prepared for the following day. If you are absent, you must present me with
your excused note from the office (see student handbook for specific
details on attendance).
2. Conduct While in class students will behave at all times in a manner
befitting a responsible student. This means that students will respect
themselves, their fellow students and the teacher. Any behavior which
causes a disruption of the learning process will not be tolerated. After
school detentions will be given at the teachers discretion. Failure to report to detention may result in Saturday School.
3. Tardy Class begins when the bell rings. Students have an obligation
to arrive on time for class. Class tardiness is a matter between the student and the teacher. It is understandable that a teacher cannot tolerate
a continuous interruption by student tardiness and has the right to take
disciplinary action and require the student to report to the teacher after
school.
4. School and personal property Students must demonstrate respect
for school and personal property. This means that defacing classroom
furniture (like writing on students desks), technical equipment, or personal property of a fellow student or teacher is strictly prohibited. Students will neither loiter around the teachers desk, nor remove any item
from the teachers desk or cabinets without prior permission of the
teacher.
5. Dismissal The teacher ends class. Students should not begin putting papers away before class has officially ended.
6. No cell phones, iPOD or MP3 players and other electronics. Students
are advised to turn off their phones and put them away before class.
7. Dress code. Refer to HHS Student-Parent Handbook for details on
dress code. You must notice, however, that hoods are not worn in school.
8. Food/drink Only water is allowed in the classroom. The only exception to this rule will be if the class has scheduled a cultural event which
features food and drink.
9. Cheating A student that is caught cheating during a test or quiz will
immediately be asked to leave the classroom. The student is to report to
his/her appropriate administrator. The student will receive a zero for the
assignment.

Dear HHS family,

Welcome to Miss Henriques Spanish class! This year, we will be utilizing
an amazing variety of resources, both digital and in print, to ensure that
foreign language learning at HHS is both meaningful and fun! Whether it
be through art, music, film, literature, or web-based technology tools. I
am 100% committed to work our 21st century skills in developing and
refining our Spanish-language skills.
In an effort to make our use of technology as transparent as possible,
listed below is an overview of some of tools we may utilize in class.
Parents, please read the descriptions and indicate whether or not your
child may participate.
Class notes, handouts, and announcements will be made available on
my class website, which is accessible by students and parents.
Throughout the school year, I may feature photos, videos, or work of individual students (identified by first name only) or student group activities
on either of those platforms. If you prefer that I not publish your childs
photo, video/audio recordings, or school work, please just let me know.
If you have any questions regarding the course or information listed on
this syllabus, please feel free to call, come by, or e-mail. My conference
hours are 1:15pm-2:00pm, Monday through Thursday. Im looking forward to a fantastic new year at HHS, and promise to do everything I can
to help my students reach success.
Sincerely,
Cludia Henriques

I have read and understood the Spanish III Pre-AP course policies, procedures, and expectations.
I have read and understood the course policies and procedures. I am
aware of the expectations of the student for this course. I understand that
I may contact the instructor or access IPass to view my childs grades.
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10. Language - Class is conducted primarily in the target language. English is used at the teachers discretion.

(parent printed name)(parent signature)

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