Spanish: Junior High (W)

Class Year:  2020-2021
Time:  Tue 11:00 am - 12:30 pm;
Teacher:  Grace Cooper
Tution:  $474 / Year or $79 / Month for 6 Months (Sept - Feb) Course Ends in May
Supply Fee:  $40 / Year Due Upon Registration / Non-Refundable after July 31
Location:  PREP West (Katy)

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I will be teaching your student using Proficiency Oriented Language Instruction (immersion).  As a language teacher my goal is for your student to be more proficient in the target language (Spanish) when they complete my course than when they began.
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/ / A proficient learner can communicate about something appropriately and accurately for a purpose.  This is the goal of the class and is my vision for your student.  I want them to be able to communicate about something appropriately and accurately for a purpose.  Do I need to say it one more time?  My goal is for the students to be able to communicate about something appropriately and accurately for a purpose.
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/ / What will the instruction look like?  It will have these four elements:
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/ / LISTENING: listening to the teacher tell a story, listening to questions asked by the teacher, listening to the teacher describe a film
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/ / READING: choral reading with the class, reading stories that have been told/asked in class, embedded reading, reading storyboards
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/ / WRITING: filling in missing words in CLOZE passages, free writes, completing personalized sentence frames
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/ / SPEAKING: responding to simple questions from the teacher (yes/no, either/or, etc.), re-telling class stories, reacting with rejoinders
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/ / In the Middle School Class, I will concentrate on what is called the Super 7 Verbs.  It is a concept of teaching and recycling the highest frequency verbs in Spanish (actually in all languages):

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    1    estar (is at a place / is feeling)

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    2    hay (there is / there are)

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    3    tener (has)

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    4    ser (is)

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    5    gustar (likes / is pleasing to) 

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    6    ir (goes / is going)

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    7    querer (wants)

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Don’t worry, there will be plenty of fun.  Think…. puzzles, games, challenges, singing and so much more!
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/ / To support learning Spanish during the week, I assign homework so that ideally the student is using one or two elements daily, always with Super 7 in mind.  At times what I assign requires using online sites such as: Señor Wooly, Quizlet, Quizizz and some specific videos on YouTube.  Is there memory work?  YES, but the lists are short.
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/ / Drop Fees: No withdrawal fee if you withdraw in September.  Withdrawal fee for October and November is $140.  If you withdraw in December or later, the withdrawal fee is the balance of the year’s tuition.
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/ / Do not send any fees to Profe Cooper until you receive an email from her.