Level: Form III (7th–9th grades), Form IV (10th–12th grades)
Subject(s): Languages—World & Classical, Spanish
Description:
This class is meant to follow Spanish 2 and is for students entering a third or fourth year of Form 3 & 4 Spanish studies. Combining interactive and conversation-driven learning with traditional grammar and vocabulary instruction, this course will help students in their journey to speak Spanish fluently. Students will work through Breaking the Spanish Barrier, a curriculum that engages students through a variety of activities and techniques.
In order to gain mastery and grow toward fluency, students will be expected to complete work outside of class each week including listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. As an integral part of the learning process, students will be asked to record themselves speaking and to submit their recording to the teacher each week. Homework expectation is approximately 30 minutes per day, 3 days a week.
Learning Goals:
- Review and expand on vocabulary and grammar from Spanish 1 &2.
- Practice asking and answering questions in Spanish.
- Use proper grammar for writing and speaking.
- Create stories in Spanish based on listening and reading.
- Further build reading comprehension in Spanish, utilizing a variety of formats (poetry, short story, news article, interview, etc).
- Practice “real-world communications” in Spanish (writing a professional email, formal letter, etc).
- Learn more advanced pronoun configurations.
- Learn command verb tense (direct and indirect)
- Learn future verb tense.
- Learn helping verbs.
- Learn the present perfect and past perfect verb tenses.
- Learn conditional verb tense.
- Learn subjunctive verb tense.
- Learn the passive verb tense.
- More advanced students will have opportunity for more advanced reading, writing, listening comprehension and conversation.
Materials:
All Spanish 2 & 3 families must purchase the following required supplies:
- **One-inch three-ring binder with 5 dividers, lined paper, pens/pencil
Spanish 3: Students entering their third year of Spanish at BHSC must also have the following parent-purchased supplies*:
- Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level 2 Student Book:
- Shopping suggestion 1: Breaking the Barrier website
- Shopping suggestion 2: Rainbow Resource Center
- Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level 2 Answer Key
- Shopping suggestion 1: Breaking the Barrier website
- Shopping suggestion 2: Rainbow Resource Center
- Orión – Novel – TPRS Books
- Complicaciones en Córdoba – Novel – TPRS Books
Note to Families: Advanced Spanish (Spanish 3+) will use the BTSB (orange book) Level 2. Returning students may already own this book. Please purchase the BTSB Level 2 Answer Book if not already owned.
*Note on BTSB and TPRS readers for sibling groups: the TPRS readers and BTSB Answers Keys can be easily shared among siblings. The hardcopy consumable textbooks ($65) could be shared if families wish to make photocopies of workbook pages so each student has a copy, or families may wish to purchase separate consumable textbooks for each student.
**A larger binder could be shared with another class, but please have 5 dedicated Dividers for Spanish section.
