Textbooks and Ancillaries
| Classroom Courtesy | Class
Attendance | Workbook Exercises
| Oral Presentations | Compositions
| Final Exam | Grades
for S221 and S276
General Information
The Spanish for Hispanic Students Program is a review of spoken and written
Spanish grammar, complemented by a selection of short stories by well-known
Spanish and Latin American authors. This program has been designed to overcome
the different language-learning problems of students who grew up speaking
Spanish at home, but who have had little formal study of the language.
Special emphasis is given to writing and reading and to certain
grammatical forms that tend to present difficulties to native speakers.
Textbooks and Ancillaries
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Ana Roca. Nuevos Mundos. Wiley and Sons. 1999.
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Ana Roca. Cuaderno para estudiantes bilingües Nuevos
Mundos. Wiley and Sons. 1999.
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Spanish/English & English/Spanish dictionary.
Classroom Courtesy
Late arrival, early departure, eating in class and private
conversations between students is disturbing and disruptive to other members
of the class. Please be considerate of your fellow students and your instructors.
Class Attendance
Regular attendance is essential for learning in a course
of this nature. In order for you to acquire any foreign language, you need
to practice as much as possible. Using Spanish with your classmates is
an excellent way to practice and reinforce what you have learned. Therefore,
it is extremely important that you attend class and actively participate
in class activities.
Workbook Exercises
The Cuaderno de ejercicios is designed to review and
reinforce the grammatical structures in the text while simultaneously concentrating
on the problem areas of Spanish speakers. Emphasis is on reading and writing
(orthography, grammar, and vocabulary). Some of the exercises will be done
in class and some will be assigned as homework. The day of the chapter
exam I will collect all the pages corresponding to the chapter covered.
Oral Presentations
Every student will give a short oral presentation based on
research carried out individually on a particular aspect of the topic covered
in the chapter. In your book and workbook you will find a wide arrange
of different sources of information (printed material, audio/visual, internet,
etc.).
Compositions
The "El arte de ser bilingüe" section of each chapter
will help you develop strategies to communicate through writing more effectively.
You will write the first draft of your composition in class. Then, after
the feedback received from your instructor and classmates, you will write
your second and final draft at home. The second version will receive a
grade.
Final Exam
The final exam will be comprehensive. Students with and average
grade of 83 or higher and no more than three (3) absences will not be required
to take the final exam.
Grade Determination for S221 and S276
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Four (4) chapter exams at 100 points each.THERE ARE NO MAKE-UP
EXAMS.
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400 points |
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Four (4) compositions at 30 points each.
|
120 points |
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Four (4) Cuaderno de ejercicios at 25 points each
|
100 points |
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Four (4) Oral presentations at 40 points each
|
160 points |
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Homework and quizzes/Class participation
|
70 points |
|
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150 points |
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TOTAL: 870 (without final exam) or 1,000
(with final exam).
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A 100-93
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B- 82-80 |
D+ 69-67 |
| A- 92-90 |
C+ 79-77 |
D 66-63 |
| B+ 89-87 |
C 76-73 |
D- 62-60 |
| B 86-83 |
C- 72-70 |
F 59- |
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