High School Spanish II

Wednesdays, 1:00-3:00

Instructor: Lily Kruut tak88lygk@hotmail.com

Class Tuition: $650 per year or 10 equal installments of $65

Supply Fee: $60 per year, due at registration

Instructor accepts: Cash or Check

*NOTE: There is a minimum of 5 students required for this class to progress.

Course Description: This class is the second year of high school Spanish. We will use the second half of the Spanish Now! textbook used for Spanish I. We will continue to build on the use of demonstrative adjectives and adverbs. Students will be introduced to stem changing irregular present tense verb conjugations, direct and indirect objects, past tense regular verbs, emphatic and unemphatic negations, and reflexive verbs. We will continue building vocabulary through reading short stories in our book, along with short stories in our reader. We will be translating short stories and summarizing our reading. We will also be writing short reports and presenting them in class. We will also be learning about the geography and culture of Latin American countries We will continue to dialogue in class and do impromptu skits to help our development of spoken Spanish. This course will cover Chapters 17-31 of the book. Students should expect 4 hours of work weekly, including writing vocabulary flash cards and practicing, completing workbook exercises, conjugating verbs, reviewing material learned in class, answering comprehension questions, translating stories, and writing short reports or dialogs.

Required Materials:
Spanish Now (Barron’s), Level 1, 8th Edition, ISBN-13: ‎978-1438075235. (Available on Amazon.com)
Merriam-Webster Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary for Students, Second Edition (English and Spanish Edition, ISBN-10: 1596951656; ISBN-13: ‎978-1596951655. (Available on Amazon.com)
Spanish Short Stories for Beginners: 10 Exciting Short Stories, ISBN-10: 1953149006; ISBN-13: ‎978-1953149008. (Available on Amazon.com)
Spanish Reading Comprehension Activities, Spanish Speaking countries by Ashley Mikkelsen, ISBN-13: ‎979-8320171265. (Available on Amazon.com)

Supplies:
Single subject notebook for note taking
1” 3-ring binder with dividers to save handouts, tests, projects
Flashcards and flashcards storage box