Syllabus

SPAN 1412 390 - BEGINNING SPANISH II-HYBRID

Introduction

Course Name & Number: SPAN 1412 Beginning Spanish II

Semester & Year: Fall 2018

Course Description: Continued development of basic Spanish language skills in listening, speaking, reading, and writing within a cultural framework. Students acquire the vocabulary and grammatical structures necessary to communicate and comprehend at the high beginner to the low intermediate level.

Instructor’s Name: Dr. Sara Gottardi

Instructor’s Office #: 309 Corinth

Email address: sgottardi@nctc.edu

Office Phone #: 940-498-6451

Office Hours: Corinth 309 MW 8:30-11:30 & 3:30-5:00, TR 8:30-9:20, 11:00-11:30 & 2:00-5:00

Textbooks & Materials Required: Jarvis, et al. ¿Cómo se dice? 10th ed. w/ Connect. Cengage, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-305-23699-8 (book and iLrn access) Book only ISBN: 978-1-305-12648-0

Currently this bookstore packet includes Connect access for 24 months, but you may buy the materials and access directly through Cengage as well. iLrn Privacy Policy. iLrn Accessibility Statement.

Please plan to use Mozilla Firefox as your main browser to access Connect (also called iLrn) and Canvas.

Canvas Learning Management System. Our online classroom is located in Canvas. Canvas Privacy Policy. Canvas Accessibility Statement.

Adobe Acrobat Reader. I frequently post information in pdf format, so you will need Adobe Reader or another pdf reader to access these documents. You can download a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader here. Adobe Acrobat Privacy Policy. Adobe Acrobat Accessibility Statement. Adobe Accessibility User Guide.

Technology Requirements

Screen Size

• A minimum of 1024x600. That is the average size of a netbook.

Operating Systems

• Windows XP SP3 and newer

• Mac OSX 10.6 and newer

• Linux - chromeOS

Mobile OS Native App Support

• iOS 5 and newer

• Android 2.3 and newer

Computer Speed and Processor

• Use a computer 5 years old or newer when possible

• 1GB of RAM

• 2GHz processor

Internet Speed

• Along with compatibility and web standards, Canvas has been carefully crafted to accommodate low bandwidth environments.

• Minimum of 512kbps

Screen Readers (if needed)

• The latest versions of JAWS and VoiceOver

Canvas Tech Support: (940) 668-3335 use this number during office hours if you need immediate support, but it is preferred that you submit a ticked through: http://ecampushelpdesk.nctc.edu/hc/en-us/requests/new

iLrn Support: 1-800-990-8211. If it is glitch like one assignment is not going through correctly or something minor, it is best just to send me an email and let me know which assignment did not go through or was not working. This happens occasionally and it is easiest to just give me a head’s up. If you have trouble with videos not loading or something account related that is an ongoing issue, that is when you should contact iLrn.

Minimum Technical Skills

In order to succeed in this course, you must be able to

write, send, and receive emails
navigate the internet to find information and access online learning components
navigate and use Canvas and Connect (iLrn)
upload content via the internet
record yourself using a webcam and microphone
download and install software
compose, edit, format and spellcheck documents using a word processor

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete SPAN 1412 will meet the following learning outcomes:

Engage in conversations using level-appropriate grammatical structures including narrating events that take place in the past.
Demonstrate understanding of level-appropriate spoken Spanish produced by Spanish speakers of diverse origins.
Write simple to moderately complex sentences using level-appropriate grammatical structures and organize them into cohesive paragraphs.
Read and comprehend level-appropriate authentic texts.
Identify and discuss traditions, customs, and values of the Hispanic world.
Compare and contrast the traditions, customs, and values of the Hispanic world with characteristics of their own culture.

Core Objectives

Foundational Component Area: Language, Philosophy, and Culture

Critical Thinking Skills (CT)- to include creative thinking, innovation, inquiry, and analysis, evaluation and synthesis of information
Communication Skills (COM)- to include effective development, interpretation and expression of ideas through written, oral, and visual communication
Social Responsibility (SR)- to include intercultural competency, knowledge of civic responsibility, and the ability to engage effectively in regional, national, and global communities
Personal Responsibility (PR)- to include the ability to connect choices, actions, and consequences to ethical decision-making

Grading Policy & Procedures

In general, I do not offer extra credit. However, at the end of the semester, I apply standard rounding to everyone. An 89.44 will remain a B, but an 89.45 will round up to an A.

iLrn 10%

Oral exams (2) 15%

Exámenes escritos (3) 40%

Composiciones (2) 20%

Cultural project/Canvas work 15%
90-100% A

80-89% B

70-79% C

60-69% D

0-59% F

Scholastic Integrity

Scholastic dishonesty shall include, but not be limited to cheating on a test, plagiarism, and collusion. See Student Handbook “Student Rights & Responsibilities: Student Conduct [FLB- (LOCAL)]” #18.

Disciplinary Actions [Student Handbook, #5] “When cheating, collusion, or plagiarism has occurred beyond any reasonable doubt, the instructor may give the student or students involved an “F” on a particular assignment or in the course. [See Scholastic Dishonesty FLB (Local)] The instructor shall make a written report of the incident and of the planned action to his Department Chair. The Department Chair shall report the incident and action to appropriate instructional dean who shall review the case, notify the student and, if necessary, take further action. This may involve either probation or suspension of the student or students in question. If such disciplinary action is deemed necessary, the Dean of Student Services shall be notified, and the action shall be taken through that office.”

Plagiarism, which should be avoided at all costs, includes the following student actions:

Turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own;
Unintentionally or inadvertently turning in someone else's ideas, opinions, theories, or work as your own as the result of failing to document sources both internally and in the Works Cited;
Copying words, ideas, or images from someone without giving credit; Failing to put a quotation in quotations marks;
Giving incorrect information about the source of information, quotations, or images;
Changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit;
Copying so many words, ideas, or images from a source that it makes up the majority of the student's work, whether or not the student gives credit.

The NCTC Student Handbook can be found here

Attendance and Late Work Policy

If you must miss class, be aware you can turn in your work by the start of the missed class period and still receive full credit. As a general rule, no late work is accepted, but if there is an emergency or impediment out of your control, please contact me so we can try to find a reasonable solution. If you must be absent the day of an exam, please arrange to make it up ahead of the exam date. Arriving late, leaving early, and stepping out of the classroom affect your attendance. Please contact a classmate for information that you missed and review the day’s presentation in Canvas. After the 4th absence, the student may be administratively dropped. 3 tardies/leaving early equal one absence. At the professor’s discretion, excessive tardiness may be counted as an absence.

ADA Statement

North Central Texas College does not discriminate on the basis of disability for admission or access to its programs. The College is committed to providing equal access to its students with disabilities by providing appropriate accommodations; a variety of services and resources are made available through the ACCESS Department. Students are responsible for notifying the ACCESS Department of their need for assistance. Students with documented disabilities, such as mobility impairment, hearing or visual impairment, learning, and/or psychological disorders are eligible for services.

Disability Accommodations

The Office for Students with Disabilities (OSD) provides accommodations for students who have a documented disability. A disability is anything that can interfere with learning, such as a learning disability, psychological challenge, physical illness, or injury. Accommodations may include extra time on tests, tests in a distraction-reduced environment, volunteer note taker in class, etc.

On the Corinth Campus, go to room 170 or call 940-498-6207. On the Gainesville Campus, go to room 110 in the Administration Building (100) or call 940-668-4209. Students on the Bowie, Graham, Flower Mound, and online campuses should call 940-668-4209 to arrange for an intake appointment with OSD.

North Central Texas College is on record as being committed to both the spirit and letter of federal equal opportunity legislation, including the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990, ADA Amendments Act of 2009, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (P.L. 93-112).

EEOC Statement

North Central Texas College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, or disability in the employment or the provision of services.

iLrn (Connect)

iLrn houses your online textbook and workbook. Be sure to submit activities by the due date in order to receive credit. Please be aware that iLrn does not currently have an app for mobile devices and is not very mobile friendly at this time. iLrn often asks you to repeat or continue exercises with a partner and record yourselves. You can just record air for a second or two. I'll manually go back and null out the partner work points. Also, there are other activities in iLrn that are listening activities (often marked with an L in the activity name). These are useful and wonderful activities, but I will not go back and listen to your recordings. As a student, it takes too much time to get a perfect, audible recording. As a professor, it requires me to click through too many screens to hear your work. Do these activities aloud, but not recorded. Record only a second or two of air, and move on. You'll get completion points for those activities, so be sure to record a second or two of air and you'll then see a green check mark as your grade for that activity. That means you got full points for it.

Oral Exams

Remember that the oral exam is about producing language on the spot and not rehearsing fully memorized scripts.

Cultural Project/Canvas work

The cultural project will be turned in part by part throughout the semester and then revised and formatted in order to create the final version. Pay careful attention to the grading rubrics to know how you will be graded.

Escritura

These will be short, one page writings we will do throughout the semester on a variety of topics.

Exams

Due to the nature of language learning, all of the exams will be cumulative. This means you are still responsible for remembering vocabulary, conjugations, and material from prior chapters for each exam.

Grade input

I try to get work graded and back to you by the next week, but remember that the standard grade turn-around is two weeks.

Tabacco-Free Campus

NCTC restricts the use of all tobacco products including cigarettes, cigars, pipes, electronic cigarettes, and smokeless tobacco on campus property. NCTC is aware that tobacco use influences underage students, accumulates unsightly tobacco litter, and interferes with assuring clean air for all who come to NCTC. NCTC recognizes the health hazards of tobacco use and of exposure to second hand smoke. Information on a tobacco cessation program is available for students, faculty, staff who wish to stop using tobacco products. We would like to "thank you" for your help in making our campuses Tobacco-Free. For questions or concerns, please contact the Office of Vice President of Student Services at 940-668-4240.

Course Calendar

		En clase	Tarea del libro/iLrn para medianoche el próximo día de clase	Tarea en Canvas
	Lección 7	LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 y 5 CO: CT, COM, SR y PR Recognize the pronunciation differences between English and Spanish Use Lesson 7 vocabulary to talk about travelling Use the gustar construction to express and discover personal preferences Identify and produce ordinal numbers Identify direct objects and rewrite sentences using the direct object pronoun Identify and use the preterite tense to describe completed actions in the past Read an article in Spanish Write a short composition in Spanish Research cultural information about a Spanish-speaking country and summarize that information in paragraphs written in Spanish Demonstrate listening comprehension of aural paragraph and questions
Week 1	27-Aug	Accent rules Pronunciation Repaso de 1411 (El futuro, los verbos irregulares y de cambio de raíz, las 2 contracciones)	Vocabulario Leer pp. 212-213, y 202 Review accent rules and pronunciation Leer p. 180-181, 212-213 Set up iLrn (Connect) account	Visit the Canvas site and iLrn for our course and familiarize yourself with it. If you have questions, contact me.
Week 1	29-Aug	Vocabulario Los números ordinales Los objetos directos	Leer p. 202 Hacer la tarea de iLrn MP108, W6-1H, W6-1I, W7-1I
Week 2	5-Sep	Vocabulario Los números ordinales Los objetos directos Los objetos indirectos	Leer pp. 202 y 205 Hacer la tarea de iLrn L6-3F, W7-1A, W7-1B, L7-3E, MP33	Hacer la actividad: Personal Reflection: Ethical Use of Resources Activity
Week 3	10-Sep Date of record	Los objetos indirectos Gustar	Leer p. 205 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W7-1C, L7-3B, L7-4A Traer el bosquejo para la Composición #1 a clase	Leer las instrucciones del proyecto cultural. Decidir si vas a trabajar en un grupo, el formato de tu proyecto y el país.
Week 3	12-Sep	Gustar Escribir el Borrador #1 en clase	Hacer la tarea de iLrn W7-1D, CR4, MP223, L7-3D Completar el Borrador #1, revisarlo y traer el Borrador #2 y el Formulario del compañero lector a clase impresos
Week 4	17-Sep	Leer la composición de otra persona y darle comentarios El pretérito regular	Leer pp. 210-211 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W7-1G, PN4, L7-4E Preparar la versión final de la Composición #1 y traerla a clase	Subir tu plan para el Proyecto cultural (debes identificar las ideas generales que vas a investigar).
Week 4	19-Sep	El pretérito regular	Hacer la Guía de estudio para el Examen #1 y traerla a clase
Week 5	24-Sep	El pretérito regular Lectura Práctica auditiva Repasar	Estudiar para el Examen #1	Subir el borrador del artículo 1 a Canvas
Week 5	26-Sep	El Examen #1	Vocabulario Leer p.232	Subir el borrador del artículo 1 a Canvas
	Lesson 8	LO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 y 6 CO: CT, COM, SR Use Lesson 8 vocabulary to talk about errands Identify direct and indirect objects and rewrite sentences that replace both with pronouns Memorize and use irregular and stem-changing preterit conjugations Use the preterite to give and obtain information about completed actions in the past Distinguish the differences between por and para Read an article in Spanish Research cultural information about a Spanish-speaking country and summarize that information in paragraphs written in Spanish Demonstrate listening comprehension of aural paragraph and question
Week 6	1-Oct	Vocabulario Los objetos directos e indirectos	Leer pp. 232, 238-239 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W7-Leer, W8-1A, L8-3A, MP65	Subir el borrador del artículo 2 a Canvas
Week 6	3-Oct	Vocabulario Los objetos directos e indirectos Por y Para	Leer p. 235 Hacer la tarea de iLn W8-1B, L8-3B, W8-1G, L8-3C, L8-3D	Subir el borrador del artículo 2 a Canvas
Week 7	8-Oct	Ser, Ir y Dar Los verbos con cambio de raíz	Leer p. 236, 240-241 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W8-1D, W8-1E, PR4, MP17	Subir el borrador del artículo 3 a Canvas
Week 7	10-Oct	Los verbos con cambio de raíz Los adverbios Practicar para el Examen oral #1	Leer p. 236, 240-241 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W8-1H, L8-4E, L8-4B,	Subir el borrador del artículo 3 a Canvas
Week 8	15-Oct	Lectura Practica auditiva Repasar Practicar para el Examen oral #1	Estudiar para el Examen oral #1	Subir el borrador del artículo 4 a Canvas
Week 8	17-Oct	El Examen oral #1	Vocabulario Leer pp. 260-262 y 266 Hacer la tarea de iLrn MP207, L9-3C, L9-3A, W9-1E	Subir el borrador del artículo 4 a Canvas
	Lesson 9	LO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 y 6 CO: CT, COM, SR Use Lesson 9 vocabulary to talk about daily routines Memorize and use reflexive consturctions to describe daily routines Memorize and use irregular preterit conjugations to give and obtain information about completed actions in the past Use the "Hacer tiempo que" construction to describe how long it has been since an action was completed or how long you have been doing that action Read an article in Spanish Research cultural information about a Spanish-speaking country and summarize that information in paragraphs written in Spanish Demonstrate listening comprehension of aural paragraph and questions
Week 9	22-Oct	Vocabulario El posesivo El reflexivo	Vocabulario Leer pp. 208 y 270 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W9-1A, W9-1B, W7-1E, W7-1F, RE4	Subir el borrador del artículo 5 a Canvas
Week 9	24-Oct	El reflexivo Hacer tiempo que	Leer pp. 266-269 Hacer la tarea de iLrn L7-3C, CU4, W9-1G, L9-3E, L9-3D	Subir el borrador del artículo 5 a Canvas
Week 10	29-Oct	El pretérito irregular Hacer tiempo que	Hacer la guía de estudio para el Examen #2 Leer pp. 266-269 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W9-1F, W9-Leer, L9-2A, L9-2B, L9-3C	Subir el borrador del artículo 6 a Canvas
Week 10	31-Oct	El pretérito irregular Practica auditiva Lectura	Estudiar para el Examen #2	Subir el borrador del artículo 6 a Canvas
Week 11	5-Nov	El Examen #2	Vocabulario Leer pp. 290-293 Hacer la tarea de iLrn MP135, L10-3A, W10-1, L10-4A	Subir el borrador del artículo 7 a Canvas
	Lesson 10	LO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 y 6 CO: CT, COM, SR, PR Use Lesson 10 vocabulary to talk about houses and apartments Identify and use the imperfect tense to describe repeated actions in the past Interpret the difference in meaning between conocer and saber in the preterit and imperfect tenses Read an article in Spanish Write a short paragraph in Spanish Demonstrate listening comprehension of aural paragraph and question Write a short composition in Spanish
	7-Nov Nov 8 Last day to Withdraw with a "W"	Vocabulario El imperfecto	Vocabulario Leer pp. 290-293 y 296 Hacer la tarea de iLrn W10-1B, W10-1C, VE4
Week 12	12-Nov	Vocabulario El imperfecto	Leer pp. 292-295 Hacer la tarea de iLrn MP231, W10-1D, W10-1E, L10-4E, P10-A Preparar el bosquejo para la Composición #2	Subir el borrador del artículo 8 a Canvas
Week 12	14-Nov	El pretérito vs el imperfecto Escribir el Borrador #1 en clase	Completar el Borrador #1, revisarlo y traer el Borrador #2 y el Formulario del compañero lector a clase impresos	Subir el borrador del artículo 8 a Canvas
Week 13	19-Nov	El pretérito vs el imperfecto Leer la composición de otra persona y darle comentarios Practicar para el Examen oral #2	Preparar la versión final de la Composición #2 y traerla a clase	Subir el borrador del artículo 9 a Canvas.
Week 14	26-Nov	El Examen oral #2	Vocabulario Leer p. 344 Hacer la tarea de iLrn MP26, W12-1A, W12-1B, L12-3B	1) Hacer las correciones al Proyecto cultural y subir la versión final. 2) Hacer la actividad de Personal Reflection #2
	Lessons 12 & 13	LO: 1, 2, 3, 4 y 5 CO: CT, COM, SR Use Lesson 13 vocabulary to talk about clothing Identify and use the imperative form to elicit action from others Identify, interpret, and use the se impersonal construction to emphasize actions Read an article in Spanish Write a short paragraph Spanish Demonstrate listening comprehension of aural paragraph and question
	28-Nov	Vocabulario El imperativo de Ud./Uds./Nosotros y Tú negativo	Leer pp. 370-371 y 350 Hacer la tarea de iLrn MP145, W13-1A, W13-1B, W12-1E
Week 15	3-Dec	El imperativo de Tú afirmativo El "se" impersonal	Hacer la guía de estudio	Ver los proyectos de la clase y votar por el mejor proyecto para medianoche el 5 de diciembre
Week 15	5-Dec	El "se impersonal Repaso	Estudiar para el Examen #3
Week 16	Examen #3 TBD