Summer Assignment Week Nine:
Self directed grammar review and Information about the coming year of AP Spanish
¡Lo has logrado! This is it! You´ve arrived at the last of the summer assignments for AP Spanish Language and Culture!
In order for you to feel a bit more confident and comfortable in AP Spanish class, you need to have a firm grasp of basic and accurate Spanish grammar. We review grammar here and there as needed in our AP Spanish course depending on the needs of the students from year to year, but our class is much more based on USE and ACTIVE PRACTICE of the language (reading, writing, listening, and speaking) to learn about and discuss CULTURE using authentic resources and conversations, video clips, films, song, etc,) and preparing you to pass the AP Spanish Language and Culture exam in May than it is on grammar instruction. Therefore I would like for you to work on a self-guided grammar refresh activity for this week´s assignment, and take a look at the resources you will need for class this year so you can be ready on the first day and buy the right materials, as opposed to buying all the wrong things, finding out on the first day, being disappointed, and having to go back to the store for more stuff.
1. SELF DIRECTED GRAMMAR REFRESH: See the Colby Grammar Review page linked below under Useful Links. On the right hand side of this resource page, you will see pretty much every grammar topic in Spanish language that I can possibly think of. You know your problem areas...look through the topics, find the items that you are ´rusty´ on (and if you see the name of the topic and have no idea what it is referring to that is a good sign you are very rusty on it) and then click on those topics to complete the self-guided review activities. These are great because they give you feedback...they tell you if you got it right or wrong...and most importantly, they tell you WHY you got it right or wrong...they explain the correct or incorrect answer. This is gold! Take a look at all of these topics so that when you come back, you have a decent working fresh-in-your-mind knowledge of these topics so that you can use them to communicate with a respectable degree of accuracy in Spanish.
2. MATERIALS FOR AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE CLASS:
Here is what you need in AP Spanish this year. Please have this for the first day of class and bring WITH YOU to class each day unless told otherwise:
AP SPANISH BINDER: (Set up prior to our first class as directed below- read carefully)
Get a large three ring binder (or a really big trapper keeper if you would prefer :-) with five folders WITH POCKETS and a thin one-subject spiral bound notebook clipped inside (choose your favorite colors or designs, scratch-and-sniff is always fun but tough to find nowadays).
Get a sharpie and label the outside of the binder neatly on the front and on the spine with your real first and last name.
If you want to label the binder with the name of the course, label it correctly in SPANISH, of course, as follows:
La Clase de Español AP
So-
you´ll need five folders and a thin one-subject notebook that are pre-punched with the holes on the side in order to be able to clip them in the binder. You will also receive a grammar / verb reference cheat sheet laminated card from the office when you pay your school fees for the year. Snap that inside the notebook as well. Like I said, we really don´t spend a lot of time on drilling grammar at all in AP Spanish beyond spot teaching review on a strictly as-needed basis, so this reference card will be a very valuable quick and easy resource for you this year when speaking or writing, and you are always welcome to have it out and use it unless indicated otherwise during quizzes and tests.
LABEL THE BINDER´S FOLDERS:
Label the five pocketed folders that you snap inside the binder neatly with a black sharpie marker or any other dark color that can be read clearly:
Label the first folder ¨Primero¨
Second one: ¨Segundo¨
Third one ¨Tercero¨
Fourth one: ¨Cuarto
Fifth one: ¨Cultura¨
IF you kept any CULTURAL information from last year or previous years of study, put it in the fifth folder that you labeled ¨Cultura¨. Don´t worry if you didn´t keep any previous info, it is fine. But if you kept any papers on cultural topics, put them in that culture folder.
You do not need grammar or vocabulary information from past years of study in this notebook unless you have an extraordinarily large binder and wish to include it. You will have your new laminated grammar reference card cheat sheet from this year to snap inside it for any grammar notes you may need. You can have past notes in there if you´d like, but you´ll be getting PLENTY of resources from me to go in your binder for this year and that binder will definitely get a bit overcrowded very quickly if you try to store multiple years of Spanish notes inside. But if you want to try, who am I to steal your joy...?
Pencils each day. Please complete ALL Spanish assignments in dark pencil, in class and out, unless otherwise directed.
A pen for making corrections. Any color is fine. Pen comes each day.
A highlighter or two in any color(s). Bring each day.
Your *charged* chromebook and *corded* earphones that plug into your chromebook for audio. Bring each day.
Access to very basic art supplies to be kept at home unless asked to bring in (small box of crayons or colored pencils, scissors, glue or tape) (keep at home unless asked to bring in)
Cheap HEAD PHONES WITH A CORD that plug into your Chromebook. You need to bring these every day or you can put them in a big plastic zip lock style baggie with your name written on them and store them in the classroom.
No wireless ear pods/buds- wireless ear pods are not allowed to be worn or visible in the classroom. Neither are smart watches. Neither are phones. You certainly can have those items with you, just make sure you put them away in your backpack *before* entering the classroom. While you will be using your chromebook in class a little each day, you may only have your chromebook out during indicated times or with permission.
You will get a grammar reference cheat sheet card from the office when you come in and pay your school fees...snap that into your Spanish binder with your folders and the one subject notebook.
All assignments and information about each class will be posted daily to Google Classroom. If you are absent, you are responsible for checking Google Classroom for every day that you miss and doing what it says on Google Classroom, just as if
you´d been in class as much as possible. See me for missed copies of handouts.
You have as many days as you were out (for an excused absence) plus one additional day to turn in your missed work/ have it completed and submitted/ tests and quizzes made up. The additional day is the day that the missed things are due.
Your handbook explains this but I will explain here as well to avoid any potential confusion:
Your first day back after an absence counts as day one (contact day). So if you miss a Monday (single day absence), your contact day back is Tuesday, we add an extra day to that and your missed stuff is all due on Wednesday by the beginning of the class period.
Let´s say you miss two days (a Friday and a Monday). You come back to school on Tuesday (contact day). You would get Tuesday and Wednesday to make up your missed work with it being due to be turned in on Thursday (again, as many days as you missed PLUS one and the work is due on the plus one.) Regular homework that you are there for is still do by the next class period the following day per usual during your make-up period, the absent work is what you get extra time for completing.
Usually seniors are awesome about understanding this policy, but each year (usually with the younger students) there seems to be a little confusion here and there, so I thought I had better clarify early on just in case.
Mrs. Theis does not accept late homework or late bonus.
Late projects and larger assignments may be accepted on a very limited case-by-case basis with a credit reduction by special rare arrangement with Mrs. Theis but as a member of a university level course, I expect quality work turned in on time.
Be willing to speak speak speak! (Perfection NOT required!) Be willing to express yourself and share your thoughts with others! Be willing to work! Be willing to learn something new! Be willing to IMPROVE! Be willing to LAUGH, smile, and enjoy the process! Be willing to TRY NEW THINGS! I have a BLAST teaching my classes, especially AP, and it is my sincere hope that you´ll enjoy our time together as well, but you need the GANAS!
Did you know that you can get a FIVE on the AP Spanish language and culture exam without absolute perfection??? It´s true! It´s about communication, use, and cultural connections! So please do not be afraid to speak and write in Spanish expressing yourself, so worried about perfection that you won´t let yourself communicate. Each year of study builds upon the previous, you will get better and skills will increase naturally with time spent in experience and use.
That pretty much sums up what you need to know prior to class! You are going to do well and I cannot wait to meet you! We are going to smile, laugh, and learn a lot together this year as we stretch and increase our knowledge of Spanish language and Culture this year in AP!!! And you are going to rock that AP Spanish exam in May! :-)
Congratulations on becoming a member of the impressive capstone year of your Spanish career at Shawnee- AP Spanish Language and Culture :-)
No Yabla or Ticket this week.
Assignment is the Colby Grammar Self Refresh posted under Useful Links below
AND the pre-class materials and info prep as outlined on this page so that you are first-day ready for AP Spanish!
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