Intro to Spanish 2020-2021

Ola So a Senora Cabral I Mrs Cabraal, I'm going

to your Spanish teacher this year and I am so

excited to start your together.

I wanted to go over a few things that I

think will help everyone get started on the right foot.

And to help understand how classes this class is gonna

work this year.

So first off, I wanted to share with you that

normally we have somewhere in the range of 90 students

on any given year and this year, because of the

way the schedule was rearranged, I have an extra class.

So I'm gonna have about 130 students, which was quite

a few.

And in addition to that, I'm only going to see

you twice a week for the time being.

On top of that, I'm terrible at learning names quickly.

It's really inconvenient as a teacher.

So the reason I'm sharing all this with you is

that I want to make sure you don't take it

personally. If I don't know your name right away, I'm

gonna work really hard at learning everyone's names quickly.

But just please no, that there are a lot of

names for me to learn this year, and I'm not

going to see you is often so that's just gonna

be a challenge.

Uh, in general, I just want to kind of put

this out there at the beginning to remind everyone that

you get out what you put in in anything in

life. And in this course, we'll talk about that with

online learning, The temptation is gonna be that much stronger

to copy someone else's work or to get answers from

someone, or to find out what's on a quiz before

you actually sit down to take it.

And I just want to be clear that again, you

you will get out what you put in.

If you don't do the work yourself, you're not gonna

learn it.

And then that will show on other quizzes and assessments

later on.

Last year we didn't have a final exam, but this

year we will have a midterm and final.

So those are big assessments that are gonna come up

that you won't have any help with and on quizzes

in class and things like that that will show through

as well.

So please just keep that in mind.

I know the temptation will be there to get help

from others on things.

Or maybe you shouldn't be getting help, so just keep

that in mind places you work.

If, for some reason I see a discrepancy in the

quality of remote or online work and you're in person

work, let's say your online work is this is really

solid level of Spanish.

And then when you do writing assessment in class, I

don't. It looks very different from what I've seen on

outside work, I may suspect and probably report academic dishonesty

to administration.

So I understand that if you're using resource is like

your ola packet at home, I might look a little

different. But generally there's some things that stand out of

someone's been using someone else's work instead of theirs.

And then you do your own work and doesn't match

up. So I had hoped not to do that, but

just keep that in mind, okay?

Resource is to use our me.

Please don't ever hesitate to ask questions.

This is my job to help you.

And I'm here to do that.

Your role.

A packet which is in digital form in school, achy.

And I'm gonna give you a hand copy or hard

copy. When you come into class and any other course

materials, you're welcome to use quizzes and tests you shouldn't

use any resource is we may do some while you're

at home.

And so it will kind of be an honor system

that you're not using those at home, but we will

do some in class as well.

So how is this class gonna work with the cherry

and great cohorts and so on?

I have it set up where it, Jerry and Graco

words will do the same assignment every day.

You'll have an online assignment every day and in class

when you're physically in class, will get that out of

the way.

And then we're going to use the rest of the

time to do listening and speaking and more interactive activities

on remote days.

When you're not in class physically, be sure to log

in to school aji for attendance purposes.

In addition to getting the work done, if you are

someone who wants to sit down on one day and

plow through all of those assignments for the week, I

don't have a problem with that.

But just know that that may affect your attendance because

the district is looking into school aji for attendance.

So message me if you have questions.

If you're caught up with work, I can message them

and say, Hey, I know this kid didn't like in

every day, but they're all caught up.

They shouldn't be marked absent.

So if you have any issues with that, just message

me and will take care of it.

So a few changes this year, so we already know

that we have social distancing, which is going to change.

The weight class works a little bit and online work.

We also are teaching all new units this year, and

you all may feel a little rusty from last year.

So the way we've planned things, you may not feel

like you're ready for that level of Spanish yet.

I have what I think is a good plan for

this year, taking all that into account.

But if things aren't working, will change will switch things

up, will adapt.

So it's not a normal year, and I just appreciate

any understanding if we have to change things kind of

on the fly.

But I think I think we have a good plan

so far, the online tools that you'll need for this

class we're gonna keep it simple will be school aji.

You'll have your weekly assignments in there and any instructions

for those.

Some assignments will be in school.

Aji Some assignments will be on guard.

Bonzo. You probably use this last year with the senior

Kelly, or sooner, if again, chur and has reading activities

that go with the units that we do and you'll

have a log in and I'll help you get set

up with it.

And quiz lit is a place where we keep lists

of vocabulary that's important for class, and you can study

everything there.

It's important to note that although Senior Fig enters and

your Kelly and I do a lot of co planning

for Levels two and three, not everything is exactly the

same. We create a lot of assignments together, but we

might have different due dates.

One of us might skip UN assignment.

Say, I'm gonna leave that for later.

So always go by your teachers class details, so check

with me if you're unsure about due dates or assignment

instructions or where to submit something because it may be

different, even though it looks very similar to maybe a

friend's assignment.

Another class personal project.

I'm really excited about this this year's first year.

I'm doing it, Um, but for a long time I've

wanted to give students an opportunity to really dig into

something that they're interested in.

So we do, I think, really interesting units and class.

We learn about all sorts of neat stuff, but you

may have.

You probably have interests that we won't address in class,

and they want to make sure you get a chance

to connect that to Spanish or the world or different

cultures. So is meant to be more fun than work.

Please don't worry.

It's really pretty low key.

We'll just have a chat within the first five weeks,

one on one.

So we'll schedule a time either virtually or in person

to talk about some ideas of things that you're interested

in, and maybe ways to connect that to the curriculum.

And then you'll have a few assignments.

It will be like one assignment recorder that you put

together on your own, and it will help you to

learn about that interest of yours in relation to our

class. So start thinking about things that you are passionate

about or curious about.

And when we meet, we can talk more about how

to do that as the project.

And lastly, I just want to end on a note

of We can do this.

It's gonna be a weird year, particularly at the start.

I honestly don't know what to expect.

We have to follow some rules that aren't my favorite

like no eating in class.

Normally, I don't have a problem with that, but we

have to do that to keep everyone safe.

And again, I just really appreciate all of your cooperation

with those rules and know that they're important.

And we're just trying to protect our community and hopefully

get to a place where we can go back to

normal in person, learning with everybody.

That's all I have.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to email me,

message me on brave square or get in touch with

me some other weight, and I'm so excited to meet

all of you Astal wagon

Intro to Spanish 2020-2021

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