Intro to Spanish 2 with Sra. Cabral

Hola and Mrs Cabral.

And I'm gonna be your Spanish teacher this year.

I'm so excited to meet all of you and start

a year off together.

I wanted to go over a few things here.

Just about how class will work in some tips.

And I will leave this video in school Aji three

to access later as well, if you wanna go back

to it.

So first off, I just want to quickly note that

it may take me a little while to learn your

names. This year I have more students than they normally

would. I have about 130.

Last year I had 90 just for some reference there.

And we're only going to see each other two days

a week.

So on top of that, I'm terrible at learning names.

It's really inconvenient.

As a teacher, I will learn your names and it

will get to know you.

But I just have trouble with learning names quickly.

So bear with me.

I work really hard on it, and, uh, I will

learn your names as quickly as possible.

Uh, I just wanted to touch real quick on the

issue of academic honesty and kind of the idea that

you get out what you put in with this class

and with all of your other classes, probably as well.

The temptation will be there to copy someone else's work

when you're not in class or to use a translator

for something, and that's not gonna help you learn.

You're not really gonna become fluent that way.

So please, please keep that in mind.

You will get out what you put into this.

If I notice that things don't match up, for example,

your online work that you did at home is really

solid, accurate, you know, communicable Spanish.

And then you come into class and do a writing

assessment, and it's It's much harder to understand.

Or there's some things that I see that you were

able to do at home and you couldn't do on

the assessment.

That's a sign that there may have been some academic

dishonesty, and I will suspect that and probably reported to

administration. So I also just want you to be aware

that that's something that I have toe pay attention to

with your work.

So always, always, always do your own work.

I don't expect it to be perfect.

And I want you to actually learn this so that

you could become fluent and and take the language out

in the world.

Okay, Resource is to use when you're completing assignments.

When we do, we may do quizzes at home.

Then I kind of the honor system that you won't

be using any resources.

But when you have a question on an assignment, please

don't hesitate to ask me.

You can always ask for help.

It's my job.

I'm here to help you.

And you also have the Ola packet.

You have it digitally in school, aji, and I'm going

to give you a hard copy when you come into

class. There's a ton of information in there.

And really, you should be able to say everything you

need to for this class using that packet.

And if you have a question, email me, message me,

raise your hand.

Whoever Whoever I am at the time, you can also

always use old assignments from class or any other materials

that we've gotten from class Plant.

So how is class gonna work?

Um, each week both is cherry and gray.

Cohorts will have the same assignment.

So in class, those who were in class physically, we'll

get the online assignment out of the way pretty quickly,

and then we'll do some other interactive stuff discussion, question

and answer things like that.

If you are remote, you want to make sure the

log into school aji everyday and log into this course.

If you don't, then your attendance may be affected because

that's how they're taking attendance at the district level.

If you are someone who likes to sit down and

just plow through all the work at once, I get

that and I'm okay with that.

Make sure that you email me and let me know

if you're marked absent, Let's say on a Friday when

you were home doing remote work, but you're caught up

on the work.

So if you are caught up but you didn't log

in that day, just email me.

And if I can confirm that, then I'll take care

of the attendants issue for you.

So there may be changes as we go throughout, and

I just wanna clarify that is right off the bat

to that.

This is a weird year for everybody.

We're doing our best, and I think I have is

a is a good plan.

Um, we have social distancing to deal with.

So we can't do the normal group work that we

would dio.

Some of you aren't gonna be here.

We have online work, and on top of that, we're

teaching for Levels two and three this year, completely new

units that we haven't taught before.

So there's a lot of trial and error going on,

and I appreciate your patients with that.

They're I think they're gonna be really fun.

But there may be some things that we need to

tweak as we go through, so just be aware that

that may happen Online tools.

So there are three main online tools that will use

for this class.

School aji, obviously, which you'll probably use for all of

your classes, assignment instructions and basically everything you need for

the week will be in there.

That's your starting point.

There may be assignments in Garbanzo.

I don't know if they use this at the middle

school last year, but it's a website that goes with

the units that we do, and it has reading activities.

So pretty early on, I'll get you set up with

an account, and then you log in from time to

time and do an assignment there, and then I can

see how you did on that assignment.

The other one is school Adji that has study sets.

Imagine many of you are familiar with us, but if

you're not, just let me know, and I can help

you get used to it.

I have some sets in school Adji that you can

study at any time.

And if you finish classwork early or you're at home

and you're thinking you need to study a little better

practice a little bit.

You can use those.

It has all the key vocabulary for class.

I want to just point out real quick.

There are other teachers who teach Spanish, too, and we

create materials together.

So a lot of what we do looks very similar,

but it's not exactly the same.

Due dates may be different, but depending on who your

teacher is, a kn assignment may have been tweaked after

we made it together.

So just be careful that all the Spanish two and

three materials look very similar because we co plan a

lot but always go by your teachers due dates and

email me if you have any questions Progress, not perfection.

I just can't emphasize enough.

I'm not gonna be angry if you don't speak perfect

Spanish. I don't expect you to speak perfect Spanish.

If you were fluent, you probably wouldn't be in this

class. So I want you to I will meet you

where you are, and we just want, you know, work

on the language from wherever you are and a keep

part of that is taking risks, being able or willing

to try saying something, even though you don't think you

have it quite right.

I've learned two languages in addition to my native language

English And I can tell you from experience just continuing

to try and listening and paying attention.

It takes time, But you will get there and you're

gonna make mistakes.

And people will understand you.

Even if it's not perfect.

They'll still understand you in the real world.

So just know that it doesn't have to be perfect.

And we just want progress, not perfection.

And last but not least, I just want toe say

that there are some rules that we have to follow

this year that are a little bit stricter than what

I would normally do in class.

Like I normally don't care if you eat in class

but because of co vid can't eat during class As

an example, I really appreciate your cooperation with this and

we can do this.

They We can follow these rules as long as we

need to To protect our community and to get to

a place where we can go back toe normal in

person, schooling with everybody.

Really look forward to that.

And it may be hard at times, but I think

we can We can do this.

So that's all I have right here.

Oh, I forgot to mention I'm not marrying my mask,

but I'm the only one in my room and they're

going to do a deep clean up this afterwards, and

they've cleaned the room before as well.

So we I will be wearing a mask in class.

Um, I'm sure there's things that I left out, but

if you have any questions or comments, email me anytime.

Message me and brave square and I will get back

to you as soon as possible.

I can't wait to meet you all

Intro to Spanish 2 with Sra. Cabral

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