Level: Form III (7th–9th grades), Form IV (10th–12th grades)
Subject(s): Languages—World & Classical, Spanish
Description:
Combining interactive and conversation-driven learning with traditional grammar and vocabulary instruction, this course will help students in their journey to speak Spanish fluently. Students will work through Breaking the Spanish Barrier, a curriculum that engages students through a variety of activities and techniques.
In order to gain mastery and grow toward fluency, students will be expected to complete work outside of class each week including listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. As an integral part of the learning process, students will be asked to record themselves speaking and to submit their recording to the teacher each week. Homework expectation is approximately 30 minutes per day, 3 days a week.
Learning Goals:
- Review and expand on vocabulary and grammar from Spanish 1.
- Practice asking and answering questions in Spanish.
- Use proper grammar for writing and speaking.
- Create stories in Spanish based on listening and reading.
- Further build reading comprehension in Spanish.
- Utilize strategies for understanding unknown words (voice inflection, listening for general idea, asking clarifying questions).
- Expand vocabulary for adjectives, adverbs, and prepositions in Spanish.
- Learn “por” versus “para”.
- Learn “saber” versus “conocer.”
- Learn past tense verb forms: preterite and imperfect.
- Learn the progressive verb tense.
- Learn the immediate future verb tense.
- Learn direct object pronouns, indirect object pronouns, and reflexive pronouns.
Materials:
All Spanish 2 families must purchase the following required supplies:
- **One-inch three-ring binder with 5 dividers, lined paper, pens/pencil
Spanish 2: Students entering their second year of Spanish at BHSC must also have the following parent-purchased supplies*:
- Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level 1 Student Book:
- Shopping suggestion 1: Breaking the Barrier website
- Shopping suggestion 2: Rainbow Resource Center
- Breaking the Spanish Barrier Level 1 Answer Key
- Shopping suggestion 1: Breaking the Barrier website
- Shopping suggestion 2: Rainbow Resource Center
- Pobre Ana – Novel (Past and Present Tense Versions) – TPRS Books
- Berto y Sus Buenos Pies – Novel – TPRS Books
Note to Families: The Breaking the Spanish Barrier (BTSB) textbook is the same book that is used for Spanish 1, so returning students with the yellow BTSB book will use the same book for Spanish 2. Please purchase the BTSB Level 1 Answer Book if not already owned.
*Note on BTSB and TPRS readers for sibling groups: the TPRS readers and BTSB Answer Key can be easily shared among siblings. The hardcopy consumable textbooks ($65) could be shared if families wish to make photocopies of workbook pages so each student has a copy, or families may wish to purchase separate consumable textbooks for each student.
**A larger binder could be shared with another class, but please have 5 dedicated Dividers for the Spanish section.
