| REQUISITOS DEL CURSO |
MATERIALS will be made available to the class. There is no required book for this class.
PARTICIPATION & PERFORMANCE: Your active participation and engagement are required for the community to function. You will be able to participate in multiple ways during the semester (in class and outside our classroom, speaking and writing, including multi-modal texts, exit tickets, free writes and more). Check Attendance & Participation/Our classroom practices for more details, but please contact me if there is an emergency and/or you need to discuss any issues.
PREPAREDNESS/HOMEWORK: Homework and assignments will be announced during class and will be posted on the site. They are designed to review, reflect on, and practice material we cover in class. You can work with your classmates, collaboration is encouraged, but make sure to acknowledge your classmates’ work.
LECTURAS: Each week 4 students (approx.) will be in charge of guiding the discussion/debate of the reading. Each student must complete the reading (preparedness/homework) assigned for that day, but the selected students will annotate the reading using hypothes.is and prepare, come up with some questions (provocations) to discuss in class on that day (annotations are due the night before class).
After our conversation in class, students who guided the discussion must write a blog post about their thoughts, reflections, and further comments to consider the topic(s). Blog posts are due by that Sunday at midnight – Remember to categorize your blog posts (Reflexión lecturas).
Students must be in charge of a reading at least twice during the semester.
(Note that there are no readings assigned by the end of the semester, this is an opportunity for you to be active participant regarding the content of this class)
WRITINGS: Students will have two (2) types of written assignments.
Blog posts & Free Writings: Durante el semestre tendrán que escribir varios blog posts, individually as well as in group, para reflexionar tanto sobre las lecturas como de los los diferentes assignments del proyecto final. Remember that the blog posts are a section within our Academic Commons platform and only accessible to your classmates and the instructor. El objetivo principal of this writing is to reflect on your work, learning process, and ask questions – recuerden que you are going to be able to receive feedback from your classmates. This writing IS NOT a composition and your proficiency in Spanish will not be graded.
The blog posts are an opportunity to explore, expand and question your ideas and thoughts, at the same time that you are reflecting on your experience. Remember that you will not be evaluated based on your Spanish grammar or spelling; you will be graded based on clarity and depth of content.
Composiciones: Durante el semestre, también tendrán que escribir 2 composiciones en “español académico.” Los temas, contenidos y rúbricas de las composiciones serán discutidos conjuntamente como clase/comunidad. Tendrán la oportunidad de trabajar como mínimo un borrador antes de la versión final (podrán entregar más de un borrador si lo creen conveniente).
PRESENTATION: instead of working on a regular zoom presentation for just nuestra clase, vamos a tener la oportunidad de hacer una presentación with real audience! Tenemos la suerte de colaborar with Homeschool Cooperative 2020. More details here.
PAQUETES DE GRAMÁTICAS & QUIZZES: Durante el semestre tendrán que completar y entregar 3 paquetes (workbooks) de spelling and grammar topics discussed in class previously. Después de cada paquete, los estudiantes tendrán un quizz (3).
PROYECTO EDICIÓN CRÍTICA: Collaboratively, vamos a trabajar en la edición de una serie de poemas bilingües. This project has several steps, and we will work in small groups with many checkins. More details here.
| EVALUATION |
Final Grade Breakdown
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- Participation and Performance: 10 %
- Preparedness/Homework: 15 %
- Proyecto de edición crítica: 25 %
- Composiciones: 15 %
- Paquetes de gramática & Quizzes: 15 %
- (Public) Presentation: 20%
Grading scale
The Department of Languages and Literatures uses the following letter grades and their numerical equivalents for your final grade:
Grade — Percentage — GPA Value
A — 93 – 100 — 4.0
A- — 92 – 90 — 3.7
B+ — 87 – 89 — 3.3
B — 83 – 86 — 3.0
B- — 80 – 82 — 2.7
C+ — 77 -79 — 2.3
C — 73 – 76 — 2.0
C- — 70 – 72 — 1.7
D+ — 67 – 69 — 1.3
D — 60 – 66 — 1.0
F — 60 > — 0.0
