¡BIENVENIDOS!  BIENVENUS!  WELCOME!

Welcome to Spanish/French class!  I'm pleased to have you in class and look forward to a productive and fun year.  During the course of the school year, you will be learning to communicate and understand communication in Spanish/French.  This means you will be doing a lot of talking in Spanish/French as well as listening to a lot of Spanish/French being spoken by me, by other students, on tape, and in videos.  Communicating in Spanish/ French is the main goal of this class.

ATTENDANCE:

Attendance is extremely important!  If you aren't in class, you can't participate and practice your Spanish.  Since much of the in-class work will be practice in speaking and listening to Spanish, this cannot be made up later.  Furthermore, since a portion of your grade is determined by your participation in class and your in-class work, attendance is very important grade-wise.

Your absence does not relieve you of the responsibility of completing all your class work and homework assigned during your absence.  It is your responsibility to come to me and ask me for the make-up work for the day(s) you miss.  Please be advised that if your absence is unexcused, you will not receive credit for any in-class work or tests done that day or any homework assigned that night, although you will be allowed to complete the work for practice.  In order to use bonus participation points to raise your grade at the end of the card marking, students must have no unexcused absences.

Tardies will result in a 3-point penalty deducted from your participation grade.  Also bear in mind that our school-wide policy allows you 2 tardies before detention must be served to make them up.  You can use one of your hall passes to get rid of a tardy.

 

GRADING:
The grade percent range in this class is:
A+ = 100% or more            C = 73 - 76%
A  = 93 - 99%                    C- = 70 - 72%
A-  = 90 - 92%                   D+ = 67 - 69%                                     Grades will not be rounded.
B+ = 87 - 89%                    D = 63 - 66%
B  = 83 - 86%                     D- = 60 - 62%
B-  = 80 - 82%                    E =   0 - 59%
C+ = 77 - 79%

Grades and attendance can be accessed by clicking on the links from my homepage section of the World Language Dept. website:  http://students.resa.net/aphs/.  When it asks for a password, use your student number.

HOMEWORK:

Homework is due at the beginning of the hour.  No late homework will be accepted.  Homework not completely finished at the beginning of the hour will be considered late and will not receive any credit.  To receive credit, homework must be completely finished at the beginning of the hour.  Most homework assignments are worth 5 points.  You can use 25 bonus coupons from your participation sheet or one of your hall passes in place of a homework assignment once per card marking.  If you have no tardies during the semester, you will receive one free homework pass.

Daily homework assignments can be accessed by clicking on the homework link on my homepage section of the World Language Dept. website:  http://students.resa.net/aphs/.
 

MAKE-UP TESTS:
Tests must be made up before the next unit test is given or score will be an automatic zero.

CLASSROOM RULES:
In addition to school-wide rules, which must be followed throughout the day, here are the classroom rules which apply in French/Spanish class:

1.      Listen without talking when someone (teacher or student) is talking to the whole class.

2.      Treat everyone in the room with CONSIDERATION & RESPECT at all times.

3.      Come to class on time prepared to work, bringing all materials (especially your coursepack) and homework with you.

4.      Permission and a pass are needed to leave the classroom.  Once your bathroom passes are used up, you will not be given permission to leave the room, so use them WISELY.  You will get four (4) passes per semester, which works out to about one (1) per month.

5.      Do NOT congregate around the door waiting for the bell to ring.