Syllabus

 **Minarets High School**  **Sr. Aispuro**  **2012-2013**  **Español**

 Dear Students and Parents:

 Welcome back!!! I hope you all had a great summer break and that you are ready to start a new school year.

 __**Class Objectives/Course Focus**__  The basic goal is to fulfill your two years of a foreign language in order to receive a high school diploma. In addition, I will demonstrate different and new ways of saying the same things, as well as, reading articles online and doing projects to enrich your Spanish.

 __**Classroom Guidelines and Consequences**__  Your behavior in class must never interfere with the right of another person, particularly the teacher’s right to teach and any other student’s right to learn and be taught. Thus, the following guidelines have been established and __**must**__ be followed:


 * 1)  **Be on time and ready to work with your laptop and any other materials that I may instruct you to bring.**
 * 2)  **Respect yourself, classmates, teachers, guests and school property.**
 * 3)  **Follow directions for all assignments and activities.**
 * 4)  **Profanity and abusive language are not to be used in class.**
 * 5)  **Objects are not to be thrown in the classroom.**
 * 6)  **Students are expected to take responsibility for their own learning of Spanish.**
 * 7) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: justify;"> **Working on class assignments not pertaining to this class or homework assignments during class** __**will not be allowed, unless otherwise instructed by the teacher.**__

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> __**Consequences**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> __**Tardies**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Two free tardies every quarter. Any subsequent tardy will result as a step in the discipline section according to school policy.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **1** **st** **Time: Verbal warning.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **2** **nd** **Time: Phone/Contact parent/guardian to let know what is going on.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **3** **rd** **Time: Work detail/Detention/Parent notification**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; list-style-type: decimal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **4** **th** **Time: Referral/Parent Notification**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> __**Homework/Notes:**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> ***Emergency is open to the interpretation of the teacher.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Homework assigned via internet, at times you will be required to submit work online; and "wiki" should be seen every night.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Homework may not be turned in late, exceptions are only in an emergency.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Homework is worth up to the full amount of points if com** **1**** pleted on time, and partial credit if turned in after the due date. **
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Homework and assignments missed due to unexcused absences or suspensions must be made up within one class. Excused absences will be given on the corresponding days that they are absent to make up the work missed.**
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Note-taking is required during class (unless told otherwise by instructor), NO EXCEPTIONS!!!**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> __**Test/Quizzes:**__

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> __**Scale**__ __**Grading Guidelines**__ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **A 90-100% Participation (50%)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **B 80-89% Small projects (40%)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **C 70-79% Homework/Notes (10%)** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **D 60-69%** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **F 59% or below**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Once again, I look forward to having a great year. Please feel free to contact me about any problems or questions about classroom rules and procedures via e-mail or by contacting me on my cell phone.**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Sincerely,**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Sr. José Manuel Aispuro** <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> **Cell phone no. (209)410-8008** <span style="color: #1900ae; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"> __**jaispuro@mychawanakee.org**__