Description
** This is a full year class. Both semesters need to be completed to receive credit **
If you have completed Spanish 1,2, and 3, and now want to perfect your Spanish skills and actually use everything you have learned, this is the class for you!
Students in this class will be reviewing all the verb tenses they learned in Spanish 1, 2, and 3, seeing them more in-depth and using them to discuss different poems, short stories and excerpts from longer works by well-known
Hispanic authors which will be read in class, parts of movies, songs, and videos. They will also learn about the subjunctive mood and will learn how to use it while discussing topics of interest. Other grammar topics not seen
yet will be covered this year. There is a lot more all-Spanish speaking in this class and it is focused more on literature, a little bit of composition and art, as well as, opinions, hopes, and desires (all 3 use the subjunctive).
Course work includes video instruction, online games, and exercises, some mini composition writing, vocabulary, and quizzes.
To achieve conversation practice, students will have regular one-hour online discussions with course-mates and their instructor. Students must attend at least 10 of these each semester and can choose from a few times during the
week. Students will need a webcam to be able to participate.
Spanish students will also be required to choose a few projects like reading children’s books, watching movies in Spanish, taking a Latin dance lesson, making a scrapbook, writing a comic strip, and much more. Students will get about 4-5 hrs of homework each week. Students who live in the Knoxville area will also have the option to participate in my Spanish club where they can go to practice skills they have learned with no pressure and no grades. If there is enough interest, Spanish 4 students will be club officers and help with some of the basic club dealings, as well as, come up with ideas of things to do with the club.
NOTE: Several students who have received an A or B in this Spanish class and then have gone on to college Spanish soon after have traditionally been able to test out of the first two courses of college-level Spanish. These students have entered the third course and, if completed successfully, have also earned credit for the first two courses they skipped. I encourage you to find out with the colleges you are looking at to see if they have level testing for Spanish and whether the student can receive credit for the skipped classes.
Prerequisite : Spanish 3 for high school online course. If you took it elsewhere please email suzette@fundafunda.com first to make sure this is the class you need.
Instructor: Suzette Laporte-Ayo (Native Spanish speaker and a teacher for over 20 years). – suzette@fundafunda.com
For: Grades 9-12
Hours: 4 – 5 hours each week
Credit Hours: 1 High School Credit on completion of both semesters
Fall Dates: August 19 – Dec 13 (with a week’s break over Thanksgiving)
Spring Dates: January 10 – May 2 (any week in March can be taken for Spring break)
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