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 Spanish 3 Provisional Course Calendar: Autumn Quarter, 2013
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Spanish 2A
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SQ = ¿Sabías que …? 4th or 5th edition (available at the Stanford Bookstore, on reserve in Green Library, and elsewhere)

Online Manual = online exercise manual to accompany ¿Sabías que …?  available at http://books.quia.com. Instructions on how to access the manual come with your textbook. (Additional copies of the audio materials that accompany ¿Sabías que …? are available at https://www.stanford.edu/group/ll/data2/ll/sabias/index.html and http://mhhe.com/sabiasque5.)

Using Your Online Manual: Doing regular practice exercises in your manual may seem tedious, but such consistent reinforcement helps solidify your Spanish and enable you to produce it with increasing automaticity. As such, you should plan to spend one or more hours daily on language exercises, activities, and/or home study. You will be required to complete several of the exercises in your online manual, as indicated in the calendar below. Specifically, for the first lesson of each quarter, you will be expected to complete all the exercises in your online manual in order to become acquainted with its various exercise formats and to decide which are best suited to your learning styles. After that, you will be expected to complete 8 exercises of your choosing from each lesson of your online manual.

A Note on Diagnostic Assessments (Quizzes): There will be six diagnostic assessments administered throughout the quarter. They will be based on weekly themes (as noted in the calendar), and will emphasize the most recent chapter under study but will also be cumulative. No make-up diagnostics can or will be offered.  Instead, the lowest grade will be dropped from your overall diagnostic assessment grade, allowing you to miss a diagnostic in an emergency.

Oral Diagnostic Assessments: In addition to written diagnostics administered in class, you will also take a 15-minute oral diagnostic in the Digital Language Laboratory, on the second floor of Meyer Library, three times during the quarter. (See the ODA schedule to find out when your section is to do its oral diagnostics.) The diagnostic assessments are designed to track your improvement in oral proficiency as the quarter progresses. They will be graded on a pass/no credit basis. In order to pass, you will simply need to complete the assessment by responding to questions completely and spontaneously, without the use of reading or written notes. Reading (instead of speaking) responses will result in a loss of credit for that diagnostic. You will have a two-day window in which to complete your diagnostic, but we encourage you to do it as early as possible, as the Language Lab may become crowded with last-minute test-takers.

Portfolio Assignments and Composition Assignments: These enrichment activities are noted in the calendar below. For the specifics on these assignments, see the separate handouts at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html.

WEEK ONE
THEME: Repaso/Las personalidades

Objectives for Week One:

Be able to perform the objectives of the previous quarter. For a complete list of the objectives of last quarter, see the Spanish 2 Progress Card at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish2.html.

Interpersonal:                 
Ask and answer questions
Describe your personal interests as well as those of the community
Give and request information
Introduce yourself to others

Interpersonal:                 
Understand questions
Understand descriptions of personal interests and community interests
Understand information requests and information requested
Understand personal introductions

Presentational:
Write using a wide array of language functions from Spanish 2, such as talking about past events, and describing people and their activities

Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
9/24

 Repaso

Introduction to Course
Review: Expressing likes and dislikes

Study: SQ Lecciones 1-6.
Study: Course Syllabus (overview, format, grading, attendance) at http://spanlang.stanford.edu.
Portfolio 1A: Begin this assignment this evening. Carefully read the instructions available at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html.
Although this assignment is due one week from this Thursday, it is "time-sensitive" so read the instructions and get started as soon as possible.
9/25 Review: Describing and comparing people and activities Study: SQ Lecciones 7-12.
Portfolio 1A: Have you located a conversation partner yet?
9/26 Review: Talking about the past

 Study: SQ pp. 340-3.
Online Manual: pp. 78-79.
9/27

Unidad cinco:
Lección 13

Describing personalities (340-42)
Pre-writing for Composition 1.1: Lluivia de ideas (Brainstorming)

 Study: SQ pp. 343-4.
Online Manual: pp. 80-83.
Progress Card: Bring to class tomorrow a printed copy of the Progress Card, available at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html.
Portfolio 1A: Have you located a conversation partner yet? If not, ask your instructor for some ideas.
9/28 More on describing personalities (343-4)
Introduce Progress Card
More pre-writing for
Composition 1.1


 Study: SQ pp. 345-7.
Online Manual: pp. 84-87.
Composition 1.1 «Un cuento de hadas». Be sure to write according to the guidelines available at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html Bring completed draft to class on Monday.

 

WEEK TWO
THEME: La personalidad: ¿Cómo te describes?

Objectives for Week Two:

Interpersonal:
Describe personalities
Talk about what you have done
Express opinions about personality traits
Express emotions such as sympathy, admiration, anger and surprise (Review from Spanish 2)

Interpretive:
Understand personality descriptions
Understand when people talk about what they have done
Understand opinions
Understand expressions of emotions such as sympathy, admiration, anger and surprise
Identify point of view in a text dealing with contemporary issues
Draw comparisons among socio-geographic features of the Spanish-speaking world
Understand connected discourse in an expository text

Presentational:            
Revise your composition for content, organization, and style


Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
10/1 Composition 1.1 Peer revision of the first draft
Talking about completed actions in the past using present perfect (345-7)
Pre-reading for Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú...: Cross-cultural uses of animals to represent human personality (354)

Study: SQ p. 347-8.
Supplementary reading: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú, "Los nahaules"
Online Manual: pp. 88-91.
Portfolio 1A: Schedule an interview with your conversation partner if you haven't done so already. Due Thursday.

10/2 More on talking about completed actions in the past using present perfect (347-8)
Reading: Me llamo Rigoberta Menchú...		 Study: SQ pp. 349-51.
Online Manual: pp. 92-95.
Review for Reading Diagnostic/Theme: La personalidad
Portfolio 1A: Schedule an interview with your conversation partner if you have not done so already. Due Thursday.
Review for Reading Diagnostic/Theme: La personalidad

10/3
 Talking about personalities using verbs that require reflexive pronoun (349-51)
Reading Diagnostic/Theme: La personalidad

Study: SQ pp. 351-5.
Online Manual: pp. 96-99.
Portfolio 1A: Complete your work this evening. Be sure to cue up your tape to the beginning of the interview. Due in class tomorrow.

 
10/4 Using reflexive verbs to describe personalities (351-5)
Portfolio 1A		 Study: SQ pp. 356-7.
Study: Supplementary vocabulary: emotions such as sympathy, admiration, anger and surprise (Review from Spanish 2)
Online Manual: pp. 100-102.
Portfolio 2A: Begin to work on this assignment this evening. Carefully read the instructions at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html. This is a time sensitive project, so begin immediately. Due in one week.
10/5
 Expressing emotions such as sympathy, admiration, anger and surprise (Review from Spanish 2)
Intercambio: La personalidad de tu compañer@ de clase (356-7)		 Study: SQ pp. 358-60.
Composition 1.2: «Un cuento de hadas»: Bring revised draft to class on Monday.
Portfolio 2A: Continue to work on this assignment.

 

WEEK THREE
THEME: La gente famosa

Objectives for Week Three:

Interpersonal:
Express opinions
Describe famous people or personal heroes
Ask for favors or assistance using appropriate language

Interpretive:
Understand opionions
Understand descriptions of people
Understand requests for favors or assitance
Talk about your personal interests as well as those of the world community, especially with respect to the environment
Use the Internet and newspapers to seek and read articles that correspond to your academic interests

Presentational:
Edit your writing for errors
Present written descriptions of people


Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
10/8 Composition 1.2: Editing the second draft
Vistazos culturales: El medio ambiente en el mundo hispano (358-60)
 Study: SQ pp. 363-4.
Online Manual Lección 14: Choose any 8 exercises and complete them before the start of Lección 15 (Friday, 10/19).
Portfolio 2A: Work on this assignment as necessary. Due Thursday.

10/9 Lección 14

Describing people using more adjectives (363-4) 		Study: SQ pp. 365-6.
Review for Listening Diagnostic/Theme: La personalidad
10/10 Reading about a famous person (365-6)
Listening Diagnostic/Theme: La personalidad		 Study: SQ pp. 3367-9.
Portfolio 2A: Compile and complete this assignment this evening. Due tomorrow.
10/11

 Expressing hypothetical situations using the Conditional (367-9)
Portfolio 2A 		Study supplementary vocabulary: Asking for favors and offering assistance using appropriate language
10/12

 Asking for favors and offering assistance using appropriate language
Pre-Writing for Composition 2.1		 Composition 1.3: Self-edit and bring in the final draft, with all previous drafts and revisions stapled beneath it, on Monday.
Portfolio 3A: Begin this assignment this evening. You will be looking for articles to help you research your topic for Composition 2.1. Portfolio 3A is due Thursday. See the details at: http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html.

 

WEEK FOUR
THEME: La gente famosa (cont.)

Objectives for Week Four:

Interpersonal:
Express opinions
Express hypothetical situations and concepts
Talk about likes and dislikes

Interpretive:
Use the Internet and newspapers to seek and read articles that correspond to academic interests (cont.)
Understand connected discourse in an expository text

Presentational:
Write a 2.5-page argumentative essay
Present written descriptions of people

Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
10/15 Composition 1.3
Expressing hypothetical situations using the Conditional (367-9) (Review)
More pre-writing for Composition 2.1
 Study: SQ pp. 369-72.
Portfolio 3A: Work on this assignment as necessary. Due Thursday.
10/16 Expressing contrary to fact or hypothetical concepts using the past subjunctive (369-72) Study: SQ pp. 373-7.
Portfolio 3A: Work on this assignment as necessary.
Review for Writing Diagnostic/Theme: La gente famosa.

10/17 Talking about likes and dislikes using the object marker a? (373-7)
Writing Diagnostic/Theme: La gente famosa 		Study: SQ pp. 374-7.
Portfolio 3A: Compile and complete your work this evening. Due in class tomorrow.

10/18

 More on talking about hypothetical situations (374-7) Intercambio: ¿A quién te gustaría conocer? (387)
More pre-writing for Composition 2.1 together with discussion of Portfolio 3A

Study: SQ pp. 378-80.
Online Manual: Complete 8 exercises from Lección 14.
Study: Supplementary science reading.
10/19 Vistazos culturales: Las ciencias en el mundo hispano (378-80)
Supplementary science reading Follow-up pre-writing for Composition 2.1


 Study: SQ pp. 383-4.
Online Manual Lección 15: Choose any 8 exercises and complete them before the start of Lección 16 (Monday, 10/29).
Composition 2.1 Argumentación: Carefully review the composition guidelines available at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html. Bring completed draft to class on Monday.
Portfolio 1B: See portfolio instructions at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html. Arrange a second meeting with your conversation partner. Due Thursday.

 

WEEK FIVE
THEME: ¿Por naturaleza o crianza?

Objectives for Week Five:

Interpersonal:
Give and receive directions
Clarify and restate information

Interpretive:

Understand arguments and supporting evidence
Understand issues in the world community
Summarize key points and main ideas expressed in longer presentations or readings

Presentational:
Revise your composition for content, organization, and style


Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
10/22 Lección 15

Composition 2.1: Peer revision of the first draft
Telling where things are (383-4)
 Study: SQ pp. 384-9.
Study supplementary vocabulary: La ciudad and Giving directions.
Portfolio 1B: Arrange to meet with your conversation partner if you haven’t done so already. Due Thursday.
10/23 Giving and receiving directions (384-8)
La ciudad
Reading: Sense of direction in animals (389) 		Study: SQ pp. 388-9.
Portfolio 1B: Arrange to meet with your conversation partner if you haven’t done so already. Due Thursday.
Review for Reading Diagnostic/Theme: La naturaleza versus la crianza

10/24 Describing destinations using por and para (388-9)
Reading Diagnostic/Theme: La naturaleza versus la crianza 		Study: SQ pp. 389-91.
Portfolio 1B: Compile and complete your work this evening. Due in class tomorrow.


 
10/25 Expressing opinions about something using lo + adjective (389-91)
Portfolio 1B

 Study: SQ pp. 391-7.
Study supplementary vocabulary: Clarifying and restating information.
Portfolio 2B: Begin this assignment this evening. Read carefully the instructions available at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html Due in one week.
10/26 Reading skills: scanning a text (391-3)
Talking and reading about genetics and personality (394-7)
Clarifying and restating information

Study: SQ pp. 498-403.
Study: Supplementary reading on economic issues.
Composition 2.2: Bring revised draft to class on Monday.
Portfolio 2B: Continue to work on this assignment.

 

 

WEEK SIX
THEME: La salud mental y física

Objectives for Week Six:

Interpersonal:
Express opinions about economic issues
Talk about clothing and what you are wearing
Give advice to friends about what to wear

Interpretive:
Understand opinions
Understand advice about clothing and travel
Understand connected discourse in an expository text

Presentational:
Present oral reports on economic issues in the Spanish-speaking world
Present written reports on planing and traveling 
Edit  your essay for errors


Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
10/29

 Composition 2.2: Editing the second draft
Vistazos culturales: La economía en el mundo hispano (398-400)
Reading on economic issues
Online Manual:  Complete 8 exercises from Lección 15.
Study for midterm: Review Lessons 13-15 and supplementary handouts.
Progress Card: Review your progress card and check off those items you feel you can do so far. Bring it to class tomorrow.
Portfolio 2B: Continue to work on this assignment as necessary.
10/30 Progress Card check and Review for Midterm Study for midterm: Review Lessons 13-15 and supplementary handouts.
Portfolio 2B: Continue to work on this assignment as necessary.
10/31

Midterm Exam (Lessons 13-15 and supplementary handouts)

Study: SQ pp. 406-11.
Online Manual Lección 16: Choose any 8 exercises and complete them before the start of Lección 17 (Friday, 11/9).
Portfolio 2B: Complete and compile this assignment this evening. Due tomorrow in class.

11/1

Unidad 6:
Lección 16

Talking about clothing (406-9) Talking about appearances and how clothes fit using reflexive verbs (409-11)
Portfolio 2B

Study: SQ pp. 411-14.
11/2 Talking about trips and traveling (411-14)

Study: SQ pp. 414-18.
Study supplementary vocabulary: Making travel reservations.
Composition 2.3: Self-edit and bring in the final draft, with all previous drafts and revisions stapled beneath it, on Monday.

 

WEEK SEVEN
THEME: El turismo

Objectives for Week Seven:

Interpersonal:
Give and receive directions
Ask for favors and offer assistance (Review)
Make travel reservations
Clarify and restate information
Complain

Interpretive:
Understand directions
Understand complaints
Draw comparisons among socio-geographic features of the Spanish-speaking world
Use the Internet and the newspapers to seek and read articles that correspond to your academic interests

Presentational:
Write a 3-page expository essay

Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
11/5 Composition 2.3
Talking about trips and traveling (414-18)
Making travel reservations
Pre-writing for Composition 3.1: Lluvia de ideas 		Study: SQ pp. 418-20.
Study supplementary vocabulary: Complaining.
Portfolio 3B: Begin this assignment this evening. You will be looking for articles to help you research your topic for Composition 3.1. Carefully review the details of both Portfolio 3B and Composition 3.1 at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html.
Portfolio 3B is due Thursday.

11/6 Complaining
Giving advice and telling others what to do using Formal Commands (418-20) More pre-writing for Composition 3.1

 Study: SQ pp. 420-3.
Portfolio 3B: Continue to work on this assignment as necessary and continue to research for Composition 3.1.
Review for Listening Diagnostic/Theme: La ropa y el turismo
11/7
 Talking about hypothetical events using the Conditional (420-3)
Listening Diagnostic/Theme: La ropa y el turismo 		Study: SQ p. 423.
Online Manual: Complete 8 exercises from Lección 16.
Portfolio 3B: Compile and complete your work this evening. Due in class tomorrow.

11/8 Intercambio: Un viaje al extranjero (423)
Portfolio 3B
More Pre-writing for Composition 3.1
Online Manual Lección 17: Choose any 8 exercises and complete them before the start of Lesson 18 (Tuesday, 11/27).
Research as necessary for Composition 3: Gather any articles or other materials you've collected in your research and bring them to class tomorrow to discuss with classmates.
11/9 More Pre-writing for Composition 3.1 (with attention to including one or more citations in the paper)
Time in class to work on Portfolio 4
 Review:  SQ pp. 424-6.
Composition 3.1 Exposición. See guidelines at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html. Bring completed draft to class on Monday.

 

WEEK EIGHT
THEME: Las profesiones

Objectives for Week Eight:

Interpersonal:
Look for an apartment
Describe the type of apartment or home I’d like to rent or purchase
Talk about professions and job-searching preferences
Express intentions for the future

Interpretive:
Understand descriptions of different professions
Understand connected discourse in an expository text

Presentational:
Revise your composition for content, organization, and style
Present rehearsed reports on such topics as future career plans


Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
11/12

Lección 17

Vistazos culturales: La moda en el mundo hispano (424-6)
Composition 3.1: Revising the first draft

Study: SQ pp. 430-34.
Portfolio 4: Work on this assignment this week as necessary.
11/13 Talking about professions (430-34)
Time in class to work on Portfolio 4
 Study: SQ pp. 435-9.
Review for Writing Diagnostic/Theme: Las profesiones
11/14
 Describing indefinite or unknown people, places and things using the subjunctive (435-9)
Writing Diagnostic/Theme: Las profesiones

Study: SQ pp. 439-41.
Final Presentation Outline: Begin to write a skeletal outline in Spanish of your final presentation. Due Friday.

11/15 Talking about required traits for different professions (439-41) Time in class to work on Portfolio 4 Study: SQ pp. 441-2.
Study supplementary vocabulary: Looking for an apartment.
Final Presentation Outline: Complete your outline in Spanish. Due tomorrow.
11/16 Describing nonexistent people, places and things using the subjunctive (441-2)
Looking for an apartment
Final Presentation Outline
 Study: SQ pp. 443-5.
Composition 3.2: Bring revised draft to class on Monday.
Portfolio 4: Work on this assignment as necessary.


THANKSGIVING RECESS: Nov. 19-23



WEEK NINE
THEME: Hay que tener cuidado / El indigenismo

Objectives for Week Nine:

Interpersonal:
Express intentions
Talk about the future
Express uncertainty, doubt, probability, and possibility
Express agreement or lack thereof

Interpretive:
Understand connected discourse in an expository text
Understand advice regarding career choices
Become more familiar with the socio-geography of the Spanish-speaking world

Presentational:
Edit your composition for errors

Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
11/26 Composition 3.2: Editing the second draft
Describing nonexistent people, places and things using the subjunctive (441-2)		 Study: SQ pp. 443-7.
Portfolio 4: Continue to work on this assignment as necessary. Due Thursday.
Portfolio 5: Final Compilation: Read carefully the instructions available on the course website at http://spanlang.stanford.edu/first_year/spanish3.html. Due one week from today.
11/27
 Expressing intentions in the future using the subjunctive (443-4)
Making professional plans for the future (445-7)
Intercambio: Recomendaciones para elegir una profesión (447)		 Study: SQ pp. 454-5.
Online Manual: Complete 8 exercises from Lección 17.
Portfolio 4: Compile and complete this assignment this evening. Due in class tomorrow.
Portfolio 5: Continue to work on this assignment as needed.
11/28

Lección 18

Talking about the future (454-5)

 Study: SQ pp. 457-60.
Online Manual Lección 18: Choose any 8 exercises and complete them before Monday.
Portfolio 5: Continue to work on this assignment as needed.
11/29 Expressing uncertainty, doubt, probability and possibility using the subjunctive (457-60)
Portfolio 4
 Study: SQ pp. 460-7.
Study supplementary vocabulary: Expressing opinions and (lack of) agreement.
Portfolio 5: Continue to work on this assignment as needed.

11/30 Talking about the future (460-7) Expressing opinions and (lack of) agreement regarding «El futuro del español en los Estados Unidos» (Vistazos Culturales, 468-70) Online Manual: Complete 8 exercises from Lección 18.
Composition 3.3: Self-edit and bring in the final draft, with all previous drafts and revisions stapled beneath it, on Monday.
Prepare Final Presentation
Portfolio 5 Final Compilation: Due Monday.

WEEK TEN
END-QUARTER PERIOD

Objectives for End-Quarter Period:

Interpretive:
List ideas in brief oral presentations

Presentational:
Present a rehearsed report pf 20-30 minutes in lenght
Answer questions about your prepared presentation topic
Ask questions of others following their presentations


Date

Class Activities

Preparation for the next class
(at home/in lab)
12/3 Composition 3.3
Portfolio 5
Presentations and review

 Study/Review: SQ Lecciones 13-18, Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries, and supplementary handouts
12/4 Presentations and review Study/Review: SQ Lecciones 13-18, Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries, and supplementary handouts

12/5

 Presentations and review Study/Review: SQ Lecciones 13-18, Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries, and supplementary handouts
12/6 Presentations and review Study/Review: SQ Lecciones 13-18, Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries, and supplementary handouts

12/7

 Presentations and review Study/Review: SQ Lecciones 13-18, Vocabulary and Grammar Summaries, and supplementary handouts


Final Exam: Tuesday, December 11, 12:15-3:15