BIENVENIDOS

WELCOME

ETOWAH HIGH SCHOOL

Tamara Linares

Gifted

Teach21

Ed.S.

2014-2015

EHS Mission Statement

Graduating Life-Long Learners and

Productive Community and Global Citizens.

Parents………………

Without you, teachers would not have a job. Thank you for the opportunity to serve you and your child.

Please get involved with your child’s EHS experience.

Research has proven that when parents and teachers work together, everyone benefits: students tend to earn higher grades, perform better on tests, attend school more regularly, have better behavior, and show more positive attitudes toward themselves and toward school.

PARENT/TEACHER COMMUNICATION

Communication amongst parents, teachers and students is very important and allows us to work as a team. Please email me with your questions or concerns. I will make every effort to reply to your email as soon as possible. Sending a note with your child works well also.

Email:

tamara.linares@cherokee.k12.ga.us

Google Voice: 678-744-8614

Materials/Welcomed Donations

Materials:

Notebook: A 3-ring binder, plenty of paper and dividers, pens or pencils, usb is helpful, markers or colored pencils, highlighters, sticky notes

Welcomed Donation:

Viva paper towels

Bandaids

Reams of colored paper

Sra. Linares’ Horario

1st Spanish 2 Honors

2nd Spanish 2 Honors

3rd Spanish 2

4th Lunch

5th Spanish 2

6th Spanish 3 Honors

7th Planning

*National Spanish Honor Society Advisor

Moving and Grooving

Have you seen the EHS Polyglot?

Did you know your student has already learned a poem?

Poem declamation information

$10.00 + student needs their own ride, I’ll meet them there

11/15/14 @ East Coweta High School

NSE (National Spanish Exam)

$3.00 by late January

Everyone is taking it. The $$ allows them to document it on job and college applications.

Costa Rica homestay in June 2015

Parent informational meeting Sept. 25 in room EE 133 @ 6:30

What are Honors Classes?

Fostering independent learning

More rigorous and in depth learning

Implementation of differentiation strategies at different levels of complexity and with different amounts of teacher support.

Communicative activities focus on the same topics as in on-level Spanish class, but completion requires different levels of sophistication and a higher and more challenging level of linguistic performance and competence.

RIGORRigor is……. Rigor is not…….

Scaffolding thinking More or harder worksheets

Planning for thinking AP or Honors courses

Assessing thinking about content

Higher level book in reading

Recognizing levels of thinking demonstrated by students

More work

Managing teaching/learninglevel for desired thinking level

More homework

What the flip is a flipped classroom?

The flipped classroom constitutes a role change for instructors who give up their front-of-the-class position in favor of a more collaborative and cooperative contribution to the teaching process. There is also a change in the role of students who are used to being passive participants in the education process, where instruction is served to them. The flipped model puts more of the responsibility for learning on the shoulders of students and also provides differentiation for those students.-Bobby Blount

Assistant Superintendent of Accountability,Technology and Strategic Planning

How can students prepare themselves?

Go to www.quizlet.com for vocabulary practice.

Go to www.conjuguemos.com for grammar practice and drills.

Go to www.vhlcentral.com for an online textbook. There is only 1 license which means that students are not able to work on activities, only the very helpful tutorials.

If student misses a day, they can go to my calendario to see what we have done in class.

Students can keep up with their grammar books.

Is there homework?

Tutoring schedule

In order to help the student, she/he must come ready with their grammar books up to date along with proof of studying their vocabulary and grammatical concepts.

I am available for tutoring on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:20-3:50.

National Spanish Honor Society students are available for tutoring on Thursdays from 3:20-3:50

Students need to sign up on Profe Frantzs’ door before Thursday.

Important EHS Information

EHS school calendar

EHS SIP at a glance

GRADING

Homework………………………………...……..10%

Participation/ Classwork…………………….25%

Formative Assessments /Projects…………25%

Summative Assessments………………….....30%

Mid-term/Final Exam ……………………..….10%

Grading Acronyms

HW - homework

Class Part- class participation

Form Asses- formative assessment

Sum Asses- summative assessment

IW- in work

NHI- not handed in

Newby- new student

CLASS RULES

1. Be on time every day. School policy on attendance and tardiness will be enforced.

2. Come to class prepared: homework, writing utensil, notebook, etc.

3. Participate.

4. Sit in the assigned seat daily.

5. Request extra help –DON’T WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE!

6. Treat others with respect and consideration . Students have to be responsible for their own behavior and actions.

8. Make up work: guidelines provided in the Students handbook

IMPORTANT INFO

ASPEN: Parents Portal

Class Resources: Tamara Linares

NATIONAL SPANISH EXAM

NSE Website

Our goal: To encourage all Spanish students to take the exam.

Regular Registration due late January

Test Administration (week before Spring break)

National Results Sent Out via email early May

Cost per Student: $3.00

What’s going on in class?

How do I find out what was covered in class?

WHY STUDY WORLD LANGUAGES?

There is a correlation between language learning and…

Development of cognitive abilities

Ability to hypothesize in science

Higher scores on standardized tests

Higher academic performance at the college level

Increased linguistic awareness

Attention control on cognitive tasks

Development of reading skills

Improvement of verbal and spatial skills

Problem solving ability

ONWARD AND UPWARD