Welcome to Open House

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Welcome to Open House!

• Agenda
• Did you know?
• My Webpage
• Homework
• Grading
• Online Textbook
• Questions?

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Did you know?

• According to the Foreign Service Institute, it
  takes about 600 class-time hours to learn basic
  proficiency in French or Spanish (not including
  3-4 hours of outside study time).
• At the end the middle school years, your
  students will have had approxiamtely 339 hours of
  class time.
• So be patient with them!

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Did you know?

• There are roughly 500 million Spanish speakers
  in the world
• 20 countries speak Spanish as their primary
  language

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Did you know?

• Spanish is the third most spoken language in the
  world (behind English and Mandarin Chinese)

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My Website

• Access my website at the GMS home page
• I am listed under Other Staff Pages
• I post homework here each night
• There is also a monthly parent update

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Homework

• There will be a daily homework assignment for
  Spanish class
• This assignment should take roughly 20 minutes
• If I collect homework, it will be graded as a
  quiz. If not collected, it will be entered into
  the students work habits grade
• Please sign homework if there is a family
  emergency or your student has attempted to try
  the entire assignment and does not understand.

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Grading

• I grade all quizzes on a 100-point scale.
  Powerschool will translate this grade to a letter
  grade as well.
• All projects will be given a letter grade.
• The student will receive a separate work habits
  grade each trimester.
• I update Powerschool weekly.

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Online Textbook

• my.hrw.com

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Questions?