Offered: Summer Session I (June 18 – July 13, 2012) and II (July 16 – August 10, 2012)
Prerequisite: Spanish I

This course is designed for the student who wishes to review and reinforce the oral, aural, writing and reading skills introduced in Spanish I.  Particular attention will be paid to vocabulary, gender and number of nouns and adjectives, the present tense of verbs, all types of pronouns, and Spanish sentence structure.  Student work will include:

• Individual study and review of verb forms, vocabulary and grammar structures at home
• Individual online activities and homework both in Haiku and the Supersite required for the course
• Asynchronous interactive activities throughout each week that will require students to write or record messages and respond to other students in the course
• One or two synchronous activities that will require a student to interact in real time with another student or the instructor
• Weekly assessments to allow students and the instructor to gauge progress before moving on to new material

Note to students and parents:  Work for this course is designed as weekly units to be completed before moving on to the next week’s topics.  There are deadlines for work throughout each week.  While much of the work is designed to be asynchronous, this is a class and students will be required to complete interactive activities each week as a part of the course.

Topics of study to be covered each week:

Week 1:

• Vocabulary:  Greetings and introductions, school, family, numbers 0-100
• Grammar:  Nouns and articles; ser and estar; telling time; present tense of –ar, -er, and –ir verbs, descriptive and possessive adjectives

Week 2:

• Vocabulary:  Pastimes, sports, vacation and travel
• Grammar:  Verbs with irregular yo forms; stem changing verbs; present progressive tense; direct object pronouns

 Week 3:

• Vocabulary:  Shopping, daily routine
• Grammar:  Saber v conocer; indirect object pronouns; demonstrative adjectives and pronouns; reflexives; positive and negative expressions; verbs like gustar

Week 4: 

• Vocabulary:  Food, holidays and celebrations
• Grammar:  Double object pronouns; comparatives and superlatives; qué vs. cuál; prepositional pronouns; preterite of verbs