Welcome to Week 9 of Spanish 3!
with Señora Melo
Welcome to Week 9 of the course! Oct. 5-9, 2020
This week, students will work on sections 5.1 (computers), 5.2 (working online), and part of 5.3 (cell phones). Students should attend a Live Class for unit 5 this week or next week, but the earlier students attend a live class the better their comprehension of the new material will be. No live classes are offered next week! Here are the U5 Live Classes being offered. Please be sure the students mark one down on their calendar.
Fri., Oct. 9 @ 7 p.m. Sra. Melo
Tues., Oct. 13 @ 5 p.m. Sra. Gillen
Wed., Oct. 14 @ 8 p.m. Sr. Martin
The assignments for this week as well as for the entire semester can be found in the schedule of assignments here. The assignments for this week are:
Unidad 5 - La Tecnología
Unidad 5 Live Class (during week 9 or 10)
Lección 1
_____ Notas (con actividades para practicar)
_____ Prueba de Vocabulario
Lección 2
_____ Notas (con actividades para practicar)
_____ Prueba de Vocabulario
_____ Actividad Cultural
_____ Hablar
Lección 3
_____ Notas (con actividades para practicar)
_____ Prueba de Vocabulario
I have expressed concern before about final projects and students not paying close attention to requirements and losing a lot of points due to this. Unfortunately, I am still continuing to see this. Students are leaving out several required elements on these final projects. Please be sure to have a conversation with them about this as they do not seem to be reading my feedback on these projects. I hate to see them continue to lose points on something easily fixed. I am not able to award the amount of points students would hope to see if they are missing required elements of these projects. When the instructions say they must include ALL of the mentioned grammar and vocabulary topics and they do not do so, their grade is lowered because of this.
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What can you do to help your student/s succeed?
- If your child is struggling with time management and submitting their work in a timely fashion, please ask me to get them paired up with a Virtual Buddy from the Peer Tutoring Center. This is an NCVPS student trained in helping your child to get back on track with their work. Please contact me for more details!
- Remind them to read the course announcements DAILY. This is their lifeline to the course and contains critical information and instruction.
- Make sure that you and they are familiar with the Spanish Dept. Guidelines. A link is posted to these in the announcements and they are available under "Quick Links" module/section.
- Make sure that they have printed off the "Schedule of Assignments" under "Start Here!" module/section. You can also access it here. This document has every assignment on it and when it is due. The students should use this as a check-off list to keep track of what they have done and what they have left to do. It's critical that assignments are completed in the order listed on (or ahead of) time.
- Make sure that they complete *ALL* assignments, to the best of their ability and on time. The Canvas Spanish courses are set up as "conditional" where *all* assignments are open/available, but can't be accessed until completing the previous activity/assignment (with certain scores being required for certain assignments). This means that students may work as quickly as they'd like, but they must complete the prior assignments before moving forward. Any assignments that are not completed will earn a zero. Again, this is why the "Schedule of Assignments" is so important. It keeps them on track, completing work, in order, and on (or ahead of) time.
- Remind them to take their time to read through and learn the material and not to rush. There should always be a focus on quality. Students may redo any assignment that isn't a quiz, test/final project or auto-graded assignment (with one attempt).
- Remind them to go ahead and mark their calendars to schedule when they will attend additional their "Required Live Classes". While students are required to attend a total of 10 (Getting Started, Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4, Unit 5, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 8, Proyecto Final). They are more than welcome and encouraged to attend more! These are live classes with me and/or other Spanish 3 teachers to go over the unit's major topics, assignments, present/discuss the material in detail, practice, ask/answer questions etc., just as you would in a regular classroom.
- Encourage them to ask questions, seek help, and communicate with me as much as possible. Communication is critical in an online class. Texting is the quickest/best way to communicate with me. However, they can also send me Canvas messages, email me, Tweet me, or call me.
- Remind them that the use of external sources (such as online translators, native speakers, other students, etc.) is forbidden and considered cheating. Everything that the students need should be in the course and he/she should use the material from the course for his/her answers. If he/she wants to know how to say something, he/she should ask me. The only approved reference is www.wordreference.com and this can only be used for a vocabulary word in isolation, not translating word-for-word, verb conjugation or for sentence structure. Please make sure that you and they know all of the details of the academic honesty policy and the consequences of not following them, as stated in the Spanish Dept. Guidelines (link above).
- Ask them how they are doing and have them show you their grades in the course. Moreover, ask them what they are learning and why they are learning it. If they can't answer these questions in detail, please let me know, as they may need extra help. Grades (and feedback) are always available under "Grades" in the left-hand sidebar. Specific feedback is provided for assignments, so make sure that they check over completed assignments to learn from any mistakes. If your student/s and/or you have questions/concerns on any of the grades/feedback, please let me know.
- ELAs are responsible for checking and reporting grades to the students/parents on a bi-weekly basis after NCVPS grade reports have been sent to the schools.
- Feel free to contact me via email (at erin.melo@ncpublicshools.gov) anytime and by phone/text (at 919.346.3889) before 9 p.m. It's easier for me to email as I teach at a face-to-face school. If you need to talk via phone, I am available in the afternoons after 4 p.m.
Sra. Melo's Unit 5 Required Live Class
Friday, Oct 9, 2020, 07:00 PM
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Grading, Rubrics & Feedback
The course grade is comprised of 2 parts (Course work the Final Project/Exam). The final course grade is made up of: Course work = 80% and the Final Project/Exam Average=20%. Progress reports are completed and submitted to schools every week. Students in NCVPS Spanish courses are graded based on their Spanish-language proficiency. It's the school's/ELA/s responsibility to provide them to the students/parents. Please see the rubrics below for complete details. NCVPS only reports numerical grades, not alphabetical grades due to the variance among different schools/districts. All assignments receive specific feedback. It's critical for the students to check their grades/feedback daily and inquire with the teacher if they don't understand something or feel that there is an error. Assignments not attempted/completed receive a 0.
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About Me
Email: erin.melo@ncpublicschools.gov
Location: Holly Springs, NC, United States
Phone: 919-346-3889
Twitter: @srameloncvps