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"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery".  Mark Van Doren
                                                                                                                                                              "El arte de enseñar es el arte de ayudar a descubrir."  

Here you will see all material covered per week, as well as the homework given in class. Please read the
material before coming to class, so you have some prior knowledge and can participate actively.

Week 1

 The Barking Mouse

Spanish 101 Syllabus
 (Class expectations, portfolio, and grading rubric),

 Spanish names

 Classroom expressions
Grading policy, classroom commands (TPR Approach)

 The Spanish Alphabet        
http://www.songsforteaching.com/Alfabeto.html

Colors
 http://spanish.allinfo-about.com/vocabulary/vo-colors.html
http://www.songsforteaching.com/JordanBDias.html
http://www.quia.com/jg/310138.html

Homework - Answer the question: Why is it important to learn a Foreign Language?
See the following menu to decide how you want to present the answer to the professor.
Multiple Intelligences menu
For an example of a Spring 2004 student's homework assignment which earned him an "A" grade, please view this PowerPoint presentation.

Online Dictionaries: http://wordreference.com/English_Spanish_Dictionary.asp
http://www.freedict.com/onldict/spa.html
http://www.pdictionary.com/spanish/

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Nelson Sierra, Adjunct Professor - University of Alaska Anchorage
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