IB Spanish 4 c/o 2025
How do we sign-up for Class Remind Text Messages?
-For Class of 2025 dial 81010 & text: @ibspco
What are the adopted materials for course?
- ¡Así se dice! 2 & 3 (McGraw Hill); Imagina (Vista); Español B (Pearson); Temas para Español B (Vista) & Mañana (Cambridge)
What supplemental materials are used for course?
- Tecla https://www.educacionyfp.gob.es/reinounido/publicaciones-materiales.html & SpanishPodcast.net https://www.spanishpodcast.net/
- All other supplemental materials listed on website: https://sites.google.com/site/lhssullivanb/
How do we get to the Canvas for class documents?
- Access through "Classlink" on iPad
Where do we find the class lesson plans?
- Link to lesson plans published on Canvas
¡Bienvenidos a todos al año escolar 2023-2024!
IB Spanish is a language acquisition course “designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding…to communicate successfully in an environment where the language studied is spoken” (https://www.ibo.org/en/programmes/).
The primary goal of this class is to help students develop the necessary fluency to be successful on the IB examination that begins in January (not May) of their senior year.In order to be successful in this class and on the IB exam, students are expected to practice positive academic behaviors both in and outside of the classroom:
- Preparing assignments on time
- Demonstrating advanced participation and academic skills
- Managing unforeseen circumstances and complicated situations
- Collaborating to learn
- Reading and analyzing diverse forms of authentic literature
- Viewing with a critical eye diverse forms of authentic media
- Manipulating Spanish to express ideas and seek and give advice
- Writing extensively in Spanish
- Acquiring an appreciation for, understanding of, and experiencing Spanish speaking culture
- Initiating, sustaining, and concluding conversations in Spanish on a variety of topics
- Preparing for and successfully passing the IB examination.
If you should have any concerns or questions, please contact me by email or phone. Looking forward to an exciting and productive semester!
Sr. Sullivan
@ LHS: (352) 746-2334 (ext. 4298) = School Number
@ Google Voice: (616) hábleme [616-422-5363]
What do we learn in IB Spanish?
The IBO Language B guide specifies an IB Spanish class be designed around five mandatory topics: identities, experiences, human ingenuity, social organization, and sharing the planet. The language B syllabus organizes the sources for comprehensible input or “written, visual, audio and audio-visual texts into three broad categories: personal, professional and mass media texts” with the “guiding principle” to focus student attention on “ways in which good communicators consider…audience, context and purpose of what they want to say or write in the process of choosing and developing an appropriate text type to convey a message” (https://www.ibo.org/en/programmes/).
How will we be tested on the IB exam?
Internal Assessment (25% total) – February:
- Individual oral presentation (25%): Interview with instructor (12-15 minutes); students link visual stimulus to thematic areas of class.
External Assessments (75% total) – May:
- Paper 1 - Written Production (25%): Students select appropriate text type & register & compose coherent, well-organized written task (250-400 words / 75 minutes)
- Paper 2 – Listening & Reading (50%): Students respond appropriately to three (3) authentic audio (25 points / 45 minutes) & three (3) authentic written texts (40 points / 60 minutes)
What is the Target Language Contact Log?
- Students register two (2) contacts per week.
- Each contact needs to be at least 10 minutes in length & must be an authentic Spanish language source: Spanish TV, music, websites, podcasts, magazines, newspapers, etc.
- Studying class materials does not count!
- Extra credit assignments count as Target Language Contacts.
- Screenshots count for submissions but must include visible time-date stamp
- Entries graded based on quantity & quality & students encouraged to follow interest areas—if sports, watch sports in Spanish; if music, listen in Spanish; etc.
- Important! Only one (1) entry permitted per day & all entries must be logged on Canvas assignment by Sunday @ 11:59 PM