New Connections Spanish for Native Speakers in North Carolina

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New ConnectionsSpanish for Native Speakers in
North Carolina
Nhora Gomez-Saxon, Spanish Teacher, South
Mecklenburg High School Charlotte-Mecklenburg
Schools nhora.gomez-saxon_at_cms.k12.nc.us
Mara Cobe, World Languages Specialist

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools mara.cobe_at_cms.k12.nc
.us
Jennifer Pearsall, ESL Student Education,
Director
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools jennifer.pearsall_at_cm
s.k12.nc.us
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Objectives for sessionOutline from our discussion

• Why is native speakers an honors class?(JP)
• Course sequence-include AP lit.(Mara)
• Who is in the class? Who teaches it?(Nhora)
• Resources (Mara)
• What does it look like? (Nhora)
• Sample activities (all)

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What is academic rigor?

• Meaningful
• Authentic
• Analysis
• Synthesis
• Complex
• Real-world
• What is it not?

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What is academic rigor?

• Engage students in complex, in-depth thinking and
  acting. These types of learning activities
  provide students with opportunities to make
  connections across content areas and to
  demonstrate their level of understanding through
  real-world, authentic products.
• (Jolly and Ketner, 2007)

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What is it not?
Why is Spanish for Native Speakers an
academically rigorous class?
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Spanish-Speaking Students in North Carolina
Schools
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Goals

• Promotes bilingualism and bi-literacy
• Promotes academic success
• Promotes cultural awareness/identity

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The Curriculum Alignment

• National Foreign Language Standards
• NC SCS for Second Languages
• English Language Arts
• Social Studies (Latino Studies)
• Informational Skills
• http//www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/secondla
  nguages/scos/2004/

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Diagrama de Venn
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SNS Course Numbers

• Course numbers
• Level I1401 and Level II1402
• Meets the NC high school graduation requirements.
  
• Meets minimum requirements for admission to the
  UNC system.

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SNS Course Sequence

• The objectives for SNS II are written at the
  honors level therefore, it is approved by NCDPI
  as an honors course.
• In some middle schools, SNS 1a and SNS 1b are
  offered for 7th and 8th grade students. These
  students can then proceed to Honors SNS II in the
  9th grade.
• After SNS I and Honors SNS II, students can
  proceed to Spanish IV or AP Spanish language or
  AP Spanish Literature.

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SNS Course Sequence
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Who can take SNS?

• Heritage speakers raised in a home where
  Spanish is spoken.

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Heritage Language Speakers

• Raised in a home where Spanish is spoken
• Fluent Spanish speakers
• Receptive bilinguals
• Recently arrived
• U.S. born
• English dominant
• Limited English Proficient (LEP)
• Varying literacy skills in L1 and L2

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Countries in SNS 1
Students enrolled in Nhora Gomez-Saxons class,
2007 Semester 1
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South Meck Years in USA

Number of years in US Schools
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Who can teach SNS ?

• Native or non-native speakers with high level of
  Spanish proficiency
• Facilitator of student centered learning
• Comfortable with diversity
• Language Arts training desirable
• Motivate, counsel and advocate for students

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Materials Selection

• Textbook with a Language Arts Focus
• Novels/Anthologies
• Video/Film
• Internet
• Local Spanish newspapers

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More Resources

• Spanish Ministry of Education and Science
• http//www.mec.es/sgci/usa/es/publicaciones/materi
  ales/portada.shtml
• NCDPI Standard Course of Study
• http//www.ncpublicschools.org/curriculum/secondla
  nguages/scos/2004/38sns
• Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools Resources
• http//documents.cms.k12.nc.us/dsweb/View/Collecti
  on-1800

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More Resources

• Formespa Actividades
• http//formespa.rediris.es/actividades.htm
• Advanced Placement Spanish Literature
• http//www.geocities.com/apspanishlit/
• Españolé Los Países Hispanos
• http//www.espanole.org/pais
• Belcart La Página del Idioma Castellano
• http//belcart.com/belcart_es/como_esc/

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More Resources

• Graphic Organizers in Spanish
• http//www.region15.org/curriculum/graphicorg.html
  
• http//www.eduplace.com/graphicorganizer/spanish/
• Módulos REACH (from the National Foreign Language
  Center _at_ the University of Maryland)
• http//www.nflc.org/REACH/mainmodulossp.htm
• Mitos y Leyendas
• http//www.guiascostarica.com/cr10.htm

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Writing from the past to the future

• Lo que me contaron los abuelos.

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Types of Writing

• Expressive
• Informational/Explanatory
• Argumentative
• Critical

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Encourage writing

• Purposeful
• Engaging students in planning, acting,
  reflecting, and revising
• Coaching
• Reasonable and real expectations

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Letter writing

• You just came to Charlotte 2 months ago and you
  miss your family. Write a letter to your abuelita
  o tía telling her about
• The trip to Charlotte the good, the bad and the
  funny
• How everyone else in the family is doing
• First impressions house, school, friends, city
• What you miss from your old place
• Close the letter in a positive-melancholic-funny
  mood

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Sample Activities

• Maintain interactive journals
• Write personal responses to readings
• Editorials Opinions on a topic of interest
• Interviews Visitors/guest speakers

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Assignment Creative and Exciting

• CContext
• RRole
• AAudience
• FFormat
• TTopic

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Play writing

• Response to literature or historical writings
• Cartas de relación de Hernán Cortés al rey de
  España
• http//www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com/
• http//www.bibliotecasvirtuales.com/biblioteca/lit
  eraturaespanola/HernanCortes/index.asp

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SNS SUCCESS!!!!!!!!!!