This high-school level course introduces students to effective strategies for beginning Spanish language learning, and to various aspects of Spanish speaking culture. This course encourages interpersonal communication through speaking and writing, providing opportunities to make and respond to basic requests and questions, to understand and use appropriate greetings and forms of address, to participate in brief guided conversations on familiar topics, and to write short passages with guidance. This course also emphasizes the development of reading and listening comprehension skills, such as reading isolated words and phrases in a situational context and comprehending brief written or oral directions. Additionally, students will examine the practices, products and perspectives of Spanish-speaking culture; recognize basic routine practices of the target culture; and recognize and use situation-appropriate non-verbal communication. This course further emphasizes making connections across content areas and the application of understanding Spanish language and culture outside of the classroom.  (The base of this course is “Spanish 1” offered by Georgia Virtual Learning. Much of the wording and assignments come from there except that more activities have been added to it. The course was altered where necessary to make it usable at home with a parent/teacher who doesn’t know Spanish. The vocabulary lists are from there, such as from this unit. Where videos and images have been downloaded, the source link has been included.)