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Spring, 2014

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA

Modern and Classical Languages and Literatures

Elementary Italian II (5 credits)

ITLN 102 sec. 01 CRN 32500 – MTWR 3:10 – 4:15 pm LA 334

Instructor: Evelina Badery Anderson (243-4102) LA 327

Email: evelina.badery@mso.umt.edu

Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 1 - 2 p. m, and by appointment.

Required Materials:

Italiano, Marchegiani, Percorsi. L'Italia attraverso la lingua e la cultura , Books a la Carte Plus

MyItalianLab Access Code, 2nd edition, ©2012 | Prentice Hall

ISBN-10: 0-205-214304 ISBN-13: 978-0-205-214303,

www.myitalianlab.com (online workbook)

For those who have bought a used textbook:

MyItalianLab Student Access Code Card for Percorsi 24-month-Access (it includes an interactive version

of Percorsi Student Activities Manual (SAM) and all materials from the Percorsi audio and video

programs) available at www.myitalianlab.com or www.mypearsonstore.com

6-Month Access or 24-Month Access

Users of MyItalianLab may access the MCLL Computer Lab situated in LA 104.

Recommended:

http://wps.prenhall.com/wl_italiano_percorsi_2/ Open-access Companion website with Practice exercises (self-correcting grammar and vocabulary

exercises: multiple choice and fill-in-the-blank activities), Vocabulary Flashcards, Self-tests, Web

resources, Audio Resources (Text audio and SAM audio).

Online English/Italiano/English dictionaries: //dizionary.hoepli.it

//oxfordparavia.it (Oxford Paravia concise); www.garzantilinguistica.it (Hazon Garzanti dictionary).

Mansfield Library:

o Collins dizionario inglese: inglese-italiano, italiano-inglese, 2002

453.21 C7123 1995

o Oxford Paravia Italian dictionary, English-Italian, Italian-English / Oxford University Press,

2001 / 453.21 D5753

o Electronic books: (connect to this title online)

- The pocket Oxford Italian dictionary / Oxford University Press, 2004

- Collins English – Italian, Italian – English dictionary

Recommended activities: Italian Club – Il Circolo italiano – (Informal Italian conversation and activities, and Italian Film Nights)

- For information please contact umcircoloitaliano@gmail.com or your instructor.

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Syllabus/Programma

Course description, goals and outcomes

Elementary Italian II (ITLN 102) is the second semester of a one year language course. Prerequisites: ITALIAN

101 or equivalent. This course is an introduction to Italian language and culture, with emphasis on the skills of

reading, writing, listening and authentic speaking, with an eye towards authentic Italian language and cultural

contexts. Grammatical concepts will be explained and practiced in the context of communicative needs. Concepts

emphasized in this semester are pronouns, adjectives, progressive construction, and future, imperative,

conversational and literary past tenses, conditional and subjunctive of regular and high-frequency irregular verbs.

Students will analyze and compare aspects of Italian culture. Topics included in Chapters 9-16 of the text are

holidays, travel plans, personal life, career goals, health and contemporary Italian society.

The main goal of the class is to develop communicative competence and confidence in Italian language and culture

at levels corresponding to 70 hours of formal instruction. It will provide you with a working vocabulary, basic

structures of the Italian language and acquire familiarity with Italian culture. Successful students should acquire the

skills necessary to 1) have an understanding of spoken Italian within a number of social contexts, 2) be able to

communicate in Italian, in a variety of settings with increasing accuracy and at expanding levels of sophistication, 3)

be able to read non literary texts, 4) be able to write simple but correct Italian for a variety of situations, 5) have an

elementary understanding of contemporary Italian culture.

Class participation is essential. There are daily written and oral assignments. Please keep track of them!

Study Hints

Learning a language requires daily revision, perseverance and application. One learns a language by performing it

in all of its modes: listening, speaking, reading and writing in it rather than thinking or talking about it. Language

learning does not require exceptional intellect or any particular gift; indeed, many people in this world who have had

no formal schooling are multilingual. Nor is it a discipline you can master by cramming for exams. Short doses of

study several times a day are best for becoming skilled in a language. You should plan on two or more hours of

individual study to prepare for each hour of performance in class (5 x 2 = 10 hours of individual study). This

time does not include movie projections or other activities in the Circolo italiano.

Policies:

Attendance: Students are expected to attend every class. Attendance will be taken daily and recorded. If the sum

of your unexcused absences is greater than the equivalent of 6 days of class, your final grade may be lowered by as

much as one letter grade (e.g. A to B); missing more than the equivalent of 2 weeks of class may be grounds for an

automatic F.

Missed quizzes and exams normally cannot be made up. Illness, injury verified by a doctor's statement, family

emergency, religious observance or an officially documented excuse for a University sponsored activity (e. g. field

trips, ASUM service, music or drama performances, and intercollegiate athletics), military service or mandatory

public service may justify exceptions to this policy. Any exam or quiz missed without having made prior

arrangements will be recorded as a 0.

Assignments: Students are expected to complete all assignments before coming to class. You have the

responsibility to learn a new grammar section or/and new vocabulary on your own, to familiarize yourself with the

readings and to complete all assignments (including online assignments, review of material covered in class and

preview of material to be covered next class) before coming to class. Only homework assignments (MIL included)

turned in on time will be graded. Unannounced spot checks of homework may be used in calculating your

participation grade.

Late Work: Late work (My Italian Lab eSAM included) will be graded down one letter grade per day, homework

later than one week will not be accepted.

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Writing (Piccoli temi/scritture): ALL PICCOLI TEMI MUST INCLUDE YOUR NAME AND CLASS, BE

DATED, TYPED, DOUBLE-SPACED, HAVE A TITLE AND INDICATE THE NUMBER OF THE ACTIVITY

AND THE NUMBER OF WORDS USED.

Oral Interview (5%): Interview in form of a short conversation and role-play will be held at the end of the semester

in a one-to-one setting with your course instructor. The interview will be held outside regularly scheduled class

hours and will last approximately 15 minutes. You will be required to prove not only your listening comprehension,

but also the active competence (vocabulary, fluency and proper use of language) you have acquired during the

semester. Prior to the oral interview you will sign up for an appointment time. If you will be unable to keep your

appointment, you must notify your instructor in advance of the need to reschedule. If you do not show up for an

interview without prior notification, you will not have another opportunity to make it up and will receive a

grade of zero.

Class Portfolio: This is an organized FOLDER in which you collect all of your written graded work for the

semester. The portfolio will include handouts, all quizzes, 1st versions and corrected versions of scritture/temi and

any special projects. Portfolios will be collected for evaluation around mid-semester and before the final exam.

Co-Curricular Activities: All students of Italian Language must attend at least four Circolo italiano conversation

hours or other activities and three Italian films (your instructor will provide details on a regular basis). If you are

unable to attend, please meet your instructor ASAP.

Disruptive behavior: Arriving late or leaving class early, unless excused, will be counted as an absence. Any

behavior not associated with class activities (for example speaking too much English in class, eating and drinking,

chewing gum, text messaging, doing crosswords, etc.) adversely affects the class as well as your own performance

and will not be tolerated. Participation grades will be lowered for such behavior.

Cell phones and any other noise making device must be put on silent mode before the beginning of each class

period and placed out of sight (for example, in a backpack or purse) until the class has concluded. Text messaging,

IPods and similar devices are not allowed.

Plagiarism: This course is given by the College of Arts and Sciences. All students must practice academic

honesty. Academic misconduct is subject to an academic penalty by the course instructor and/or a disciplinary

sanction by the University. All students need to be familiar with the Student Conduct Code, available online at

http://www.umt.edu/SA/VSPA/index.cfm/page/1321

Students with special needs: Students with disabilities will receive reasonable modifications in this course. Your

responsibilities are to request them from me with sufficient advance notice, and to be prepared to provide

verification of disability and its impact from Disability Services. Please speak with me during my office hours to

discuss the details. For more information, visit the Disability Services for Students website at http://life.umt.edu/dss.

E-mail policy: University policy requires that all electronic correspondence between instructor and students be done

from official university addresses. Messages from other sources (e.g. Yahoo, Gmail, etc.) can go straight into junk

mail. I will respond to e-mails Monday through Friday.

Grading:

If you are taking this class to meet general education requirements, you must select the traditional grade.

This class is also available for Credit/NO Credit and Audit.

All work for this course will be graded as follows: GPA GPA GPA GPA

100 - 94 A 4.0 87 - 83 B 3.0 77-73 C 2.0 67 - 63 D 1.0

93 - 90 A - 3.7 82 - 80 B- 2.7 72 - 70 C- 1.7 62 - 60 D- 0.7

89 - 88 B+ 3.3 79 - 78 C+ 2.3 69 - 68 D+ 1.3 59 - 0 F 0.0

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Overall grades will be weighted as follows:

Homework (including online MIL, scritture and Portfolio)… …………… 25% Class participation (i.e. including previous preparation)…………………….. 10% Chapter quizzes (7 in all)……………………………………………………. 35% Final exam (chapter 16 and review 9-15) …………………………………. 18%

Oral interview and role playing (15') ……………………………………… 5% Active participation in Circolo Italiano (meetings, films, ICFF)................... 7%

Revised Drop/Add Policy –please visit http://www.umt.edu/catalog/acad/acadpolicy/default.html

Chapter Exams:

February 5, ch. 9 – February 19, ch. 10

March 4, ch. 11 – March 17, ch. 12 – March 27, ch. 13

April 16, ch. 14 – April 29, ch. 15

Final Exam (ch. 16 and review 9-15) : Monday, May 12, 2014, 3:20 - 5:20 p.m. room LA 334

Benvenuti! Patti chiari, amicizia lunga!

Buon lavoro!

Please indicate below two classmates whom you may contact to find out what you missed in class in case

of an absence:

Name: __________________________ Phone ___________ Email _______________________

Name: __________________________ Phone ___________ Email _______________________

Tentative schedule of assignments / Calendario delle attività ITLN 102 sec. 01 – SPRING 2014

Date/Data

Activity and Means of Assessment MIL due: 11:59 MST

1st week/

1a settimana

27 gennaio

28 gennaio

29 gennaio

30 gennaio

Introduzione e programma del semestre

Cap. 9: vocab. pp. 257-258; In contesto; Occhio alla lingua, p. 260;

pronomi di ogg. diretto, p. 261

Cap. 9: Pron. ogg. indir., pp. 262-264

Leggere lo sai che? p. 259 e p. 265

Fare 9.4, 9.9, 9.10, 9.12; preparare 9.14 e 9.15

Cap. 9: 9.16 Le maschere (100 parole, da consegnare su un foglio);

Vocab.: I pranzi delle feste, pp. 267-268;

In contesto, Occhio, pp. 268-269; Il partitivo, p. 269

Preparare 9.20 (1); fare 9.21, 24, 25, 28

My Italian Lab Cap. 9: L'imperativo informale, pp. 270-271

Vocab.: Al ristorante, pp. 275-276, Lo sai che? p. 276;

In contesto, Occhio, pp. 277-278; fare 9.31, 34, 42, 43, 44. MIL

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2nd

week/

2a settimana

3 febbraio

4 febbraio

5 febbraio

6 febbraio

Cap. 9: Verbo piacere pp. 278-279; Anche/Neanche, p. 239;

Leggiamo (Skimming), p. 283

Fare 9.45, 9.47, 9.57, 9.58, 9.59, 9.54

Scriviamo 1: Una festa importante: 9.61, 62, 63, p. 284 140 parole minimo

Leggere Attraverso l'Umbria, pp. 286-87

Guardiamo (Understanding people's preferences), pp. 284-85

Fare 9.67, 9.68, 9.64.

MIL

Esame n. 1: cap. 9

Domande? / Capitolo 10: Presentazione

Capitolo 10: Vocab., pp. 291-292; In contesto, p. 293; Occhio, p. 294; Imperfetto

/ passato prossimo, pp. 294-295

Fare 10.1, 10.3, 10.8, 10.9

3rd

week/

3a settimana

Film 1

10 febbraio

11 febbraio

12 febbraio

13 febbraio

Azioni reciproche, p. 296; Vocabolario p. 299; In contesto, p. 300;

Occhio, p. 301

Fare 10.11, 10.17, 10.19, 10.20

I pronomi relativi, p. 301; La scuola e lo sport, p. 303; Vocabolario p. 304

Fare 10.22, 10.24, 10.28;

preparare 10.25, 10.26 (cinque domande scritte), 10.20.

MIL Il superlativo, p. 305; In contesto, Occhio p. 306; il trapassato prossimo, p. 307-

308. Fare 10.31, 10.32, 10.33; preparare 10.38.

Lo sai che? p. 308; Parliamo: preparare 10.39, p. 310.

Leggiamo (Guessing meaning from context), p. 311. Fare 10.42, 10.43 MIL

4th

week/

4a settimana

17 febbraio

18 febbraio

19 febbraio

20 febbraio

Washington - Lincoln Day Vacanza

Scriviamo 2: p. 312, 10.45, 46, 47- 150 parole min.;

Guardiamo: 10.48 (usa MIL); La Calabria, la Sardegna, p. 314-15, fare 10.51

MIL

Esame n. 2: cap. 10 Domande? / Capitolo 11: Presentazione

Capitolo 11: Vocab., Così si dice, p. 319-320,

In contesto e Occhio, p. 321; il futuro, p. 322-323;

Fare 11.3, 11.4, 11.5, 11.8, 11.9, 11.10 (scritto su un foglio separato) MIL

5th

week/

5 a settimana

Film 2

24 febbraio

25 febbraio

26 febbraio

27 febbraio

Cap. 11: il futuro di probab. , p. 324; Vocab. p. 326; In contesto, Occhio p. 327-

28

Fare 11.11, 11.15, 11.18, 11.19, 11.21

Cap. 11: Il gerundio e il progressivo, p. 328-329; 11.22

Lo sai che?Telefonare in Italia, p. 331; Leggere Time, 11.30, p. 333

Fare 11.22, 11.23, 11.24, 11.27 MIL

Cap. 11: Vocab. p. 334; Così si dice, -ista, -ore/-rice p. 335; In contesto, Occhio,

p. 335-36,

Prima di / dopo di + infin. p. 336-37;

Fare 11.31, 11.33, 11.34, 11.36, 11.37, 11.38.

Cap. 11: Lo sai che? p. 338; 11.36, 11.38; Leggiamo (poem), pp. 340-42, 11.46,

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11.47, 11.48; Parliamo (Talking about future plans); preparare 11.43.

6th

week/

6 a settimana

Early Alert

Grading

3 marzo

4 marzo

5, 6 marzo

Cap. 11: Scriviamo 3: 11.49, 50, 51, p. 342 - 150 parole min.

Guardiamo (Listening for details), p. 343, 11.53;

La Liguria, p. 344-345, 11.56 MIL

Esame n. 3: cap. 11 Domande? / Capitolo 12: Presentazione

Capitolo 12 MIL

7th

week/

7 a settimana

Film 3

10/11/12

marzo

13 marzo

Cap. 12 MIL

Cap. 12 Scriviamo 4, pp. 371-72: 12.49, 12.50, 12.51 - 150 parole min.

MIL

8th

week/

8 a settimana

17 marzo

18 /19/ 20

marzo

Esame n. 4: cap. 12 / Domande? / Capitolo 13: Presentazione

Cap. 13 MIL

9th

week/

9 a settimana

24 marzo

25 marzo

26 marzo

27 marzo

Portfolio due Capitolo 13 MIL

Cap. 13

Scriviamo 5: A o B, p. 403, 13.48, 49, 50 - 150 parole min. MIL

Esame n. 5: cap. 13 Domande? / Capitolo 14: Presentazione

10th

week/

10a settimana

31 mrzo-1º- 2

- 3 aprile Spring Vacation / Vacanze di primavera

11th

week/

11a settimana

7, 8, 9, 10

aprile

Capitolo 14 MIL

12th

week/

12a settimana

Film 4

14 aprile

15 aprile

16 aprile

17 aprile

Cap. 14: Scriviamo 6, p. 450: 14.46, 47, 48 - 150 parole minimo

MIL

Esame n. 6: cap. 14 / Domande? / Capitolo 15: Presentazione

Capitolo 15

13th

week/

13a settimana

21, 22, 23, 24

aprile

Capitolo 15 MIL

14th

week/

14 a

settimana

Film 5

28 aprile

29 aprile

30 aprile

1º maggio

Cap. 15: Scriviamo 7, pp. 465-66: 15.51, 52, 53 - 150 parole min. MIL

Esame n. 7: cap. 15 / Domande? / Capitolo 16: Presentazione

Cap. 16 Interviews/interviste LA 327- Ripasso cap. 9

Cap. 16 Interviews/interviste LA 327- Ripasso cap. 10

15th

week/

15 a settimana

5 maggio

6 maggio

7 maggio

8 maggio

Portfolio due - Cap. 16 - ripasso cap. 11

Cap. 16 ripasso cap. 12 Interviews/interviste LA 327 MIL

Cap. 16 ripasso cap. 13

Cap. 16 ripasso cap. 14 MIL

PLAN ACCORDINGLY!

Final exam: Monday, May 12, 2014, 3:20 - 5:20 p.m. room LA 334

Esame finale : lunedì 12 maggio 2014, ore 15.20 - 17.20, aula LA 334