<p>Today was the first day of my sophomore year. AND this class just scared me. It is such a big jump in Spanish from Spanish 2. The teacher is wacked and she refuses to review anything from Spanish 2. ( I kinda forgot how to do the preterites? and other stuff) Spanish is and has been my weakest subkect. I feel a bit overwhelmed just looking a chapter 1. ( It doesn't start of with colors and saying hello etc.) </p>
<p>The teacher mainly uses the "honors" excuse for everything from projects to assignments. Honors covers 13 chapters while CP only 8. Should i drop down to CP?</p>
<p>Honestly, by Spanish 3, you should know all of the conversational tenses - present indicative, preterit indicative, present perfect indicative, future indicative, progressive, present conditional, and present subjunctive of most verbs. If you are continuing on to ap spanish, especially lit, try to learn the harder ones.</p>
<p>Practice all your verbs. Learn which ones are reflexive and stem-changing (despertarse, dormirse). Learn the little idioms by heart that just sound so weird in English (A ver, da de comer, Qu</p>
<p>I'm in Spanish 3 Honors now too but it doesn't seem hard (maybe because my teacher sounds like the opposite of yours). For the first few weeks, we are going over everything from Spanish 2, including all the tenses.</p>
<p>Personally, I wouldn't drop the class. I think it shows on your record/transcript that you dropped down in the middle of the year. If you are serious about staying in the class, take some time over the weekends to learn the tenses, even if you review a new tense every week.</p>
<p>It largely depends, like, if you're clearly not a "foreign language" type, and you have honors/high level classes in...say, math, science, and etc...it's fine if you drop down. I'm going to say that dropping out of honors in a particular area doesn't "look bad" UNLESS you drop out of ALL the difficult classes (I've seen it happen many times, including my cousins that took Spanish I/Spanish II honors and dropped to Spanish III CP and still had no problem getting into top schools, with 3 yrs of mediocre language)</p>
<p>Honestly if you want, drop out. I'm going to disagree with the opinions above and say that everyone has a different balance. </p>
<p>But you seem to have barely started and not know much about the class yet, so stick with it a couple more days and then make your decision.</p>