| AP Spanish Language
COURSE TITLE: Advanced Placement Spanish Language
LENGTH OF COURSE: One Year
TYPE OF CREDIT: Foreign Language (10 credits, weighted grade)
GRADE LEVEL: 11-12
PREREQUISITES:
A Grade of "C" or better in Advanced Spanish or
teacher recommendation
TEXTBOOK:
Repaso: A Complete Review Workbook for Grammar, Communication, and Culture, National Textbook Company, 1997, ISBN 0844274100
Abriendo Paso: Lecturas (Provides readings from four of the required authors in the AP Spanish Literature course) Heinle & Heinle, 1995, ISBN 0-8384-4943-3.
Encuentros Maravillosos, Scott Foresman Addison Wesley, 1998 Edition, ISBN 0-673-21595-4.
SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS:
Conversacion y Controversia. Tópicos de Hoy y de Siempre, Prentice Hall, 1996.
Estrategias, Lecturas, Actividades y Composiciones, McGraw-Hill, 1994
Taller de escritura. Cuaderno de actividades, Madrid: Editorial Edinumen, 1997.
The Best Test Preparation for the Advanced Placement Examination in Spanish Language, Research & Education Association, 1996.
Spanish Composition through Literature
Charlemos un poco, Heinle & Heinle, 1995.
Introducción a la literatura Hispano-americana: de la conquista al siglo XX, Gladys Varona-Lacey, National Text Book Company, 1997.
How to Prepare for the AP Examination: Spanish, Barron's Educational Series.
SUPPLEMENTAL READING LIST:
Historietas Nacionales, Luis Borges
Ficciones, Luis Borges
Antologia Poelica, Luis Borges
Teatro Completo , Miguel de Cervantes
Don Quijote de la Mancha I and II, John Jay Allen
Doce Cuentos Peveqriuos, Garbriel Marquez
Introduction to Spanish Poetry, Eugenio Florit
El dicario de Cristobal Colon, Mareel Andrade
Antologia Del Cuento Espanol
HispanoAmericano y Puertorriqueno
Siglo XX, Juan Escalera Ortiz
Aventuras Literarias
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to further develop student's communicative abilities in Spanish. The course will emphasize the use of Spanish for active communication including listening, reading, speaking, and writing activities in preparation for the AP Spanish Language exam. Teachers will
use a variety of techniques to further develop the students' abilities in the knowledge of the target language. The primary course emphases will include, but not be limited to: 1) Reinforcement of students' comprehension of formal and informal spoken Spanish; 2) Acquisition of vocabulary and linguistic structures to facilitate the easy, accurate reading of newspaper and magazine articles as well as modern literature; 3) Composition of expository passages; 4) Oral expression of ideas; and, 5) increased study of the target culture.
BOARD ADOPTION DATE: August 1, 2001.
Interpersonal Communication
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions and exchange opinions.
Interpretive Communication
Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
Presentational Communication
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Practices of Culture
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Products of Culture
Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connecting with other Disciplines
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
Accessing Information in the Target Lang
Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that only are available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Language Comparisons
Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
Cultural Comparisons
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparison of the cultures studied and their own.
School and Community
Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
Personal Enrichment
Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming lifelong learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Career Applications
Standard 5.3: Students engage in activities, which prepare them to use the target language to attain career goals
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