AP Spanish Literature

Spanish Literature-Advanced Placement (AP)

Recommended Prerequisites: Spanish I, II, III, AP Spanish Language and/or IB Spanish

Grades Offered: 11 – 12

Credit: ½ to 1

State Code: 3026

MNPS Course Code: FLA1595

Course Description

Spanish AP Literature is an advanced course designed to be the final step of preparation for advanced Spanish study at the university level. This course focuses on preparing the literary selections on the AP Literature list, which can be found at www.apcentral.collegeboard.com. Students read, analyze, discuss, compare, and write extensively on these selections. This course also maintains fluency and hones the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The literature prompts the refinement of vocabulary and grammar structures. Students enrolled in this course have completed four years of language study and have acquired an advanced understanding of structures with general proficiency. In limited circumstances this course could serve as a pre-Advanced Placement Spanish either in language or literature. The course is based on the National Foreign Language Standards. The adopted text and supplementary materials provide developmental practice. This course serves as a terminal course at the high school level.

Course of Study

Grammatical Concepts: The student is expected to use and understand simple to complex structures. Spanish AP Literature reviews and refines grammar structures previously studied in depth. It provides an opportunity to use appropriate structures in real communicative situations, to analyze Hispanic literature, and to compare literary works.

· Structures that students must use to communicate include…

All verb tenses in both indicative and subjunctive moods
Literary terms
Comparisons
All personal pronouns
Se impersonal and passive voice
Relative pronouns
Adverbial conjunctions
Sequence of tenses

Culture and Reading Topics: The student is capable of …..

· The highest proficiency skills of prior levels

· Reading and analyzing Hispanic cultures

o Literature selections on the list

o Short fiction

o Poetry

o Fiction

o Drama

· Presenting ideas and concepts through comparisons and debating.

· Analyzing poetry, themes and literary texts with appropriate literary devices.

· Communicating researched material through projects, journaling, and academic essays.

· Communicating opinions, ideas, and creative products.

Foreign Language Learning Strategies

· Comparing cultures

· Analyzing all types of literary genres

· Studying in depth the cultures of the Hispanic world

· Connecting the foreign language to other disciplines such as English, social studies, and art

· Listening

· Communicating through speaking and pronunciation

· Expressing ideas in discussions

· Reading of all types of available realia

· Writing both to perfect structures and to express ideas

· Writing to evaluate material studied

· Formal and informal written composition in the target language

· Formal and informal oral composition in the target language

· Evaluating

· Classifying

· Debating

· Interviewing

· Analyzing

· Synthesizing

· Memorizing

· Sequencing structures, events, and stories

· Creating in the language conversations and explications

· Using context clues

· Taking notes

· Interacting in conversation both formulated and not formulated

· Using authentic material

· Recognizing presented outstanding works and people of the Hispanic culture

Thematic Vocabulary

· Vocabulary begins with the student himself and continues in an ever-expanding concentric circle to include depth in the vocabulary needed.

· Vocabulary is consistent with literary terms needed for literary analysis.

· Vocabulary is amplified through reading, listening, and conversations of advanced concepts.

· Vocabulary is based on Pan American Spanish; however, multiple Spanish equivalents are provided as appropriate.

· Vocabulary is relevant to the study of Hispanic literature and drama.

· Vocabulary is adequate to encompass history, current events, and analyzing literature.

· Cognates

Standards

Standards are based on the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) standards.

ACTFL:

http://www.sil.org/lingualinks/LANGUAGELEARNING/OtherResources/ACTFLProficiencyGuidelines/TheACTFLGuidelines.htm

College Board: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com

Tennessee Standards: www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlanguage .

Textbooks

Adopted text Nuevas Vistas: Curso Avanzado Dos, published by Holt, Rinehart and Winston

Recommended Resources

Tesoro Literario, published by Glencoe.

Spanish periodicals on the internet at http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/types/flnews

The Fact Book about all world countries on the internet at www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/

Abriendo Paso: Lectura, published by Prentice Hall

Abriendo puertas. Tomos I y II. Published by McDougal Littell

Spanish museums on the Internet such as at www.spanisharts.com, www.artcyclopedia.com, etc.

Other internet sites such as www.sispain.com

Amsco workbook Spanish Three years

Una Vez Más workbook published by Longman

Espejos/Espejos, Donald A. Yates, Holt, Rinehart and Winston: an intermediate reader

Verb conjugations at www.conjuguemos.com

Newspaper articles at www.elpais.es