Spanish V

Recommended Prerequisites: Spanish I, II, III, and IV

Grades Offered: 11-12

Credit: ½ to 1

State Code: 3099

MNPS Course Code: FLA1690

Course Description

Spanish V is an advanced course designed to be the final step of preparation for advanced Spanish study at the university level. This course focuses on Hispanic literature, art, history, and current events as a means of maintaining fluency and honing the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The course uses literature to prompt the refinement of vocabulary and grammar structures. Students enrolled in this course have completed three or four years of language study and have acquired an intermediate 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 can serve as a terminal course.

Course of Study

Grammatical Concepts:

The student is expected to use and understand simple to complex structures.
Spanish V reviews and refines grammar structures previously studied in depth. It provides an opportunity to use appropriate structures in real communicative situations, and to analyze Hispanic literature.
Structures that students must use to communicate include…

o All verb tenses in both indicative and subjunctive moods

o Literary terms

o Comparisons

o All personal pronouns

o Se impersonal and passive voice

o Relative pronouns

o Adverbial conjunctions

o Sequence of tenses

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

Reading and analyzing Hispanic cultures

o Myths and legends

o Historical information

o Geography

o Poetry

o Economy

o Arts

o Medias of communication

o Short fiction

o Drama

Presenting ideas and concepts
Communicating researched material through projects, journaling, and academic essays.
Communicating opinions, ideas, and creative products

Foreign Language Learning Strategies

· Comparing cultures

· Studying in depth the cultures of the Hispanic world

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

· art

· Selective listening

· Communicating through speaking and pronunciation

· Expressing ideas in discussions

· Reading of all types of available realia

· Reading and analyzing Hispanic literature

· Writing both to perfect structures and to express ideas

· Writing to evaluate material studied

· Formal and informal written composition in the language

· Formal and informal oral composition in the 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 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

Tennessee standards can be found at www.state.tn.us/education/ci/ciforeignlang/ciflmodern1.htm

Textbooks

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

Recommended Resources

Galería de Arte y Vida, 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

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