Course Goals and Objectives
What is culture?
Sub-questions:
What is a culture?
What are the characteristics of a culture?
Course Goals
Reviewing foundational material given in Spanish 1 & 2.
Introducing new vocabulary and grammar material that builds on Spanish 2 curriculum.
Make cross-curricular connections.
Developing increasing complex reading, writing and oral skills in Spanish utilizing stories, reports, literature, biblical and descriptive texts.
Improving students’ communication and comprehension in more complex settings using strings of sentences on familiar and unfamiliar topics.
Connecting with other disciplines through the Spanish language
Interpret the cultural nuances of meaning in authentic written and spoken technical, informational and literary text.
Showing an increasing awareness of errors and the ability to self-correct.
Analyze the relationship between word order and meaning and how this reflects the ways in which cultures organize information and view the world.
Apply critical reading skills to authentic written and aural sources.
Produce detailed texts on a broad variety of concrete social and professional topics.
Express one’s own thoughts with sufficient accuracy that all target culture listeners understand.
Course Objectives
By the end of the year the student will
Narrate and describe events in the present, past, and future tenses using indicative and subjunctive mood in Spanish in increasingly complex grammatical forms and situations.
Use Spanish to communicate more complex facts, questions, and opinions.
Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings demonstrating independence in gather vocabulary knowledge when encountering an important unknown term.
Understand the relationship among languages and cultures based on their awareness of language such as cognates, idioms and parallel structure and culture such as art, literature, and customs.
Elicit information and clarify meaning by using a variety of strategies such as vocabulary, background knowledge and comprehension strategies (e.g. redundancy, restatement, and paraphrasing).
Read and discuss selected literary pieces from Spanish authors using specific textual evidence to support conclusions drawn from the text.
Use complex syntax and paragraph structure, and show coherence and cohesion of communication skills.
Memorize, recite and discuss specific biblical passages in Spanish
Have an upper-intermediate level of proficiency as established by National and the Tennessee Standards for Foreign Language Learning.