The AP Spanish Language and Culture course provides students with opportunities to develop language proficiency across the three modes of communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. Students learn about culture through the use of authentic materials that are representative of the Spanish-speaking world. Materials include a variety of media such as newspapers, organization websites, music selections, literary works, interviews, movies, charts, and graphs. AP Spanish Language and Culture is a language acquisition course designed to provide students with the necessary skills and intercultural understanding to enable them to communicate successfully in an environment where Spanish is spoken and as such, is an immersion experience requiring exclusive use of Spanish, a requirement which the class participation grade reflects.

The requirements of this course are comparable to a college reading, composition and conversation course. For this reason, the course will be taught entirely in Spanish.

Students enrolling in AP® Spanish Language & Culture should have a superior to excellent command of the Spanish language and be willing to meet all the requirements as stipulated for this course. The students will further develop their proficiency in the four basic language skills--listening, reading, speaking and writing-- through a variety of materials and topics. Course activities focus on the six major themes of the AP Exam.

1. Las familias y las comunidades. Text Book: TEMAS AP Spanish Language and Culture

2. La ciencia y la tecnología. Vista Highter Learning

3. La belleza y la estética

4. La vida contemporánea. Workbook: AP Spanish Language and Cultural

5. Los desafíos mundiales Exam preparation

6. Las identidades personales y públicas

The course should be include, but not limited to the following objectives:

• Read to understand and interprets written and spoken language to do oral and writing presentation in Spanish to an audience presenting information or persuasive arguments on general topics using a variety of vocabulary, appropriate pronunciation and intonation, and proper grammar and syntax.

• Identify and summarize the main points and significant details from authentic Spanish spoken, listened and written resources.

• Read to identify the main and secondary ideas, writer purpose and make comparison and contracts.

• Communicate via interpersonal and presentational written correspondence,

• Use the oral and writing process to communicate ideas, opinions and make inferences and predictions in Spanish.

• Recognize cross-cultural elements and differences pronunciations in oral and written texts from Hispanic literature, recordings, films, online news, magazines and Websites.

• Understand the similarities and differences between different cultures and recognize their values and contributions.

• Review and learn the Spanish grammar in the literature context to do structural and functional analysis of the components of the sentences, to produce or present information or persuasive arguments with coherence and good grammar and syntax in the daily work and writing process.

• Provide the opportunity to express orally and through composition or short essays about different topics according to the expectation of the new standards of 21^st Century: understanding cross-cultural differences make the comparisons and Connections as a Multicultural Community.

Grading:

In class work – 30%

Quizzes – 20%

Test – 20%

Oral – 20%

Participation/ General Behavior – 10%