AP Spanish Literature and Culture
Email: svicente@summit.k12.nj.us
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Course description:
The AP Spanish Literature and Culture course, which is conducted exclusively in Spanish, is an introductory course to the study of Peninsular Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic literature written in Spanish from the 14th century to the present day. This class will enable students to successfully complete the AP Spanish Literature and Culture Exam. Not only do we study the literature, but also the fascinating history and cultures of the Hispanic world connected to the six AP Spanish literature themes, which are: las relaciones interpersonales; la construcción del género; las sociedades en contacto; el tiempo y el espacio; la dualidad del ser; and la creación literaria. All these themes overlap throughout the course and there is an emphasis on establishing contextual connections among them and the literary works.
Students learn literary terminology and literary analysis techniques and approaches for examining different genres (prose, essays, poetry, and drama), movements, and time periods, learning to contextualize literature in relation to history, geography, and evolving cultural products, practices, and perspectives, often augmenting their literary analysis through the lens of art and film. Lessons are designed to enhance students’ ability to acquire knowledge about and skills to identify and interpret figures of speech, tone, characters, themes, rhetorical devices, and literary symbols through the required course readings while strengthening their analytical and interpretative skills.
Students will study 38 required texts in the AP Spanish Literature and Culture course:
Don Juan Manuel, Infante de Castilla, “El Conde Lucanor: Exemplo XXXV” (“Lo que sucedió a un mozo que casó con una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava”)
Anónimo, “Romance del rey moro que perdió Alhama” (“Ay de mi Alhama”)
Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes: Prólogo y Tratados 1, 2, 3 y 7
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha: Primera parte, Capítulos I, II, III, IV, V y VIII, IX y Capítulo 74
Cortés, Hernán, Segunda carta de relación (fragmentos)
Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la, “Hombres necios que acusáis” (Sátira filosófica: Arguye de inconsecuentes el gusto y la censura de los hombres que en las mujeres acusan lo que causan)
Góngora y Argote, Luis de, Soneto CLXVI (“Mientras por competir con tu cabello”)
Quevedo y Villegas, Francisco de, Heráclito cristiano: Salmo XVII
(“Miré los muros de la patria mía”)
Tirso de Molina, El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra
Vega, Garcilaso de la, Soneto XXIII (“En tanto que de rosa y de azucena”)
Bécquer, Gustavo Adolfo, Rima LIII (“Volverán las oscuras golondrinas”)
Darío, Rubén, Cantos de vida y esperanza, VIII (“A Roosevelt”)
Heredia, José María, “En una tempestad”
Martí, José, “Nuestra América”
Pardo Bazán, Emilia, “Las medias rojas”
Allende, Isabel, “Dos palabras”
Borges, Jorge Luis, “Borges y yo”
Borges, Jorge Luis, “El sur”
Burgos, Julia de, “A Julia de Burgos”
Cortázar, Julio, “La noche boca arriba”
Dragún, Osvaldo, “El hombre que se convirtió en perro”
Fuentes, Carlos, “Chac Mool”
García Lorca, Federico, La casa de Bernarda Alba
García Lorca, Federico “Prendimiento de Antoñito el Camborio en camino a Sevilla”
García Márquez, Gabriel, “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”
García Márquez, Gabriel, “La siesta del martes”
Guillén, Nicolás, “Balada de los dos abuelos”
León-Portilla, Miguel, “Visión de los vencidos” (“Los presagios…” y “Se ha perdido el pueblo mexicatl”
Machado, Antonio, Soledades II (“He andado muchos caminos”)
Montero, Rosa, “Como la vida misma”
Morejón, Nancy, “Mujer negra”
Neruda, Pablo, Residencia en la Tierra 2, “Walking around”
Quiroga, Horacio, “El hijo”
Rivera, Tomás, “…y no se lo tragó la tierra” (dos capítulos: “…y no se lo tragó la tierra” y “La noche buena”
Rulfo, Juan, “No oyes ladrar los perros”
Storni, Alfonsina, “Peso ancestral”
Ulibarrí, Sabine R., “Mi caballo mago”
Unamuno, Miguel de, San Manuel Bueno, mártir
During the first semester students read medieval, Golden Age, and 19th-century authors, followed by the study of 20th- and 21st-century authors during the second semester. Although the primary focus is on the time period during which the works were written, students also establish and discuss thematic and other connections between the works currently being read and literary selections read previously from earlier time periods.
Exam Day May 10, 2024
Grading:
Interpretative reading and listening assessments: 40%
Presentational writing assessments: 40%
Classwork, homework, and other assignments: 20%
I will accept late work up to 1 week after the due date with a 10% late penalty. After 1 week you will only receive 50% credit for the assignment. If it is not turned in at all, the assignment will receive a 0.
Textbook:
Azulejo Second Edition
Other Resources:
AP Classroom by the College Board
Google Classroom 6e3r3w5
Required materials:
Charged Chromebook and headphones
A binder to keep handouts
Pens in a variety of colors and highlighters for text marking and annotating
DO´S and DON´TS
DO
Be in the room in your assigned seat with all appropriate materials when the bell rings.
Respect the people, equipment, and furnishings in the classroom.
Raise your hand to ask and answer questions in Spanish.
*Observe all rules in the student handbook.
DON´T
Do not use your phone during class.
Do not wear earbuds or headphones unless required by an activity.
Do not play games on your Chromebook.
Do not ask to use the bathroom during teacher-directed instruction unless it is a true emergency.
¡Gracias por tu cooperación!
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