590 Spanish 5 H / 592 Spanish 5 ACP
Gr 9 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long| 5x per Cycle
This advanced course in Spanish is designed for students with an interest in achieving a high degree of communicative competence in presentational, interpretive and interpersonal skills. Students will amplify vocabulary and review grammatical concepts through the study of the culture, current events, literature, film, and music of the Spanish-speaking world. Assessments will include presentations; frequent small-group and class discussions, and essays, as well as other formats. This course is conducted entirely in Spanish.
Performance Target: Intermediate-High to Advanced-Low on the ACTFL scale.
This course is offered at the combined ACP/Honors level. Students will be placed in the Honors section for scheduling purposes only. Students will be able to designate which level they would like to be assessed at in the fall once they learn about course expectations.
Goal Areas (From the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for World Languages):
Interpretive Communication - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
Interpersonal Communication - Interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and perspectives
Presentational Communication - Present information, concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and perspectives to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media, and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
Intercultural Communication - Interact appropriately with others in and from another culture.
Cultures - Gain cultural competence and understanding.
Comparisons - Develop insight into the nature of language and culture to interact with cultural competence.
Essential Skills
ACP:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using intermediate-high language.
I can be easily understood by someone used to a language learner, and possibly by a native speaker who doesn’t know I’m a language learner.
I use a wide range of words and expressions. I expand and begin to elaborate, sometimes even in an unexpected context.
I use connected sentences to describe and explain. I can begin to communicate or tell a paragraph-length story.
I convey my knowledge of differences in familiar cultural products, practices and perspectives. I use culturally appropriate vocabulary and expressions.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication.
Honors:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using intermediate-high language.
I can be easily understood by someone used to a language learner, and possibly by a native speaker who doesn’t know I’m a language learner.
I use a wide range of words and expressions. I expand and begin to elaborate, sometimes even in an unexpected context. I consistently use vocabulary from in-class resources and/or previous units I rarely repeat vocabulary words.
I use a variety of sophisticated connecting words to explain, describe or elaborate.. I can begin to communicate or tell a paragraph-length story.
I convey my knowledge of differences in familiar cultural products, practices and perspectives. I use culturally appropriate vocabulary and expressions.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication. I show ample evidence of strong control of previously learned structures