579 Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Nuestra Iberoamérica H / 578 Spanish for Heritage Speakers: Nuestra Iberoamérica ACP
NOT OFFERED IN 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR.
Gr 9 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long| 5x per Cycle
Gr 9 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long| 5x per Cycle
This course is for heritage speakers (any student who speaks Spanish at home, has a personal, familial, or community connection to Spanish, can understand conversations) who would like to strengthen their reading and writing skills. The general objectives of this course are to develop competence in students’ reading and writing, to master certain grammar points particular to heritage speakers, to help them improve their presentational skills, and take into account the experiences and influences of their bilingual and bicultural upbringing. Students will explore intercultural and bicultural themes through the study of literature, history, current events, and celebrations.
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.
Essential Skills:
(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.