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Gr 11 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 11 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This course is a rigorous preparation for the AP Spanish Language Exam. The main text, Triángulo Aprobado, provides the students with thematic units similar to those that appear on the actual AP exam. Students study literature, poetry, and a variety of other authentic texts. There is a strong emphasis integrating communicative skills, synthesis and analysis of ideas, reading comprehension, formal and informal speaking and writing.
Performance Target: Advanced-Low on the ACTFL scale.
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.
Success Criteria:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using intermediate-mid 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 can use a variety of words, expressions and personalized vocabulary and begin to use expanded vocabulary. I rarely repeat vocabulary words. I can give details. I consistently use vocabulary from in-class resources and/or previous units.
I use strings of sentences to describe or explain. I combine simple sentences using a variety of sophisticated transition and connecting words to explain, describe or elaborate. I pose questions to direct or advance a presentation or written work.
I convey my knowledge of differences in familiar (learned or experienced) cultural products and practices. 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.
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