Spanish Intermediate 4 Honors Year - 1 credit Prerequisite: Completion of Spanish Intermediate 3 with an A- average. This Pre-AP course will provide students with an opportunity to continue to expand and strengthen their four language skills in the Spanish language as well as their intercultural communication skills. It is expected that students apply higher levels of expression, more sophisticated vocabulary, and advanced grammar by manipulating more comfortably the present, past, future, conditional tenses and the subjunctive mood, in order to discuss important future, past, and present events. The vocabulary taught is related to expressing things that matter most to “me and the world that surrounds us”. Students will be encouraged to use as much Spanish in the classroom as possible in order to reach a higher level of speaking proficiency. Students will engage in reading, writing, listening and speaking on a variety of topics and learn how to communicate within an increasingly global society. The end of the year ACTFL oral proficiency minimum for an intermediate 4 student is to keep a conversation going on a variety of topics. This is achieved by asking many questions, speaking consistently and with more ease, and by using well-connected sentences. Students can create in all major time frames to tell a story and to describe events. Quality and quantity of speech is significant. AP Spanish Language and Culture Year - 1 credit Prerequisite: Completion of Spanish Intermediate 4 Honors with an A- average.
* Contemporary Studies in Spanish Language and Culture YR1 (Proficiency Target: Intermediate 4) Year - 1 credit Prerequisite: Completion of Spanish Intermediate 3 with an A- average. This course is intended for students who want to maintain and advance their Spanish language base and work on developing oral fluency as well as audio and visual interpretation and understanding. Students will gain an understanding of a variety of contemporary culture from Latin America and Spain that will allow them to be more sociable and feel confident to “jump into” conversations with native people. Material and resources will be pulled from Hispanic current events, films, radio, podcasts, social media, and YouTube channels. Grammar will be reviewed, reinforced, and advanced. Vocabulary will be expanded. Students will be assessed through reflections, oral presentations based on research, role play, oral interviews, and oral recordings, social media” posting”, podcast type commentaries and narratives. The end of the year ACTFL oral proficiency minimum for an intermediate 4 student is to keep a conversation going on a variety of topics. This is achieved by asking many questions, speaking consistently and with more ease, and by using well-connected sentences. Students can create in all major time frames to tell a story and describe events. Quality and quantity of speech is significant.
The AP Spanish Language and Culture course prepares students to successfully pass the AP Exam. It emphasizes communication (understanding and being understood by others) by applying interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational skills in real-life situations. This includes vocabulary usage, language control, communication strategies, and cultural awareness. The course strives not to overemphasize grammatical accuracy at the expense of communication.To best facilitate the study of language and culture, the course is taught almost exclusively in Spanish and engages students in an exploration of culture in both contemporary and historical contexts. The course also develops students’ awareness and appreciation of cultural products (e.g., tools, books, music, laws, conventions, institutions), practices (patterns of social interactions within a culture), and perspectives (values, attitudes, and assumptions). The AP Course is equivalent to an intermediate level (third year) college course in Spanish. The end of year ACTFL oral proficiency minimum target for an intermediate 5 student is to keep a conversation going on a variety of topics including world issues. This is achieved by asking many questions, and speaking consistently using well-connected sentences and some paragraphs. An intermediate 5 student can create in all major time frames with higher accuracy to tell stories, debate with supporting evidence, and report events. They feel comfortable speaking about topics beyond self. Quality and quantity of speech is significant.
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