Course: FL705 AP Spanish VI (Literature & Culture)

Grade: 11, 12

Subject Area: World Languages

Type: Accelerated, Advanced Placement, Potential Articulated Credits

Credits: 1

Course Information:

The AP® Spanish Literature and Culture course is designed to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of an introductory college course in literature written in Spanish. The course introduces students to the formal study of a representative body of texts from Peninsular Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic literature. The course provides opportunities for students to demonstrate their proficiency in Spanish across the three modes of communication (interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational) and the five goal areas (communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities) outlined in the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century. The overarching aims of the course are to provide students with ongoing and varied opportunities to further develop their proficiencies across the full range of language skills — with special attention to critical reading and analytical writing — and to encourage them to reflect on the many voices and cultures included in a rich and diverse body of literature written in Spanish. The inclusion of “and Culture” in the title of the course reflects a purposeful alignment of the course to a standards-based Spanish curriculum. In particular, the course reflects a meaningful integration of the cultures, connections, and comparisons of the goal areas of the Standards. Emphasis is placed on approaching the study of literature through global, historical and contemporary cultural contexts.

Outcomes:

• Engage in advanced conversation: provide and obtain information, express feelings, emotions and personal needs, and exchange opinions

• Understand and interpret advanced written and spoken language on a variety of topics

• Present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics, demonstrating an advanced level of vocabulary and grammatical structure

• Demonstrate an advanced understanding on a variety of topics that include novels with Spanish authors. Understand relationships between the practices, perspectives, and products of the Spanish-speaking cultures studied

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are available through Spanish literature and its cultures

• Demonstrate an understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of Spanish and English

• Show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the Spanish language both within and beyond the school setting

Prerequisites: FL703-S1 Spanish V S1 AND FL703-S2 – Spanish V S2

Corequisites: If you take this course, you must take FL705-S1 – AP Spanish VI S1 AND FL705-S2 – AP Spanish VI S2

College Readiness: This course counts as 1 year of foreign language. (Taking four years of Spanish (ie. Spanish III, IV, V, & VI) at DDHS equates to 4 years of foreign language preparation for college readiness. Students may be eligible to test out of, &/or earn retro-credit, at their college/university if they pass this course.)