Advanced topics in spanish
advanced topics in spanish Online High School Course
COURSE LENGTH:
Full Year (30 Sessions)
Course Overview:
In Advanced Topics in Spanish, students continue to hone their skills and understanding in Spanish. This course’s pace and coverage of material is designed to allow interested students the opportunity to take the AP Exam in Spanish Language and Culture, but that is not a requirement of the course. AT Spanish learners will explore several themes that appear on the AP exam including: how the roles of family and community differ across countries; how consumerism affects our lives; how art can both reflect and defy cultural norms and can provide a window to the past; how technology has opened doors to important discoveries and advancements but perhaps also causes us to spend too much of our time in front of screens; how global challenges can unite cultures as we search together for solutions to global warming and equal human rights; and how multiculturalism within a society varies from country to country.
Students will be assessed on their listening, speaking, reading, and writing assignments both in class and through their homework. Each unit contains formative assessments that allow students to use the grammatical structures and vocabulary words from each unit in a series of reading, writing, listening, and speaking prompts. At this level, students will continue to write using complex multi-clause sentences and compose longer written work that contains multiple paragraphs. Students will finesse their writing so that they can more easily use a wide array of grammatical constructs and verb tenses to express themselves. They will work on writing and self-correcting analytical essays that defend a hypothesis and include clear introductions and conclusions. This course also includes several practice AP Exams that allow students to demonstrate their wide range of skills in the Spanish language.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Finesse and enhance their understanding of several verb tenses, including:
The present, progressive and compound tenses
Imperative, future, conditional, preterito, imperfecto, pluscuamperfecto, and subjuntivo
Learn how to write and self-correct an argumentative essay
Learn the correct way to write formal and informal email correspondence in Spanish
Read and interact with articles, social media posts, websites, infographics and other authentic texts
Practice phone conversations, discussions between colleagues, debates, presentations, as well as chats between friends and family members
Listen to and watch interviews, news clips, television shows, radio shows, and podcasts
The course aims to improve reading and listening comprehension, speaking and writing ability, and cultural competency. Upon completion, students should be able to communicate at Advanced Low to Advanced Mid (working towards Advanced High).