COURSE SYLLABUS
COURSE TITLE:
Spanish II
PREREQUISITE:
Spanish I
DESCRIPTION:
Students review, strengthen, and amplify the basic principles of Level I.
Spanish II continues to emphasis on the four skills (listening, speaking,
reading, & writing) and it is designed to facilitate the use of Spanish in the
classroom. Daily life and familiarization with geography and history form
the basis for this year’s cultural study. The students’ common
assessments will be parallel to the AP Exam in content and format.
The common assessments as well as the curriculum will incorporate
the six AP Global Themes: Global Challenges, Personal and Public
Identities, Science and Technology, Families and Communities,
Contemporary Life, and Beauty and Aesthetics.
MAIN TOPICS:
Listening
Speaking
Reading
Writing
Culture
CREDIT INFO:
Students will practice listening to and comprehending more complicated
thoughts and ideas expressed by their teacher, peers, and multimedia.
Students will understand advice, orders, directions, longer and more
complex statements, questions and discourse. They will be able to
differentiate ideas and actions expressed in the present, past, or future.
Students will refine pronunciation, intonation and fluency; express
actions and ideas in present, past and future time; describe people, places
and things; make comparisons; express negative ideas.
Students will read and comprehend ideas expressed in more sophisticated
contexts.
Students will progressively expand and refine basic sentence structures,
write responses to questions and directed statements, identify problems
and formulate multiple solutions, and write a well-constructed paragraph.
Students will become aware of activities pertaining to daily life,
geography, and history of Spanish-speaking countries.
This course provides one credit toward fulfilling the foreign language
requirements for an Advanced Studies Diploma (three years of one
language or two years each of two languages.