Ap Spanish Language and Culture Class

AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE CLASS

Mustang High School

PROFESORA: Señora Rosario C. Chávez

Textbooks and Materials:

Triángulo Aprobado 5a edición, Cambios Anunciasdos para 2014 (Barbara Gatski & John McMullan)

Supersite to access online materials for Triángulo Aprobado 5a edición and the worktext forAP®Spanish Language and Culture Exam Preparation

Excellent Course Overview from the College Board

Notes regarding extra materials and sources:

·  Students are expected to visit the AP Spanish AP Central site to explore the site and learn more about the course, view past exam questions, and become more familiar with the AP Spanish Language Course and Exam in general: http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/exam/exam_information/4554.html

·  Students are expected to visit sites for authentic oral and visual Spanish texts, using the handout provided.

·  Students are required to have a sturdy binder with 8-10 dividers, post-it notes, a colored pen, pencils, and access to a high quality Spanish dictionary, either online such aswordreference.com, or regular text.

Goals:

Students will build on their previous knowledge of Spanish to polish and improve their skills inthe six major learning objective skill areas:

·  Spoken Interpersonal Communication

·  Written Interpersonal Communication

·  Audio, Visual, and Audiovisual Interpretive Communication

·  Written and Print Interpretive Communication

·  Spoken Presentational Communication

·  Written Presentational Communication

They will be prepared to take the AP Spanish Language Examon Thursday,May 3,2016 @ 8:00 a.m, with the goal of earning a score of 3, 4, or 5. Students typically receive3-17 credit hours with a score of 3, 4, or 5 in colleges in our surrounding area. Components of the exam reflect these skills. See exam format later in this document.

Expectations:

Students will be required to “raise the bar” to challenge themselves to use a higher register of Spanish. They will be expected to study the language regularly and keep up with grammar and structure homework. Students will also write essays, compositions, or informal texts that will be evaluated and assigned a preliminary rubric grade. Once the students correct their errors and return them to me with the original, I will then grade them for credit with a new rubric score for an actual grade. Students will also practice speaking in a variety of contexts, sometimes digitally recording their voices for teacher review and feedback. I listen to their recordings, and offer substantive comments for improvement of oral communication skills. In addition, each student’s daily speaking in class will be very important since students are expected to communicate in Spanish routinely. They should take risks with the language as they do so, trying to use new structures, verb forms, and vocabulary to build their communication skills. Everything required of the students is to help them to reach the learning goals. The work is challenging, but manageable and rewarding, as students recognize the progress thatthey are making in Spanish communication and feel pride in their accomplishments.

THE NEW (third year) AP SPANISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE EXAM FORMAT

Section / Number of Questions / Percent of Final Score / Time
Section I: Multiple Choice / Approx. 95 minutes
Part A / Interpretive Communication: Print Texts / 30 questions / 50% / Approx. 40 minutes
Part B / Interpretive Communication: Print and Audio Texts (combined) / 35 questions / Approx. 55 minutes
Interpretive Communication: Audio Texts
Section II: Free Response / Approx. 85 minutes
Interpersonal Writing: Email Rely / 1 prompt / 12.5% / 15 minutes
Presentational Writing: Persuasive Essay / 1 prompt / 12.5% / Approx. 55 minutes
Interpersonal Speaking: Conversation / 5 prompts / 12.5% / 20 seconds for each response
Presentational Speaking: Cultural Comparison / 1 prompt / 12.5% / 2 minutes to respond

RECOMENDACIONES PARA MEJORAR TU COMUNICACIÓN GENERAL:

Para mejorar tu comprensión oral:

·  Usa los muchosrecursos que te he recomendado para ayudarte con tu comprensión auditiva. Este sitio, por ejemplo, te presenta con audiolibros...«Podcasts» de poemas y cuentos en español. http://albalearning.com/También, este sitiote ofrece literatura importante del mundo hispanohablante. Otro <Podcasts> que usaremos será <Notes in Spanish.

·  Escucha las noticias y accede cortometrajes de eventos actuales para estar al día, escuchar más vocabulario temático y para ayudarte a acostumbrarte a diferentes regionalismos del idioma por visitar sitios de varias comunidades hispanohablantes del mundo.

Para mejorar tu comprensión de lectura:

·  En varias bibliotectas hay muchas revistas y periódicos que están escritos en español. Léelos!

·  Explora los variossitios deRed en español.Si buscasinformación en español, llegas a sitios escritos en español.Guardatus sitios favoritoscon tus «bookmarks».

Para mejorar tu comunicación escrita:

·  Continúa comunicando con tus amigos que hablan español.

·  Escríbeme un mensaje electrónico de vez en cuando. ¡Responderé,te prometo! Y, sabes, ¡recibirás crédito adicional si me escribes de algoespecífico de manera narativa!

·  Hazcomunicación de texto o emailcon tus amigos de nuestras clase de AP.

Para practicar tu gramática y vocabulario:

·  Ve al sitio de Bowdoino a StudySpanish.com
Aquídebes explorar y navegar por el sitio para repasar lo que quieras. Hay mucha información ypruebas para tu uso.

·  Suscribe a la revistadeEcos.com y también al boletín de la palabra del día (word of the day) por la Red. ¡Son maravillosos para adquirir vocabulario y para mejorar tu gramática!

·  Ve a las sub páginas (que siguen esta página) para encontrar unos enlaces a actividades sobresalientes.

·  Cosas necesaritas para la clase:

·  Necesitas una carpeta para guardar tus tareas y otros papeles importantes.

·  Necesitas marcadores para diferentes actividades.

·  Necesitas estar organizado!

Authentic Materials

Digital Media Archive http://larcnet.sdsu.edu/tech.php?page=dma

ABC News (in Spanish) www.abc.com
Authentic Listening Resources
http://colombia.indymedia.org/news/2005/06/27626.php
http://www.radioformula.com
http://spanlang.stanford.edu/second_year/interpretive12.html
http://www.radionizkor.org/espana/
http://www.radionizkor.org/arg/
http://www.fire.or.cr/audios.htm
http://www.univision.com
http://www.unicef.org/spanish/videoaudio/video_radio.html
http://audio.urcm.net/
Spanish Audio Gazette http://lab.chass.utoronto.ca/rescentre/spanish/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/programmes/programmes_2/?focuswin-- BBC programs

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/programmes/estudio_834/--BBC Estudio 834

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/listening/question1/- BBC Better@Listening

http://www.studyspanish.com/comps/index.htm- Study Spanish Cultural Notes
http://203.15.102.140/news/languageGroup/lgCurDisp.php3?vlang=Spanish- Broadcasting in Spanish from Australia

TV
Live TV International

El sitio http://wwitv.com/portal.htm ofrece enlaces a cientos de canales de tele que tienen "streaming video" sobre el Internet. También hay enlaces a sus sitios.

www.tve.es Live and archived television from Spain.

www.euronews.net

Video and text cover world news from a European
perspective in a choice of seven languages, including Spanish
www.nettvdb.com Links to over 1000 Internet TV stations from 108
Countries.

Radio
Broadcast options from throughout the Spanish-speaking world: http://www2.jonction.net/~kairyv/radio/index.htm

Broadcasts from Mexico: http://www.mexicoradiotv.com/live.htm

Radio Mitre (Argentina)

www.tve.es Live and archived radio from Spain on six different stations.

www.cadenaser.com Live and archived radio from Spain.

www.elcastellano.org/radios.html A very complete list of Spanish Language radio stations indexed by country.

www.comfm.com Links to thousands of radio and television stations from around the world.

Radio Naciones Unidas http://www.un.org/radio/es/

BBC Languages
Ecos Magazine
http://www.ecos-online.de/audio/

ECOS online es la pagina web de la revista ECOS de España y Latinoamérica, publicada por la editorial Spotlight en Munich, Alemania.
Guisando.org
www.guisando.org/podcast/index.php

El primer podcast de recetas en castellano. Un programa quincenal donde se comenta la elaboración de un par de platos fáciles y sencillos.

Above sites adapted from a site by GUSTAVO