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WLG500: AP Spanish Language

Scope & Sequence : Scope & Sequence documents describe what is covered in a course (the scope) and also the order in which topics are covered (the sequence). These documents list instructional objectives and skills to be mastered. K¹² Scope & Sequence documents for each course include:

Course Overview

In AP® Spanish Language, students perfect their Spanish speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. They study vocabulary, grammar, and cultural aspects of the language, and apply what they've learned in extensive written and spoken exercises. By the end of the course, students will have an expansive vocabulary and a solid working knowledge of all Spanish verb forms and tenses. The equivalent of a college-level language course, AP Spanish Language prepares students for the AP exam and for further study of Spanish language, culture, and literature.

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Course Length

Two Semesters

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Materials

Vox Everyday Spanish and English Dictionary

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Prerequisites

WLG300: Spanish III (or equivalent) and a teacher/counselor recommendation

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Course Outline

SEMESTER ONE

Unit 1: The Hispanic Family

Students study vocabulary and cultural information related to nations, nationalities, family relationships, and holidays. They practice regular present tense verbs, subject pronouns, irregular present tense verbs, and common cognate words. They practice writing successful essays, and the correct use of accents, punctuation, and sentence structure.

  • What Is in a Name?
  • The Family Tree
  • Traditions and Customs
  • Wrap-Up

Unit 2: Education

Students study vocabulary and cultural information related to school, professions, and university. They practice regular and irregular preterite tense verbs, get tips for writing excellent essays, and learn the correct use of definite and indefinite articles. They learn about agreement and placement of adjectives, how to recognize Latin and Greek roots, and reflexive pronouns and verbs.

  • High School and College
  • School Subjects and Professions
  • Student Life
  • Wrap-Up

Unit 3: Health and Nutrition

Students study vocabulary and cultural information relating to the human body, food, hygiene, physical fitness, and Central American countries. They practice the preterite and imperfect tenses, subject-verb agreement, and possessive pronouns and adjectives.

  • The Human Body
  • A Healthy Appetite
  • Staying in Shape
  • Wrap-Up

Unit 4: Recreation and Pastimes

Students study vocabulary and cultural information relating to sports, travel, tourism, and hobbies. They learn reading comprehension tips; and practice compound tenses, interrogative pronouns and adjectives, and prefixes and suffixes. They learn about compound tenses with haber and past participles, gustar and similar verbs, verbal and adjectival forms of the present perfect tense, and the difference between saber and conocer.

  • Champions!
  • Traveling Tales
  • Free Time
  • Wrap-Up

Unit 5: Review and Exam

  • AP® Spanish (review and exam)

SEMESTER TWO

Unit 1: The Arts

Students study vocabulary and cultural information related to art, literature, and music. They learn about the history of art in Spain and about Spanish artists, authors, musicians, and their works. They practice progressive compound tenses, adverbs

and adverb substitutions, the future tense, infinitives and gerunds, the conditional tense, and direct and indirect object pronouns. They learn to identify characters in a passage, as well as its genre, tone, and attitude.

  • In the Eye of the Beholder
  • Author! Author!
  • The Latin Beat
  • Unit Wrap-Up

Unit 2: Commerce

Students study vocabulary related to shopping, styles, and currencies. They learn about different styles in South American countries. They practice the subjunctive and the indicative mood; conjugations in the present subjunctive; superlatives and irregular superlatives and comparisons; the subjunctive mood with noun, adjective, and adverb clauses; and the passive voice and its substitutes. They learn about analytical essays and strategies for the AP® Exam's vocabulary sections.

  • Going Shopping
  • In Style
  • Money Matters
  • Unit Wrap-Up

Unit 3: Changing Technology

Students study vocabulary related to computers, the Internet, communication, and transportation. They practice the past subjunctive mood, simple and compound prepositions, the correct use of the prepositions por and para, hypothetical si clauses, and prepositional pronouns and prepositions with verbs.

  • Get Connected!
  • Communication Around the World
  • Getting There
  • Unit Wrap-Up

Unit 4: Government and Politics

Students study vocabulary related to history, government, communities, and social issues, plus revolutionary movements in South America. They learn about literary devices and figures of speech, formal and informal command forms, relative pronouns, compound tenses and moods, negative and indefinite expressions, the sequences of tenses, and verb-governed prepositions.

  • Building a Nation
  • Community Action
  • Social Awareness
  • Unit Wrap-Up

Unit 5: Review and Exam

  • AP® Spanish (review and exam)

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