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World Languages Department Spanish Language AP
NORTH ROCKLAND CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT WORLD LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT Student Application SPANISH AP SPANISH N/S AP 2011 – 2012 The Advanced Placement Program in Spanish offers students the opportunity to pursue college level study while still in high school. It is expected that students who take an Advanced Placement course in a language will seek college credit, college placement, or both. Colleges and universities throughout the country have established individual policies with regard to granting credit and/or placement based upon student scores on the Advanced Placement examination in May. Please check with your prospective colleges to determine their policies. The Spanish and Spanish Native Speaker AP Courses are rigorous and challenging courses conducted entirely in the target language, which prepare students for the Spanish AP Language Exam. These courses are equivalent to a third-year college course in the Spanish language. These courses focus on improving the four levels of competency: reading, writing, listening and speaking. Specific resources are utilized in the classroom to achieve a strong command of Spanish linguistic skills, strong communicative ability in Spanish in the interpersonal, presentational and interpretive modes. Students are encouraged to work with authentic information through a variety of resources such as newspaper articles, magazines and the media. At the conclusion of the course, the students are expected to communicate orally and in written form comprehensible to native speakers in a variety of settings, types of discourse, topics and registers. If you are admitted to the Advanced Placement Program in Spanish you will be required to take the corresponding Advanced Placement Examination in May and pay the required examination fee (approximately $80—to be paid prior to the exam). You will also be required to purchase an AP Exam Preparatory Workbook; a check for $25, made out to NRHS World Languages Honor Society, which will be collected in September. Following the Advanced Placement Examination all students will be required to complete an independent study research report/project on a Spanish related topic. If you are admitted to the program, you are making a commitment to achieve excellence and contracting to complete all requirements of the course. Your progress in the course will continually be assessed and it is your responsibility to insure that your total performance meets the high standards of excellence expected of an Advanced Placement student. School grade weighting is applied for all Advanced Placement students quarterly by the guidance department in computing principal's roll, honor roll, and class rank. The grade weighting is recorded on the report card only on the final grade in June. ALL APPLICATIONS MUST BE RETURNED TO YOUR SPANISH 3 TEACHER BY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2011.
AP SUMMER READING The purpose of this memo is to familiarize you with one of the requirements for your Spanish AP course beginning in September 2010. In an effort to maintain your progress in the language, and to help prepare you for the challenging AP exam you will take in May 2012, we have included a summer work requirement as part of the Spanish AP course. This independent work will enable you to review grammatical structure, improve comprehension, and internalize vocabulary that will help enable your future success. This work is to be handed in the first day of classes in September, and will count as 15% of your first quarter grade. The enclosed text, Buen Viaje, is a continuation of the text you completed in Spanish 3. It is a more complex text which discusses the history, geography and culture of the Spanish speaking world. You will be responsible for completing the first three chapters. This means you must: 1.Write down and define all of the vocabulary in the chapter (you can follow in on the pages in the text, or just get it from the last page of the chapter) 2.Do all of the readings and their respective questions in the “Cultura” and “Periodismo” sections of the chapter. 3.Review all of the grammar in the chapter. 4.Complete the “Assessment” pages towards the end of the different sections of chapter. 5. Go to Spanish.glencoe.com and find your text (Spanish Buen Viaje 3 2005 edition). Take the quizzes online and print out copies of them with your name entered. This will count as part of your grade as well) For example, for Chapter One, you would need to: Do vocabulary on pages 2-3, Read and answer questions to readings on: 6-7, 8-9,10-11, 12-13. Review grammar on pgs 14, 17. Do assessment on pages 22-23. Do vocabulary on pg. 24-25, Review grammar on pgs 30. Do assessment on pgs 34-35. Do all vocabulary, readings, and questions on in Periodismo section pgs 36-41 Review grammar 42-46 Do assessment on pgs 50-51 Be sure you know all the vocabulary on pg 54; this is the entire list for the chapter which you would have done in sections above Then do the online quiz that corresponds to the chapter and print a copy. Do this same format for Chapters 2 and 3. This will enable us to really take advantage of our class time without the need for excessive review. Do not merely skim or cheat yourself on the readings; the ability to read and comprehend longer passages is the most important skill needed for the AP exam.
R E S O U R C E S
AP Application
Cracking Sections of the AP Exam
Spanish Course Syllabus
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UniVision
Cortland
All Spanish
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El Mundo
Quia
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Native Speaker Course Syllabus
