Course Overview

AP Spanish Language is intended for students who wish to develop proficiency in all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. This course is conducted entirely in the Spanish Language, and the teacher will encourage the students to do likewise. Students who enroll in this course should already have a basic knowledge of the language and culture of Spanish-speaking peoples and should have attained a reasonable proficiency in listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing. Emphasis is placed on the ability of the students to comprehend, to compose expository passages, and to express ideas orally with accuracy and fluency. Oral skills will be emphasized in daily classes. Students will have extensive reading assignments in newspapers, in magazines and in classic and modern Spanish and Latin American Literature. The AP Spanish Language course is projected to be the equivalent of third-year college Spanish Language and to prepare the students to take the Advance Placement Exam in May.
The main objective of this course is to develop students’ three communicative modes: interpersonal, interpretive and presentational to prepare them to use the proper Spanish in their future careers, jobs or interpersonal conversations with native speakers of the language in their communities or when traveling to the Spanish-peaking countries. To reach this goal, it is indispensable to integrate other activities such as reading and writing.

Welcome to Spanish. I am delighted to have you in my class and I look forward to a productive year with you. I would like to inform you of some of the things you can expect from this class and what I expect from you. I would also like to acquaint you with some of the rules and procedures of this classroom. I hope that you will find the Spanish language and this class to be challenging, interesting, and rewarding.

H.B. Plant High School
Rosa E. Machado