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SPANISH VI-VII

Course Number: 3181 - 3191

School Year 2008-2009

Instructor Information:

Name: Juan Carlos Cordero

Email: cordero@olgchs.org

Phone Extension: 3345

Office Hours: Blue 1 – Gold 1

M-F 2:45-3:30

Course Description:

This course focuses on literary and conversational topics that will guide the students in the advanced placement and other internationally approved options. Specific selections (novels, short stories, plays, poems) will be read and discussed each quarter. In conjunction with the readings, there will be exercises in advanced structures, vocabulary building, speaking and writing assignments to further develop proficiency in the target language.

Course Goals/Objectives:

The student will be able to:

-Obtain information from written and oral sources.

-Process and evaluate information from written and oral sources.

-Communicate with users of target language in a variety of situations.

-Express views and feelings concerning social issues.

-Respond to a variety of situations in target language (i.e. reading literary works, talking notes, writing essays, etc.)

-Enter into discussions and defend their opinions.

Instructional Methods:

Lecture, group work, guided reading, vocabulary development, guided coursework, audio-visual demonstrations.

Text(s)/Materials for Course:

Encuentros maravillosos: Gramática a través de la literatura, Abby Kanter.

Abriendo Puertas. Antología de literatura en español.

Spiral binder and/or 3 ring binder/folder for class notes, handouts, and vocabulary.

Spanish-English dictionary.

Evaluation Methods:

Description	Point Value
Tests	30%
Quizzes	30%
Homework	10%
Class participation/work/projects/presentations	30%
Total	100%

Make-up Work Policy:

The student should contact me as soon as he/she returns to school after being absent, even if he/she does not have class with me that day. The student can contact me by e-mail Cordero@olgchs.org, by phone ext.3345, and in person. All students are encouraged to seek extra help whenever necessary.

Classroom Procedures/Policies:

-The student has to be prepared, on dress code, and on time for every class.

- The student must respect his/her classmates, the teacher, substitute teachers, and the school’s physical property, including desks and chairs, technological equipment, walls and any display of art.

- The student must raise his/her hand every time he/she needs to talk and wait for the teacher’s prompt to speak.

- The student must not leave his/her seat unless the teacher tells him/her otherwise.

- Any assignments done by on-line Internet translators are forms of plagiarism and will result in a grade of ZERO.

- The use of the target language is imperative.

TOPICAL OUTLINE

1^ST Quarter

3181-3191

2008-2009

Topic

Curriculum Objective

1- Sueños o realidad?

Review el presente del indicativo, el pretérito , la voz pasiva con se.

Readings:

a- Fragment of Jorge Luis Borge’s short story “El Otro”

b- A short story from Julio Cortázar “La noche boca arriba”

2- La perdida de un ser querido

Review el imperfecto, el presente perfecto; el pluscuamperfecto; los usos de ser y estar.

Readings: “Un perro ha muerto” a poem by Pablo Neruda” A fragment from Jorge Manrique’s “Coplas por la muerte de su padre.

A fragment from Garcilazo de la Vega’s

“Egloga”

The poem “Lo Fatal” by Rubén Darío.

3- Las idiosincrasias personales.

Review of los verbos reflexivos, los complementos directos e indirectos; los verbos faltar, gustar, importar, molestar y parecer.

Readings: A fragment from Julio Cortazar’s “Viajes”

-obtain information from written and oral sources.

- express views and feelings concerning certain

issues.

- process and evaluate information from

written and oral sources.

- enter into discussions and express/defend

opinions.

- respond to a variety of situations in target

language in target language (i.e. reading

articles, written compositions, taking notes,

etc.)

TOPICAL OUTLINE

2^nd Quarter

3181-3191

2008-2009

Topic

Curriculum Objective

-Las reacciones a las expectativas de los padres.

Readings: “Nada menos que todo un hombre” de Miguel de Unamuno. Brief introduction to the generation of the 98, and its importance in Spanish literature.

Review of the presente del subjuntivo and presente perfecto del subjuntivo.

Short story by Gabriel García Márquez “La siesta del martes”.

-Las experiencias que nos definen.

Readings: Fragment of “El nino que se le murió el amigo” by Ana María Matute.

Short story by Gabriel García Márquez “El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”

Review of the future, perfect future, conditional, perfect conditional and the use of “se”

Lo real, lo irreal y lo absurdo.

Fragment of Cien anos de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez.

Short story by Gabriel García Márquez “Un senor muy viejo con unas alas enormes”.

Brief introduction and discussion about angels.

Short story “Dos Palabras”, a tale by Isabel Allende.

Movie: Fragments of La Casa de los Espíritus, based on the novel by Isabe Allende.

Review of the imperfect subjunctive, past perfect subjunctive.

Conflictos entre las generaciones.

Fragment of “Como agua para chocolate” by Laura Esquivel.

Movie: Fragments of Como agua para chocolate.

Short story “Las medias rojas”

Review short story “No oyes ladrar a los perros” by Juan Rulfo.

Grammar review: commands, subjunctive after certain adverbs and conjuctions.

Las Supersticiones.

Reading: “Romance de la luna, luna” by Federico García Lorca. Brief intruduction to Surrealism and its founders: Lorca, Alberti, Dalí, Guillén , Salinas and Bunuel among others.

Reading: “El alacrán de Fray Gómez” a short story by Ricardo Palma.

Grammar review: Los tiempos progresivos, el uso de los infinitives. Uses of Por y Para.

Lo extraordinario de las características familiares.

Reading: Fragment of “La Casa de los Espíritus” by Isabel Allende

Movie: Fragments of “La Casa de los espíritus”, based on the novel by Isabel Allende.

Grammar review: Palabras que confunden, lo que, lo cual, more review of the subjunctive.

La diversidad cultural y la tolerancia.

Reading: Fragment of “El hablador” by Mario Vargas Llosa.

Reading: Poems by Nicolás Guillén in which he expresses the tolerance among races.

Grammar review: Prepositions after certain verbs, pronouns used after certain prepositions.

Subjunctive after indefinite expressions.

Serious discussions about family issues and hopes for the future.

Students will share their opinions based on the readings and personal experiences.

Talk and write about how one experience can change our life forever.

The students will be exposed to fragments of Cien anos de Soledad. They have to express and defend opinions.

Brief comments on Realismo Mágico.

Students will discuss the power of the written word.

Respond to a variety of situations about student’s feelings concerning conflicts between generations.

Students will share opinions about the theme of physical abuse.

Students will discuss superstitions and how they can affect or not their way of life.

Students will express their opinions about the importance of legends.

Students will give opinions about magic, tradition, politics, and magi realism in the movie.

Students will discuss about the problems among cultures and tolerance.

TOPICAL OUTLINE

3rd Quarter

3181-3191

2008-2009

Topic

Curriculum Objective

Reading: Short story: Adiós Cordera! By Leopoldo Alas.

Grammar review: Prepositions after certain verbs, pronouns used after certain prepositions, Subjunctive after indefinite expressions.

2- Los estereotipos y las expectativas sociales.

Reading: “Carta a un desterrado” by Claribel Alegría. “Día de las madres” by Daisy Zamora. “Soy un ser peligroso” by Antonio Luis.

Reading: “La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar” by Gabriel García Márquez.

Reading: “Autorretrato” by Rosario Ferré.

Grammar: adjectives and possessive pronouns, comparatives and superlatives.

3- Perspectivas modernas

Reading: A fragment of “Frankenstein: Una versión política del mito de la maternidad”.

Movie: Fragments of the movie Frankenstein

Reading: A fragment from “Insultos modernos: Reflexiones sobre un arte en decadencia”

To show students how we fear the things that we do not know or we do not understand.

Students will talk about their hopes for the future. They will discuss what their families expect of them.

Students will analyze how people react in ways that we cannot even imagine. Students will discuss and approach the ending of the story in many different ways.

The class will discuss and research “machismo” in Latin American culture.

Students will compare and contrast Latin America’s new wave of writers through a discussion of various themes and writing style.

TOPICAL OUTLINE

4th Quarter

3181-3191

2008-2009

Topic

Curriculum Objective

1- Review of all the tenses.

Reading: Continuidad de los parques

By Julio Cortázar.

2- Detail analysis of a short story.

Reading: “Buen viaje, señor

Presidente” by Gabriel García

Márquez.

3- Anécdota histórica costumbrista.

Reading: “El alacrán de fray Gómez”

4- Jorge Luis Borges

Reading: El sur

5- Total review.

Students will discuss the short story. The students will express their view in writing.

Students will read the short story many times. They will study the characters, descriptions, plot, setting and other pertinent parts of a literary work.

Students will write a three-page essay, based on one of the points mentioned before. The student also has the choice of selecting a theme studied during the year.

Students will study the new literary gender.

Students will read and learn about Borges and his work.

Students will review all the authors and short stories we read this year.