Spanish 1:

During third quarter, the students learned about regular verbs that end in "AR" and the irregular verbs SER (to be), ESTAR (another form of to be), with special emphasis ON IR (to go) AND TENER (to have).

Spanish 2:

For Spanish 2, we covered preterite vs. imperfect, direct and indirect object pronouns and the present and past progressive. Thematically, we have covered topics such as childhood experiences, food, talking about activities to do in a city, and art.

Spanish for Fluent Speakers 2

Los estudiantes han aprendido sobre poesía. Ellos analizaron varios poemas de diferentes autores lationoamericanos, como Pablo Neruda, Alfonso Quijadas Urías, Antonio Cabán Vale y José Martí. También aprendieron sobre la historia y política de Chile.

Spanish 3:

For Spanish 3, we covered conditional, commands, present subjunctive, present perfect subjunctive, and continued to work w/ future, imperfect and preterite. Thematically, we have been working on issues of responsibility to the community. Most recently, we've worked on the environment and protecting wildlife and natural resources.

Spanish for Fluent Speakers 3

Repaso de la escritura por medio de ensayos, diarios y composiciones

Lectura y comprensión dos veces al mes, con nota

Gramática y ortografía: Repaso de las reglas y ejercicios de práctica

Eventos actuales en la América Latina, España y los Estados Unidos

Cultura y lengua:

Cuba Elementos de literatura: autobiografía de un esclavo

En el campo: México (la vida de los trabajadores)

Spanish 4:

The students have learned about television in Spanish speaking countries.

Comparing television programming in the Spanish speaking world and in the US .

They learned literature (novel and drama) from Latin American and Spain .

Spanish AP Language

The students have learned vocabulary for el deporte, el consumo, and las relaciones personales. They have written essays about different topics. In grammar they learned los pronombres relativos, adverbios y adjetivos, pronombres indefinidos, preposiciones y conjunciones.

Spanish AP Literature:

The Spanish AP Literature class has worked extremely diligently with nineteenth and twentieth century poets. We studied the pre-romantic Heredia, the Romantic Espronceda, the post-romantic Bécquer and the modernist Ruben Darío. The twentieth century poets we studied were Lorca, Machado, Storni, Julia de Burgos, Castellanos, Neruda and Guillén. During the second quarter we also studied nineteenth century prose. We studied the realist Clarin, the naturalist Pardo Bazán and the romantics and costumbrists Larra and Palma . In the third quarter we are just beginning to study the amazingly rich twentieth century prose. We will study the Galician Gaite and the existencialist Unamuno. We will also study the Latin American "Boom" with writers like the erudite Borges and Cortázar and the magic realist García Márquez. You will hear more soon.