WORLD LANGUAGE Spanish IV/Spanish for the Heritage Speaker I

This course is designed for the student who wishes to continue his or her study of Spanish at the university level, or anticipates the “on the job” usefulness of fluency in Spanish. Communication is expected to be completely in Spanish. This class focuses on examining literature from various Latin American countries. Each student will be expected to participate in literature analysis and academic debates in the target language. They will be asked to produce and defend opinions on various cross-disciplinary content. In this class, students will work to perfect and refine formal paragraph writing and move to writing a paper with academic level Spanish . At this level, students will master formal verb tenses and be able to correctly use Spanish in an academic setting. By completing this course, students will be college or career ready in the target language. Upon successful completion of this course, students would be eligible to continue to AP Spanish Language and Culture/Heritage 2A AND/OR Principles of Interpreting (offered here at Arcadia by Viterbo University.)

Credit: 1.0

Length: (2) Trimesters

Grade Level: 9, 10, 11, 12

Prerequisites: minimum grade of C- in both Introduction to Heritage Spanish A and B; OR minimum grade of C- in Spanish III A and B; OR Spanish Placement Exam

Cum Laude Points: 1.0

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