High Spanish 2
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Number of Credits
1
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Estimated Completion Time
2 Semesters
Pre Requisites
Spanish 1
Description
Get ready to immerse yourself on a journey towards Spanish fluency! Along this language path, you’ll explore facets of your home life, daily routine, health, cherished memories, travel must-haves, and visions of career plans. You'll gain the skills to talk about your life—past, present, and future—and increase your conversational expertise. Along the way, you'll meet Spanish-speakers from around the world to gain their perspectives on unique cultural traditions, pastimes, and celebrations and explore the bustling cities, astonishing architecture, wonders of nature, and vibrant colors of their diverse countries. Are you ready for this exhilarating adventure?
Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course:
Module One: La casa de mi familia
-Home vocabulary
-New regular and irregular verbs
-Affirmative informal commands (regular and irregular)
-New stem-changing verbs
-Ordinal numbers
-Adjectives with noun and article agreement
-Ser and estar
-Early peoples of South America
-Homes and traditions in Argentina
-Textile traditions in Spanish-speaking countries
Module Two: Mi rutina en el campamento
-Routine vocabulary
-Reflexive verbs (regular and stem-changing)
-Irregular verbs gustar and encantar
-Comparatives
-Adverbs
-Negative expressions
-History and geography of El Salvador and Mexico
-Education paths in Spanish-speaking countries
Module Three: Cuida tu salud
-Healthy lifestyle vocabulary
-Adverb formation from adjectives
-Necesitar + verb compared to tener + que
-Using me duele to explain injuries
-Poder + infinitive
-Si statements in the present tense
-Formal commands
-Negative commands
-Non-numerical quantities
-History and geography of Spain and Bolivia
-Famous medical contributions from Spanish-speaking countries.
Module Four: Mis recuerdos felices
-Past (preterite tense) of regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs
-Seasonal activity vocabulary (warm and cold weather)
-Key words for the preterite tense
-When to use the preterite tense (SAFE acronym)
-Asking questions in the preterite
-Negative statements in the preterite
-History and geography of Venezuela and the Dominican Republic
-Famous Olympians from Spanish-speaking counties
Module Five: Mis viajes inolvidables
-Imperfect tense of regular, irregular, and stem-changing verbs
-Celebration and holiday vocabulary
-Key words for the imperfect tense
-Making weather statements past tense
-When to use the imperfect tense (DWTHB acronym)
-Preterite versus imperfect
-History and geography of Nicaragua and Honduras
-Unique celebrations in Spanish-speaking countries
Module 6 – Mis planes para el futuro
-Future tense of regular and irregular verbs
-Future planning and career vocabulary
-Conocer versus saber in context
-Direct object pronouns
-Si statements in the future
-Indirect object pronouns
-Por/para
-Todo/toda
-History and geography of Panama and Costa Rica
-Useful Spanish phrases for entering the workforce
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Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.
Additional course requirements may exist based on specific expectations for individual courses. More information can be found in FLVS policy documents, published at www.flvs.net, or by referring to the course instructor after registration.
***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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