High Spanish 4

SEGMENT 1

Module 1:

• Global Challenges
• Nutrition and Food Safety
• Health Issues
• Public Health Systems
• Environmental Issues
• Human Rights
• How to write a formal communication
• Double verbs
• Conjugation and use of subjunctive with impersonal expressions to make suggestions
• Subjunctive use for expressing volition and fear
• Conjunctions that require subjunctive, conditional, imperfect subjunctive, and si clauses

Module 2:

• Science and Technology
• Discovery and inventions
• Present and past perfect tenses
• Future technologies
• Future perfect and the Future indicative
• Subjunctive mood with actions not yet completed
• New media and social impact for technology
• Irregular subjunctive mood
• Present perfect subjunctive
• How to write a blog post
• Ethical questions and debates about science and technology

 

Module 3:

• Family and community
• Relationships
• Friendship and love
• Reflexive and reciprocal verbs
• Present tense
• Uses of se
• Latin root words
• Childhood and adolescence
• Embellished adjectives
• Comparisons and superlatives
• Preterit and imperfect
• Family Structure
• Possessive adjectives and pronouns
• Roles and classes in society
• Forming nouns from verbs
• How to write an autobiography
• Customs for beginnings and ends
• Reading and listening comprehension

SEGMENT 2

Module 4:

• Contemporary Life
• Celebrations
• Superstitions and beliefs
• Present and imperfect progressive tense with a variety of verbs
• Forming adverbs
• Latin Root Words
• International travel airport processes and recommendations
• Impersonal se
• Various uses of infinitives
• Leisure and sports
• Accidental se
• Object pronouns
• Post-secondary education
• Imperfect subjunctive
• Conditional perfect
• How to write a narrative
• Global career options
• Past perfect subjunctive
• Reading and listening comprehension

 

Module 5:

• Beauty and Aesthetics
• Human beauty
• Reflexive verbs in the present and the past
• Architecture
• Latin Root Words
• Time expressions
• Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
• Visual arts, Literature
• Future subjunctive
• Passive voice
• How to write a persuasive essay
• Performing arts
• Reading and listening comprehension

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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.***

***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.  

To achieve success, students are expected to submit work in each course weekly. Students can learn at their own pace; however, “any pace” still means that students must make progress in the course every week. To measure learning, students complete self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, projects, discussion-based assessments, and discussions. Students are expected to maintain regular contact with teachers; the minimum requirement is monthly. When teachers, students, and parents work together, students are successful.