Spanish IV Honors
Pre-Requisites: Spanish I, II, and III
Credits: 1.0
Estimated Completion Time: 32-36 weeks
Description
This enhanced version of Spanish 4 will certainly expand your language skills. However, it will also take you on a fascinating cultural journey. You’ll experience the language’s rich traditions and superstitions. Through exploring the past, you’ll come to understand the importance of community, family, and personal relationships. You will be immersed in culture—movement, art, music, literature. Meeting real people and hearing their stories will allow you to gain new vocabulary, have better command of the language, and understand your role as a global citizen.
Major Topics and Concepts
Segment One
Module 01 - Desafios mundiales
- 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 02 - Ciencias y tecnologia
- 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 03 - La familia y la comunidad
- 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 Two
Module 04 - La vida comptempranea
- 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 05 - La belleza ya la estetica
- 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
Grading Policy
Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, FLVS guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of self-checks, practice lessons, multiple choice questions, presentational writing assignments, presentational and interpersonal oral assessments, and discussions. Instructors evaluate progress and provide interventions through the variety of assessments built into a course, as well as through contact with the student in other venues.
