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SPANISH I
Course Outline
Vocabulary: Greetings and goodbyes. Numbers. Telling time. Days of the week and months of
the year. Alphabet. Describing friends. Likes and dislikes. Sports and leisure activities. Weekend
activities. School supplies and items needed for school. Classes. School events. Places at school.
Family members. Describing people (physical and personality). Rooms in the house. Furniture
and accessories. Lunch foods. Foods you might order in a restaurant. Describing food. Table
setting. Breakfast and dinner foods. Daily routine. Personal items. Parts of the body. Telling how
you feel. Healthful advice. Clothing. Colors. Stores and the things you buy there. Holidays and
activities.
Grammar: Subject and verbs in sentences. Subject pronouns. Present tense of the verb ser.
Punctuation marks with written accent. ser with adjectives. Gender and adjective agreement.
Question formation. Nouns and definite articles. The verb gustar,¿Por qué? and porque. The
preposition de. Gustar with infinitives. Pronouns after prepositions. Present tense of querer with
infinitives. Present tense of –ar verb. Present tense of ir and jugar. Weather expressions
Indefinite articles; ¿cuánto?, mucho and poco. Present tense of tener and tener idioms. Venir
and a + time. Ir a + infinitives. Present tense of –er and –ir verbs and tag questions. –er/-ir
verbs with irregular yo forms. Estar with prepositions. Negation. Tocar and parecer. Ser and
estar. Pedir and server. Preferir, poder and probar. Direct objects and direct object pronouns.
Affirmative informal commands. Affirmative informal commands with pronouns. Verbs with
reflexive pronouns. Using infinitives. Stem-changing verbs. Estar, sentirse and tener. Negative
informal commands. Object and reflexive pronouns with commands. Costar and numbers to 1
million. Demonstrative adjectives and comparisons. The verb quedar. Preterite of –er and –ir
verbs. Review of the preterite. Pensar que and pensar with infinitives.
SPANISH II
Course Outline
Vocabulary: Describing friends and family members. Celebrations and preparations. Parts of the
house, household chores. Travel plans and activities. Professions and work related verbs. Parts of
the house, furniture and chores. Names of stores, places around town. Places in the city. Ordinal
numbers. Competitions and emotional reactions. Parts of the body, injuries, illness, treatments
and advice. Routine activities. Getting ready. Childhood activities, toys and games. Menu words.
Restaurant terms. Foods. Adjectives to describe food. Buying and selling terms. Adjectives to
describe clothing. Nature. Animals and plants. Weather and natural events.
Grammar: Nouns, adjectives and gustar. Present tense of regular and stem changing verbs.
Reflexive pronouns. Idioms with tener. Verbs followed by infinitive. Present progressive. Ir a
with infinitives. Direct object pronouns. Affirmative and negative informal commands.
Impersonal se and passive se. Preterite of –car, -gar, and –zar verbs and conocer. Irregular verbs
in the preterite: andar, tener, venir, dar, ver. Formal commands. Irregular formal commands.
Commands with pronouns and review of informal commands. Irregular preterits ponerse, decir,
ser, and estar. Preterite of poder and traer. More verbs with reflexive pronouns. Possessive
pronouns. Imperfect tense. Imperfect of ir and ver. Verbs with reciprocal actions. Double object
pronouns. Commands with double object pronouns. Adverbs. Imperfect and Preterite. Using the
imperfect of ir a + infinitive. Comparative quantities; adjectives with nouns. Preterite and
imperfect to begin a story. Preterite and imperfect to continue a story.
HONORS SPANISH I
Course Outline
“Mis primeros versos” Rubén Darío. “Primero de secundaria” Gary Soto. “Un cuentecillo triste”
Gabriel García Márquez. Nicaragua: history and society. Talking about feelings, cause and
effect, narrating a past experience. Prefixes and suffixes, nouns, articles, definite and indefinite
articles, and adjectives. The letter “h”, the sound /y/, the diacritical accent. Write an
autobiographical episode
“La Guerra de los yacarés” Horacio Quiroga. De “Platero y yo” Juan Ramón Jiménez De “Me
llamo Rigoberta Menchú” Rigoberta Menchú. Uruguay: history and society. Verbs: the present,
the preterit and the imperfect tense. The letters “b” and “v”, syllable division. Write or tell a
short story.
“Posada de las Tres Cuerdas”, Ana María Shua. “La puerta del infierno”, Antonio Landaura.
“Gueso y pellejo”, Ciro Alegría. Argentina: culture and language. Expressing certainty, doubt,
talking about cause and effect, synonyms and antonyms, the present subjunctive in noun and
adverbial clauses, infinitives and noun clauses, the “s” sound, the tonic accent. Write an essay.
“Mañana de sol”, Serafín y Joaquín Álvarez Quintero. “De Paula”, Isabel Allende”. “Versos
Sencillos”, José Martí. “Verde luz”, Antonio Cabán Vale. Spain. Pioneer Latino artists in the
United States. Talking about the past, asking and clarifying an opinion, talking about
hypothetical situations, idioms, the imperfect subjunctive, the conditional, the future, the “k”
sound, tonic stress. Persuasive writing.
“Hay un naranjo ahí”, Alfonso Quijada Urías. “La tortuga”, Pablo Neruda. “El forastero gentil”,
Sabine R. Ulibarri. “Coplas por la muerte de su padre”, Jorge Manrique. “Soledades” y “Campos
de Castilla”, Antonio Machado. Poetry: rhyme, imagery, and similes. Chile. Presenting and
supporting an opinion, present perfect indicative, present perfect subjunctive, sequence of verb
tenses, the “x” sound,
“Valle del fuego”, Alejandro Balaguer. “de Aydin”, Jordi Sierra I Fabra. “Romance sonámbulo”,
Federico García Lorca. Perú. Expressing similarities and differences, cognates, infinitives,
gerunds and prepositions, the sounds “r” and “rr”, diphthongs and hiatuses. Informative writing.