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AP
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Online for 2012-2013
School Year
Teacher: Ray Leven
Email: rayleven27@gmail.com
Required texts: REPASO (Glencoe/McGraw Hill) ISBN 0-07-846050-6
El Coronel no Tiene Quien le Escriba (Gabriel García Márquez). Any edition of the
original will be fine.
Cuentos de Ana Maria Matute. You may find the following stories by Matute on line or
in anthologies.
El Arbol de Oro, Los Chicos,
Caminos, La Rama Seca, El Rey, La
Conciencia, Los Pájaros, Bernardino (Some can be found in Historias de Artamila)
Tuition: $700
Time requirements: Spanish AP students usually devote at least one hour per day to this class. The course will start right after Labor Day and extend into April, with a week off for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Technical Requirements: Reliable internet, email, SKYPE 5.0
Course description: Advanced Spanish Seminar is a challenging course in which students will be exposed to read and analyze various works of important authors in their original Spanish. Classes will offer speaking practice, require voice emails and frequent written work utilizing rich language continually integrating idioms and newly acquired lexical items. Students will be required to produce a project on a famous Spanish artist, musician, or author and present and analyze several of his/her works in light of his life and times. We will use literary analysis for comparing the novels and the other works we will read. Quizzes and tests will be administered and will serve as excellent preparation for the Spanish AP language test. Students in my class traditionally receive feedback in a very short time.
Class schedule: Class will meet once a week (time to be determined by consensus)
Who can apply: Students who have studied at least three years of Spanish (though preferably four), who have superior skills in at least three of the four areas of foreign language learning: understanding, speaking, reading, and writing. These students should be highly motivated, be able to do research, and ready to devote time and their best effort to keep up with the rigors of this course. Native Spanish speakers are invited to participate, provided that their writing skills are developed.
Instructor qualifications: I have taught all levels of Spanish in
public, private, and home school environments.
I have been a teacher of AP Spanish for ten of the last 18 years, having
initiated the course at Cheltenham H.S.
I possess and B.A. and M Ed. with a major in Spanish from
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