- Peekskill High School
- Spanish 5H Syllabus
Santos, Myrna
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Course description: It will cover an intensive grammar review, a comprehensive selection of short stories written by Spanish-speaking authors, a review and enrichment of vocabulary, and an analysis of a variety of cultural and historical aspects.
Grammar: All grammar from previous years will be reviewed. Grammatical points we will be focusing on this year include:
- Present Tense [stem-changes, irregulars, ser/estar, por/para, past participles]
- Pronouns and Adjectives [possessive, demonstrative, relative, direct and indirect]
- Progressive Tense
- Preterite and Imperfect Tenses
- Perfect Tenses [all/including subjunctive] • Commands [all]
- Present Subjunctive/Indicative
- Imperfect Subjunctive [including “si” clauses]/Indicative • Sequence of Tenses
Students write letters/postcards/correspondence in class in formal and informal settings which focus on:
- Writing Personal Letters and E-Mail Messages
- Extending and Replying to a Written Invitation
- Summarizing vs. Synthesizing Information
- Letters of Complaint
- Keeping a journal
- Writing a business letter
- Identifying point of view in Literature
- Explaining and Hypothesizing
List of stories and poems to be read:
- Ana María Matute: El Árbol de Oro
- Una carta a Dios por Gregorio López y Fuentes
- Dos patrias (“Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche”) por José Martí
- Rima XI por Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
- Hernando Telléz: Espuma y nada más
- Gabriel García Márquez: Un día de estos
- Francisco Jiménez: Cajas de Cartón
- El salvamento por Ana Maria Matute