Spanish 3
spanish 3 Online High School Course
COURSE LENGTH:
Full Year (30 Sessions)
Course Overview:
In Spanish 3, students will continue to practice speaking, reading, and understanding Level 3 Spanish. In their studies, students will explore the world of fine arts, what art says about a culture, and how artists use their art to change perspectives. Students will also study: how immigrants are treated across Spanish-speaking cultures; how geography and climate change impact our lives; how food fits into cultural identity; how access to education varies across cultures; and how to integrate into a new culture while maintaining the roots of one’s home culture.
Students will be assessed on their listening, speaking, reading and writing assignments both in class and through their homework. They will also take a multi-part cumulative assessment at the end of each unit that allows them to use the grammatical structures and vocabulary words from each unit in a series of reading, writing, listening, and speaking prompts. Each unit also includes a cultural exploration of several Spanish-speaking countries and there is a cultural component to the unit test. At this level, students will continue to write using complex multi-clause sentences and begin to compose longer written work that contains multiple paragraphs. Students will work to finesse their writing so that they can more easily use a wide array of verbs and verb tenses to express themselves.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Continue to gain confidence in various verb tenses such as the present, present progressive, preterito, and imperfecto
Learn and further practice the recent past, future, conditional, subjunctive, imperative, and pluperfect tenses
Take a closer look at reflexive verbs, direct and indirect object pronouns as well as some relative pronouns and adverbs
Begin working on “if/then” sentences
Work on the differences between por and para
Learn how to give advice and suggestions
The course aims to improve reading and listening comprehension, speaking and writing ability, and cultural competency. Upon completion, students should be able to communicate at Intermediate Low to Intermediate Mid (working towards Intermediate High).