AP Spanish Literature and Culture

Analysis: Analyze and/or interpret literary texts and audio sources in the target language.

Cultural Context and Connections: Make connections between a literary text and a non-literary text or an aspect of culture.

Comparing Literary Texts: Compare literary texts.

Comparing Texts and Art: Compare a text to artistic representations

Argumentation: Write a literary analysis.

Language and Conventions: Use accurate language and apply appropriate conventions of written language.

Literary Discussions and Presentations: Engage in discussions about literary texts in the target language.

Read/listen to and comprehend literary texts.

Identify the theme in a text.

Identify or describe literary elements, voices, and stylistic features.

Identify perspective, attitude, or tone.

Explain the function and/or the significance of rhetorical, structural, and stylistic features.

Explain implied meanings or inferences.

Explain perspective, attitude, or tone.

Explain the development of a theme in a text.

Connect themes or ideas to characters.

Identify cultural products, practices, or perspectives.

Explain the relationship between cultural products, practices, and perspectives of the target cultures.

Relate target language texts to genres, periods, movements, and techniques.

Situate textual language and registers within historical, social, and geopolitical contexts.

Relate texts to their contexts (literary, historical, sociocultural, geopolitical).

Relate texts to contemporary global issues.

Explain how a text reflect or challenges perceptions of a majority/minority culture.

Describe structural or stylistic similarities and differences in two texts.

Compare cultural products, practices, or perspectives portrayed in two texts.

Identify thematic connections between texts.

Compare the development of a theme in two texts.

Compare the representation of historical events in two texts.

Compare point of view in two texts.

Relate text to practices and practices and perspectives found in a variety of media from the target culture.

Situate text within literary and artistic heritages of the target culture.

Describe how a theme is developed in a work of art.

Present information in a descriptive form.

Create a thesis that states the purpose.

Organize information, concepts, and ideas in presentations with a logical and coherent progression of ideas.

Elaborate and support main points with textual evidence.

Use sources available in the target language to support the interpretation of texts and compare distinct viewpoints.

Incorporate information from secondary sources related to texts in oral and written presentations.

Use authorized reference materials in oral and written presentations (not assessed).

Acknowledge sources and cite them appropriately.

Use a variety of vocabulary appropriate to literary analysis.

Use a variety of grammatical and syntactic structures.

Present and organize information logically.

Produce a comprehensible written work by observing writing conventions of the target language.

Use a variety of literary and critical terminology in oral and written discussions of texts in the target language

Discuss texts and contexts in a variety of interactive oral formats (not assessed).

Discuss texts and contexts in a variety of interactive written formats (not assessed).

Create and deliver oral presentations related to course content in a variety of formats (not assessed).

Share literary texts through activities within and beyond the classroom setting (not assessed).

Share knowledge of literature and culture with communities beyond the classroom setting (not assessed).

Use pronunciation that is comprehensible to the audience in oral communication (not assessed).

Self-monitor and adjust language production in oral and written communication (not assessed).