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AP Spanish Literature and Culture

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THE COURSE

  • Includes a required reading list of 38 titles, representing authors and works from Spain and Latin America, as well as Latino authors in the USA from a variety of historical periods, literary movements, and literary genres. Students read the unabridged version of the texts.

  • Integrates the communications, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities goals identified in the standards for foreign language learning in the 21st century.

DEVELOPS

  • Print , audio, and audiovisual interpretive communication skills

  • Written and spoken presentational communication skills

  • Spoken and written interpersonal communication skills

  • Skills in literary analysis

  • Connections between literature and other disciplines

  • Emphasizes using audio texts related to course content

  • Focuses on analyzing literary works in context

  • Provides opportunities for students to relate the readings to literary, historical, sociocultural, and geopolitical contexts

  • Incorporates six themes to establish contextual connections across genres and time. The course may be taught thematically, chronologically, or by genres.

  • Includes the use of media, such as visual, audio, and audiovisual sources

  • Includes an emphasis on students developing the ability to identify and apply literary terms as they read and analyze literature

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WHERE CAN I FIND ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE AP SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE EXAM?

You will find materials for and additional information about the exam at the Exam Information Page on AP Central, including released free-response questions, scoring guidelines, sample scored student responses with scoring commentaries, and statistical information.

HOW MUCH PREVIOUS EXPOSURE TO SPANISH SHOULD STUDENTS HAVE BEFORE TAKING THE AP SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE COURSE?

The course and exam presuppose an average of three to five years of Spanish language instruction at the high school level. Students need to be able to use Spanish to read critically and write analytically.

 

AP Literatura y Cultura Española 

 

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WHAT ARE THE KEY ELEMENTS OF THE AP SPANISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE EXAM?

  • The exam includes a multiple-choice section and a free-response section. Each section contributes 50% of the total exam score.

  • The multiple-choice section contains 65 questions based on a source materials and is divided into two parts. The first part contains 15 questions based on audio sources and assesses student performance in interpretive listening. Students listen to three different audio sources: an interview, a poem, and a presentation on a literary topic, and answer questions about each one. Time is provided for students to preview the questions before listening, and they may take notes as they listen. Students hear the poem twice. The second part includes 50 questions based on a variety of literary texts and assesses student performance in reading analysis.

  • There are four free-response tasks, which are: two short answer tasks (a text explanation and a text and art comparison) and two essay tasks (the analysis of a single text from the required reading list and a comparison of two texts – one from the required list and one that is not).

  • Students are expected to demonstrate that they understand and can explain the literary, historical, sociocultural, and geopolitical contexts of texts on the reading lists as they analyze these literary works.

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