AP® Spanish Literature and Culture: Overview of Course and Exam Revisions
Section Number of Questions
Percent of Final Score Time
Section I: Multiple Choice 50% Approx. 80 minutes
Part A Interpretive Listening 15 questions 10% Approx. 20 minutes
Part B Reading Analysis 50 questions 40% 60 minutes
Section II: Free Response 50% 100 minutes
Short Answer: Text Explication 1 prompt
15%
Recommended time: 15 minutes
Short Answer: Text and Art Comparison 1 prompt Recommended time: 15 minutes
Essay: Analysis of Single Text 1 prompt
35%
Recommended time: 35 minutes
Essay: Text Comparison 1 prompt Recommended time: 35 minutes
2013 Exam Items
Key Revisions to the Exam Listening questions (comprehension and
interpretation) in the multiple-choice section • Interview with an author• Brief poem, recited twice• Brief presentation on a literary topic
Comparative reading exercise in the multiple-choice section• One excerpt from reading list plus one
excerpt not from reading list, related by theme
The critical commentary will be moved from the free-response to the multiple-choice section, as a reading analysis exercise.
Key Revisions to the Exam Text and art comparison short-answer exercise
(approx. 15 min. writing) in the free-response section In both sections, students will be asked to relate
texts from the reading list to genres and periods/movements.
In both sections, students will still be analyzing the development of themes and the effect of various rhetorical/stylistic features, but they will also be asked to relate texts from the reading list to various contexts (e.g., literary, historical, socioeconomic).
The Revised Reading List: Activity pg 2 The following activity is designed to introduce you
to the revised required reading list and help you consider how to use the six featured course themes
to:– a) Make connections between the various works on the
required reading list.
– b) Introduce materials that will help students understand the larger context in which the works were created and make interdisciplinary connections.
– c) Facilitate the incorporation of other art forms such as painting, photography, cinema and music into the teaching of literature.
ACTIVITY
The New Curriculum Framework Temas del Curso
The New Curriculum Framework Course Themes
Themes and Contexts: Full list starts on p. 154 in the workshop handbook
Themes and Contexts (cont’d)
The New Curriculum Framework: Example
Theme– Las sociedades en contacto
Organizing Concept– Las divisiones socioeconómicas
Pieces from the Required Reading List– Anónimo, Lazarillo de Tormes– Márquez, La siesta del martes
Essential Question– ¿Cómo se representan en obras literarias de distintos
periodos y diversas culturas las relaciones entre grupos socioculturales (clases sociales, grupos étnicos, etc.?
Activity (pg 11) : 1. Working with a partner, pick a theme and
an organizing concept. 2. Choose two pieces from the required
reading list that you consider very different 3. What “essential question” could engage
and motivate learners in exploring both texts? 4. What activity or supporting material
could you introduce to help students make interdisciplinary connections?
5. Brainstorm example
Understanding the Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
The student analyzes the relationship between products (both tangible and intangible) and perspectives of target cultures as manifested in target language texts.
The student relates texts to produce and perspectives found in a variety of media from the target cultures.
The student analyzes the relationships between practices and perspectives of target cultures as manifested in target language texts.
The student relates texts to practices and perspectives found in a variety of media from the target cultures.
The student analyzes the role of personal assumptions and cultural beliefs in the interpretation of target language texts.
Learning Objectives
The student uses a variety of vocabulary appropriate to literary analysis.
The student uses a variety of grammatical and syntactic structures.
The student produces comprehensible written work by observing writing conventions of the target language.
The student uses pronunciation that is comprehensible to the audience in oral communications.
The student self-monitors and adjusts language production in oral and written communications.
Achievement Level DescriptionsExample: Presentational Communication
integrates specific, well-chosen textual examples into presentations,
including references to
secondary texts and brief
discussions of historical and
cultural contexts
integrates specific, well-chosen textual examples into presentations,
including references to
secondary texts and brief
discussions of historical and
cultural contexts
5
cites and discusses
appropriate textual examples; refers to selected secondary texts and places texts in their historical
and cultural contexts
cites and discusses
appropriate textual examples; refers to selected secondary texts and places texts in their historical
and cultural contexts
4
elaborates on main points and
supports observations by citing examples,
but these examples may not always be well described
elaborates on main points and
supports observations by citing examples,
but these examples may not always be well described
3
presents main points and some details about the topic, but mostly summarizes plot and is unable to
support an argument with
textual examples
presents main points and some details about the topic, but mostly summarizes plot and is unable to
support an argument with
textual examples
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Literary Terminology Described on pp. 23-24 of the Curriculum
Framework– (pg 135 in Handbook)
List designed to show range of terms used in the AP course that would be “fair game” for the AP exam.
Organized in groups within each Achievement Level: 1) general terms2) terms that relate to narrative genres3) terms that relate to poetic genres4) terms that relate to dramatic genres5) rhetorical figures6) literary historical terms
The New Curriculum Framework:Literary Terminology
General: género: narrativa, poesía, drama, ensayo; ambiente, argumento, ficción, figura retórica, héroe, imagen, lector, personaje, protagonista, público, suspenso, tema
Narrativa: autor, narrador, cuento, novela; prosa
Poesía: poema, poeta, voz poética; verso, estrofa; ritmo, métrica: rima consonante, rima asonante
Drama: acto, escena, escenario; comedia, tragedia; diálogo, monólogo; teatro
Figuras retóricas: metáfora, símil; aliteración, hipérbole, onomatopeya, personificación
Progression of Literary Terms (basic to advanced)
BASICBASIC
General: ambigüedad, analogía, antagonista, antihéroe, arquetipo, atmósfera, carpe diem, desenlace, fábula, in medias res, ironía, memento mori, símbolo, tono, trama
Narrativa: crónica, flashback, fluir de conciencia, narrador omnisciente, narrodor limitado o narrativa en primera persona, prefiguración, punto de vista o perspectiva
Poesía: heptasílabo, octosílabo, endecasilabo, alejandrino; arte menor, arte mayor; encabalgamiento, estribillo, lírica, poema épico, redondilla, romance, sinalefa, soneto, verso agudo, verso esdrújulo, verso llano
Drama: acción dramática: exposición, nudo o climax, desenlace; acotaciones, aparte, comedia del Siglo de Oro, dramaturgo, teatro del absurdo
Figuras retóricas: anáfora, antítesis, apóstrofe, circunlocución o perifrasis, elipsis, enumeración, eufemismo, gradación, hipérbaton
Historia literaria: Barroco, Boom, colonial, Edad Media (medieval), Generación del 98, libro de caballerías, modernismo, naturalismo, novela picaresca, pícaro, realismo, realismo mágico, Renacimiento, romanticismo, Siglo de Oro
INTERMEDIATE
INTERMEDIATE
General: alegoría, apología, caricatura, cromatismo o simbolismo cromático, desdoblamiento, leitmotivo, meta- (e.g., metaficción, metateatro), parodia, sátira
Narrativa: narrativa epistolar, narrador fidedigno, narrador no fidedigno, narrador testigo, narratario, parábola
Poesía: diéresis, hiato, sinéresis; verso blanco o suelto, verso libre; cesura, hemistiquio; polifonía, polimetría; silva
Drama: anagnórisis, catarsis, falla trágica, ironía dramática, pathos, tres unidades
Figuras retóricas: asíndeton, cacofonía, epíteto, metonimia, paradoja, polisíndeton, sinécdoque, sinestesia, retruécano
Historia literaria: conceptismo, culteranismo, costumbrismo, existencialismo, neoclasicismo, postmodernismo, surrealismo, vanguardia
ADVANCED
ADVANCED
AP Spanish® Literature and Culture Exam
SectionNo. of
Questions
Percent of
Final Score Time
Section I: Multiple Choice 50%Approx. 80
min.
Part A
Interpretive Listening 15 questions 10% Approx. 20 min.
Part B
Reading Analysis 50 questions 40% Approx. 60 min.
Section II: Free Response 50% 100 minutes
Short Answer: Text Explanation 1 prompt 7.5%Suggested time:
15 min.
Short Answer: Text and Art Comparison
1 prompt 7.5%Suggested time:
15 min.
Essay: Analysis of Single Text 1 prompt 17.5%Suggested time:
35 min.
Essay: Text Comparison 1 prompt 17.5%Suggested time:
35 min.
4 Formative Assessment Models: Audio and Video LINKS
Model of Formative Assessment: Focus on Using Art and Audiovisual Materials
http://vimeo.com/1456206
www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/galeria-on-line/galeria-on-line/obra/felipe-iv-a-caballo/
http://www.juntadeandalucia.es/cultura/museos/MBASE/index.jsp?redirect=S2_3_1_1.jsp&idpieza=7&pagina=4
Model of Formative Assessment: Focus on Listening Comprehension
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/misc/newsid_4990000/4990336.stm
Model of Formative Assessment: Focus on Listening Comprehension: Listening to Poetry
http://tinyurl.com/baladagm
http://youtu.be/_4PqwsBakJI
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