Ms. Luisa Capuccio

+ Provide students with ongoing and varied opportunities to develop proficiency in Spanish across a full range of skills, with emphasis on critical reading and analytical writing.

+ Encourage students to reflect on the many voices and cultures included in a rich and diverse body of literature written in Spanish.

+ As there are fewer selections to read, encourage students to study the required works in more depth.

+ Integrate the three modes of communication (interpersonal, interpretive and presentational).

+ Integrate Communications, Cultures, Connections, Comparisons, and Communities goal areas of the Standards for Foreign Language Learning in the 21st Century.

+ Emphasize contextual analysis, relating the readings to literary, historical, socio-cultural and geopolitical contexts

+ Incorporate media as an aid in teaching Spanish literature, including artistic representations, audio and audiovisual resources

+ Incorporate graphic organizers, and concept maps to enable students to process new information, and organize ideas.

+ Develop proficiency in interpretive listening by providing students with opportunities to hear audio texts related to course content

+ Make contextual connections across genres and time periods.

+ Address the six required themes: Las sociedades en contacto, La construcción del género, El tiempo y el espacio, Las relaciones interpersonales, La dualidad del ser, and La creación literaria.