- Loudoun County High School
- Spanish 4 Semester 1 Content
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First Semester: 18 weeks
Quarter 1: (9 weeks)
AP THEME: Contemporary Life
AP SUBTHEMES: Leisure and Sports, Housing and Shelter, Travel
• Explain and discuss camping and ecotourism practices, leisure activities and sports.
•Demonstrate comprehension of authentic audio visual and written texts relating to camping and ecotourism practices, leisure activities and sports.
· Produce oral and written reports on safe camping and ecotourism practices and attitudes.
• Demonstrate the process of preparing a successful and safe camp site, respecting and protecting the environment, using the preterit and the imperfect tenses.
· Express opinions, compare, and offer suggestions for safe camping and ecotourism practices, leisure activities and sports using the present subjunctive with verbs of influence.
AP THEME: Global Challenges
AP SUBTHEME: Environmental Issues
· Discuss and debate important environmental issues.
· Express opinions and react to the role of the individual citizen in the conservation of the environment using the present perfect, and the subjunctive with verbs of emotion and doubt.
· Produce oral and written reports on the conservation of the environment using commands and the subjunctive.
• Demonstrate comprehension of authentic audio visual and written texts relating to important environmental issues.
Quarter 2: (9 weeks)
AP THEME: Beauty and Aesthetics
AP SUBTHEMES: Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Contributions to World Artistic Heritages, Music, Ideals of Beauty, Architecture• Maintain a discussion related to different styles of art, dance, music, architecture and theater.
• Discuss and/or debate personal preference with regard to styles of art and music.
• Express and explain how history has affected art, dance, music, architecture and theater.
• Express opinions and reactions (both oral and written) to a work of art (song, painting, sculpture, etc.)
• Demonstrate comprehension of authentic audio, visual and written texts relating to art, dance, music, architecture and theater.
AP THEME: Global Challenges and Contemporary Life
AP SUBTHEMES: Health Issues, Nutrition and Food Safety, Leisure and Sports
• Discuss and/or debate the benefits/challenges of living a healthy lifestyle.
• Express and explain how to lead a healthy lifestyle and the changes one may have to make with regard to nutrition/exercise.
• Express opinions and react to global health issues, exercise, and the different diets available.
• Demonstrate comprehension of content from authentic audio, visual and written texts relating to health issues and exercise.
• Produce oral and written reports on healthy diets or exercise plans.
• Produce an activity showing an exercise routine using formal commands.