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Advanced Placement Spanish Essay

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Advanced Placement Spanish, also known as A.P Spanish, is a college level, high school course. It is taught by Mr. Andrew Drenth, one of the best teachers in Leon M Goldstein High School. Although the objective of this class it to take, and pass, the Advanced Placement Spanish test, it also works on students Spanish speaking, writing, and listening skills. The beginning of the year consists of general review of the conjugation of verbs, -ar, -er, -ir, past, present, future, stem-changing, along with a review of pronouns and differences between el and la. The second half of the class, for the most part, focuses on the exam itself and dissecting questions from the exam to prepare the students. Overall, the class helps build ones understanding …show more content…

Students should be able to quickly conjugate stem changing verbs without confusing them with standard -ir verbs in the past. The activity will start with a do now, in this do now, students will be asked to conjugate standard -ir verbs, such as vivir (to live). This activity will help students remember the proper conjugations to these verbs in the standard form, to prepare them for when the verb conjugations become more complex. Students will be given 5 minutes to conjugate the words escribir (to write), permitir (to permit), subir (to climb), and vivir (to live), and use each in a sentence. Students will be called on randomly to ensure that everyone was doing the do now and not using the time to do something that was not related to Spanish. The next activity would be to teach students the regular verb endings in the past tense, so using the word vivir, the teacher will show how vivir is translated in the past tense in all 6 of its forms. The teacher will show this first with a chart that only shows the endings, with another chart that shows vivir with its conjugations in a different

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