AP* SPANISH LITERATURE
Marcela Holland
history
Marcela holds a BA Degree in Spanish and Microbiology from the University of California, at Berkeley. She also received a California Secondary teaching Credential and post graduate work from UC. She has been a participant in the Science teaching program of the Lawrence Berkeley Lab and the Language teaching program at Hayward State College. Marcela has been an AP* Biology and AP* Spanish Language/Literature teacher for more than twenty years. She has been a reader for both the AP* Language and Literature Exams for many years. Marcela has been an AP* consultant for the Western Regional Office for the past fifteen years and has been a presenter for the College Board sponsored seminars in the western region of the United States. She has been a presenter and program director of the Stanford AP* Spanish Seminars for the past eighteen years and the Bellevue, Washington AP* Seminars for the past three years. She is currently teaching at Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, Ca. and has been a Department chair, Mentor teacher, and AP* teacher during the past twenty-five years, with the Mt. Diablo School District.
Marcela would bring to you a wealth of experiences after teaching Advanced Placement Program* courses for many years, by sharing her expertise, you will have the opportunity to learn how to build a successful Advanced Placement Program* and further enhance your current teaching practices and strategies.
She has always maintained the philosophy that every student is capable of participating in an Advanced Placement Program* and the benefits and rewards for both teacher and student are immeasurable.
contact
You can e-mail Marcela at
marcelah1@home.com
session outline
DAY 1
- Introduction to the New AP* Spanish Literature program:
Course description and teaching materials
Designing a course Syllabus and a model lesson plan
Overview of the new AP* Literature Exam
Mock readings of the essays from the 2008 AP* Lit exam
DAYS 2-3
- La edad media: caracterílsticas de la época
- Estudio del romancero: los romances anónimos de la lista de AP*
- Siglo de Oro: El renacimiento y el Barroco: características de la época
- Poesía: Garcilaso, Góngora, Quevedo y Sor Juana (estudio de los poemas que aparecen en la lista de AP* Literatura)
- Narrativa:
- "El Lazarrillo de Tormes" anónimo
- "El Quijote" de Cervantes
DAY 4
- El siglo XIX: Romanticismo, Naturalismo y Modernismo
Características generales de estos movimientos literarios
- Poesía
- Bécquer "Volverán las oscuras golondrinas"
- Martí "Dos patrias"
- Espronceda "Canción del Pirata"
- Darío "Lo fatal"
- Narrativa:
- Pardo Bazán "Las medias rojas"
- Ricardo Palma "El alacrán de Fray Gómez"
DAYS 5-6
- Siglo XX: Post-modernismo, Vanguardismo y el "Boom" en Latinoamérica
- Características generales de estos movimientos literarios
- Poesía
- Neruda "Me gusta cuando callas"
- Storni "Tú me quieres blanca"
- Guillén "Balada de los dos abuelos"
- Lorca "El romance sonámbulo"
- Narrativa:
- Unamuno "San Manuel Bueno, mártir"
- Martín Gaite "Las ataduras"
- Un estudio paralelo entre Borges "El Sur" y Cortázar "La noche boca arriba"
- Un estudio de los temas de la realidad y la fantasía usando las siguientes obras:
- Márquez "El ahogado más hermoso del mundo"
- Ulibarrí "Mi caballo mago"
- Fuentes "Chac Mool"
For students taking the class for university credit: Participants will write a unit-lesson teaching one literary theme across genres and literary periods, using two or three works from the AP* Spanish Literature list.
NOTA: SE RECOMIENDA QUE LEAN ESTAS OBRAS ANTES DEL SEMINARIO PARA FACILITAR LA DISCUSION
