Marcela Holland

Marcela holds a BA. Degree in Spanish and Microbiology, a California Secondary Teaching credential, and post graduate work from the University of California at Berkeley. She has been a participant in the Science teaching program of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, the Language teaching program at Hayward State College, and the California Foreign Language Project at Stanford University. Marcela has been an AP* Biology and AP* Spanish Language/Literature teacher for more than twenty years. She has been an AP* Consultant for the College Board* Western Regional Office for more than a decade and has conducting seminars sponsored by the College Board* in the Western region of the United States. Marcela has been a reader for the AP* Spanish Language and Literature examinations since 1986. She has conducted numerous teacher training seminars for FLANC (Foreign Language association of Northern California), California Foreign Language Association for the state of California and SWESTCOLT association in the southwestern 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 six years, and the AP* Summer Institute by the Sea in Palos Verdes, CA for the past five years.

Marcela is a former teacher from Northgate High School in Walnut Creek, Ca. and has been a Department chair, Mentor teacher, and AP* teacher during the past thirty years, with the Mt. Diablo School District. She is currently teaching at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill, Ca.

Marcela would bring to you a wealth of experiences after teaching Advanced Placement* courses for many years, by sharing her expertise, you will have the opportunity to learn how to build a successful AP* 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 AP* program and the benefits and rewards for both teacher and student are immeasurable.

DAY 1-2

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 2010 AP* Lit exam

Una unidad de poesia, analizar el poema del examen de 2008, la pregunta#3 de 2006, el poema de 2007

DAYS 3-4

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

El siglo XIX: Romanticismo, Naturalismo y Modernismo
Características generales de estos movimientos literarios

Poesía: Bécquer, Darío, Martí Neruda

Narrativa: Pardo Bazán "Las medias rojas" (un estudio detallado)

Siglo XX: Post-modernismo, Vanguardismo y el "Boom" en Latinoamérica

Características generales de estos movimientos literarios

Poesía

Storni "Tú me quieres blanca"

Guillén "Balada de los dos abuelos"

Lorca "El romance sonámbulo"

El cuento en latinoamérica: Juan Rulfo, Borges y Cortázar (estudio de los cuentos que aparecen en la lista)

Narrativa peninsular: Unamuno "San Manuel Bueno, mártir"

A practical session on best teaching practices for reading, writing and reviewing literary works of poetry, short stories, and novels. ( This a sharing and reviewing session) Bring a sample of your “best practice teaching method” of any work from the AP* required reading list.

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

NOTA IMPORTANTE PARA LOS PROFESORES CON EXPERIENCIA: POR FAVOR DE ESCOJER UNA DE LAS OBRAS QUE ESTAN EN ESTE HORARIO, Y TRAER ACTIVIDADES QUE PUEDAN COMPARTIR CON LA CLASE.