French/Spanish Literature and Civilization 2

The Literature and Civilization 2 language course offers students with a high level of proficiency in French/Spanish, either as a heritage language, or gained through schooling in the target language, the opportunity to continue their language learning for a second year exploring different content with the same linguistic targets. Students continue to engage in a variety of informal and formal conversations on topics of personal, community and global interest. They build their language skills, narrating and describing in the major time frames of past, present, and future, combining and linking sentences into connected discourse of paragraph length with sufficient accuracy, control and clarity to convey their intended message. This course continues to explore a variety of authentic literary texts from the target cultures, including, but not limited to novels, poetry, newspaper articles, etc. 

Students can converse comfortably with others from French/Hispanic cultures in familiar and some unfamiliar situations and show some understanding of cultural differences. They can also demonstrate awareness of subtle differences among cultural behaviors and adjust their behavior accordingly in familiar and some unfamiliar situations.