AP Spanish Literature: Curricular Requirements

• The teacher has read the most recent AP Spanish Course Description.
• The course is structured to allow students to complete the entire AP Spanish Literature reading list, published in the AP Spanish Course Description. Abridged versions or films are not appropriate in place of the text.
• The teachers uses Spanish almost exclusively in class and encourages students to do likewise.
• The course teaches students the techniques of literary analysis and a basic vocabulary of critical terms.
• The course provides students with the opportunity to read, to discuss, and to analyze critically in Spanish representative works of Peninsular and Latin American literature through class discussion and essay writing.
• The curriculum includes representative works of prose, poetry, and drama from different periods with a consideration of their cultural context.

Resource Requirements

• The school ensures that each student has a copy of the works being read, for individual use inside and outside of the classroom.
• The school ensures that students have access to a school or public library that includes works of prose, poetry, fiction, and drama by a wide range of Peninsular and Latin American authors.