HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

This page provides a general description of the Spanish and literature program at Colegio Bolivar. This program is centered towards the bilingual reality of the school and bounds itself to the search of a more competitive and comprehensive use of the language in order for it to be used as an aid in the learning of English, the instructional language of the school.

The study of Spanish in High School departs from the appropriate management of the language the students already bring from their primary years and it's practical every day use.

The Spanish program is built around a four end basic communicative axis: talking, listening, writing and reading, from this axis, it is intended that as Spanish language speakers, the students are capable of transmitting their ideas in a clear coherent way and that as students they as receptors, they can decode and rebuild the acquired messages. The last two axis, reading and, constitute a superior stage for the two before them, as they require the speaker higher precision skills and criteria.

In every moment, when speaking or writing, the students must be taken to explore the produced enunciates, acknowledging the functionality and coherence of this and stimulate their correct usage.

Literature will be the base of this axis as it deepens in the different lecture levels that will demonstrate a greater comprehension of the text. This will serve in the formation of students that will find lecture a source of pleasure, happiness, general knowledge of the world they live in and ultimately, a place where they can find themselves. The book will then become an instrument necessary in their daily life, and will develop their analytical and critical capabilities.

The Spanish class will be the space to meditate about reality itself. It will enable students to accept and discuss different points of view in such a way that will let them blend better with their surroundings. The process of development of the four basic communicative abilities will allow students to achieve respect and tolerance towards their peers, society and themselves, and will allow them to recognize the society in which they interact.