AP Spanish Literature

CollegeBoard.com: You can get access to most of the readings on the Internet by using this website.
Nextext: Tomo I: Online workbook and lessons about each of the required readings in the first volume. Also has multiple choice practice vocabulary quizzes.
Nextext: Tomo II: Online workbook and lessons for the second volume, with vocabulary practice quizzes.
Cervantes Virtual: Search for more information about the authors and titles from the required reading list.
Real Academia Espa񯬡: Online dictionary.
Literatura Guatemalteca: Site with well-known writers from Guatemala.
Antolog���Virtual de Literatura: Links to well-known writers across Latin America.
Lazarillo de Tormes: Website with help on the story.
Lazarillo de Tormes Glossary: Website with explanation of difficult phrases from the book. Click on Glosario.
Cervantes Virtual: Listen to the don Quijote.
Centro Virtual Cervantes: The entire book online with help and explanations in the story as you read. Click on Tabla de los contenidos under the first part of the novel.
El Ingenioso Hidalgo.com: Read the story, see comic strip versions, illustrations and drawings of the story, and other links.
Comentarios de Texto: Help understanding more about the 3 sonnets by Garcilaso de la Vega, Luis de Argote y G󮧯ra, and Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas.
Present tense in essaysPower Point.
Alfonsina Storni poems.
Diccionario LiterarioList of literary terms in Spanish with definitions and examples.
Los sacrificios: Information about the Aztecs, and the Guerra Florida. For story "La noche boca arriba".
aztec-history.com: More about the Aztec civilization, and the Flower War. For story "La noche boca arriba".

We'll read the works in chronological order.

Semester 1
Summer Readings
Naufragios, by Alvar N?Cabeza de Vaca. Chapters 12, 20, 21, and 22. Other topics: Conquistadores in Latin America.
El conde Lucanor, "De lo que aconteci󠡠un mancebo que cas󠣯n una mujer muy fuerte y muy brava", by Don Juan Manuel.
El Medioevo: 2 Romances
"Romance del rey moro que perdi󠁬hama" (anonymous writer)
"Romance del conde Arnaldos" (anonymous writer)
El siglo XVI
Lazarillo de Tormes, unknown author. Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 7. Other topics: poverty in Spain and la novela picaresca.
"Soneto XXIII: En tanto que de rosa y azucena," by Garcilaso de la Vega
El siglo XVII
El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes. Required chapters are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8. Other topics: Spanish Inquisition. Images of the Quijote
"Soneto CLXVI: Mientras por competir con tu cabello," by Luis de Argote y G󮧯ra
Two versions of "Salmo XVII: Mir頬os muros de la patria m���" by Francisco de Quevedo y Villegas. Power point analyzing the sonnet
El burlador de Sevilla y convidado de piedra, by Tirso de Molina. Play about Don Juan Tenorio. Other topics: honor and theatre in the 17th century.
Powerpoint of El burlador de Sevilla
"En perseguirme, Mundo, ?qu頩nteresas?," and "Hombres necios que acusᩳ," by Sor Juana de la Cruz
El siglo XIX
"En una tempestad," by Jos頍ar���Heredia
"Vuelva Ud. Ma񡮡," by Mariano Jos頤e Larra
"Canci󮠤el pirata," by Jos頤e Espronceda
"Rima IV: No digᩳ que agotado su tesoro," "Rima XI: Yo soy ardiente, yo soy morena," and "Rima LIII: Volverᮠlas oscuras golondrinas," by Gustavo Adolfo B飱uer
"El alacrᮠde fray G󭥺," by Ricardo Palma. A short story about Fray Gomez's miracles.
"Versos sencillos, I: Yo soy un hombre sincero," and "Dos patrias: Dos patrias tengo yo: Cuba y la noche," by Jos頍art���060;/DD>
"?Adi󳬠Cordera!," by Leopoldo Alas. A short story about two siblings and their cow, Cordera.
Semester 2
El siglo XX
"Soledades, II: He andado muchos caminos," "Galer���, XXV: La primavera besaba," and "Proverbios y cantares, XXIX: Caminante, son tus huellas," by Antonio Machado
"A Roosevelt," "Canci󮠤e oto񯠥n primavera," and "Lo fatal," by Rub鮠Dar���#060;/DD>
"T?quieres blanca," and "Peso ancestral," by Alfonsina Storni
"Las medias rojas," by Emilia Pardo Bazᮮ Short story about a girl who wants to get away from her father.
"Poema 15: Me gustas cuando callas porque est᳠como ausente," "Walking around: Sucede que me canso de ser hombre," and "Oda a la alcachofa," by Pablo Neruda
"El hijo," by Horacio Quiroga. Short story about a father and his son in the rain forest.
"Romance de la luna, luna," "Romance de la pena negra," "La monja gitana," "Prendimiento de Anto񩴯 el Camborio en el camino de Sevilla," "Muerte de Anto񩴯 el Camborio," and "Romance son᭢ulo" by Federico Garc���Lorca
San Manuel Bueno, mᲴir, by Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo.
"Balada de los dos abuelos," and "Sensemayᬦ#034; by Nicol᳠Guill鮦#060;/DD>
La casa de Bernarda Alba, by Federico Garc���Lorca. Play about Bernarda Alba and her daughters. Other topics: Lorca and the Spanish civil war.
"A Julia de Burgos," by Julia de Burgos
"La muerte y la br?" and "El Sur," by Jorge Luis Borges. 2 short stories. Poem by Borjes: "Instantes"
"No oyes ladrar los perros," by Juan Rulfo. Short story about the bitter relationship between a father and his son.
"Chac Mool," by Carlos Fuentes. Short story about the mysterious powers of the ancient Mayan god Chac Mool.
"La noche boca arriba" and "Continuidad de los parques" by Julio Cortạr. 2 short stories.
"Las ataduras", by Carmen Mart���Gaite. Short story about family ties.
"Un d���de 鳴os", "La siesta del martes", "Un se񯲠muy viejo con unas alas enormes", "El ahogado m᳠hermoso del mundo", "La prodigiosa tarde de Baltazar", and "La viuda de Montiel". Stories by Gabriel Garc���MᲱuez.
El delantal blanco, by Sergio Vodanovic. Short play from Chile.
"Mi caballo mago," by Sabine Ulibarr���Short story about a teenager and his horse.
"Autorretrato," by Rosario Castellanos
"Dos palabras," by Isabel Allende. Short story about how a woman earned her living selling words from town to town.
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