PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DIVISION PRIMARY SPANISH SYLLABUS DRAFT INFANTS – STANDARD 5 1 Syllabus Overview STATEMENT OF BELIEFS Our geographical location‚ gateway to the Spanish-speaking Americas‚ and current regional and international economic trends and their implications for Trinidad and Tobago‚ create an imperative for strengthening and deepening the national capability in Spanish at all levels and has given rise to the declaration of Spanish as the First Foreign language of Trinidad
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Unit 1: The Foundation of the Spanish‚ French‚ Dutch and English Colonies in North America * Initial Contact (Spanish) * The French and Dutch Colonies * The English Colonies Part I: Initial Contact (Spanish) #1: Who were the earliest inhabitants of the Americas? * About 14‚000 years ago (12‚000 BCE)‚ people started to migrate across BERINGIA to Americas * By 8‚000 BCE‚ they reached to Tierra del Fuego * 3 waves came from Asia‚ 1 from Polynesia
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particularly interesting. In a Brazilian context‚ the growth and progression throughout the periods leading up to‚ and following‚ independence prove to be some of the most crucial in regards to reformation throughout the country. The arrival of the Portuguese Court in 1807 brought a speedy modernization unlike that of Brazil’s other Latin American counterparts. Due to European immigration‚ within just a few years the city had boomed into an economic center‚ with social expansion and cultural changes
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The poem "South" repossesses ideas of African heritage through the hybridity that "occur[s] in post-colonial societies both as a result of conscious moments of cultural suppression‚ as when the colonial power[s] [...] dispossess indigenous peoples and force them to assimilate to new social patterns" (Ashcroft‚ et al. 183). Hybridity is the force behind repossession in "South‚" and Brathwaite plays up what must remain from a hybrid (or colonized) identity. The poem reads‚ "But today I recapture the
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The Spanish Empire I. The Conquistadors A. Hernando Cortés (1485-1547) 1. All of the New World was Spain’s‚ except Brazil (ignoring English claims). Cristobo Columbo and his brother had established a handful of small colonies (including Cuba)‚ but in the first 15 years or so of the 16th Century Spain didn’t control much territory; this would soon change. 2. In 1519‚ Hernando Cortés landed in Mexico at Vera Cruz (which he founded). He had 600 men. His orders were to establish a colony;
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Salvadorian Spanish Spanish is spoken in different countries around the world. In every region there is a dialect from the main language. Here we are to explain a bit about the Spanish spoken in the Central American county of El Salvador. Salvadoran Spanish is geographically defined as the form of Spanish spoken in the country of El Salvador in Central America. El Salvador is the only country in North and Central America to use the term Castellano or Castilian as oppose to Spanish or Español
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The Spanish government in fact created a settlement system known as the encomienda in which large grants of land were dispersed together with the right to enslave and work the Indians within the territory. This obviously created tension between the natives and the Spanish which later then caused the killings of millions of Indians. The French realized early after the failed Spanish colonization that peaceful relations with the Indians was more productive. Spanish priests made halfhearted
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Todorov’s The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other. -- Tzvetan Todorov was born in Stalinist Bulgaria and came to France in the early 1960s. His personal experience of the internal “otherness” which Julia Kristeva describes as “strangers to ourselves”‚ lead him to explore the American encounter which was a “unique event in the history of humanity” in that two continents‚ which had been oblivious to each other’s existence‚ came into a sudden and violent contact. In his The Conquest of America
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the late 15th century when Spain entered South America . They were taking over it turned into a virtual dictatorship. Since other countries were rebelling to be free South America wanted to do something. So somebody had to stand up. Since Simon was born in Venezuela he liberated them first. When Simon was young he was living under a dictatorship and wanted to be free. So he took a stand to liberate South America. Three way Simon Bolivar liberated South America by gaining support from allies‚ drafting
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1492: Conquest of Paradise is a movie directed by Ridley Scott and it was released in 1992. The main character Christopher Columbus was played by Gerard Depardieu and the movie was about his attempt to find a way to go to India by sailing west. The movie begins with Columbus teaching his son how the earth is round. Then Columbus thinks about the ways to get to India and that the best way was to go west. The people in Salamanca agreed to seeing his proposal all they do is laugh at it and challenge
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