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AP Spanish Literature Reading List
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| | Criteria Guiding the Development of the List
The required reading list replaces earlier versions and was prepared by the Development Committee using the following criteria: - The list should acquaint students with works representative of different historical periods, different literary movements and genres, different geographic areas, female and male authors, and diverse population groups within the Spanish-speaking world.
- Works should be of historical and literary significance.
- Works should be accessible and of interest to students.
- Works should lend themselves to analysis and discussion. There should be a certain amount of thematic overlap between works.
- Works should lend themselves to the development of successful AP Exam questions.
- The list should reflect the need for the AP Spanish Literature course to correspond to curricula in colleges and universities.
The list should meet the practical needs of AP teachers: - The works themselves, as well as appropriate criticism on them, must be readily available. The works should appear in well-known and easily accessible anthologies.
- The works, like the list itself, must be of a reasonable length.
- As many as possible of the five prescribed authors on the previous list will be represented on the new list. (In fact, works by four of the five appear: Jorge Luis Borges, Federico GarcÍa Lorca, Gabriel García Márquez, and Miguel de Unamuno.)
Expectations
Students should read authentic editions (abridged or translated versions are not appropriate) of all the works on this list, except where choice is indicated. The AP Spanish Literature Exam contains specific questions on works from the list, and students should be familiar with all of them.
The list below organizes the readings by period and author, but, of course, the works need not be presented in this particular order. The list was designed to lend itself to curricula structured to highlight theme, genre, and other aspects of the works, and there is no prescribed order for teaching them.
 AP Spanish Literature Reading List: Medieval and Golden Age
AP Spanish Literature Reading List: The Nineteenth Century
AP Spanish Literature Reading List: The Twentieth Century
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