The student reflects on their Spanish III course, discussing what they learned in each unit over the year about Spanish culture, travel, art, and future plans. They enjoyed giving directions and a project on Salvador Dali. Verb tenses, especially future and subjunctive, were challenging. While they may continue Spanish next year, they likely will not take advanced levels like Spanish V or AP due to not planning to use Spanish for their career.

1. Final Course Reflection
In the last quarter of Spanish III, we have learned quite a lot about Spanish
culture, and how to travel. In Tema 5, we learned about the cultural arts, such as plays
and musical productions. Moving on, in Tema 6, we began to learn how to give
directions, along with our lesson on giving a command, which had great influence on
this topic. Then, in Tema 7, we learned different mediums of transportation dealing with
taking trips, as well as the basic future tense, which allowed us to focus on trips that we
will take in the future. Finally, in Tema 8, we learned many more future tenses, and our
vocabulary dealt with professions for the future, and current world issues, such as
global warming, animals that are in danger of extinction, etc. We also learned the
subjunctive tense, which deals with uncertainty; that something could happen.
Overall, I feel like I can elaborate on a broad range of subjects in Spanish. After
the lessons we learned over the year, I feel that I can identify different types of art and
architecture, and I can express my emotions about the piece. I can definitely give
directions from one place to another, but I can also name different places in a city. I can
talk about the different forms of travel. Finally, I feel that I can express what field of
study I want to go into, and the different environmental hazards.
I believe what I enjoyed most was the directions unit, where we had many
activities dealing with giving directions from Point A to Point B. While I disliked the

2. Probably my favorite other time of the year was when we were doing our Famous
Artist projects. My artist was Salvador Dalí, and it was just so entertaining to look up
how surreal his art was, and how crazy he was. The project only helped boost my
stance on surrealistic art, and I particularly enjoyed being able to do my own work in
tribute to Dalí.
Some things that I have had trouble with, and that I plan to improve on, are verb
tenses, particularly all the future verb tenses. Now, usually, I am good at knowing which
verb tense to use for a particular situation. This began to change when we learned
about the split between the preterite tense and imperfect tense when conjugating verbs
in past tense, based on whether the action is completed, or was an on-going action.
From there, commands were fairly easy, and basic future tense was also pretty easy.
However, as soon as tense such as conditional, future perfect, and conditional perfect
began popping up, it became very difficult to remember what each tense meant, and
what it was used for. Now, don’t even get me started on the subjunctive tense, which is
only used if there is any doubt that a certain action will occur. Overall, I think this is
where I have the most problems, and I plan to study them more vigorously in the future.
I am continuing Spanish next year, but it might be my last year of Spanish. It’s
common knowledge that colleges like students who have taken numerous years of
Spanish, and although I know that the minimum course required for most colleges is

3. on to Spanish V, because that will be where it gets really advanced, and while I’m
confident that I could handle advanced material, I feel that this is the cut-off point for
anyone who probably won’t be using Spanish in their lives, such as for a job. If I do go
on to Spanish V, that will definitely be it for me; there’s no way I could go on to AP
Spanish, since I believe that is pretty much for those who are determined to translators
and foreign relations workers. I will still remember everything that I have learned in
Spanish, and I certainly do not regret signing up for it last year.