Canary Islands PAU Spanish Language and Literature II / Lengua Castellana y Literatura II study plan

Canary Islands PAU Spanish Language and Literature II / Lengua Castellana y Literatura II · Give each week a clear focus.

8 weeks · About 7 hours per week

Week 1

Literature: literary movements, authors, and works from the 19th to 21st centuries & Text commentary: structure, theme, and typology (comentario de texto)

Map the 19th-century Spanish literary timeline (Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism) onto a single dated sheet, placing at least eight authors and one representative work each.
Summarize in 120 words the defining features of each of the three movements, naming at least three formal or thematic traits per movement.
Read one short Romantic poem and one Realist fragment, and annotate in each text three features that justify its movement label.
Write a five-sentence commentary paragraph that links a text extract to its movement without retelling the plot.

A one-page dated literary timeline plus a 250-word comparative note on Romanticism vs. Realism using two specific texts.

Week 2

Outline the Generation of '98 and Modernism (Rubén Darío, Antonio Machado, Unamuno) with three distinguishing traits each and at least two authors per current.
Classify twenty words drawn from the week's readings by word-formation process (derivation, composition, parasynthesis) and state the base lexeme for each.
Identify the syntactic function of ten underlined-style phrases you extract yourself from the readings, labelling subject, direct object, and adjunct types.
Explain the difference between denotation and connotation using three examples taken from literary texts rather than invented sentences.

A lexicon-syntax worksheet of twenty analysed items with a short key, self-corrected against a reference grammar.

Week 3

Chart the Generation of '27 (Lorca, Alberti, Guillén, Salinas, Cernuda) with two works per author and one shared aesthetic principle.
Summarize three opinion or expository articles of 400-600 words each in exactly 80 words apiece, keeping the thesis and dropping examples.
Identify the thesis sentence and the argumentative structure (deductive, inductive, or mixed) in each of those three articles.
Draft five comprehension questions of your own on one article and answer them in a single sentence each.

Three 80-word summaries with thesis sentence underlined and a one-line structural diagnosis for each text.

Week 4

Cover post-war narrative and poetry (Cela, Delibes, Sánchez Ferlosio, social poetry) with a dated outline and three thematic constants.
Produce a full text commentary of 500-700 words on an unseen 300-word text, separating summary, structure, theme, and typology into labelled sections.
Justify the text typology (narrative, expository, argumentative, descriptive) with two textual markers per label rather than by impression.
Locate and name the internal structure of the text (introduction, development, conclusion) with line references.

One complete 600-word commentary on an unseen text, structured in four labelled parts, written under a 60-minute timer.

Week 5

Read the prescribed work once for plot and once for structure, noting the narrative voice, time handling, and space in a two-column log.
Draft a thesis statement of one sentence that answers a likely essay prompt about the prescribed work, then list three textual proofs.
Write a 400-word essay on the prescribed work that quotes at least three short passages and integrates them grammatically.
Compare the prescribed work with one other author from the same period in 150 words, naming one shared and one divergent feature.

A 400-word argumentative essay on the prescribed reading with three embedded quotations and a works-cited line.

Week 6

Extend the timeline to the 21st century (contemporary narrative, memory literature, women authors) with five names and one work each.
Write a second 400-word essay on the prescribed work from a different angle (character, symbolism, or social context) and self-mark it against a four-criterion rubric.
Comment on a second unseen text of a different typology (argumentative) in 500 words, keeping summary under 25% of the total.
Revise both essays to remove plot summary, ensuring every paragraph opens with a claim rather than a fact.

Two revised essays on the prescribed work, each with a self-assessment rubric score and a list of edits made.

Week 7

Drill morphology and syntax by analysing thirty items from past-style texts: word class, formation, and syntactic function, with error tally.
Summarize four texts of varied typology in 70-90 words each, timing yourself at eight minutes per summary.
Explain five semantic relations (synonymy, antonymy, polysemy, homonymy, hypernymy) using examples drawn from the texts you summarized.
Write a 300-word commentary on one of those texts that names typology, structure, and theme in the first paragraph.

An error log of thirty linguistic items showing recurring mistake types, plus four timed summaries.

Week 8

Sit two full mock exams under time (commentary, linguistic questions, literature, and essay) and score each section against the domain weightings.
Rewrite the weakest section of each mock, targeting at least a 20% improvement in marks on that section.
Recite from memory a one-line definition and one example for each literary period from Romanticism to the 21st century.
Compile a one-page personal checklist of the five errors that cost you most marks across the eight weeks.

Two scored mock exams with a rewritten weak section and a one-page final error checklist.

Week 2: Can place any 19th-century author on the timeline and justify the movement with three traits, without notes.

Week 4: Complete a 600-word four-part commentary on an unseen text in 60 minutes, with summary under 25% of the word count.

Week 6: Two essays on the prescribed work exist, each with a clear thesis, three quotations, and no extended plot retelling.

Week 8: Two timed mock exams scored by section, with the weakest section rewritten and measurable improvement shown.