This final unit explores how global phenomena, from communication to the natural world to history and policy, shape the lives of Spanish-speaking communities and what role individuals play in responding to them.
The College Board's recommended instructional contexts for this theme.
Core Context
Global Communication · Comunicación global
How information and ideas move across borders and connect distant communities.
Core Context
Natural World · La naturaleza
Environmental issues and how communities relate to and are affected by the natural world.
Core Context
History · Historia
How past events continue to shape present-day communities and identity.
Core Context
Policy and Planning · Normativa y planificación
Laws, regulations, and long-term planning that address complex, shared challenges.
Core Context
Transportation · Transporte
How people and goods move within and across countries, and its effect on communities.
About Unit 6
Unit 6, Los contextos globales (Global Contexts), is the course's final unit. It asks how global phenomena affect Spanish-speaking communities, what role individuals play in responding to those phenomena, and how complex issues affect a society's culture. Sources in this unit use more sophisticated vocabulary and sentence structure than earlier units, reflecting the increasingly complex issues under discussion.
Because the exam is not weighted by unit, Unit 6's content is tested throughout the year rather than on one exam day. This unit synthesizes ideas from across the entire course, environmental and policy issues connect to Unit 4's technology contexts, while history and communication tie back to Units 1 and 2.
Unit 6 applies the 3 P's framework to global issues:
Product
An environmental policy, a historical monument, a public transportation system
Practice
Participating in a community recycling program, commemorating a historical event
Perspective
What a community believes its responsibility is toward global challenges