Slovakia Gymnasium Curriculum - Slovak Language and Literature

This curriculum outlines the Slovak Language and Literature course for Gymnasium, focusing on developing students' cognitive and communicative abilities. The curriculum integrates language and literature, emphasizing active learning and critical thinking. It encourages students to explore cultural diversity and develop tolerance through understanding the significance of language and literature.

I. Language Component

The language component focuses on Slovak language as a tool for thinking and communication. It emphasizes analysis and interpretation of various texts, as well as creating original texts appropriate for specific communicative situations. The curriculum promotes active learning through various methods like communicative-experiential learning, project-based learning, and cooperative learning. Students are encouraged to utilize both traditional and virtual libraries, as well as online resources.

Key Competencies:

• Cognitive Competencies: Using cognitive operations, critical thinking, formulating and solving problems, creative thinking.
• Communicative Competencies: Creating, receiving, and processing information; searching for and mediating information; formulating opinions and arguments; expressing thoughts and feelings verbally and nonverbally.
• Interpersonal Competencies: Accepting group values, tolerating individual and group differences, empathizing with others.
• Intrapersonal Competencies: Creating and reflecting on one's identity, developing a personal value system, regulating one's behavior.

Content Standards: Cover various aspects of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, stylistics, and language history. Specific topics include:

• Sound and graphic form of language, orthography
• Lexical and semantic levels of language
• Morphological levels of language
• Syntactic levels of language
• Stylistics and rhetoric
• Linguistics and language history
• Learning and working with information
• Communication and language culture

II. Literature Component

The literature component aims to develop reading and interpretation skills for understanding human relationships and fostering aesthetic sensibility. The curriculum emphasizes the development of reading as a tool for comprehensive understanding of literary texts. It focuses on progressing through different phases of reading: reading comprehension (analysis, synthesis, interpretation), meta-interpretation, and individual evaluation of literary works.

Key Competencies:

• Reading Technique and Public Presentation: Fluent reading, proper articulation, expressive recitation, dramatic reading.
• Knowledge, Classification, and Application: Reproducing facts and definitions, classifying literary phenomena, applying literary knowledge.
• Analytical and Interpretive Competencies: Generalizing literary phenomena, analyzing texts, interpreting literary works, evaluating works.
• Creative Competencies: Paraphrasing, transforming texts, creating literary texts.
• Information Skills: Utilizing library resources, working with information systems.

Content Standards: Cover various aspects of literature including:

• General literary concepts
• Literary periods and movements
• Literary genres and poetic forms
• Structure of literary works
• Stylistic devices
• Metrics
• Authors and canonical literary works (Slovak and World Literature)

This curriculum provides a framework for teachers to adapt and develop based on the specific needs and abilities of their students. The emphasis on active learning and critical thinking aims to equip students with the necessary skills for appreciating and understanding Slovak language and literature in a comprehensive manner.