Curriculum Map and Pacing: Spanish 1 2014-2015
Welcome Unit: Mis Primeras Palabras
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: How does one initiate conversation with a native-speaker? Can students greet others? Can students pronounce the alphabet? Can students count to 9,999? Can students use the appropriate word for “you?” Can students express the date? Can students differentiate between masculine and feminine words? Can students demonstrate appropriate behavior during basic conversation?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeeks 1-6
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts1. Grade rationale, basic greetings and leave takings, names2. Vowels, dipthongs, and alphabet/Differentiating between
Tú and Usted (formal vs. familiar)3. Masculine vs. feminine/singular articles (voc. List
through word 55)4. Numbers 0-19 and class objects5. Numbers 20-9,999, Dates6. Vocabulary 56-109
*Culture - Besos, Abrazos, Personal Space
Required Texts
My First Words Vocabulary list – Introduce the words in order in logical chunks
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 1: Description, Place of Origin, and Nationalities
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students locate Spanish-speaking countries on a map? Can students talk about their, and others’, nationalities and places of origin? Can students describe their appearance? Can students describe their personality traits?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeeks 7-9
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts7. Singular subject pronouns and ser, adjective agreement,
Use of “no” when answering a questions8. Nationality and Place of Origin9. Adjective drill work
*Culture -How the language and culture expanded throughout the world/Location of Spanish speaking countries
Required Texts
Chapter 1 vocabulary list
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 2: Class Subjects and Time
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students identify their classes?
Can students state what time they have class?
Can students describe the “Day of the Dead?”
Can students describe themselves and others using the verb “ser?”
Can students apply the Latin concept of time to a social situation?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeeks 10-13
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts10. Plural articles and nouns ending in “o” or “a”, Plural
subject pronouns and conjugations of “ser”, and Day of the Dead
11. Plurals of nouns and adjectives that don’t end in “o” of “a”, and time on the hour
12. Describing their classes and time before and after the hour
13. Practice with concepts from weeks 10-12*Culture – Concept of time
Required Texts Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 3: School
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students talk about what they and other single people do in a school setting? Can students talk about what school is like in other Spanish speaking countries?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeek 14
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts14. AR singular conjugation and school vocabulary*Culture - Education in Spanish speaking countries
Required Texts
Chapter 3 vocabulary
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 4: Fun Activities
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students talk about what they and others do for fun? Can students talk about where they and others go? Can students talk about where they and others are? Can students shop in Spanish speaking countries? Can students talk about what they and other possess?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeek 15-17 (Week 18 – Exam Review/Week 19 – Midterm Exams)
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts15. Plural AR verb conjugation 16. IR, DAR, ESTAR 17. Contractions and possession
*Culture – Shopping/bargaining
Required Texts
Chapter 4 vocabulary
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1- 2nd Semester
Unit 5: Restaurant
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students talk about what they and others eat and drink? Can students express their food preferences in order using ordinal numbers? Can students talk about what they watch? Can students talk about where they live?
Duration of UnitWeek 20-22
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts20. ER and IR verb conjugation and food and drink
vocabulary
21. Ordinal numbers with the rest of unit 5 vocabulary22. “Ver” with the rest of unit 5 vocabulary
*Culture - Food of Spanish speaking countries
Required Texts
Chapter 5 vocabulary
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 6: Family and the Body
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students describe their family members using body parts? Can students talk about possession in connection to family members and body parts? Can students describe the outside of their family homes? Can students connect family roles and traditions in the United States with family roles and traditions of the Spanish-speaking communities? Can students explain what happens when a girl turns 15 in some Spanish-speaking countries?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeek 23-28
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts23. Tener, outside the house vocabulary, possessive
adjectives
24. Tener que infinitive, family vocabulary
25. Quinceañera/School testing
26. More family vocabulary, near future
27. More near future, body parts
28. More body parts
*Culture – Family roles and traditions, Quinceañera
Required Texts
Chapter 6 vocabulary list
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 7: Sports and Nationalities
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students talk about the nationalities of themselves and others? Can students identify where to accent words? Can students talk about what sports they play? Can students talk about what they are able to do? Can students talk about what they want and prefer? Can students talk about leisure activities of people in Spanish-speaking countries?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeek 29-34
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts29. IE boot verbs, c. 7 basketball and volleyball
vocabulary30. More basketball and volleyball vocabulary,
baseball and soccer vocabulary31. UE boot verbs, continue with baseball and soccer
vocabulary32. More UE boot verbs, more baseball and soccer
vocabulary33. Nationalities34. More nationality
*Culture – popular sports of Spanish-speaking countries
Required Texts Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources
Curriculum Map: Spanish 1
Unit 8: The Airport
Overarching Questions and Enduring Understandings
Overarching Questions: Can students talk about what is happening right now? Can students travel by plane?
Enduring Understandings:
Duration of UnitWeek 35-36 (Week 37-Final Exam Review/Week 38 – Exams)
Unit Abstract
Content Expectations/Standards Key Concepts35. Go verbs, airport vocabulary36. Present progressive, airport vocabulary37. Exam Review38. Exams
*Culture – Access to public services, health care, transportation
Required Texts
Chapter 8 Vocabulary
Supplemental Texts
Assessment Tasks Genre Focus for Writing
Lesson Sequence/Learning Activities Resources