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11A
Evaluation Criteria
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To describe people’s physical
characteristics and personality traits.
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To express states of being and feelings.
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To provide personal information.
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To make comparisons and use
superlatives.
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To talk about past actions.
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To describe family relationships.
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To express ownership with possessive
adjectives and pronouns.
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To narrate and describe in the past.
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To talk about life stages and events
in a biography.
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To identify main ideas and significant
details in a variety of texts.
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To write descriptive, narrative, or
informative texts.
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To know and apply the different stages
of the writing process: planning, writing,
revising, and editing.
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To explore cultural aspects of the Latin
American population.
Objectives
Vocabulary
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Useful expressions to organize a text,
to give instructions, to express
personal likes and interests, to ask
for confirmation, and to express
wishes.
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Review: Words for personal
information and family relationships,
and words to describe people.
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Physical characteristics and
personality traits.
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Family relationships.
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Marital status.
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Life stages and events, rites and
celebrations, and religions.
Grammar
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The verbs
ser
and
estar.
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Comparisons and superlatives.
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The imperfect and the past
progressive tenses.
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Express ownership with possessive
adjectives and pronouns.
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The preterite and the imperfect
tenses.
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Time expressions to narrate in the
past.
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Describe people’s physical characteristics
and personality traits.
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Express states of being and feelings.
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Use and differentiate the uses of the
verbs
ser
and
estar
.
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Recognize and use possessive adjectives
and pronouns.
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Compare people to express equality,
inequality, and extreme degree of an
adjective.
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Identify family members and describe
family relationships.
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Use the forms of the imperfect tense.
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Recognize and use the past progressive
tense.
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Recognize and use possessive adjectives
and pronouns.
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Narrate events of the past using the
preterite and the imperfect and
differentiate the uses of both tenses.
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Recognize and use time expressions to
narrate in the past.
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Express understanding of the origin,
history and diversity of the Latin America
population.
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Write a character sketch.
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Read different types of texts and identify
main ideas and significant details in them.
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Write guided texts giving information,
describing, or narrating events.
Culture
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Mafalda
by the strip cartoonist Quino.
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Comics strips in Hispanic culture.
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Don Quijote.
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Spanish
court painters: Diego
Velázquez and Francisco de Goya.
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Estereotipos familiares.
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Fiestas familiares.
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Traditional Hispanic legends.
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Esmeralda Santiago:
Cuando era
puertorriqueña.
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Leyendas de Guatemala.
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A legend of the origin of Inca Empire.
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Latin American population.
Unit 1
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