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Standards for Learning Spanish
1.1 Interpersonal mode
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Exchange personal opinions and experiences.
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Engage in oral conversations using personal
knowledge and experience.
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Talk about past and present habits.
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Compare information with a partner.
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Prepare and make an interview.
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Role-play an interview.
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Ask and answer questions on different topics
orally.
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Write a message for a social-networking
website with personal knowledge.
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Write a dialogue with a partner.
1.2. Interpretive mode
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Demonstrate understanding of oral and written
idiomatic expressions.
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Demonstrate understanding of questions
relating to familiar and less familiar topics.
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Understand and obtain information from audio
or video recordings.
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Understand written exchanges.
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Extract information from a biography.
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Identify main ideas and significant details from
a traditional legend orally and in writing.
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Draw conclusions and make judgments from
oral and written texts.
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Interpret texts on topics of other cultures
and relate them to personal knowledge and
experience.
1.3. Presentational mode
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Dramatize a situation.
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Produce and present an original creation orally.
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Describe people with detail.
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Write a descriptive and informative paragraph
about a painting.
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Narrate past events.
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Write a summary of a narrative text.
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Write a descriptive paragraph comparing
or summarizing information.
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Compose a comic strip.
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Compose an original legend.
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Write a character sketch.
2.1. Practices and perspectives
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Discover some cultural stereotypes about the
family in Hispanic culture and compare them
with stereotypes in students’ own culture.
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Read about some family celebrations
in Hispanic countries and compare them
with familiar celebrations in the United States.
2.2. Products and perspectives
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Read about some Hispanic comic strips
and strip cartoonists.
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Reflect on the influence of comic strips in society
and explore their connection to the “real world.”
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Read about some fictitious characters
in Hispanic culture in order to understand
cultural stereotypes.
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Compare fictitious characters in Hispanic
culture and in students’ own culture.
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Learn about important Hispanic paintings
and artists.
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Read about traditional Hispanic legends
and understand their cultural importance.
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Read about and research relevant Hispanic
writers.
4.1. Compare languages
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Compare the uses of the
Spanish verbs
ser
and
estar
with the English verb
to be
.
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Compare the formation
and the uses of past
progressive in English
and in Spanish.
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Compare possessives
in English and in Spanish.
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Compare the uses of past
tenses in English and
in Spanish.
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Compare expressions
to talk about the past
in English and in Spanish.
4.2. Compare cultures
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Compare stereotypes about
the family in Hispanic
culture and in the culture
of the United States.
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Compare family
celebrations in Hispanic
countries and in the United
States.
5.1. Spanish within and
beyond the school setting
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Describe a work of art.
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Promote a positive attitude
toward other cultures.
5.2. Spanish for lifelong
learners
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Learn the writing process.
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Encourage the love of art.
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Contribute to the positive
valuation of traditional
stories.
Unit 1
¿Cómo eres?
3.1. Interdisciplinary connections
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Understand the similarities and differences
between some aspects of grammar in English
and in Spanish.
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Learn about renowned Hispanic paintings
and painters.
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Explore traditional Hispanic legends.
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Learn about relevant Hispanic writers.
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Create a comic strip.
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Write a character sketch.
3.2. Viewpoints through language/culture
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Read comic strips in Spanish.
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Read a traditional legend in Spanish.
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