HS Spanish Guide

SPANISH LEVEL 4

UNIT 4 LAS COMUNIDADES

PACING

PROFICIENCY LEVEL RESOURCE(S)

KEY LANGUAGE USE(S)

● Entre Culturas 4 Unit 4 ● Temas

3-4 weeks

Intermediate Mid

EXPLAIN NARRATE ARGUE

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S)

CULTURAL CONNECTION(S)

● ¿Qué es un ciudadano global? ● ¿Cómo podemos apoyar el bienestar de las comunidades? ● ¿Cuáles son las barreras de la educación? ● ¿Cómo puede una comunidad colaborar en el proceso educativo?

● La ciudadanía global ● Las comunidades educativas ● La educación y las carreras profesionales ● El trabajo voluntario

END OF UNIT COMPETENCY WITH LANGUAGE EXPECTATIONS

● Compare products, practices and perspectives about global citizenship and challenges to education in your own and other cultures. ● Understand essential information and main ideas in authentic sources about global citizenship, barriers to education and solutions to surmount them in other cultures. ● Exchange information and express opinions about global citizenship, volunteer work, barriers to education and learning communities in other cultures. ● Present information to convince, describe, inform, compare and express opinions about global citizenship, volunteer work, barriers to education and the role of learning. Language Functions & Features: ● words and phrases related to volunteerism, education, and the community (la solidaridad, el voluntariado, los desafíos a la educación, las comunidades de aprendizaje, etc.) ● present perfect of the subjunctive to express emotions or desires about a completed action (eg. ● conjunctions used with the subjunctive (eg. es muy ventajoso que sepan dos idiomas) ● pluperfect indicative tense to describe a completed action in the past (eg. él había sido voluntario antes de trabajar como maestro) https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/ fi les/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts. ● Provide opportunities for more conversation with fl uent speakers via Zoom or Google Meet. ● Interview or survey other students about a chosen topic in Spanish, then present your fi ndings to the class. ● Provide more complex text in Spanish for students to read. ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and re fl ect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to Spanish in speech or writing. Extension

*Updated 7.12.23