Essential Questions:
- What helps me to acquire the language?
- How can I use Spanish for my own personal enjoyment and entertainment inside and outside of the classroom?
- How can I understand vocabulary and grammatical structures that I don’t know?
- How can I interpret an authentic resource in Spanish?
- How are the cultural products, practices, and perspectives in the show Go! Vive a tu manera similar and/or different than those of my culture?
Enduring Understandings (Students will understand that):
- In order to acquire the language, lots of comprehensible input, in the form of reading and listening, is necessary.
- It is also important that the comprehensible input be in a variety of forms, including: readings, presentations with images, movements, Quizlet Live, Charlala, Quizizz, listening and drawing, acting, etc..
- Spanish can be used for personal enjoyment, enrichment and entertainment inside and outside of the classroom.
- When something is more engaging, interesting, contextualized, and relatable, it is easier to acquire another language (including vocabulary and grammatical structures).
- It is important to set goals and reflect on one's progress in using languages for enjoyment, enrichment, and advancement.
- It is important to use context clues to help decipher meaning.
- In order to understand an authentic resource in Spanish, it is important to focus on interpreting the general message, and not translating to English. Interpretation of an authentic resource will vary in degree and will improve over time.
- The cultural products, practices, and perspectives in the show Go! Vive a tu manera similar and different than those of my culture.
