Canela

Preguntas Esenciales (unit packet):

• ¿Por qué es la comida tradicional importante en mi país o en otros países? ¿Cómo son las prácticas y perspectivas relacionadas con el mole similares y o diferentes de una comida tradicional de mi país?
• ¿Por qué es la familia muy importante en la vida de una persona?
• ¿Cómo es mi familia?

Metas (Goals) de la unidad:

• I can identify the rooms of a house. (Quizlet)
• I can list foods that I eat for different meals of the day. (Quizlet)
• I can show that I understand the movie Canela in a variety of ways.
• I can describe a traditional food from Mexico.

Evaluaciones:

• Quiz: Vocabulario - la casa, la familia, y la comida
• Quiz: In class work with the movie Canela
• Test:
• Listening Section: Listen to sentences about the movie Canela and write cierto or falso.
• Speaking Section: Describe a family member.
• Reading Section: Read about el mole and then answer the questions. (includes cultural comparison)
• Writing Section: Write a summary of the movie Canela.

La inmigración

Preguntas esenciales (unit packet)

• ¿Por qué vienen los inmigrantes a los Estados Unidos? 
• ¿Cómo vienen los inmigrantes a los Estados Unidos? 
• ¿Por qué vienen algunos inmigrantes a los Estados Unidos sin los papeles legales ? 

Objetivos:

• I can explain why and how immigrants come to the United States.
• I can understand a two songs, a short film and a movie related to immigration.
• I can show (in a variety of ways) that I understand readings about two songs, a short film and a movie related to immigration.
• I can answer questions about two songs, a short film and a movie related to immigration.

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La Escuela

¿Cómo es mi día escolar similar y/o diferente de otras personas?

Metas de la unidad (unit packet)

• I can answer questions about my school day and my classes.
• I can compare my school and my school day to others.
• I can comprehend and retell a story about school.

25 of the most dangerous and unusual journeys to go to school in the world (and in "video"- just shows pics)

Recreos del mundo or click here

Evaluaciones:

• Speaking - answer questions about your school day (questions will be questions from "horario" sheet.
• Listening: Listen to questions about Irene and answer them in complete sentences. Or Listen to cierto/falso statements about Irene and write cierto or falso.
• Writing: Compare your school day to a student in another country (from a picture and/or video that you see).
• Reading: Read about another student's day and answer questions about the reading.

Online activities for Chau:

Online Vocabulary activities  (click on the links below):

• Quizlet - basic vocabulary
• Memrise - basic vocabulary

Summary Activities on Textivate (click on the links below):

• Put in order
• Fill in the blanks
• Speed Read
• Sentence Structure practice
• Summary Activity on Quizlet

Question Activities on Textivate (click on the links below):

• Textivate - preguntas (click on "put in order")
• Memory

Online activities for Irene:

• Quizlet
• Irene- Textivate general (Amy)
• Textivate- ordenar (10)
• Textivate- ordenar (versión completa)
• Textivate-Millonario
• Textivate- recontar la historia básica
• Textivate- preguntas de comprensión
• Textivate- preguntas de comprensión
• Textivate- comprensión- 1 en 10
• Collage - Varias actividades (auditiva, lectura y escritura)
• EduCanon
• Kahoot
• Quizizz

El Día de los Muertos

Pregunta Esencial: 

• ¿Cómo son mis tradiciones y creencias sobre la muerte similares y/o diferentes de las de otros países?
• ¿Cuáles son algunos (some) productos, prácticas, y perspectivas relacionados con el Día de los Muertos que se pueden ver en dos cuentos: "La niña que recureda" y "La niña y la abuela" y una película: Coco?

Go! Vive a tu manera - Episodio 2

Go! Vive a tu manera - Episodio 1 - y otros cuentos

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.

Victor/Guapo

Metas (goals) de la unidad:

• I can describe myself and others.
• I can say what I like and don't like to do.
• I can show that I understand a story in a variety of ways.
• I can conjugate regular verbs and two irregular verbs: ser and tener.

Evaluaciones:

• Quiz: Cierto/Falso y Vocabulario
• Test:
• Speaking section: Answer the following questions with details: ¿Cómo eres tú? ¿Qué te gusta hacer? (Use at least 6 adjectives and 3 verbs)
• Listening section: Listen to questions about Victor and answer them.
• Writing section: Write a summary of the Victor story. You will have a word bank.
• Reading section: Read about someone and answer questions about the reading.

Online activities:

• Memrise
• Quizlet - ser y adjetivos
• Quizlet - verbs
• Quizlet - Guapo

Textivate Activities with story from packet:

• Guapo - la historia - Put story in order
• Guapo - la historia - Play Millonario
• Guapo - la historia - Fill in the blanks
• Guapo - la historia - All sorts of activities! 
• Guapo - Preguntas de comprensión (multiple choice) - Click on original order!
• Guapo - Preguntas de comprensión - Millonario
• Guapo - Preguntas de comprensión - Tic Tac Toe?
• Guapo - Preguntas de comprensión - All sorts of activities! 

Quizlet (vocabulario avanzado)

La historia de Víctor- Lecturas

Versión 2 - ordena la lectura

Versión 2- Gap fill

Versión 2 - preguntas de comprensión

Kahoot

Living on One Dollar and Kiva

Preguntas Esenciales:

• ¿Qué es la pobreza extrema?
• ¿Cómo es vivir en la pobreza extrema?
• ¿Cómo puedo ayudar a otras personas en el mundo que viven en la pobreza extrema?

Presentación con imagenes para contar 
la biografía de Sebastián Yatra

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Alvaro tiene un problema

Goals:

• I can listen and interpret a story.
• I can read and interpret a story.
• I can acquire new vocabulary and structures through a variety of activities related to a story. 
• I can show that I understand a story in a variety of ways. 

Soy yo

Goals of the unit:

• I can comprehend a story with visuals to support my comprehension.
• I can read a story and comprehend it without visuals.
• I can understand and pick out cognates.
• I can understand some words in Spanish because of the context, the visuals, or the actions of the teacher.
• I can answer questions about a story and about myself.

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1. Quizlet - vocabulario básico
2. Quizlet - vocabulario en contexto
3. Quizlet - preguntas sobre la historia
4. Textivate - put the words in order
5. Textivate - put the story in order
6. Textivate - fill in the blanks
7. Textivate - speed read
8. Textivate - put the 16 tiles in order of the story
9. Textivate - link to ALL types of textivate activities (some of these are VERY challenging)

Cuentos... (Stories)

Review para el Examen Final

Los ñus

Goals for the unit:

• I can comprehend a story in Spanish. (memrise and Quizlet)
• I can describe pictures and videos using new and old vocabulary.
• I can retell the story "Los ñus" in Spanish with visual prompts.
• I can answer questions about a story in complete, grammatically correct sentences.
• I can function in a "solo español" classroom. Specifically, I can use gestures to explain Spanish words.

Evaluaciones (Dates TBD):

• QUIZ: Vocabulary
• QUIZ: Write about a picture and/or video using new and old vocabulary.
• EXAMEN:
• Speaking Part - Retell the story of "Los ñus." You can use pictures and keywords.
• Reading Part - Read a similar story that contains vocabulary that you have learned and answer questions about it.
• Writing Part - Write some sentences about some pictures and/or videos. Use new and old vocabulary. There will be a word bank and we will do similar activities in class.
• Listening Part - Listen to the questions the teacher says and answer them.
• Grammar Section - Conjugations. This section will be similar to the section of the last test.

1. Presentación- Los pollitos dicen y los ñus  (No lo toques, ven, agarra, tira, toca)
2. Quizlet vocab practice
3. Zondle vocab practice
4. Edpuzzle
5. Reading  and drawing activity
6. Extended reading activity (includes black-out activity)
7. Quizlet story practice with images
8. Textivate order the story (paragraph)
9. Textivate order the story (sentences)
10. Textivate gap-fill activity
11. Texitvate comprehension questions (multiple choice)
12. Dictado corrido
13. Loteria - Listening activity
14. Collage - Listening activity
15. Partner activity Chain reaction- idea comes from Martina Bex
16. Textivate comprehension questions (write the answer)
17. Textivate re-write the story
18. Reading activity Purpose Games
19. Traducciones - to improve sentences
20. Writing activity - black out activity
21. Kahoot class game