Spanish for Heritage Speakers - 1
Culture /
Unit
Spain
Theme
-The Spanish
Civil War; the
development of
modernism and
intellectualism
-History of
Mexico “the
good, the bad
and the ugly”
People
-Picasso
-Federico Garcia
Lorca
-Generalisimo
Franco
-Hernando
Tellez
-Repubilicanos Nacionalistas
-Hemingway
-Buero Vallejo
-Sor Juana Ines
de la Cruz
-Frida Kahlo
-Emiliano
Zapata
-Miguel Hidalgo
-Benito Juarez
-Los soldados
infantes
Argentina
United
States
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-En la Ardiente
Oscuridad
- Translated excerpts
from For Whom the
Bell Tolls
- The 5th Column
-Espuma y Nada Mas
-Romance de la luna,
luna
-poetry from sor juan
ines de la cruz
-news articles about the
border and drug wars
-non fiction writings
about the bracero
program of the 1940’s
and it’s impact on the
United States
Speaking/Listening
-Appropriately use
the preterit and the
imperfect tenses to
convey analysis
developed from
readings in class
-Pan’s Labyrinth
(movie)
-Juan Peron
-Evita
-Ernesto Sabato
-Simon Bolivar
-Che
-Borges
-El Tunel
-El Sur
-Las Manchas del Sapo
-Borges y Yo
-El otro
-Students will prepare
for a debate
concerning
immigration into the
US from Mexico and
who, if anybody, is to
be blamed for it
-Frida (Movie)
-Students will create
a piece of art that
illustrates one of the
main themes of the
unit and will give a 5
minute speech
explaining how it
illustrates the theme.
-Sin Nombre (movie)
-Maria Full of Grace
(movie)
–Mario Vargas
Llosa
-Claribel Alegria
-Daisy Zamora
-Excerpt of El
Hablador
-Carta a un destarrado
de Clean Slate
-Dia de las madres de
Fugues
-Excerpts from House
on Mango Street
-Students will create
a short movie
researching and
answering a question
about “What it means
to be a Mexican
American”
-Quinceañera (movie)
Mexico
Isolationism,
Expansion,
immigration
and
Industrializatio
n and its effects
on the Hispanic
identity post
WW2
-Being proud of
who I am
despite my
imperfections
-Learning to
develop pride
and still fit in
-Stereotypes
Readings
Grammar/Language
Assessment
-Preterit and imperfect
verb tenses
-Accent rules
-Masculine/feminine
rules and tips
-por y para
-use of infinitives
-progressive tense
-Analyze various
explanations of
modernism and
how it conflicted
with traditional
Spanish/Hispanic
values and
construct a short
expository
research paper
-Academic vocabulary
-Words often used in
proper newscasts and
newspapers
-fact vs. opinion
-Students will
compare and
contrast a hero and
a villain in
Mexican history in
a formal
expository piece of
writing
-Commonly
misspelled words
-Present Indicative
-Passive use of To Be
-Students will
write a persuasive
paper about the
mass immigration
into Argentina in
the early 20th
century and argue
that it was either
good or bad for
Argentina.
-Possessive Pronouns
-Idioms
-Expressions
-Chicano Slang
-Code Switching
-Personal
Narrative about
identity and
Hispanic culture
pride/selfdeprecation
Spanish for Heritage Speakers - 1
and Social
Expectations
4/20/2012