Spanish IVH
2013- 2014 Pacing Guide
First Semester: 18 weeks
Quarter 1: (9 weeks)
THEME: Contemporary Life
Leisure and Sports, Housing and Shelter, Travel (4 weeks recommended time)
• Explain and discuss camping and ecotourism practices.
•. Demonstrate comprehension of authentic audio visual and written texts relating to camping and
ecotourism.
 Produce oral and written reports on safe camping and ecotourism practices and attitudes.
• Demonstrate the process of preparing a successful and safe camp site, respecting and protecting the
environment, using the preterit and the imperfect tenses.
 Express opinions, compare, and offer suggestions for safe camping and ecotourism practices using the
present subjunctive with verbs of influence.
THEME: Global Challenges
Environmental Issues (4 weeks recommended time)
 Discuss and debate important environmental issues.
 Express opinions and react to the role of the individual citizen in the conservation of the environment
using the present perfect, and the subjunctive with verbs of emotion and doubt.
 Produce oral and written reports on the conservation of the environment using commands and the
subjunctive.
Quarter 2: (9 weeks)
THEME: Contemporary Life
Leisure and Sports, Ideals of Beauty, & Music (4 weeks recommended time)
• Maintain a discussion related to different styles of art, dance, and/or theater.
• Discuss and/or debate personal preference with regard to styles of art and music.
• Express and explain how history has affected art, music, theater and/or dance.
• Express opinions and reactions (both oral and written) to a work of art (song, painting, sculpture, etc.)
THEME: Global Challenges and Contemporary Life
Health Issues, Nutrition and Food Safety, Leisure and Sports (4 weeks recommended time)
• Discuss and/or debate the benefits/challenges of living a healthy lifestyle.
• Express and explain how to lead a healthy lifestyle and the changes one may have to make with regard to
nutrition/exercise.
• Express opinions and react to global health issues, exercise, and the different diets available.
• Produce oral and written reports on healthy diets or exercise plans.
• Produce an activity showing an exercise routine using formal commands.
Second Semester: 18 weeks
Quarter 3: (9 weeks)
THEME: Families and Communities
Family Structures, Friendship and Love (4 weeks recommended time)
• Express opinions and react to how people have dealt with conflicts in their personal lives using the preterit,
imperfect, and pluscuamperfecto.
• Produce oral and written reports on suggestions for conflict resolution using commands and the
subjunctive.
• Produce an activity showing conflict resolution between friends or family members.
• Produce an oral or written presentation discussing the qualities one may desire in a friend and those which
one should avoid.
• Discuss and/or debate the benefits/challenges of types of family structures.
THEME: Contemporary Life
Professions/Education (4 weeks recommended time)
• Maintain a discussion related to the type of job you would like in the future using future and
conditional tenses.
• Discuss and/or debate the benefits/challenges of different types of jobs.
• Express and explain how to apply for a job using commands and/or the subjunctive.
• Express opinions and react to what it would be like to work different jobs.
Quarter 4: (9 weeks)
THEME: Personal and Public Identities
Beliefs and Values, Multiculturalism (4 weeks recommended time)
• Discuss and/or debate the rights/responsibilities of students in a high school.
• Express and explain how students can make changes through student government.
• Express opinions and react to the role of student government in a high school.
THEME: Science and Technology
Discoveries and Inventions, Future Technologies, The New Media, Social Impact of Technology (4
weeks recommended time)
• Maintain a discussion related to the future (including discussion on technology, mankind, the
environment, etc.)
• Discuss and/or debate orally or in written form new inventions/technological advances.
• Express and explain views on technology use in schools.