LOTE–Binghamton City School District 6th grade Curriculum Map for SPANISH+FRENCH
Week #
Week 1
Week 2
Essential
Concepts
Questions
Students will be taking a
PRE
Assessment DISTRICT PRE
ASSESSMENT
Content
How is the
Spanish
alphabet
similar
to/different
from ours?
-Letters of the
alphabet
Alphabet
-Recognize letters in TL
-Recite alphabet
-Recognize the four extra letters in
the Spanish alphabet
Assessments
Skills and
Standards.
-Speaking
and listening
activities
-Quizzes
-Presentation
of alphabet
project.
NYS Standard
1-Students will
be able to use a
language other
than English for
communication.
Getting to know
one another!
Checkpoint
A/FunctionSocializing
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Approaches to Learning
Week 3
Week 4
Week 5
What is the
significance of
someone’s
name?
Who am I?
Personal Identification
What is
allowed in my
personal
bubble?
How does the
size of one’s
personal
bubble
change
according to
what part of
the world
he/she is
from?
Greetings/Farewells/Feeling -Farewells and
How does the
concept of
personal space
and accepted
greetings
change
according to
the Target
Culture?
Days, Months and Seasons
-Be able to give his/her name and
ask others
-Phrases for being
able to ask and give
names.
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Social Education
-Be able to greet/say farewell to a
classmate/friend and respond to the
greeting or farewell.
-Ask someone how they are feeling
and respond to this question
- Use morning, afternoon and
evening with Farewells.
greetings
-Build upon
vocabulary from
naming unit
-How are you?
-I’m fine/doing
badly.
-Speaking
(oral)quiz
-Role play
-Group work
-Chain drill
-Introduce
yourself to
someone
NYS Standard
1-Students will
be able to use a
language other
than English for
communication.
Checkpoint
A/FunctionSocializing
-Role play
-Group work
-Making
dialogues
-Vocabulary
quiz
Writing
evaluation
NYS Standard
2-Students will
develop crosscultural skills
and
understandings.
Checkpoint
A/FunctionProviding and
obtaining
information.
- Group
work
- Calendar
project
- Season
Poster
NYS Standard
2-Students will
develop crosscultural skills
and
understandings.
Checkpoint
A/FunctionProviding and
obtaining
information.
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Social Education
-Introduce the days, months,
seasons and years
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Social Education
-Build upon
knowledge of
vocabulary of days
of week, months of
year, seasons,
morning, afternoon
and evening.
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
How are the
elderly treated
around the
world? Where
are they
treated with
high regard
and where are
they not?
Why?
Does each
culture have a
distinct way of
asking each
other’s age?
What are the
different
types (units)
of money
used in the
world? How
are other
nations
dependent on
one another?
How do we
count in the
Target
Language?
How do we
define what is
considered
“beautiful”
and “normal”?
Is there any
meaning
associated
with specific
colors in the
Target
Culture?
Do animals
speak the
same language
all around the
world?
Age
-Be able to tell/ask a classmate
his/her age
-Recite and recognize #’s 0-30
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Social Education
Numbers
-Recognize and recite #’s 30-100
-Be able to do simple math using
these numbers
-Be able to say prices
(EURO)/quantities
-#’s 0-30
-Age questions and
responses
-(on an informal
basis-do daily date
and birthdays to
expose them to
usage of numbers)
-to have
-Group work
-Inner/Outer
circle
-Quiz
-Daily
Speaking
activity – say
one’s age to
the class and
when their
birthday is.
NY State
Standards 1 and
2.
-#’s 30-100
-plus + minus
Ask, “How much
does it cost?”
-Games
-Flashcards
-dot-to-dot
-Quiz
-Simple
math
problems.
-worksheets,
lottery game
NYS Standard
1- Students will
be able to use a
language other
than English for
communication
Checkpoint
A/FunctionProviding and
obtaining
information
-I, you,
-to be
-common colors
-common physical
adjectives
-common
personality traits
-Writing
activities
-Biography
Book
-Speaking
activity
-Listening
activities
-Quiz
-flashcards
NYS Standard
2-Students will
develop crosscultural skills
and
understanding
Checkpoint A
/FunctionProviding and
obtaining
information.
-Common animals
-Use of vocabulary
from other units
above
-Go over animal
food items
-Quiz
-Writing
-Listening
activity
-Animal
Project
NYS Standard
1- Students will
be able to use a
language other
than English for
communication
Checkpoint
A/FunctionProviding and
obtaining
information.
IMPORTANT!!
Students will
keep a
portfolio
throughout
the course
which their
teacher will
pass on to
their 7th grade
teacher
AREAS of INTERACTION:
Social Education and
Environments
Description
-Be able to describe people +
objects
-Identify and pronounce the colors
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Environments
Animals
-Be able to identify common
animals and their sounds
-Describe animals
-Describe foods the animals eat
AREA OF INTERACTION:
Environments
Week
10
POST
ASSESSMEN
T – During
this week,
students will
be taking
individual,
one-on-one
Speaking assessment with the
teacher.
Students will also take DISTRICT
POST ASSESSMENT.
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Checkpoint
A/FunctionProviding and
obtaining
information.