World Language Curriculum Template
Unit Title:
Connections to
Previous Unit:
Personal and Public Identities:
Global Citizenship
Novice Mid
Approx. Duration
9 weeks
Preparations for
Future Unit:
moving toward Novice High
Unit - Curriculum Overview
Target Essential Understandings & Questions
 Language opens doors to the world. Where you grow up shapes your identity.
 Who am I?
Target Program Standards
Students will know:
Students will begin by exploring who they are, where they live, their nationality and heritage. They will learn
about important people, leaders and heroes in other cultures. They will then become a citizen of the world by
getting a passport in preparation of for living abroad as a high school exchange student. They will begin to
invent their identity as an exchange student. They will consider the advantages of knowing more than one
language and identify where their new language is spoken.
Communication – Interpretive, Interpersonal, Presentational
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Culture – concept of passport, identity card
Connections – geography, social studies concept of citizen, immigrant
Comparisons –
Communities – introduce “hero” beyond the classroom, reflect on own identity, possibility of being an
exchange student
Target Common Core Standards
Standard
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Target Vocabulary
 Tier 1 - personal information (review from 6th), nationality, physical and personal traits, verbs connected
to what other known people do
 Tier 2 Language Functions
Structures / Patterns
greetings, leave-takings
exchange personal information
discuss where you live and nationality
to live, prepositions with countries and
cities
discuss personality and physical description
ask and answer questions about what others do
subject pronouns / present tense
ask and answer questions about heritage / nationality
ser? adjective agreement
report on personal hero
comment on new exchange family
Unit - Instruction & Assessment Overview
Resources & Materials
 1000 Families
Assessment
Revised – 4/9/13
Interpretive
Read / listen to biographical and
autobiographical text about others
–real and fiction.
Interpretive
Common
Presentational
Multi-media presentation on
personal hero.
Interpersonal
Unrehearsed conversation to
compare VIPs and to come to
agreement on why someone is or
is not a VIP or hero.
Recommended (Optional):
Presentational
Interpersonal
Lessons/Labs/Activities
Common
Mode of
Communication
Presenational
Activity
Purpose
Create edmodo facebook page.
Recommended (Optional):
Standard Focus
Mode of
Communication
Approximate
Number of Days
Revised – 4/9/13
Activity
Suggested Pacing
Purpose