Renton High School
IB __Spanish ab initio__________ Curriculum map 2015-16
Unit #
Month# of
weeks
En
español
1
1.1
YEAR 1
Sept.
3–4
weeks
En
español
1
1.2
YEAR 1
Oct.
4
weeks
Topic:
Content
Skills:
Understandings
Topic:
Individual & Society
Vocabulary:
 Introductions
 How are you?
numbers to 10
 days of the week,
classroom language
 subject pronouns
 activities
Grammar:
 Conjugation of SER
 Use of GUSTAR +
infinitive
Cultural
understanding:
 Spanish-speaking
world
 Formal v. familiar
register
Topic: Individual &
Society (personal
details, appearance
& character)
Vocabulary:
 Physical
appearance
 Personality
 Clothing
 Colors
Standards
(CCSS and IB)
Assessments
(Formative and
Summative)
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
 Speaking test – meet
someone new, find
out where they are
from
 Writing test – write
a letter introducing
yourself
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
 Speaking - describe
a person from a
photo, answer
follow-up questions
Summative/
major
assessment
dates
TOK connection/inter- Homework Resources needed
disciplinary
assigned
connection
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
# song
Maps
Scholastic
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Online
vocab
practice
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
“make-a-friend”
supplies
Teacher’s
Discovery Día de
los Muertos video
Scholastic
magazine
En
español
1
1.3
En
español
1
2.1
YEAR 1
Nov.
4
weeks
YEAR 1
Dec.
3
weeks
Grammar:
 Adjective
agreement
Cultural
Understanding:
 Día de los Muertos
Topic: Individual &
Society
(relationships)
Vocabulary:
Family relationships
Months
Numbers to 100
Grammar:
Asking/telling about
age
Conjugation of
TENER
Possessive adjectives
Expressing dates
Cultural
Understanding:
Holidays in Spanishspeaking world
Quinceañera
Topic: Individual &
Society (education)
Vocabulary:
Classroom objects
School subjects
Adverbs of frequency
Grammar:
Present tense –ar
verbs
Obligation w/ tener
que & hay que
Cultural
Understanding:
Comparing school
 Writing – write a
diary entry
describing someone
you just met –
appearance and
personality
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
10
minutes,
4x / week
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Speaking – describe a
family from a
photo/drawing,
answer follow-up
questions
Writing – write a
letter to a foreign
exchange student,
describing your family
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Summative:
Speaking – describe a
photo of a classroom
scene, and answer
follow-up questions
Writing – write a note
to a friend who is
going to join your
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Sweet 15 movie?
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Pics/video/articles
of schools in
Spanish-speaking
countries
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
systems US v.
Spanish-speaking
countries
En
español
1
2.2
En
español
1
2.3
YEAR 1
Jan
3
weeks
YEAR 1
Feb.
3-4
weeks
Topic: Individual &
Society (daily
routines, food &
drink)
Vocabulary:
Telling time
Places in a school
School schedule
School activities
Interrogative words
Grammar:
Present tense IR
Telling time
Present tense ESTAR
Question structure
Cultural
Understanding:
Typical snacks in
Mexico
Topic: Leisure &
Work
(entertainment)
Vocabulary:
Free-time activities
Sequencing words
Places around town
Grammar:
IR + a + infinitive to
express future
Present tense –er, -ir
verbs
Oír, Conocer irregular
yo forms
Cultural
Spanish class – tell
what you do in class &
how often, and what
she needs to bring to
class.
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
Speaking – describe
your school schedule
to your teacher,
answer follow up
questions
Writing – write an
email to a friend who
is going to come to
school with you one
day. Tell your
schedule including
times and locations.
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
Speaking – Describe
plaza scene, including
what people are
doing/going to do
Writing – write a
conversation between
2 people, talking
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Snacks to taste!
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
En
español
1
3.1
En
español
1
3.2
YEAR 1
Mar.
3-4
weeks
YEAR 1
Apr.
3-4
weeks
Understanding:
Importance of the
plaza
Topic: Leisure &
Work
(entertainment)
Vocabulary:
Phone conversation
Emotions
Free time activities
Extending,
accepting/declining
invitations
Grammar:
ESTAR w/ emotions
GUSTAR
ACABAR de +
infinitive (to tell what
just happened
Topic: Leisure &
Work (Sport)
Vocabulary:
Sports & equipment
Comparative words
Grammar:
Stem-changing verbs
SABER
Making comparisons
about what they do
after school/in their
free time
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
Speaking – phone
conversation w/
invitation
Writing – write a
poster to advertise an
event, including
activities, schedule, &
food
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Summative:
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Speaking – recorded
conversation b/w 2
students – talk about
sports you play/don’t
play, with reasons &
follow up questions
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Writing – make a flyer
advertising an afterschool sports club;
include what sports
will be played, and
what equipment
people should bring
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
En
español
1
3.3
En
español
1
4.1
YEAR 1
May
3-4
weeks
YEAR 1
MayJune
4
weeks
Topic: Urban & rural
environment
(weather, physical
geography)
Vocabulary:
Weather description
Weather-appropriate
clothing/accessories
Seasons
Tener expressions
Places in nature
Grammar:
Feeling expressions
w/ tener
Direct object
pronouns
Present progressive
tense
Cultural
understanding:
Puerto Rico history &
tourism
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Topics: Leisure &
Work (transport),
Urban & Rural
Environment (town &
services,
neighborhood)
Vocabulary:
Types of stores
Transportation
Describing where
things are located
Asking for, giving,
and following
directions
Grammar:
Affirmative tú
commands
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative:
Speaking – recorded
interview about
favorite vacation
destination(s), with
follow – up questions
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Writing – Write a
letter to a Chilean
friend, recommending
the best season of
year to visit Renton
(based on weather),
and what she’ll need
to pack for her trip.
Summative:
Speaking – with a
partner, ask for &
follow directions to a
location on a map;
give your partner
directions to another
location
Writing – write a
postcard to your
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Neighborhood
map activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Review
En
español
1
4.2
Prepositions of
location
DECIR, present tense
Chilean friend who is
coming to visit, giving
directions to your
house from the
airport (using a
provided map)
Topic: Individual &
Society (Shopping)
Vocabulary:
Shopping vocab
Describing gift items
Giving a negative
opinion politely
Grammar:
Indirect object
pronouns
Review stem
changing verbs
Cultural
Understanding:
Shopping at a
traditional mercado,
bargaining
Topic: Leisure &
Work (holidays)
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Topic: Leisure &
Work
(Entertainment);
Urban & Rural
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Year 2
Sept.
2
weeks
Year 2
Sept.Oct.
3-4
weeks
Practice
written
assignm
ent
Year 2
En
español
2
1.1, 1.2
Year 2
Summative:
Speaking – buy and
sell items at class
market, bargaining for
the best price
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Writing – write a
dialogue between a
shopper and a vendor
at a Oaxacan market
Practice
written
assignment:
compare Día
de los
Muertos with
Halloween
Oct.
1 week
Oct. –
Nov
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
2 articles about
Día de los
Muertos in
Spanish, more in
English
Venn Diagram
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
5
weeks
2.1
En
español
2
Year 2
Dec.
4
weeks
Environment (Town
& services)
Vocabulary:
Air travel
Leisure activities
Restaurant/foods
Museum/art
Grammar:
Preterit of regular
verbs, -car, -gar,-zar
verbs, verbs w/
spelling changes,
irregular verbs
Cultural
Understanding:
Individual projects
about Spanish
speaking
countries/tourist
destinations
Topic: Individual &
Society
(Relationships)
Vocabulary:
Childhood activities
Extended family
relationships
Review of
comparisons
Grammar:
Imperfect tense
(regular & irregular)
Reflexive verbs
Long-form possessive
adjectives &
pronouns
day, 3x /
week
Summative:
Speaking – PPT
presentation about a
trip you took to a
Spanish-speaking
country, including
actual places of
interest in that
country
Writing – write an
email to a friend who
is nervous about an
upcoming flight; tell
what happened in the
airport and on the
plane during your last
vacation
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative –
Speaking – PPT
presentation
comparing what you
used to be like as a
child with how you are
now
Writing – Write the
text of an interview
with a relative, in
which you ask them to
compare their
childhood with their
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Choose
topics for
written
assignments,
look for
articles, read,
annotate
(some class
time, some
on own time)
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Ch. 10
Paso a
Paso 2
Year 2
Jan.
4
weeks
Topic: Leisure &
Work
(Entertainment,
Media)
Vocabulary:
Movies
Natural disasters
TV programs
Grammar:
Preterit vs. imperfect
Cultural
Understanding:
Telenovelas
current life
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Summative –
Speaking – Recorded
interview about a
favorite movie: what
type of movie, what
happened, cast, etc.
Paso a Paso text &
activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Writing – Write a
news report about a
recent crime or
natural disaster, using
imperfect & preterit
appropriately
Written
Assignment
Feb.
3 days
Ch. 11
Paso a
Paso
FebMar
4
weeks
Topics: Leisure &
Work (employment),
Urban & Rural
Environment
(environmental
concerns)
Vocabulary:
Professions
Career education
Environmental
protection,
preservation
Grammar:
Future tense
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative –
Speaking – recorded
interview about your
professional plans for
the future, how you
will prepare, and what
you will do in your
profession
Written
assignment –
1 day to
prepare, 2
days to write
in class
Individual
Oral
Assessment
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Paso a Paso text &
activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
En
español
2
3.1
En
español
2
3.3
MarApr.
4
weeks
Apr –
May
3
weeks
Topics: Individual &
Society (physical
health)
Vocabulary:
Verbs related to daily
routine/ grooming
Diet
Exercise
Grammar:
Formal commands,
plural & singular
Topics: Individual &
Society (physical
health)
Vocabulary:
Illnesses, injuries
Body parts
Describing how you
feel
Grammar:
Subjunctive w/
impersonal
expressions
Writing – Write an
article for the school
newspaper about
what the world will be
like in 100 years,
focusing on
environmental issues,
and what we will do to
preserve the
environment for
future generations
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Summative –
Speaking – Dialogue
between
trainer/client, with
advice about staying
fit & healthy
Writing – write a
brochure with advice
for diet, exercise, and
stress reduction
Formative:
Various quizzes
(grammar & vocab)
Skits/dialogues
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
4x / week
Summative –
Workbook
activities;
10-15
minutes /
day, 3x /
week
Speaking – looking at
12 pictures of
sick/injured people:
name illness/injury,
elaborate on 3
Online
vocab
practice
10
minutes,
Textbook & DVD
Listening activities
Destinos
Scholastic
magazines
Hace que w/ periods
of time
pictures, give advice
for 3 pictures
4x / week
Writing – Write a
dialogue between dr.
/ patient: explain
medical condition &
duration, ask for/give
treatment & advice
Tech.
May
2
weeks
Topic: Leisure &
Work (Technology)
Vocabulary:
Types of technology
Social networking
Tech. risks
Grammar:
Giving advice
(commands,
subjunctive w/
impersonal
expressions)
IB exams:
Paper 1
Paper 2
(dates TBA)
Scholastic
magazines
June
3
weeks
Reflection
Unit
Unit 1
Unit 2
Content- add/delete
Pacing
Assessment- type/dates
Resources
Misc.