Standards-based Unit Objectives a) Students will compare and contrast popular fashion styles of Latin American countries with those of the United States using targeted vocabulary in the present tense in a one-minute oral presentation. b) Students will describe their own fashion style by correctly writing 5 sentences explaining what they wear in each of the four seasons and how their chosen style makes a statement about their identity in the present tense. c) Students will explore the theme of “personal identity” and explain how what a person wears relates to his or her personality in an oral discussion by correctly using 3 targeted vocabulary words to describe fashion styles. d) Students will judge appropriate apparel for professional and casual settings both orally and in a written test using the targeted vocabulary in the present tense with 80% accuracy. e) Students will report on current weather conditions in different parts of the world in the present tense after listening to a news report in Spanish as well as researching information on the internet. f) Students will present a fashion show in teams, as if they were a news crew, using at least 4 vocabulary words per person in the present tense.

Standards-based Essential (Guiding) Question: How does what I wear make a statement about who I am?
Standard 1.1, Communication
(Interpersonal): Students explain, describe, and narrate about popular fashion styles and the weather.
Standard 1.2, Communication
(Interpretive): Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on the weather by reading weather forecasts and listening to a meteorologist in Spanish.
Standard 1.3, Communication
(Presentational) Students present a fashion show and weather report to an audience of listeners about popular styles of clothing for formal and casual settings.
Standard 2.1, Cultures: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied by comparing popular styles of Latin American countries to their own.
Standard 2.1, Cultures: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied by connecting fashion styles of certain countries to the climate in those particular regions.
Standard 3.1, Connections: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of science through the foreign language and its cultures by exploring weather conditions and creating weather forecasts.
Standard 3.2, Connections: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures by watching videos of cultural celebrations in Latin American countries and describing traditional clothing.
Standard 4.1/4.2,
Comparisons: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own by observing which types of clothing styles are generally associated with certain personality types both in their own culture and Hispanic culture.
Standard 5.1, Communities: Students use the language within and beyond the school setting by learning to buy clothing from a store and complimenting other people’s styles.
Standard 5.2, Communities: Students use the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment when they use the language to communicate with native speakers about similar interests.

OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT(S) PRE-,
FORMATIVE,
OR POST?
MODALITY
(listening, speaking, reading, writing, etc.)
Writing Objective 1: Students will explore the theme of “personal identity” in an oral discussion using the targeted vocabulary in the present tense.
Students will participate in a short-answer and multiple-choice quiz.
Students will have the opportunity to make statements about their identity based on how they present themselves.
Objective 2: Students will compare and contrast popular fashion styles in the present tense in a oneminute presentation.
Objective 3: Students will judge appropriate apparel for both professional and casual settings in the present tense.
Students will describe the clothing that they like to wear in each of the four seasons. Students will make a statement about what their style says about their identity.
Students will listen to the teacher as the teacher describes different fashion styles and then students will form statements about identity.
Students will complete a unit test in which they will demonstrate their acquired knowledge over the course of the unit. The test will include matching, short answers, and fill-inthe-blank questions.
PRE Test
FORMATIVE
Test
Listening/Speaking
POST Test Reading and
Writing

Students will pass the test with 80% accuracy
Unit Assessments:
Student progress toward unit objectives will be assessed by a presentation of appropriate clothing for certain weather conditions and a summative unit test. The culminating assessment for this unit will be a fashion show and weather presentation in which students will work in teams and bring different articles of clothing to display and describe as if they were models in a fashion show.
Adaptations
1) Students who are native speakers will bring or explain an article of traditional clothing (such as a poncho or sombrero) and explain how that article of clothing is a symbol of cultural identity.
2) Students who have learning disabilities will use one notecard, if needed, when presenting during the fashion show project. Those students who are not comfortable presenting in front of the class can present to the teacher during intervention period within one-week of the day of the original due date.
3) Students who have physical disabilities will not be required to participate in the fashion show as a “model.” Instead, they can act as the news reporter or narrator.