7.1 Global Citizenship
Spanish Middle School
World Language Curriculum
Unit Title:
Connections to
Previous Unit:
Personal and Public Identities:
Global Citizenship
Novice Mid
Approx. Duration
8 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 an exchange student. They will begin to invent their
identity as an exchange student by creating their host family. 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 self 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 people do
 Tier 2 Language Functions
Structures / Patterns
greet, say good-bye and be polite
meet others and introduce myself
say how I feel and inquire about others
talk about age and birthdays
tener
share personal contact information
discuss where you live and nationality
to live, prepositions with countries and
cities
Ser (all forms) adjective agreement
discuss personality and physical description
Tener, ser
discuss what you and others like and don’t like to do
Gustar
discuss and react to being an exchange student
comment on new exchange family
Possession (de and adjectives)
Revised – January 21, 2014
Unit - Instruction & Assessment Overview
Resources & Materials
 1000 Families
 http://nclrc.org/cultureclub/collection/hangout/spanish.html#carlos_cc
Assessment
Common
Interpretive
Presentational
Read / listen to biographical and
Multi-media presentation on their
autobiographical text about others
host family.
–real and fiction.
Interpersonal
Unrehearsed conversation with
another foreign exchange student
sharing personal information
(where they live, likes/dislikes).
Recommended (Optional):
Presentational
Interpretive
Interpersonal
Lessons/Labs/Activities
Common
Mode of
Communication
Presentational
Presentational
Activity
Purpose
Create edmodo facebook page for you and your exchange
family.
Write a letter of introduction to a host family.
Recommended (Optional):
Standard Focus
Mode of
Communication
Approximate
Number of Days
Revised – January 21, 2014
Activity
Suggested Pacing
Purpose