Thematic Unit Assessment Template: Planning Guide
Essential Question (for Thematic Unit): Recommendations to succeed as a student in high school
Mode of
Communication
Interpretive
Interpersonal
Read the graduation speech in
Spanish, read it and answer
questions.
Debate: Would you rather be a
student in a Spanish speaking
country or in the USA and why.
Video record your discussion
Written: Write your Speech as a
Valedictorian. Give advice to your
fellow students.
Oral version: Read the speech to
the class or video record yourself
doing so. Pronunciation and
enunciation.
Search on line for a graduation
speech, read it and highlight the
advice given in the speech.
Explain why the subjunctive
structure is used or not.
Have a discussion about why the
speech is good or not and the
reasons why.
Choose the most important piece of
advice and discuss why this is so
important to you.
Recommend to your group several
ways they should celebrate
graduation.
Gap activities
Inside / Outside circle
In your own words, in Spanish,
explain to a partner what the rules
for using the subjunctive (in noun
clauses) are.
Performance
Assessment
In-Class
Practice
Presentational
Present and past Grammar exercises
Subjunctive, if
clauses.
Cultural
comparisons of
graduation
requirements in
Spanish
speaking
countries
Thematic Unit Assessment Template: Planning Guide
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