COURSE OUTLINE / TIMELINE FOR SPANISH 3
Semester 1:
1st 6 Weeks
Para empezar: p. 1-15
· Talk about school and non-school daily activities
· Describe daily activities before and after school
· Discuss household chores
· Talk about week-end activities
· Describe special events and celebrations
· Review regular, irregular, stem-changing, and reflexive verbs in the present tense
· Gustar and similar verbs
· Possessive adjectives
Capítulo 1: Días inolvidables p. 16-61
· Describe nature
· Talk about a visit to a national park
· Talk about school competitions, athletics and prizes
· Explore sports events in the Spanish-speaking world
· Express your emotions regarding the outcome of an event
· Narrate an event in the past
· Understand cultural perspectives on family outings
· Review preterit tense
· Review the imperfect tense
2nd 6 weeks
Capítulo 2: ¿Cómo te expresas? p. 62-107
· Talk about the arts
· Give an opinion about a work of art
· Relate the arts to one's own experience
· Describe how people express themselves
· Narrate events in the past
· Discuss some important artists of the Spanish-speaking world
· Review nouns and agreement of nouns and adjectives
· Comparative and superlative forms
· Compare uses of preterit and imperfect tenses
· Verbs with special meanings in the preterit
· The verb Estar plus past participle
· Read and write review of the arts
· Talk about different forms of entertainment
· Ser vs. estar
Capítulo 3: ¿Qué haces para estar en forma? p. 108-153
· Talk about symptoms of illnesses and remedies
· Evaluate ones eating and exercise habits
· Give advice about health and nutrition
· Express how you feel under certain circumstances
· Tell others what to do (familiar affirmative and negative commands)
· Understand cultural perspectives about health, physical fitness, and nutrition
· To read about and prepare a physical fitness program
· Review direct and indirect object pronouns
· To learn the forms the subjunctive of regular, stem-changing , and irregular verbs
· To use the subjunctive to give advice and recommendations about health and fitness
3rd 6 weeks
Capítulo 4: ¿Cómo te llevas con los demás? p. 154-199
· Express how you relate to friends and family
· Explain what is needed to maintain friendships; the characteristics of good relationships
· Express how you feel under certain circumstances
· Talk about conflicts with family and friends and how to resolve them
· Understand cultural perspectives on dealing with friends and family
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Verbs with different meanings when used reflexively
Reflexive pronouns to express reciprocal actions
Subjunctive with verbs of emotion
Por vs. para
Commands with nosotros
Possessive pronouns
Second Semester
4th 6 Weeks
Capítulo 5: Trabajo y comunidad p. 200-245
· Talk about careers and professions (from chapter 6)
· Read about and discuss ways of getting a job
· Read classified ads
· CTE standards
· Describe skills and abilities needed to perform a job
· Explore jobs for bi-lingual applicants
· Study and analyze portrayal of the worker in Latin American artwork
· Talk about opportunities for volunteer work in your community
· Explain how you can help your community
· Understand cultural perspectives on dealing with student jobs and volunteer work
· Present participle
· Position of pronouns
· Future tense
· Future of probability
· Present perfect tense
· Present perfect subjunctive
· Demonstrative adjectives
Capítulo 6: ¿Qué nos traerá el futuro? p. 246-265
· Talk about careers and professions
· Talk about plans for the future
· Explore the impact of science and technology on our lives
· Understand cultural perspectives on jobs and technology
· Discuss plans for the future
· Learn and practice the future tense
· Practice the future of probability
· Saber vs. conocer
· The impersonal se
· The future perfect tense
· Direct and indirect object pronouns
· The conditional tense
5th 6 weeks
Capítulo 7
· Talk about Archeological terms and activities
· Talk about describing archeological site
· Explore the impact of the past upon the future
· Understand myths and legends and ancient beliefs
· Explore pre-Columbian scientific discoveries
· The present and past subjunctive in expressions of doubt
· The subjunctive in adverbial phrases
· Main vs. subordinate clauses
· Understand contextual differences
Capítulo 8
· Talk about the architecture and history of Spain
· Talk about Spain in the Americas
· Explore the encounter between Cortés and the Aztecs
· Explain differences due to family heritage
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Discover timelines
The conditional tense
The conditional tense and if expressions
Past Subjunctive
6th 6 weeks
Don Quijote
· Learn about Miguel de Cervantes
· Read and discuss novel
· Explore the different regions of Spain
· Explore the impact of Spanish History on the world
Capítulo 9
· Talk about Caring for the environment
· Talk about Environmental issues
· Explore the role of the government in the environment
· Present subjunctive with conjunctions
· Relative pronouns
· Present subjunctive with other conjunctions