Sp-3 Syllabus
September 9, 2012
Unit Theme
Essential Questions
Linguistic Goals/ Grammar
1
Health Challenges for What role does diet play in
1. Express personal
Adolescents in the
the adolescent’s life?
feelings about problems
Caribbean and USA
during adolescence
How do we express
2. Recognize the
feelings about problems
differences and
during adolescence
similarities between two
including the impact of
food graphics
technology and social
organizers
issues?
What are the possible
solutions to those
challenges?
3. Interview in present and
past about physical
problems
4. Search for information
about adolescents from
Puerto Rico in authentic
resources
5. Tú, usted, ustedes,
regular and irregular
commands
6. Commands with single
object pronouns (direct
and indirect)
7. Introduce double object
pronouns
8. Exchange directions
with commands and
direct object pronouns
2
Tainos: The Beauty
and Aesthetics of an
Ancient Civilization
from the Caribbean
How do the products of a
culture reflect its
perspectives?
How did beauty and
creativity impact the
development of the Taino
life?
What was the impact of
Taino culture on the
overall Caribbean culture?
1. Read and interpret
fictional Taino readings
2. Recognize the
relationship between
artwork and costume
and the perspectives of
the culture
3. Identify the typical
architecture of the Taino
village
4. Recycle the preterit
tense and apply
3
4
6. Introduce additional
irregular preterit tense and
apply
The Influence and
To what extent do
1. Speak in past tense
Impact of the
contemporary Caribbean
using the irregular verbs
2. Use, in context, saber
Spanish Culture in
people identify with
and conocer
Contemporary life of indigenous and colonial
Caribbean People
roots and how do they
3. Recognize and
assess their quality of life?
complete a map of the
Caribbean
What was the impact of
4. Exchange information
the Spanish Colonial
about traveling
culture on the Caribbean
5. Perform a mini-drama
lifestyle?
about travelling
6. Write an authentic
How were products,
task with an
practices and perspectives
interpersonal situation
of the Caribbean people
7. Read articles from
affected by the Spanish
internet
culture?
8. Talk using DOP with
past
9. Talk using some IOP
with past
10. Recognize basic
differences between por and
para
Families and
How do Puerto Rican
1. Figure out, in context,
Communities: Puerto adolescents deal with their
when to use imperfect
Ricans in the
identity in USA?
through inquiry skills or
Caribbean and in the
2. Learn imperfect with
USA
*How different or similar is
more traditional
the role of the Puerto
methods
3. Use the imperfect in
Rican’s family and
formal and informal
education in their home
settings
community in comparison
4. Compare USA and
with USA?
Puerto Rico with
equality and inequality
What is the impact of
comparisons
Puerto Rican traditions
5. Write interpersonal
and values in the
and presentational
sociolinguistic part of the
prompt using imperfect
communication?
6. Watch and analyze a
movie about high school
What is the impact of
Puerto Rican culture on
the American culture?
5
Decoding the
What factors drive
Cultural Perspectives imagination and creativity
and Key Language
in the writing of literature?
Elements of the
Imaginary World of What elements in the
Legends and Fairy
writing and structure
Tales
component of a literature
piece can help us to
determine the use of
preterit or imperfect?
7.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
in Puerto Rico
Perform a mini-drama
about a cultural
confrontation (cultural
difficulty) between
people from USA and
Puerto Rico using the
new coverbal and
nonverbal
communication skills to
problem solve.
Figure out, in context,
when to use imperfect
or preterit through
inquiry skills
Learn when to use
preterit or imperfect with
more traditional
methods
Read a Taino legend
and study the
perspectives of mystical
and imaginary world
Recognize different
parts of a fairy tale
through parts of
classical movies
Analyze a fairy
godmother story/ movie
Read a few classical
books and analyze the
grammar and the setting
of the story
*Put in practice their
knowledge of grammar
when writing extensively
Write an original fairy
tale