Syllabus Spanish 3H
Unit
Theme
Essential Questions
1
What role does diet play in
Health Challenges for
Adolescents in the Caribbean the adolescent’s life?
and USA
How do we express feelings
about problems during
adolescence including the
impact of technology and
social issues?
What are the possible
solutions to those
challenges?
Linguistic Goals/ Grammar
1. Express personal feelings about
problems during adolescence
2. Recognize the differences and
similarities between two
food graphics organizers
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, nosotros,
vosotros regular and irregular
commands
6. Commands with single and
double object pronouns (direct
and indirect)
7.
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?
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5.
apply
3
The Influence and Impact of
the Spanish Culture in
Contemporary life of
Caribbean People
To what extent do
contemporary Caribbean
people identify with
indigenous and colonial
roots and how do they assess
their quality of life?
What was the impact of the
1.
Exchange directions with
commands and object
pronouns
Read and interpret fictional
Taino readings
Recognize the relationship
between artwork and costume
and the perspectives of the
culture
Identify the typical
architecture of the Taino
village
Recognize how fear impacted
Taino perspective
Recycle the preterit tense and
Speak in past tense using the
irregular verbs
2. Use, in context, saber and
conocer
3. Recognize and complete a
map of the Caribbean
4. Exchange information about
traveling
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Spanish Colonial culture on
the Caribbean lifestyle?
How were products,
practices and perspectives of
the Caribbean people
affected by the Spanish
culture?
4
Families and Communities:
Puerto Ricans in the
Caribbean and in the USA
How do Puerto Rican
adolescents deal with their
identity in USA?
5.
Perform a mini-drama about
travelling
6. Write an authentic task with
an interpersonal situation
7. Read articles from internet
8. Talk using DOP and IOP with
past
9. Learn basic differences
between por and para
1.
2.
*How different or similar is
the role of the Puerto
Rican’s family and
education in their home
community in comparison
with USA?
What is the impact of Puerto
Rican traditions and values
in the sociolinguistic part of
the communication?
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4.
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7.
What is the impact of Puerto
Rican culture on the
American culture?
5
Decoding the Cultural
Perspectives and Key
Language Elements of the
Imaginary World of Legends
and Fairy Tales
What factors drive
imagination and creativity in
the writing of literature?
What elements in the writing
and structure component of a
literature piece can help us
to determine the use of
preterit or imperfect?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Figure out, in context, when
to use imperfect through
inquiry skills or
Learn imperfect with more
traditional methods
Use the imperfect in formal
and informal settings
Compare USA and Puerto
Rico with equality and
inequality comparisons
Write interpersonal and
presentational prompt using
imperfect
Watch and analyze a movie
about high school 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
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the setting of the story
7. *Put in practice their
knowledge of grammar when
writing extensively
8. Write an original fairy tale
9. Comprehend and use the
present perfect
6
Cuba: The Isolated
Caribbean Cultural Fortress
with an Unclear Future
How has Cuba’s identity
developed over time?
1.
Perform a mini-drama about a
cultural confrontation (cultural
difficulty) between people from
How do language, family,
Cuba and USA
education and culture
2. Figure out, in context, when
influence its identity?
to use the future through
inquiry skills
What will be the future
3. Learn when to use future with
impact be of the political and
more traditional methods
geographical situation in
4. Speak with an interpersonal
Cuba, its people, the
and presentational mode (AP
Caribbean and the USA?
Practice)
5. Express probability about the
future
6. Recognize and use future in 3
authentic and different real
contexts
7. Write about their future
8. Express opinions about their
identity
9. Analyze a movie from and
about Cuba
10. Analyze and evaluate data
about emigration, immigration from
Cuba and Florida to draw a conclusion