Westwood Regional School District
World Language Curriculum
AP Spanish Language and Culture
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction ......................................................................................................................1
2. District Mission, Vision, and Belief Statements ..............................................................3
3. Departmental Philosophy .................................................................................................4
4. Course Summary and Course/Grade-level Goals ............................................................5
5. Unit Plans .........................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
The most precious resource teachers have is time. Regardless of how much time a course
is scheduled for, it is never enough to accomplish all that one would like. Therefore, it is
imperative that teachers utilize the time they have wisely in order to maximize the
potential for all students to achieve the desired learning.
High quality educational programs are characterized by clearly stated goals for student
learning, teachers who are well-informed and skilled in enabling students to reach those
goals, program designs that allow for continuous growth over the span of years of
instruction, and ways of measuring whether students are achieving program goals.
The Westwood Regional School District Curriculum Format
The Westwood Regional School District will be using a curriculum format that
incorporates aspects of several different curriculum development models. When
reviewing curriculum documents and the district’s curriculum format, aspects of the
“backward-design” model will be found in the way in which unit objectives, assessments,
and instructional activities are designed.
The curriculum design process involves three interrelated stages for developing an entire
curriculum or a single unit of instruction. The relationship from planning to curriculum
design, development, and implementation hinges upon the integration of the following
three stages.
Stage I – Identifying Desired Results: Course goals based upon knowledge and skills
need to be woven into curriculum publications, documents, standards, and scope and
sequence materials. Course goals highlight the big ideas that students will grapple with
during the course of the unit. Unit objectives are more granular and should be reflective
of best practices, containing the following components:
 Specific performance (e.g. to write, to name, to compare and contrast, to
debate, to decide, etc.)
 Learning Outcome or Product (e.g. a statement, an essay, a poster, a journal
entry, etc.)
 Conditions (during a cooperative learning activity, after reading the story
______________)
 Criterion or Standard (e.g. correct to the nearest mile, four out of five correct,
list three examples, state two differences, etc.)
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The Westwood Regional School District Curriculum Format (con’t)
Stage II – Determining Acceptable Evidence: Varied types of evidence are specified to
ensure that students demonstrate attainment of desired results. While discrete knowledge
assessments (e.g.: multiple choice, fill-in-the-blank, short answer, etc.) will be utilized
during an instructional unit, the overall unit assessment should be performance-based and
asks students to demonstrate that they have mastered the desired understandings. Ideally,
these culminating (summative) assessments are authentic tasks that students would likely
encounter in the real-world after they leave school. They allow students to demonstrate
all that they have learned and can do. To demonstrate their understandings students can
explain, interpret, apply, provide critical and insightful points of view, show empathy
and/or evidence self-knowledge. Models of student performance and clearly defined
criteria (i.e. rubrics) are provided to all students in advance of starting work on the unit
task.
Stage III – Designing Learning Activities: Instructional tasks, activities, and experiences
are aligned with stages one and two so that the desired results are obtained based on the
identified evidence or assessment tasks. Instructional activities and strategies are
considered only once stages one and two have been clearly designed. Therefore,
congruence among all three stages can be ensured and teachers can make wise
instructional choices.
At the curricular level, these three stages are best realized as a fusion of research, best
practices, shared and sustained inquiry, consensus building, and initiative that involves all
stakeholders. In this design, administrators are instructional leaders who enable the
alignment between the curriculum and other key initiatives in their district or schools.
These leaders demonstrate a clear purpose and direction for the curriculum within their
school or district by providing support for implementation, opportunities for revision
through sustained and consistent professional development, initiating action research
activities, and collecting and evaluating materials to ensure alignment with the desired
results. Intrinsic to the success of curriculum is to show how it aligns with the
overarching goals of the district, how the document relates to district, state, or national
standards, what a high quality educational program looks like, and what excellent
teaching and learning looks like. Within education, success of the educational program is
realized through this blend of commitment and organizational direction.
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MOTTO
“Excellence in Education”
MISSION STATEMENT
To provide excellence in education through rich and diverse learning opportunities,
enabling students to exercise intelligent control of their future.
VISION STATEMENT
The vision of the Westwood Regional School District, serving the diverse communities
of the Borough of Westwood and the Township of Washington, is to provide a sound and
comprehensive education. This education process will ensure that our students have the
knowledge, skills, and experiences which will enable them to make future life choices. It
is our long-term goal that each student will use this knowledge, these skills and these
experiences to reach his/her potential and thus become an actively contributing,
productive member of the global community.
BELIEF STATEMENTS
Westwood Regional School District Staff believe that:
1. Children are our community’s most valuable asset and we value each
individual child.
2. All students have the right to a safe, positive, learning environment where
diversity and individuality are respected and appreciated.
3. Each student’s individual learning styles and needs shall be addressed.
4. Students shall be empowered to be productive, organized, responsible, and
self-directed individuals.
5. Our school shall inspire pride, accomplishment, and growth in all students.
6. Physical and mental well-being contribute to student success.
7. Students shall be encouraged to become life-long learners.
8. A sound and comprehensive education produces literate individuals who are
effective problem solvers, critical thinkers, and users of technology.
9. Our school has a responsibility to instill an awareness and appreciation of the
global community and environment.
10. Education is the shared responsibility of the students, faculty, staff, Board of
Education, family, community, and government.
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Departmental Philosophy
The Westwood Regional School District’s World Languages program strives to instill in ALL
students an understanding of the importance and benefits of speaking a language other than their
native tongues, as well as an appreciation, awareness and respect for international cultures,
values and perspectives.
ALL students are taught to meaningfully communicate orally and in writing in the target
language, in order and that they may remain life-long students/users of the language and
productive and conscientious global citizens.
To this end, classroom instruction places an emphasis on speaking and listening while
predominantly utilizing the target language. Content is organized contextually and thematically
around authentic, real-world applications in order to maximize student engagement and
retention. Assessments focus on all skill areas within tasks which foster collaboration and higher
order thinking skills. Technology, as available and appropriate, plays a key role in curriculum,
instruction and assessment as both a means to expose students to the target language content and
culture; as well as a presentational and communicative tool.
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Course Summary
The AP Spanish Language course seeks to develop language skills that can be applied to a
variety of academic and “real world” activities. In addition to preparing students for the AP
language exam, the course stresses listening skills, oral skills, grammatical structures and
substantial training in writing for a variety of purposes. It also expands upon and cultivates
students’ interest in Hispanic language and culture through myriad reading materials, film, music
and art. A number of literary works from both Spain and Latin America are analyzed critically
through both writing and classroom discussion. Regardless of the skills areas addressed,
assignments are varied as to provide students with opportunities to address different audiences
for a variety of purposes.
Most students taking this course have successfully completed Spanish 3H and Spanish 4H. This
course is a yearlong course running from September to June. Classes meet four times a week for
58 minutes. All students taking the course are expected to take the Advanced Placement Exam
in May. The course is conducted entirely in Spanish as students gain knowledge they have the
opportunity to demonstrate their proficiency in the interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational
modes of communication. The students will demonstrate proficiency from the Intermediate to
the Pre-Advanced levels of communication. All students broaden their knowledge of the
Spanish-speaking World through a thematic approach of instruction and use of authentic
materials. Students will successfully widen their skill base through a strong use of integrated
skills preparing them for the AP Spanish Language and Culture Exam
Course/Grade-level Goals
ADVANCED LOW: Students communicate using paragraph-level discourse to handle
complicated situations on a wide-range of topics.
Interpersonal Mode: The mode of communication in which students engage in direct oral and/or
written communication with others (e.g., conversing face-to-face, participating in online
discussions or videoconferences, instant messaging and text messaging, exchanging personal
letters or e-mail messages).
The Intermediate-High language learner has progressed from understanding and communicating at
the sentence level to understanding and communicating at the paragraph level and can use
connected sentences and paragraphs independently to:
o
Infer meaning of unfamiliar words in new contexts.
o
Identify some cultural perspectives.
o
Narrate and describe across a wide-range of topics.
o
Compare and contrast.
o
Offer and support opinions.
o
Persuade someone to change a point of view.
o
Make and change plans.
o
Offer advice.
o
Handle a situation with a complication
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Interpretive Mode Course Goals:
By the end of the Business Spanish course students will be able

Analyze written and oral text.

Synthesize written and oral text.

Identify most supporting details in written and oral text.

Infer meaning of unfamiliar words in new contexts.

Infer and interpret author's intent.

Identify some cultural perspectives.

Identify the organizing principle in written and oral text.
Interpersonal Mode: The Advanced-Low language learner understands and communicates at the
paragraph level and can use paragraph-level discourse independently to:

Infer meaning of unfamiliar words in new contexts.

Identify some cultural perspectives.

Narrate and describe across a wide-range of topics.

Compare and contrast.

Offer and support opinions.

Persuade someone to change a point of view.

Make and change plans.

Offer advice.

Handle a situation with a complication.
Interpersonal Mode Course Goals:
-Use digital tools, such as blogs, e-mail, and video-conferencing to exchange basic information
at the word and memorized-phrase level related to self and targeted themes.
-Give and follow simple oral and written directions, commands, and requests when participating
in age-appropriate classroom and cultural activities.
-Imitate appropriate gestures and intonation of the target culture(s)/language during greetings,
leave-takings, and daily interactions.
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-Ask and respond to simple questions, make requests, and express preferences using memorized
words and phrases.
-Exchange information using words, phrases, and short sentences practiced in class on familiar
topics or on topics studied in other content areas.
Presentational Mode: The Presentational Mode of communication: in which students present,
orally and/or in writing, information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers
with whom there is no immediate interaction. Examples of this "one-to-many" mode of
communication include a presentation to a group, posting an online video or webpage, creating
and posting a podcast or video-cast, and writing an article for a newspaper.
Presentational Mode Course Goals:
-Use basic information at the word and memorized-phrase level to create a multimedia-rich
presentation (combination of text, audio, still images, video, interactivity and animation) on
targeted themes to be shared virtually with a target language audience.
-Imitate, recite, and/or dramatize simple poetry, rhymes, songs, and skits.
-Copy/write words, phrases, or simple guided texts on familiar topics.
-Present information from age- and level-appropriate, culturally authentic materials orally or in
writing.
-Name and label tangible cultural products and imitate cultural practices from the target
culture(s).
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Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Student centered
questions:
I. Las comunidades
educativas
- ¿Qué tipos de
organizaciones, diferentes
a la escuela, educan y
ayudan a la comunidad?
- ¿Por qué los individuos
hacen trabajo voluntario
para beneficiar a la
comunidad?
- ¿En qué sentido el
sistema educativo de una
sociedad es el reflejo de
su cultura?
II. Las redes sociales
-¿De qué manera las redes
sociales están
transformado el mundo?
- ¿Qué conexiones existen
entre el uso de las redes
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Activities
1. Students will read an
email from a fellow student
who has decided to leave
school to pursue a full time
work opportunity. She
explains in her email that
her family needs money and
she must leave her studies
in order to help her family.
Students will respond to the
email encouraging her to
exhaust all her options
before leaving her studies,
to carefully review the
importance of her education
and to discuss options with
her parents.
2. Students will write a
comparative essay in which
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.A.1 Analyze and
critique the validity of
culturally authentic
materials using
electronic information
sources related to
targeted themes.
7.1.AL.A.2
Demonstrate
comprehension of
spoken and written
language and nuances of
culture, as expressed by
speakers of the target
language, in informal
and some formal settings
7.1.AL.A.3 Analyze the
use of verbal and nonverbal etiquette in the
target culture(s) and in
one's own culture to
develop an
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
All activities, using the
Temas, AP Spanish
AP rubrics for the 2014
Language and
Spanish Language and
Culture. Vista Higher Culture Exam.
Learning, Inc., 2014
2. AP Spanish,
Language and Cuture
Exam Preparation.
Vista Higher
Learning, Inc. 2014
3. Conversaciones
creadoras, Mastering
Spanish
Conversation, Third
Edition. Heinle
Cengage Learning,
2006
4. AP Spanish
Preparing for the
Language and
Culture Examination,
Fourth Edition.
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Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
sociales y el desarrollo
económico, social y
político de un país?
- ¿Qué riesgos para
nuestra privacidad y
seguridad están asociados
con las redes sociales?
III. La geografía humana
-¿Cómo se relacionan las
poblaciones humanas con
el medio ambiente que las
rodea?
- ¿Cómo se influyen las
diferentes culturas unas a
otras?
- ¿Cuáles son los factores
que generan cambios
culturales en las
sociedades?
IV. Las tradiciones y los
valores
-¿Cuáles son los
principales factores que
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
they revisit the essential
questions posed in the
chapter. Students will
compare their own culture
to a culture of the Spanishspeaking world. Students
will pre-write to prepare the
essay, write a rough draft
and prepare a final copy.
understanding of how
cultural perspectives are
reflected in cultural
products and cultural
practices.
7.1.AL.A.4 Evaluate,
from multiple cultural
perspectives, the
historical, political, and
present-day contexts that
3. Students will research a
connect or have
social cause of the Spanish- connected famous
speaking world and give an people, places, and
oral presentation in which
events from the target
they explain how the use of culture(s) with the
the Internet has become a
United States.
powerful primary source for 7.1.AL.A.5 Evaluate
the spread of social as well information from oral
as commercial ideas. In the and written discourse
presentation students will
dealing with a variety of
highlight the benefits of
topics.
social networking.
7.1.AL.A.6 Analyze and
critique readings on less
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Resources and Materials
Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2014
5. Univisión Al Punto
6. Univisión Primer
Impacto
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
Noticias Univisión 41
Corporación
Radiotelevisión
Española –
www.rtve.es
El País –
www.elpais.com
El Mundo –
www.elmundo.es
ABC – www.abc.es
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.e
s
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.c
om/
BBC Mundo –
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
influyen en la formación
de los valores de una
persona?
- ¿Cómo pueden las reglas
y costumbres de una
familia reflejar sus
valores?
- ¿Cuál es el papel de la
familia en la formación de
los valores de los jóvenes?
V. La ciudadanía global
- ¿Cuáles son los derechos
y las responsabilidades de
un(a) ciudadano(a)
global?
- ¿Qué relación hay entre
el concepto de ciudadanía
global y el de democracia?
- ¿Qué tipo de acciones
puede tomar una persona
para contribuir a mejorar
el mundo, ya sea local o
globalmente?
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
4. Students will receive part
A and part B of a
conversation related to “Las
familias y las
comunidades.” The
students will present logical
dialogs in which they focus
on authentic use of
situational Spanish.
familiar topics using a
variety of culturally
authentic texts and
genres.
7.1.AL.A.7 Infer the
meaning of some
unfamiliar words and
phrases in academic and
formal contexts.
7.1.AL.A.8 Analyze
5. Students will listen to a
elements of the target
fragment of the
language that do not
documentary “Tocar y
have a comparable
Luchar” which explains
linguistic element in
about a program that
English.
focuses on the importance
7.1.AL.B.1 Use digital
of music in the life of young tools to participate in
people at risk. Students will extended conversations
be able to answer questions on topics of a personal,
and compare the source to
academic, or social
their own experiences.
nature using a variety of
timeframes to exchange
information.
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Resources and Materials
www.bbc.co.uk/langu
ages/spanish/
15. Univisión –
www.univision.com
16. Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.inf
o
17. RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/
directo/canal-24h/
18.
Canal 24 Horas –
www.rtve.es/alacarta/
tve/24-horas/
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
VI. La estructura de la
familia
-¿Cuáles son las
características
fundamentales de una
familia?
- Además de los padres y
los hijos, ¿qué otras
personas pueden formar
parte de una familia?
- ¿Puede una familia
incluir miembros que no
hagan vínculos legales
biológicos?
- ¿Cuáles son los factores
que influyen en las
estructuras familiares?
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.B.2 Give,
respond to, and ask for
Study guide, restate
clarification on detailed
directions, testing
and complex oral and
extension.
written directions,
commands, and indirect
requests.
Technology
7.1.AL.B.3 Interact in a
NEWSPAPERS
variety of familiar and a
1. El País –
few unfamiliar situations
www.elpais.com
using culturally
2. El Mundo –
appropriate verbal and
www.elmundo.es
non-verbal
3. ABC – www.abc.es communication
4. El Confidencial –
strategies.
www.elconfidencial. 7.1.AL.B.4 Ask and
es
respond to questions as
5. Prensa Escrita –
part of a group
www.prensaescrita.c discussion on topics of a
om/
personal, academic, or
6. BBC Mundo –
social nature in informal
www.bbc.co.uk/lang and some formal
uages/spanish/
settings.
Modifications
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
AUTHENTIC
MAGAZINES
1. Vanidades.
2. Muy Interesante
3. People En español
4. Hola
WEBSITES
1. Nuevos Horizontes
–
www.nuevoshorizon
tes.org
2. Univisión –
www.univision.com
3. Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.in
fo
4. RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticia
s/directo/canal-24h/
5. Canal 24 Horas –
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.B.5 Engage in
oral and/or written
discourse in a variety of
timeframes on topics of
personal or social
interest, topics studied in
other content areas, and
some unfamiliar topics.
7.1.AL.B.6 Use
language in a variety of
settings to further
personal, academic, and
career goals.
7.1.AL.C.1 Create a
research-based
multimedia-rich
presentation to be shared
virtually with a target
language audience.
7.1.AL.C.2 Create a
research-based analysis
of a current global
problem/issue showing
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
www.rtve.es/alacart
a/tve/24-horas/
Applicable CPI
cultural perspectives
associated with the target
culture(s) and another
world culture.
7.1.AL.C.3 Use
language creatively in
writing for personal,
career, or academic
purposes.
7.1.AL.C.4 Compare
and contrast the
structural elements
and/or cultural
perspectives found in
culturally authentic
materials with those
found in selections in
English.
7.1.AL.C.5 Analyze
how cultural
perspectives about a
specific cultural product
or cultural practice
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 1 - Las familias y las comunidades
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
associated with the target
culture(s) change over
time, and compare with
changing perspectives in
one's own culture.
7.1.AL.C.6 Create an
electronic portfolio in
the target language with
artifacts documenting
language proficiency,
cross-cultural awareness
and experiences, and
other qualifications that
support the goals of the
Personalized Student
Learning Plan.
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
I. Tecnología, individuo y
sociedad
- ¿De qué manera los
avances tecnológicos
cambian nuestra manera
de comunicarnos y
relacionarnos?
- ¿Cómo podemos
encontrar y mantener un
equilibrio saludable al
usar la tecnología?
- ¿Cuál es el papel de la
ciencia y la tecnología en
el bienestar general de las
personas?
II. El cuidado de la salud
y la medicina
-¿Cómo se puede mejorar
el acceso y la calidad de
los servicios de salud en la
era de la información?
- ¿Cuál es la importancia
de los avances médicos y
la educación para la salud
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Activities
1. Students will analyze a
graph that illustrates the
number of patents that have
been generated in each
Latin American country
between the years of 2001
and 2008. Students will do
an Internet search on a
particular company in a
Latin American country and
generate a written report on
their findings that will
include the type of
company, the products
produced, physical location
and region for which the
company chose to establish
its operations.
2. Students will write an
investigation report on the
impact that scientific and
technological advances
have on their lives, the
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.A.1 Analyze and
critique the validity of
culturally authentic
materials using
electronic information
sources related to
targeted themes.
7.1.AL.A.2
Demonstrate
comprehension of
spoken and written
language and nuances of
culture, as expressed by
speakers of the target
language, in informal
and some formal settings
7.1.AL.A.3 Analyze the
use of verbal and nonverbal etiquette in the
target culture(s) and in
one's own culture to
develop an
understanding of how
cultural perspectives are
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
Temas, AP Spanish
Language and
Culture. Vista Higher
Learning, Inc., 2014
2. AP Spanish,
Language and Cuture
Exam Preparation.
Vista Higher
Learning, Inc. 2014
3. Conversaciones
creadoras, Mastering
Spanish
Conversation, Third
Edition. Heinle
Cengage Learning,
2006
4. AP Spanish
Preparing for the
Language and
Culture Examination,
Fourth Edition.
Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2014
All activities, using the
AP rubrics for the 2014
Spanish Language and
Culture Exam
1.
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
de las personas?
- ¿Cómo influyen las
condiciones
socioeconómicas en el
acceso de los ciudadanos a
los servicios de salud?
III. La ciencia y la ética
-¿Cómo se puede
garantizar la dignidad
humana en la práctica de
las ciencias?
- ¿Cuál es el equilibrio
apropiado entre desarrollo
económico y protección
de los recursos naturales?
- ¿Cuál es la importancia
de la sustentabilidad
ambiental en la relación
con los derechos
humanos?
IV. Los fenómenos
naturales
-¿De qué manera la
especie humana y todas
factors that have influenced
the development and
innovation of the same and
what role ethics play in this
topic.
3. Students will work in
groups and research on the
Internet scientific and
technological advances.
They will generate a list of
inventions that include the
following: The
improvement an
individual’s quality of life
and society as a whole.
This will include the
reduction of conflicts
between communities and
nations and the reduction of
crime.
4. Students will make a
brief presentation on a
hypothetical situation. The
presentation will address the
reflected in cultural
products and cultural
practices.
7.1.AL.A.4 Evaluate,
from multiple cultural
perspectives, the
historical, political, and
present-day contexts that
connect or have
connected famous
people, places, and
events from the target
culture(s) with the
United States.
7.1.AL.A.5 Evaluate
information from oral
and written discourse
dealing with a variety of
topics.
7.1.AL.A.6 Analyze and
critique readings on less
familiar topics using a
variety of culturally
authentic texts and
7
Resources and Materials
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
Univisión Al Punto
Univisión Primer
Impacto
Noticias Univisión 41
Corporación
Radiotelevisión
Española –
www.rtve.es
El País –
www.elpais.com
El Mundo –
www.elmundo.es
ABC – www.abc.es
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.e
s
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.c
om
BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/langu
ages/spanish/
Univisión –
www.univision.com
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
las especie de la Tierra
estamos definidas por los
fenómenos naturales?
- ¿Qué factores
ambientales han
impulsado el desarrollo y
la innovación en la ciencia
y la tecnología?
- ¿Cuáles son las
actividades humanas que
más influyen en el clima y
quiénes son los más
afectados por los eventos
climáticos extremos?
V. El acceso a la
tecnología
- ¿Cómo se relacionan las
personas con la tecnología
en la vida cotidiana?
- ¿Cómo se compara la
vida de las personas de los
países desarrollados con la
vida de las personas de
países en donde el acceso
following points: What
would you do differently if
you knew that…a) you
would never die?, b) you
will die in a year’s time?; c)
you will live to be 100 years
old?; d) you have the
capability to change the
world for the good of all
mankind?
5. Students will listen to a
program called Puntos
Cardinales from Radio
Naciones Unidas. World
leaders who participated in
the Río + 20 World
Conference share their
opinion in reference to how
science can help solve the
planet’s environmental
problems. As students listen
to the program, they will
focus on expressions used
and match the appropriate
genres.
7.1.AL.A.7 Infer the
meaning of some
unfamiliar words and
phrases in academic and
formal contexts.
7.1.AL.A.8 Analyze
elements of the target
language that do not
have a comparable
linguistic element in
English.
7.1.AL.B.1 Use digital
tools to participate in
extended conversations
on topics of a personal,
academic, or social
nature using a variety of
timeframes to exchange
information.
7.1.AL.B.2 Give,
respond to, and ask for
clarification on detailed
and complex oral and
8
Resources and Materials
Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.inf
o
17. RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/
directo/canal-24h/
18. Canal 24 Horas –
www.rtve.es/alacarta/
tve/24-horas/
16.
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
a la tecnología es más
limitado?
- ¿Debería el avance
tecnológico ser un
derecho fundamental de
todos los seres humanos?
VI. Las innovaciones
tecnológicas
-¿Cuál es la relación entre
los términos inventar,
mejorar e innovar?
- ¿Para qué sirven las
innovaciones
tecnológicas?
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
Spanish definition.
6. As a continuation of the
previous activity, students
will respond to specific
information based on the
recording.
written directions,
commands, and indirect
requests.
7.1.AL.B.3 Interact in a
variety of familiar and a
few unfamiliar situations
Modifications
using culturally
appropriate verbal and
Study guide, restate directions,
non-verbal
testing extension.
communication
strategies.
Technology
7.1.AL.B.4 Ask and
NEWSPAPERS
1. El País –
respond to questions as
www.elpais.com
part of a group
2. El Mundo –
discussion on topics of a
www.elmundo.es
personal, academic, or
3. ABC – www.abc.es
social nature in informal
4. El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.es
and some formal
5. Prensa Escrita –
settings.
www.prensaescrita.com/
7.1.AL.B.5 Engage in
6. BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/languag oral and/or written
discourse in a variety of
es/spanish/
timeframes on topics of
AUTHENTIC MAGAZINES
personal or social
1.
Vanidades.
9
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
2.
3.
4.
Applicable CPI
Muy Interesante
People En español
Hola
interest, topics studied in
other content areas, and
some unfamiliar topics.
7.1.AL.B.6 Use
language in a variety of
WEBSITES
1. Nuevos Horizontes –
settings to further
www.nuevoshorizontes. personal, academic, and
org
career goals.
2. Univisión –
7.1.AL.C.1 Create a
www.univision.com
research-based
3. Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.info
multimedia-rich
4. RTVE Noticias en
presentation to be shared
directo –
virtually with a target
www.rtve.es/noticias/dir
language audience.
ecto/canal-24h/
7.1.AL.C.2 Create a
5. Canal 24 Horas –
www.rtve.es/alacarta/tve research-based analysis
/24-horas/
of a current global
problem/issue showing
cultural perspectives
associated with the target
culture(s) and another
world culture.
7.1.AL.C.3 Use
language creatively in
10
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
writing for personal,
career, or academic
purposes.
7.1.AL.C.4 Compare
and contrast the
structural elements
and/or cultural
perspectives found in
culturally authentic
materials with those
found in selections in
English.
7.1.AL.C.5 Analyze
how cultural
perspectives about a
specific cultural product
or cultural practice
associated with the target
culture(s) change over
time, and compare with
changing perspectives in
one's own culture.
7.1.AL.C.6 Create an
electronic portfolio in
11
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 2 - La ciencia y la tecnología
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
the target language with
artifacts documenting
language proficiency,
cross-cultural awareness
and experiences, and
other qualifications that
support the goals of the
Personalized Student
Learning Plan.
12
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
I. Definiciones de la
belleza
- ¿Qué nos permite
percibir la belleza?
- ¿Cuáles concepciones
antiguas de la belleza han
perdurado? ¿Por qué?
- ¿Cuáles factores
culturales influyen en las
percepciones de la belleza
y en la actitud de las
personas hacia ellas?
II. La moda y el diseño
- ¿De qué manera el modo
de vestirse puede ser un
reflejo de la actitud, los
valores o la personalidad
de los individuos?
- ¿Cuál es la importancia
de la moda en la vida
social de las personas?
- ¿Cómo ven el mundo los
diseñadores y quienes
lideran el mundo de la
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
Activities
7.1.AL.A.1 Analyze and
critique the validity of
1. Students will read
culturally authentic
“Encuesta sobre la
materials using
belleza” with different
electronic information
public opinions.
sources related to
Students will evaluate
targeted themes.
what others have posted 7.1.AL.A.2
and attach their own
Demonstrate
posting.
comprehension of
2. Students will, in small
spoken and written
groups, create a series of language and nuances of
questions that will be
culture, as expressed by
used to create an
speakers of the target
original form. Students language, in informal
will post their thoughts and some formal settings
on Schoology and
7.1.AL.A.3 Analyze the
respond to new forum. use of verbal and non3. Students will
verbal etiquette in the
research and evaluate a
target culture(s) and in
style or subculture and
one's own culture to
create an oral
develop an
presentation in which they understanding of how
describe clothing,
cultural perspectives are
6
Resources and Materials
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Temas, AP SpanishLanguage and
Culture. Vista Higher
Learning, Inc., 2014
AP Spanish,
Language and Cuture
Exam Preparation.
Vista Higher
Learning, Inc. 2014
Conversaciones
creadoras, Mastering
Spanish
Conversation, Third
Edition. Heinle
Cengage Learning,
2006
AP Spanish
Preparing for the
Language and
Culture Examination,
Fourth Edition.
Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2014
Univisión Al Punto
Assessments
All activities, using the
AP rubrics for the 2014
Spanish Language and
Culture Exam
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
moda?
III. El lenguaje y la
literatura
-¿Cómo puede la literatura
generar vínculos entre los
seres humanos?
- ¿Por qué es fundamental
la literatura en el mundo
contemporáneo?
- ¿Cuál es la importancia
del lenguaje y la literatura
en la cultura de un país?
IV. Las artes visuales y
escénicas
- ¿Por qué es importante
tener instituciones
públicas que apoyen y
promocionen las artes?
- ¿En qué sentido es el
arte una imitación de la
vida o una reacción a la
realidad?
- ¿Qué influencia tienen
las circunstancias políticas
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
accessories, hairstyles,
interests, values, activities
and community.
reflected in cultural
products and cultural
practices.
7.1.AL.A.4 Evaluate,
4. Students will listen to a from multiple cultural
Podcast from
perspectives, the
“Paréntepsis” about
historical, political, and
beauty and self esteem. present-day contexts that
Students will take notes connect or have
and answer questions
connected famous
and create an outline of people, places, and
important information. events from the target
5. Students will write a
culture(s) with the
philosophical essay
United States.
answering the following
7.1.AL.A.5 Evaluate
question. How are
information from oral
perceptions about beauty
and written discourse
established in each
dealing with a variety of
individual? Students will
topics.
use podcast, notes and
7.1.AL.A.6 Analyze and
personal opinions to
critique readings on less
complete the essay
familiar topics using a
variety of culturally
authentic texts and
7
Resources and Materials
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Univisión Primer
Impacto
Noticias Univisión 41
Corporación
Radiotelevisión
Española –
www.rtve.es
El País –
www.elpais.com
El Mundo –
www.elmundo.es
ABC – www.abc.es
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.e
s
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.c
om
BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/langu
ages/spanish/
Univisión –
www.univision.com
Tierra América –
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
y las experiencias
personales sobre la
expresión artística?
V. La arquitectura
- ¿Por qué algunas obras
arquitectónicas les
parecen muy bellas a
ciertas personas y a otras
no?
- ¿La belleza es inherente
a la obra arquitectónica o
está “en el ojo de quién la
contempla”?
- ¿Qué tienen en común
las obras arquitectónicas
más bellas del mundo?
VI. Definiciones de la
creatividad
- ¿Es la creatividad una
característica innata? Es
decir, ¿las personas
creativas lo son desde su
nacimiento o aprendieron
a ser creativas?
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Modifications
Applicable CPI
genres.
Study guide, restate directions, 7.1.AL.A.7 Infer the
testing extension.
meaning of some
unfamiliar words and
phrases in academic and
Technology
formal contexts.
NEWSPAPERS
1. El País –
7.1.AL.A.8 Analyze
www.elpais.com
elements of the target
2. El Mundo –
language that do not
www.elmundo.es
have a comparable
3. ABC – www.abc.es
linguistic element in
4. El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.es
English.
5. Prensa Escrita –
7.1.AL.B.1 Use digital
www.prensaescrita.com/
tools to participate in
6. BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/languag extended conversations
on topics of a personal,
es/spanish/
academic, or social
AUTHENTIC MAGAZINES
nature using a variety of
1. Vanidades.
timeframes to exchange
2. Muy Interesante
information.
3. People En español
7.1.AL.B.2 Give,
4. Hola
respond to, and ask for
WEBSITES
clarification on detailed
1. Nuevos Horizontes –
and complex oral and
www.nuevoshorizontes.
8
Resources and Materials
www.tierramerica.inf
o
17. RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/
directo/canal-24h/
18. Canal 24 Horas –
www.rtve.es/alacarta/
tve/24-horas/
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
- ¿Somos todas las
personas potencialmente
creativas o la creatividad
es una característica de
algunas pocas personas
afortunadas o
privilegiadas?
- ¿Cómo se puede
manifestar la creatividad
en nuestra vida cotidiana?
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
2.
3.
4.
5.
org
Univisión –
www.univision.com
Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.info
RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/dir
ecto/canal-24h/
Canal 24 Horas –
www.rtve.es/alacarta/tve
/24-horas/
Applicable CPI
written directions,
commands, and indirect
requests.
7.1.AL.B.3 Interact in a
variety of familiar and a
few unfamiliar situations
using culturally
appropriate verbal and
non-verbal
communication
strategies.
7.1.AL.B.4 Ask and
respond to questions as
part of a group
discussion on topics of a
personal, academic, or
social nature in informal
and some formal
settings.
7.1.AL.B.5 Engage in
oral and/or written
discourse in a variety of
timeframes on topics of
personal or social
9
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
interest, topics studied in
other content areas, and
some unfamiliar topics.
7.1.AL.B.6 Use
language in a variety of
settings to further
personal, academic, and
career goals.
7.1.AL.C.1 Create a
research-based
multimedia-rich
presentation to be shared
virtually with a target
language audience.
7.1.AL.C.2 Create a
research-based analysis
of a current global
problem/issue showing
cultural perspectives
associated with the target
culture(s) and another
world culture.
7.1.AL.C.3 Use
language creatively in
10
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
writing for personal,
career, or academic
purposes.
7.1.AL.C.4 Compare
and contrast the
structural elements
and/or cultural
perspectives found in
culturally authentic
materials with those
found in selections in
English.
7.1.AL.C.5 Analyze
how cultural
perspectives about a
specific cultural product
or cultural practice
associated with the target
culture(s) change over
time, and compare with
changing perspectives in
one's own culture.
7.1.AL.C.6 Create an
electronic portfolio in
11
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Curricular Unit Plan
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 3 - La belleza y la estética
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
the target language with
artifacts documenting
language proficiency,
cross-cultural awareness
and experiences, and
other qualifications that
support the goals of the
Personalized Student
Learning Plan.
12
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 4 - La vida contemporánea
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Activities
I. La educación y las
1.
After
viewing
the
carreras profesionales
television program
- ¿Cómo pueden las
Vamos a cocinar con
escuelas de hoy preparar a
José Andrés, students
los estudiantes para los
will write an email to
desafíos y las
Chef Andrés and inquire
oportunidades del futuro?
about the various types
- ¿Cómo influyen los
of oils, spices and herbs
factores sociales y
that he keeps in his
culturales en la elección
personal kitchen or the
de la carrera universitaria?
types of markets where
- ¿Cuál es la importancia
he regularly purchases
de la equidad de género en
his ingredients or further
la docencia?
inquire about the recipe
II. El entretenimiento y la
presented in his
diversión
program.
- ¿Qué significado cultural
2.
Students will write a
tiene la comida?
persuasive report on one
- ¿Cómo se reflejan las
of the essential
perspectivas culturales en
questions presented in
las formas de diversión y
this unit and research
entretenimiento?
information related to
- ¿Por qué es difícil
sociological studies,
entender las bromas de un
surveys, anecdotes and
idioma y una cultura que
citations that they will
no sean los propios?
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.A.1 Analyze and
critique the validity of
culturally authentic
materials using
electronic information
sources related to
targeted themes.
7.1.AL.A.2
Demonstrate
comprehension of
spoken and written
language and nuances of
culture, as expressed by
speakers of the target
language, in informal
and some formal settings
7.1.AL.A.3 Analyze the
use of verbal and nonverbal etiquette in the
target culture(s) and in
one's own culture to
develop an
understanding of how
cultural perspectives are
reflected in cultural
products and cultural
6
Resources and Materials
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Temas, AP Spanish
Language and
Culture. Vista Higher
Learning, Inc., 2014
AP Spanish,
Language and Cuture
Exam Preparation.
Vista Higher
Learning, Inc. 2014
Conversaciones
creadoras, Mastering
Spanish
Conversation, Third
Edition. Heinle
Cengage Learning,
2006
AP Spanish
Preparing for the
Language and
Culture Examination,
Fourth Edition.
Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2014
Univisión Al Punto
Univisión Primer
Impacto
Assessments
All activities, using the
AP rubrics for the 2014
Spanish Language and
Culture Exam
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 4 - La vida contemporánea
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
III. Los viajes y el ocio
use as a basis for their
- ¿Cómo nos beneficiamos
thesis.
de las perspectivas de
3. Students will research
otras personas y culturas?
on the Internet a specific
- ¿Cómo mostramos
culinary dish from a
respeto por los lugares que
Hispanic country that
visitamos?
they would like to try.
- ¿De qué manera la
They will present the
ubicación geográfica de
dish, which will include
un país influye en su
a list of ingredients, the
desarrollo turístico?
recipe and a picture of
IV. Las relaciones
the final product. A list
personales
of Hispanic countries
- ¿Cómo pueden las etapas
will be provided along
de la vida definir nuestras
with suggested
relaciones?
indigenous recipes.
- ¿Cómo pueden las
4. Prior to reading an
emociones interferir en la
article En el futuro,
comunicación entre
todos autónomos, taken
amigos y familiares?
from the Spanish
- ¿Qué gestos, acciones o
internet newspaper El
palabras son
País, students will
manifestaciones de afecto
engage in a discussion
y amistad entre las
and list future
personas?
technologies in order of
V. Los estilos de vida
importance. The list
Applicable CPI
practices.
7.1.AL.A.4 Evaluate,
from multiple cultural
perspectives, the
historical, political, and
present-day contexts that
connect or have
connected famous
people, places, and
events from the target
culture(s) with the
United States.
7.1.AL.A.5 Evaluate
information from oral
and written discourse
dealing with a variety of
topics.
7.1.AL.A.6 Analyze and
critique readings on less
familiar topics using a
variety of culturally
authentic texts and
genres.
7.1.AL.A.7 Infer the
meaning of some
unfamiliar words and
7
Resources and Materials
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Noticias Univisión 41
Corporación
Radiotelevisión
Española –
www.rtve.es
El País –
www.elpais.com
El Mundo –
www.elmundo.es
ABC – www.abc.es
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.e
s
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.c
om/
BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/langu
ages/spanish/
Univisión –
www.univision.com
Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.inf
o
RTVE Noticias en
directo –
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 4 - La vida contemporánea
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
- ¿Cómo definen los
will include
individuos su estilo de
nanotechnology,
vida?
robotics, construction in
- ¿Cómo puede afectar al
outer space, flying cars,
medio ambiente el estilo
genetic engineering,
de vida de los individuos?
bionic engineering and
- ¿Cómo contribuyen los
regenerative medicine.
factores sociales,
5. Students will listen
culturales y económicos a
twice to a song
perfilar el estilo de vida?
downloaded from the
VI. Las tradiciones y los
Internet by the
valores sociales
Columbian duo
- ¿Qué papel cumplen las
Intentalocarito. In the
tradiciones en una
song, the duo presents a
sociedad?
cultural and linguistical
- ¿Cuáles son los valores
appreciation of the
sociales que definen a una
Spanish language in a
sociedad?
very entertaining way
- ¿Cuáles son los valores
and specifically
sociales que transcienden
references the
las fronteras políticas?
experience of acquiring
the Spanish language.
The first time, students
will write down all the
geographical places
within the Hispanic
Applicable CPI
Resources and Materials
phrases in academic and
www.rtve.es/noticias/
formal contexts.
directo/canal-24h/
7.1.AL.A.8 Analyze
18. Canal 24 Horas –
elements of the target
www.rtve.es/alacarta/
language that do not
tve/24-horas/
have a comparable
linguistic element in
English.
7.1.AL.B.1 Use digital
tools to participate in
extended conversations
on topics of a personal,
academic, or social
nature using a variety of
timeframes to exchange
information.
7.1.AL.B.2 Give,
respond to, and ask for
clarification on detailed
and complex oral and
written directions,
commands, and indirect
requests.
7.1.AL.B.3 Interact in a
variety of familiar and a
few unfamiliar situations
8
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 4 - La vida contemporánea
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
world. The second
time, students will write
down words and
expression that
reference the
communication, the
grammar and the
vocabulary of the
Spanish language in
general.
6. Students will listen to an
authentic interview with
psychologist Francisco
Gavilán on the
importance of
communicating with
emotional intelligence.
Students will pay
particular attention to
the vocabulary and
commentaries of the
interview that support a
printed graphic
organizer relevant to the
interview. Students will
comment on their
using culturally
appropriate verbal and
non-verbal
communication
strategies.
7.1.AL.B.4 Ask and
respond to questions as
part of a group
discussion on topics of a
personal, academic, or
social nature in informal
and some formal
settings.
7.1.AL.B.5 Engage in
oral and/or written
discourse in a variety of
timeframes on topics of
personal or social
interest, topics studied in
other content areas, and
some unfamiliar topics.
7.1.AL.B.6 Use
language in a variety of
settings to further
personal, academic, and
career goals.
9
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 4 - La vida contemporánea
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
observations orally or in 7.1.AL.C.1 Create a
writing.
research-based
multimedia-rich
Modifications
presentation to be shared
virtually with a target
Study guide, restate directions,
language audience.
testing extension.
7.1.AL.C.2 Create a
research-based analysis
Technology
of a current global
NEWSPAPERS
problem/issue showing
1. El País –
cultural perspectives
www.elpais.com
associated with the target
2. El Mundo –
culture(s) and another
www.elmundo.es
world culture.
3. ABC – www.abc.es
4. El Confidencial –
7.1.AL.C.3 Use
www.elconfidencial.es
language creatively in
5. Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.com/ writing for personal,
career, or academic
6. BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/languag purposes.
es/spanish/
7.1.AL.C.4 Compare
and contrast the
AUTHENTIC MAGAZINES
structural elements
1. Vanidades.
and/or cultural
2. Muy Interesante
perspectives found in
3. People En español
4. Hola
culturally authentic
materials with those
10
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 4 - La vida contemporánea
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
WEBSITES
1. Nuevos Horizontes –
www.nuevoshorizontes.
org
2. Univisión –
www.univision.com
3. Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.info
4. RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/dir
ecto/canal-24h/
5. Canal 24 Horas –
www.rtve.es/alacarta/tve
/24-horas/
Applicable CPI
found in selections in
English.
7.1.AL.C.5 Analyze
how cultural
perspectives about a
specific cultural product
or cultural practice
associated with the target
culture(s) change over
time, and compare with
changing perspectives in
one's own culture.
7.1.AL.C.6 Create an
electronic portfolio in
the target language with
artifacts documenting
language proficiency,
cross-cultural awareness
and experiences, and
other qualifications that
support the goals of the
Personalized Student
Learning Plan.
11
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
12
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 5 - Los desafíos mundiales
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Activities
I. Los temas económicos
- ¿Qué soluciones existen
1. Students will read a
para mejorar el nivel
series of graphs and
económico de las personas
tables, which delineate
más vulnerables en un
the Chilean view of
país en vías de desarrollo?
conservation of the
- ¿Cuál es el papel de las
environment. Students
empresas transnacionales
will interpret
en el desarrollo de la
information and write a
economía mundial?
persuasive letter to the
- ¿Contribuyen al
newspaper in which
bienestar económico o
they try to convince the
forman parte de los
public to take on a
problemas económicos?
“green” life style. The
- ¿De qué manera pueden
letter will outline the
influir las características
effects of bad habits on
geográficas de un
the environment, what
territorio en la economía
measures need to be
de su población?
taken to protect the
II. Los temas del
environment and why it
medioambiente
is of vital importance to
- ¿Qué impacto tienen las
adopt a “green” life
actividades humanas en el
style.
medioambiente? ¿Cómo
2.
Students will create a
afecta el medioambiente a
proposal in which they
los seres humanos?
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.A.1 Analyze and
critique the validity of
culturally authentic
materials using
electronic information
sources related to
targeted themes.
7.1.AL.A.2
Demonstrate
comprehension of
spoken and written
language and nuances of
culture, as expressed by
speakers of the target
language, in informal
and some formal settings
7.1.AL.A.3 Analyze the
use of verbal and nonverbal etiquette in the
target culture(s) and in
one's own culture to
develop an
understanding of how
cultural perspectives are
reflected in cultural
products and cultural
6
Resources and Materials
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Temas, AP Spanish
Language and
Culture. Vista Higher
Learning, Inc., 2014
AP Spanish,
Language and Cuture
Exam Preparation.
Vista Higher
Learning, Inc. 2014
Conversaciones
creadoras, Mastering
Spanish
Conversation, Third
Edition. Heinle
Cengage Learning,
2006
AP Spanish
Preparing for the
Language and
Culture Examination,
Fourth Edition.
Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2014
Univisión Al Punto
Univisión Primer
Impacto
Assessments
All activities, using the
AP rubrics for the 2014
Spanish Language and
Culture Exam
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 5 - Los desafíos mundiales
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
- ¿Cómo se puede
request funds for a
fomentar el interés por el
community project that
cuidado de nuestro
will help improve the
entorno?
quality of life, health,
- ¿Por qué participan las
education or
personas en causas
communication in the
medioambientales?
community. Students
III. La población y la
will create a cause and
demografía
present their ideas to
- ¿Qué desafíos mundiales
Asociación MAPU with
tienen que ver con los
the intent to receive full
cambios en la población
funding for the project.
humana?
3. Students will listen to
- ¿Qué beneficios tiene
proposals and assume
una sociedad que respeta y
the role of Asociación
cuida a sus ancianos?
MAPU. Students will
- ¿Por qué es importante
analyze presentations
preservar los documentos
and determine which
de una sociedad?
group or groups should
IV. El bienestar social
be given funds and why.
- Entre muchos desafíos
4. Students will listen to a
que enfrentan los
recording from a
ciudadanos, ¿qué
Nicaraguan television
importancia tiene el
news show about the
bienestar social?
role of today’s youth in
- ¿Cuál es el papel de los
relation to the protection
Applicable CPI
practices.
7.1.AL.A.4 Evaluate,
from multiple cultural
perspectives, the
historical, political, and
present-day contexts that
connect or have
connected famous
people, places, and
events from the target
culture(s) with the
United States.
7.1.AL.A.5 Evaluate
information from oral
and written discourse
dealing with a variety of
topics.
7.1.AL.A.6 Analyze and
critique readings on less
familiar topics using a
variety of culturally
authentic texts and
genres.
7.1.AL.A.7 Infer the
meaning of some
unfamiliar words and
7
Resources and Materials
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
Noticias Univisión 41
Corporación
Radiotelevisión
Española –
www.rtve.es
El País –
www.elpais.com
El Mundo –
www.elmundo.es
ABC – www.abc.es
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.e
s
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.c
om14.BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/langu
ages/spanish/
Univisión –
www.univision.com
Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.inf
o
RTVE Noticias en
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 5 - Los desafíos mundiales
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
individuos y del gobierno
en el bienestar social de
una comunidad?
- ¿Cómo contribuye el
bienestar social al estado
de ánimo y a la buena
salud de una persona?
V. El pensamiento
filosófico y la religión
- ¿Cuáles son las
religiones predominantes
del mundo? ¿En qué se
basan principalmente?
- ¿Existe un cambio
generacional respecto a
las creencias religiosas?
¿Son creyentes los
jóvenes de hoy en un día
del mismo modo que lo
son sus padres? ¿Y sus
abuelos?
- ¿Cuál es el papel de la
filosofía en el mundo
actual? ¿Es el mismo que
el de hace cien años?
VI. La conciencia social
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
of the environment.
Students will take notes
and compare the
information on the
newscast to their own
life experiences and
contributions to the
environment in a group
discussion.
Resources and Materials
phrases in academic and
directo/canal-24h/
formal contexts.
17. Canal 24 Horas –
7.1.AL.A.8 Analyze
www.rtve.es/alacarta/
elements of the target
tve/24-horas/
language that do not
have a comparable
linguistic element in
English.
7.1.AL.B.1 Use digital
tools to participate in
extended conversations
on topics of a personal,
Technology
academic, or social
nature using a variety of
timeframes to exchange
NEWSPAPERS
1. El País –
information.
www.elpais.com
7.1.AL.B.2 Give,
2. El Mundo –
respond to, and ask for
www.elmundo.es
clarification on detailed
3. ABC – www.abc.es
and complex oral and
4. El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.es
written directions,
5. Prensa Escrita –
commands, and indirect
www.prensaescrita.com/
requests.
6. BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/languag 7.1.AL.B.3 Interact in a
variety of familiar and a
es/spanish/
few unfamiliar situations
8
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 5 - Los desafíos mundiales
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
AUTHENTIC MAGAZINES
- ¿Mediante qué formas
1. Vanidades.
expresa el ser humano la
2. Muy Interesante
conciencia social? ¿Qué
3. People En español
casos de consciencia
4. Hola
social son popularmente
conocidos?
WEBSITES
- ¿Qué tipos de
1. Nuevos Horizontes –
organizaciones benéficas,
www.nuevoshorizontes.
sin fines de lucro, existen
org
en el mundo?
2. Univisión –
- ¿Cuáles son las causas
www.univision.com
3. Tierra América –
para las que se necesita
www.tierramerica.info
más ayuda de
4.
RTVE Noticias en
organizaciones benéficas
directo –
o de voluntarios? ¿De qué
www.rtve.es/noticias/dir
formas se recaudan los
ecto/canal-24h/
5. Canal 24 Horas –
fondos necesarios para
www.rtve.es/alacarta/tve
una obra benéfica?
/24-horas/
Applicable CPI
using culturally
appropriate verbal and
non-verbal
communication
strategies.
7.1.AL.B.4 Ask and
respond to questions as
part of a group
discussion on topics of a
personal, academic, or
social nature in informal
and some formal
settings.
7.1.AL.B.5 Engage in
oral and/or written
discourse in a variety of
timeframes on topics of
personal or social
interest, topics studied in
other content areas, and
some unfamiliar topics.
7.1.AL.B.6 Use
language in a variety of
settings to further
personal, academic, and
career goals.
9
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 5 - Los desafíos mundiales
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.C.1 Create a
research-based
multimedia-rich
presentation to be shared
virtually with a target
language audience.
7.1.AL.C.2 Create a
research-based analysis
of a current global
problem/issue showing
cultural perspectives
associated with the target
culture(s) and another
world culture.
7.1.AL.C.3 Use
language creatively in
writing for personal,
career, or academic
purposes.
7.1.AL.C.4 Compare
and contrast the
structural elements
and/or cultural
perspectives found in
culturally authentic
materials with those
10
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 5 - Los desafíos mundiales
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
found in selections in
English.
7.1.AL.C.5 Analyze
how cultural
perspectives about a
specific cultural product
or cultural practice
associated with the target
culture(s) change over
time, and compare with
changing perspectives in
one's own culture.
7.1.AL.C.6 Create an
electronic portfolio in
the target language with
artifacts documenting
language proficiency,
cross-cultural awareness
and experiences, and
other qualifications that
support the goals of the
Personalized Student
Learning Plan.
11
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 6 - Las identidades personales y públicas
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Activities
1. Students will write a
I. La enajenación y la
persuasive essay to their
asimilación
school newspaper. The
- ¿Cómo se relacionan
goal is to convince
nuestra vida privada y
readers of the
nuestra vida pública?
importance of positive
- ¿Cuáles son los
thinking and positive
beneficios de la
behavior as well as
asimilación cultural?
having a high self- ¿Qué importancia tiene
esteem. The writing
la integración de los
piece will include
inmigrantes y de las etnias
questions to achieve
originarias en el desarrollo
these goals. These will
cultural de una sociedad?
include but are not
II. La autoestima
limited to the following:
- ¿Cuáles son los factores
Why is it important to
que afectan la autoimagen
have high self-esteem?
y la autoestima de una
What are some features
persona?
of high self-esteem?
- ¿Qué impacto tiene la
What are some of the
opinión de nuestros
negative outcomes when
amigos y familiares en
one has low selfnuestra autoimagen y
esteem? What thoughts
autoestima?
and behaviors lead to
- ¿Qué características
thinking positively or
definen a las personas que
Applicable CPI
7.1.AL.A.1 Analyze and
critique the validity of
culturally authentic
materials using
electronic information
sources related to
targeted themes.
7.1.AL.A.2
Demonstrate
comprehension of
spoken and written
language and nuances of
culture, as expressed by
speakers of the target
language, in informal
and some formal settings
7.1.AL.A.3 Analyze the
use of verbal and nonverbal etiquette in the
target culture(s) and in
one's own culture to
develop an
understanding of how
cultural perspectives are
reflected in cultural
products and cultural
6
Resources and Materials
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Temas, AP Spanish
Language and
Culture. Vista Higher
Learning, Inc., 2014
AP Spanish,
Language and Cuture
Exam Preparation.
Vista Higher
Learning, Inc. 2014
Conversaciones
creadoras, Mastering
Spanish
Conversation, Third
Edition. Heinle
Cengage Learning,
2006
AP Spanish
Preparing for the
Language and
Culture Examination,
Fourth Edition.
Pearson Prentice
Hall, 2014
Univisión Al Punto
Univisión Primer
Assessments
All activities, using the
AP rubrics for the 2014
Spanish Language and
Culture Exam
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 6 - Las identidades personales y públicas
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
superan obstáculos para
negatively about
desarrollar una vida
oneself? What can one
productiva?
do to maintain a high
III. La identidad nacional
self-esteem and how can
y la identidad étnica
you help others to
- ¿Cómo contribuye la
develop a positive
historia de un país a la
attitude?
formación de su
2. Students will respond to
identidad?
the following
- ¿Qué factores tienen más
interpersonal writing
influencia a la hora de
assignment: You just
determinar tu identidad?
read a posting on a
¿Por qué?
social network.
- ¿Cómo puede convivir la
Respond to the
identidad de un individuo
following post: Hi. I’m
de una minoría étnica con
17 years old and I am
la identidad nacional que
very depressed because
define a la población
I cannot feel good about
mayoritaria?
myself. I’m shy and
IV. Los intereses
I’m afraid to have
personales
friends. If I’m invited
- ¿Cómo influyen nuestros
to go out, I usually say
intereses personales en
no because I think I’m
nuestra identidad y en
boring and feel that my
nuestra vida diaria?
friends only invite me
- Por lo general, ¿las
because they feel sorry
Applicable CPI
practices.
7.1.AL.A.4 Evaluate,
from multiple cultural
perspectives, the
historical, political, and
present-day contexts that
connect or have
connected famous
people, places, and
events from the target
culture(s) with the
United States.
7.1.AL.A.5 Evaluate
information from oral
and written discourse
dealing with a variety of
topics.
7.1.AL.A.6 Analyze and
critique readings on less
familiar topics using a
variety of culturally
authentic texts and
genres.
7.1.AL.A.7 Infer the
meaning of some
unfamiliar words and
7
Resources and Materials
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
Impacto
Noticias Univisión 41
Corporación
Radiotelevisión
Española –
www.rtve.es
El País –
www.elpais.com
El Mundo –
www.elmundo.es
ABC – www.abc.es
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.e
s
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.c
om
BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/langu
ages/spanish/
Univisión –
www.univision.com
Tierra América –
www.tierramerica.inf
o
RTVE Noticias en
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 6 - Las identidades personales y públicas
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
Resources and Materials
personas disfrutan más de
for me. Please help me. phrases in academic and
directo –
sus pasatiempos e
3. Students will think of
formal contexts.
www.rtve.es/noticias/
intereses personales si los
someone that they
7.1.AL.A.8 Analyze
directo/canal-24h/
pueden compartir con
admire and make a list elements of the target
18. Canal 24 Horas –
otros?
of traits that make this
language that do not
www.rtve.es/alacarta/
- ¿Influyen la edad de un
person admirable.
have a comparable
tve/24-horas/
individuo en sus intereses
Students will also reflect linguistic element in
personales y en la elección
upon the level of selfEnglish.
de pasatiempos?
esteem this individual
7.1.AL.B.1 Use digital
V. Las creencias
possesses. Students will tools to participate in
personales
share their ideas in a
extended conversations
- ¿Cuándo se considera
group discussion.
on topics of a personal,
que una persona es exitosa 4. Students will role-play academic, or social
y en qué consiste el éxito?
and imagine that they
nature using a variety of
- ¿Es el perfeccionismo un
are the director of a self- timeframes to exchange
atributo beneficioso o
help organization.
information.
perjudicial para una
Students will orally
7.1.AL.B.2 Give,
persona?
present their
respond to, and ask for
- ¿Qué beneficios y qué
organization and
clarification on detailed
desventajas experimentan
persuade potential
and complex oral and
los individuos que son
clients to register for
written directions,
competitivos?
courses being offered to commands, and indirect
VI. Los héroes y los
promote self-esteem.
requests.
personajes históricos
The presentation will
7.1.AL.B.3 Interact in a
- ¿Cuáles son las
include the following
variety of familiar and a
cualidades que convierten
information: The
few unfamiliar situations
8
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 6 - Las identidades personales y públicas
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
a una persona en héroe?.
- ¿En qué consisten los
actos de heroísmo en la
comunidad o en el mundo
entero? ¿Qué efecto
tienen?.
- Hay gente que cree que
los héroes nacen, no se
hacen. ¿Cualquier persona
puede llegar a ser un
héroe?.
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
variety of classes being
offered, location of
classes, qualifications of
the professors who will
be running the classes,
the compelling themes
that will be discussed in
these classes, the
individual and group
activities that will be
developed in each class,
out of class activities
that are required to be
carried out and the
positive results that
clients will experience
upon completion of each
class.
5. Students will complete a
chart as they listen to an
authentic audio segment
transmitted by Radio
ONU (United Nation
Radio). The audio
segment talks about
laws to protect the
using culturally
appropriate verbal and
non-verbal
communication
strategies.
7.1.AL.B.4 Ask and
respond to questions as
part of a group
discussion on topics of a
personal, academic, or
social nature in informal
and some formal
settings.
7.1.AL.B.5 Engage in
oral and/or written
discourse in a variety of
timeframes on topics of
personal or social
interest, topics studied in
other content areas, and
some unfamiliar topics.
7.1.AL.B.6 Use
language in a variety of
settings to further
personal, academic, and
career goals.
9
Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 6 - Las identidades personales y públicas
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
Applicable CPI
indigenous language
called Guaraní that is
still used today in
Paraguay, Bolivia,
Northern Argentina and
southwest Brazil.
6. Further to the above
activity, students will
work in groups to orally
discuss additional
questions. The topics
will include vocabulary
and expressions heard in
the above activity.
7.1.AL.C.1 Create a
research-based
multimedia-rich
presentation to be shared
virtually with a target
language audience.
7.1.AL.C.2 Create a
research-based analysis
of a current global
problem/issue showing
cultural perspectives
associated with the target
culture(s) and another
world culture.
7.1.AL.C.3 Use
Modifications
language creatively in
writing for personal,
Study guide, restate directions,
career, or academic
testing extension.
purposes.
7.1.AL.C.4 Compare
Technology
and contrast the
NEWSPAPERS
structural elements
1. El País –
and/or cultural
www.elpais.com
perspectives found in
2. El Mundo –
culturally authentic
www.elmundo.es
3. ABC – www.abc.es
materials with those
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Resources and Materials
Assessments
Westwood Regional School District
Course: AP Spanish Language and Culture
Unit # and Title: Unit Plan 6 - Las identidades personales y públicas
Suggested Time Allotment: 5 weeks
Questions and Objectives
Instructional Activities and
Modifications
4.
Applicable CPI
El Confidencial –
www.elconfidencial.es
Prensa Escrita –
www.prensaescrita.com/
BBC Mundo –
www.bbc.co.uk/languag
es/spanish/
found in selections in
English.
5.
7.1.AL.C.5 Analyze
how cultural
6.
perspectives about a
specific cultural product
or cultural practice
AUTHENTIC MAGAZINES
associated with the target
1. Vanidades.
culture(s) change over
2. Muy Interesante
time, and compare with
3. People En español
4. Hola
changing perspectives in
one's own culture.
WEBSITES
7.1.AL.C.6 Create an
1. Nuevos Horizontes –
www.nuevoshorizontes. electronic portfolio in
the target language with
org
2. Univisión –
artifacts documenting
www.univision.com
language proficiency,
3. Tierra América –
cross-cultural awareness
www.tierramerica.info
and experiences, and
4. RTVE Noticias en
other qualifications that
directo –
www.rtve.es/noticias/dir support the goals of the
ecto/canal-24h/
Personalized Student
5. Canal 24 Horas –
Learning Plan.
www.rtve.es/alacarta/tve
/24-horas/
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Assessments
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