Curriculum Map
Theme, Enduring Understandings, &
Essential Questions for This Unit
Theme/Unit:
Vacation
Teaching Points/ Enduring
Understandings/Student Outcomes
1. talk about a typical day
2. talk about what is done on vacation
3. talk about daily routines while on
vacation
Essential Questions:
How is traveling in a Spanish speaking
country different from traveling in the
United States?
Topic: Vacation
Key National Foreign Language
Standards
Essential Skills & Concepts to be
Targeted Throughout the Unit
COMMUNICATION
Communicate in Languages Other
Than English
■Standard 1.1: Students engage in
conversations, provide and obtain
information, express feelings and emotions,
and exchange opinions
■Standard 1.2: Students understand and
interpret written and spoken language on a
variety of topics
■Standard 1.3: Students present
information, concepts, and ideas to an
audience of listeners or readers on a variety
of topics.
Using Various Levels of Bloom’s
Taxonomy for Planning
Differentiated Questions and
Activities/Projects
Low Inference & High Inference
Questions:
-How do you plan a trip?
-Why do people take vacations?
-What are the articles of clothing
and other items you will need to
take on vacation?
-How do the weather, seasons, and
activities affect what you pack in
your suitcase?
-What forms of transportation can
you use when traveling to and
around a foreign country?
-What places would you be
interested in exploring when visiting
a Spanish speaking country?
CULTURES
Gain Knowledge and Understanding of
Differentiated Activities/Products:
Other Cultures
■Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an
understanding of the relationship between the
practices and perspectives of the culture
studied
CONNECTIONS
Connect with Other Disciplines and
Acquire Information
■Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and
further their knowledge of other disciplines
through the foreign language
COMMUNITIES
Participate in Multilingual
Communities at Home & Around the
World
-Grouping students by speaking
skills as way to target previous and
new skills to be applied in
activities/exercises/speaking tasks,
etc.
-Visuals with guiding phrases for
the different learning styles and
needs.
-Responding appropriately to
situations / settings by applying
learned phrases and topic survival
skills.
-Changing components of exercises
to fit appropriate language level.
-Menu
-Menu categories
-T.V. show food demo
How Students will Demonstrate
Their Understanding?
Assessments
List Resources for
this Multi-Genre Unit
Formative Assessments
(throughout the unit): Indicate
Pre-Assessments
Anchor Text(s): Poetry: Short
Stories: Drama: Nonfiction:
Fiction:
-ABC Summary: word connection
to instruction.
-3-2-1: 3 key terms, 2 questions
still have, 1 way to apply it.
-Categories: sorting key terms /
phrases
-Thumbs Up: indicate
understanding
-Exit Slips: written student
responses
-Quick Drills: oral exercise
-Bump in the Road: cooperative
solving / peer clarification.
-Informal Observations
-Pop Quizzes
-Videos
-Newspapers
-Menus
-Food
-Supermarket circulars
Technology:
-smart board
-smart board interactive
activities
-Power Point Presentations
-Internet searches
-Avancemos DVD
Manipulatives:
Summative Assessment (at the
end of the unit): Indicate PostAssessments
-graphic organizers
-student created charts
-students dry erase boards
-Monthly Portfolio
-Unit Project
-Speaking Assessment
-Written Assessment
Personally Designed
Materials:
Unit Pre-Assessment
See Attached
-teacher generated
worksheets/exercises
-teacher generated charts
-scaffolding activities & phrases
-performance assessment
Unit Post-Assessment
-class work
-homework
Theme, Enduring Understandings, &
Essential Questions for This Unit
Key National Foreign Language
Standards
Essential Skills & Concepts to be
Targeted Throughout the Unit
■Standard 5.1: Students use the language
both within and beyond the school setting
■Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of
becoming life-long learners by using the
language for personal enjoyment and
enrichment.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
L.7.1. Demonstrate command of the
conventions of standard SPANISH grammar
and usage when writing or speaking.
Using Various Levels of Bloom’s
Taxonomy for Planning
Differentiated Questions and
Activities/Projects
-Field trip student menu
-Meal Critique skit
-Basic ordering skit
-Recipe Demo
How Students will Demonstrate
Their Understanding?
Assessments
-Cumulative Drill
-Speaking Tasks
-Performance Assessments
-Dialogues
-Unit Project
List Resources for
this Multi-Genre Unit
Other Resources/Websites
www.quia.com
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/
www.classzone.com
www.univision.com
www.goya.com
http://www.programasgratis.net/descargarbajar/recetas-cocina
http://www.cnpp.usda.gov/Publi
cations/MyPyramid/OriginalFoo
dGuidePyramids/FGP/FGPPamp
hletSpanish.pdf
L.7.2. Demonstrate command of the
conventions of standard SPANISH
Teacher Team Meetings
capitalization, punctuation, and spelling
-Accountable talk with grouping
-Grouping Strategies
when writing.
L.7.3. Use knowledge of language and its
conventions when writing, speaking, reading,
or listening.
L.7.4. Determine or clarify the meaning of
unknown and multiple-meaning words and
phrases based on reading and content,
choosing flexibly from a range of strategies.
L.7.6. Acquire and use accurately gradeappropriate general academic and domainspecific words and phrases; gather
vocabulary knowledge when considering a
Theme, Enduring Understandings, &
Essential Questions for This Unit
Key National Foreign Language
Standards
Essential Skills & Concepts to be
Targeted Throughout the Unit
word or phrase important to comprehension
or expression
Using Various Levels of Bloom’s
Taxonomy for Planning
Differentiated Questions and
Activities/Projects
How Students will Demonstrate
Their Understanding?
Assessments
List Resources for
this Multi-Genre Unit
Summative Performance Based Assessment 1
When will we arrive?
Summative Performance Based Assessment 2
Which youth hostel should we choose?
Summative Performance Based Assessment 3
How do I get around on the metro?
Summative Performance Based Assessment Task 4
How would I describe my sightseeing trip?