NIMITZ HIGH SCHOOL WEEKLY LESSON PLAN
TEACHER: Netanya Even
LESSON TOPIC
Spanish 5 Romantic
poetry exam
Spanish 2 Questions
about telenovela themes
creer que and pensar
que
OBJECTIVES
Spanish 5
Students will demonstrate overall understanding
of Romantic poetry unit.
Spanish 2
Students will talk about telenovela themes in
American high schools.
Spanish 5 Vuelva Ud
Mañana
Spanish 2
Winter time in Spanish
speaking countries.
Spanish 5
Students will analyze and evaluate Vuelva Ud.
Mañana.
Students will compare and contrast the textual
content to immigration bureaucracy.
Spanish 2
Students will understand winter time customs in
Spanish speaking countries.
Students will compare and contrast these customs
to those of the US.
TUESDAY
MONDAY
DAY
COURSE: Spanish 2 and Spanish 5
WEEK OF December 14, 2009
ACTIVITIES/MATERIALS
Spanish 5 Romantic poetry exam
Spanish 2
Independent practice ¿Qué hiciste este fin de
semana? ¿Cómo te fue? ¿Con quién estabas?
List of questions related to telenovela themes as
they exist in high schools.
¿Por qué crees que los novios engañan a sus
novias (o las novias a sus novios)? ¿Quiénes
engañan más los muchachos o las muchachas?
¿Crees que un muchacho pobre y una
muchacha rica pueden tener una buena
relación? (o viceversa), ¿Por qué sí o no?
¿Cómo se miran las buenas relaciones que tú
ves en tu vida? ¿y las malas? ¿Cómo puedes
tener una buena relación?
¿Por qué piensas que muchas muchachas se
quedan embarazadas a una edad temprana?
Spanish 5
Guided practice Create a chronology as we
are reading of all the bureaucratic interferences.
Independent practice Compare the story to the
situation of immigrants to the United States.
Spanish 2
Anticipatory set Students will go through a list
that the class will read together of true and false
facts about winter in Spanish speaking
countries. Later we will check to see who got
the most correct.
Input Show them a slide show of what winters
look like in different parts of the Spanish
speaking world. They will take notes including
information and new vocabulary.
Independent practice ¿A qué país latino
quieres ir en invierno? ¿Por qué?¿Qué puedes
hacer allí?
EVALUATION
Spanish 5
Exam
Spanish 2
Questions about
telenovela themes
in American high
schools.
Spanish 5
Chronolgy
Comparison to
United States
immigration
bureaucracy
Spanish 2
Paragraph about
their country and
activities of choice
to travel to in the
winter.
Spanish 5
Students will understand the Realism literary
genre of Spanish literature.
Students will identify and analyze evidence of
commentary of industrialization in Adios Cordera.
Spanish 2
Students will edit telenovela project
Spanish 5 Adios
Cordera
Spanish 2
Showing of telenovelas
and class voting.
Spanish 5
Students will critically analyze Adios Cordera
Students will create a parallel story line related to
the current development of technology.
Spanish 2
Students will critically view telenovelas of their
classmates.
THURSDAY
WEDNESDAY
Spanish 5 Adios
Cordera
Spanish 2
Holiday greetings
phrases.
FRIDAY
Spanish 5 Las medias
rojas
Spanish 2 Spanish
greeting cards
Spanish 5
Students will critically analyze Las Medias Rojas.
Spanish 2
Students will understand greeting cards
expressions.
Students will create a card using these and other
related expressions.
REFERENCE AREAS (Check appropriate area)
Technnology:
World or Work:
X
Multicultural:
X
Spanish 5
Input Read the overview of Realism, have
them figure out where to delete information
to get to the main themes. Give them
additional cornell notes related to those
main points.
Read the text together having them look for
certain thematic evidence as we read:
industrialization, pro-industrialization and
anti-industrialization
Spanish 2
Model Give them a list of phrases with
holiday greetings and a gloss. Have them
read through the meetings of the greetings
as a class. Instruct them to pick some for
the greeting card on Friday.
Group work Have them work on editing
together their video with titles and credits for
viewing the next class day.
Spanish 5
Guided practice Go over the critical analysis
questions.
Independent practice Have them write a
paragraph imagining a story line that would
question the validity of technology’s current
presence in our society.
Spanish 2
View all of the telenovelas in class and have
secret ballots.
Spanish 5
Guided practice Read Las Medias Rojas
together and answer the critical analysis
questions as a class.
Independent practice Assign them Las
Ataduras for over the break. Also ask them to
start identifying the elements of realism in all of
the works.
Spanish 2
Model Read them my greeting card in Spanish
to all of my students.
Independent practice Have them create a
greeting card for someone in their life either that
speaks Spanish or . . .
Citizenship:
X
Higher Level Thinking:
Spanish 5
Summary and
cornell notes
Spanish 2
Telenovela project
Spanish 5 Critical
analysis
questions.
Paragraph
Spanish 2
Telenovela project
Spanish 5
Critical analysis
questions.
Spanish 2
Greeting card
X
EOC: X