Spanish II Unit 2
STUDENT EVIDENCE
LEARNING GOALS
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Application of the Standard
In addition to level 3, student will be able to:
- Use an enrichment activity outside the class room
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- Find a solution for any application
- Do peer teaching
Meta cognition:
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I know all this information and more
I can teach this information to others
I can maintain a conversation in
Spanish with another speaker
Evaluation Criteria
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Use an expression that confirms
information.
Standards for Learning Spanish
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Use an expression that registers surprise or
astonishment.
Communication
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Use expressions that denote approval
or disapproval.
1.1. Interpersonal mode
• Discuss the challenge for each pair in the Antilles.
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Describe the various rooms of a house and
its composition.
• Discuss what students know about the Caribbean.
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Identify the furniture and fixtures in a house.
• Speculate on which team will win the challenge.
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List household chores.
• Interview a classmate.
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Describe the appliances and electronic
devices in a household.
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Describe a neighborhood or city.
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Talk about actions that are happening.
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Recognize and use the present progressive.
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Use direct objects and direct object
pronouns.
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Use indirect objects and indirect object
pronouns.
• Listen to Caribbean music on the Internet.
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1.3. Presentational mode
• Write a postcard to a friend.
Express the location of places or persons in
relation to other places or persons.
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Express understanding of selected Caribbean
customs, geographical aspects, and historical
facts.
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Express understanding of the
Caribbean lifestyle.
Las Antillas
• Play a guessing game.
• Survey the class on a question.
1.2. Interpretive mode
• Take notes from an oral text.
• Read a cultural text.
• Summarize information in a written text.
• Research cultural topics.
• Write a summary of a pair’s challenge.
• Write captions for photographs.
• Write a real estate advertisement.
• Develop a floor plan of an ideal house
and describe it to someone.
• Develop interview questions.
CULTURE
2.1. Practices and perspectives
• Discuss prior knowledge of the Caribbean.
• Read about traditions of hospitality.
• Read about the tradition of the serenata.
• Research Caribbean music.
• Read about the naming of barrios.
• Read about the Plazas de Armas.
Meta cognition:
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I know all this information
I am confident and understand this
information
I can discuss and apply information with
accuracy
I can move to level 4
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2.2. Products and perspectives
• Discuss the impact of amber on the Caribbean.
• Research colonial buildings in the Caribbean.
CONNECTIONS
3.1. Interdisciplinary connections
• Acquire knowledge of Caribbean geography.
• Research Sir Francis Drake.
• Research historical buildings in the area.
• Read about the formation of and uses for amber.
• Discuss direct objects and direct object pronouns.
• Identify the main idea and supporting details
of a text.
• Design and create a board game.
3.2. Viewpoints through language / culture
• Read a fotonovela in Spanish.
• Read a cultural text in Spanish.
• Read about Caribbean musical instruments
on the Internet.
• Read a letter from a member of one of
the teams.
• Read and respond to an e-mail about
Caribbean life.
COMPARISONS
4.1. Compare languages
• Compare direct object pronouns in English and
in Spanish.
• Compare the position of indirect object pronouns in English and in
Spanish.
• Compare demonstratives
in English and in Spanish.
4.2. Compare cultures
• Compare natural resources near the student’s home town and in other
countries.
• Reflect on places of interest to tourists near the student’s city.
• Discuss city planning.
• Compare the formation and naming of neighborhoods.
• Discuss practices in hospitality.
• Discuss common elements of folk music.
• Discuss the preservation
of historical buildings.
COMMUNITIES
5.1. Spanish within and beyond the school setting
• Discuss historical buildings in the student’s community.
• Discuss tourist sites
in the student’s community.
• Discuss natural materials used for artistic purposes in the student’s
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community.
5.2. Spanish for lifelong learning
• Play a memory game.
• Design a board game.
• Research Caribbean area topics.
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Las Antillas
Targets
Vocabulary. La vivienda
 Expressions used to confirm information.
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Expressions used to express surprise or
astonishment.
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Expressions used to express approval and
disapproval.
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The house.
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Household chores.
• To talk about household chores.
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Home furnishings and accessories.
• To describe the rooms in a house.
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Home appliances.
• To identify the furnishings
and fixtures in a room.
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The neighborhood.
• To express the progress of an action.
• To identify and describe places.
• To express habitual actions.
• To describe a neighborhood.
• To use expressions that confirm information, express surprise or
astonishment and approval or disapproval.
Grammar
• To list the appliances and electronics
in a house.
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Present progressive tense.
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Present participles.
• To explore cultural aspects of the Caribbean.
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Direct object pronouns.
• To acquire facts about the geography
and history of the Caribbean.
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Indirect object pronouns.
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Demonstratives.
• El Festival de las flores de Aibonito.
• Neighborhoods.
• La Plaza de Armas.
• Tourism in the Caribbean.
Culture. Las Antillas
(Cuba, República Dominicana, Puerto
Rico)
• The Antilles.
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Sir Francis Drake.
• The Caribbean lifestyle.
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La Casa del Cordón.
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Buildings from the colonial period.
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Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic.
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El Museo del Ámbar.
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Hospitality.
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Serenatas.
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Las tunas.
Meta cognition:
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I know most of the information taught
I can discuss the information, with minor
errors.
I need to use my notes to review concepts
I am confident with the information
provided so I could do well
I can move to level 3
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With help,
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I have a partial understanding of some of the simpler
details and processes at level 2.
I know the basic terminology/vocabulary
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Meta cognition:
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I am beginning to understand the
information taught
I need help grasping the concept /skill
I can move to level 2