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Foreign Language Standards / Time (When? How much?) / CONTENT and
Assessment / Materials/
Text/
Resources / Reflections/Impact / School of Study Connection / TEXT/
Workbook
Note: This syllabus incorporates the National Standards for Foreign Language
Teaching (Communication, Culture, Connections, Context and Community; the 5 C’s) / 2 –3 weeks
This unit is completed during as we start new material in the following unit on “daily routine.”
UNIT ONE:REVIEWTelling what happens / REVIEW OF SPANISH ONE CONCEPTS:
Yo song forms
Body parts
Colors
Basic vocabulary
Stem changers(briefly)
Present tense conjugations
Question words
Adjective agreement
Countries that speak Spanish –will require group presentation
Infintives and infinitives after wants to, needs to, is able to has to
**Quizzes and class participation to assess / Handouts , some textbook resources from the Capitulo preliminar in Realidades Textbook Level 2. /

Culture

• Diego Rivera, Baile en
Tehuantepec
**Need to include freewrites
and participation feedback
CORE CONTENT: compl. Colors in Spanish / All SOS—
VPAM country presentations may take any form relating to VPAM, ie PPT, drawing, performing song, dance from assigned country
WRITING / ESSAY / Textbook:
Pgs 3+5+6
+9
for reference
Workbook
Part 1:
Pgs 2, 3
(nationality)
pg 5-class
items
Part 2
Listen pg1
Acts 1+2, write pgs
3+5
Handouts
Goal 1: Communicate In Languages Other
Than English
• Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, 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. / 3-4 weeks
UNIT TWO: THE LIFE OF ZIPPY POTSTICKERSREFLEXIVE
VERBS, DAILY RUTINE
ZIPPY
Talking about daily actions / Cómo te preparas?
Vocabulary: daily routines, getting ready for an event
Grammar: reflexive verbs; (Repaso) the verbs ser and estar;
possessive adjectives mío, tuyo, suyo
STORIES:

• Survivor
• Zippy Potstickers Trilogy
• La cita

Assessments:quizzes, participation, writing, workbook activities,
“La cita de Elsa y Carlos” assessment
SOS project (eulogy or wanted poster) / REALIDADES 2 Aand stories.
Readings to accompany story vocabulary (handouts)
Introduce
♪♪♪♪♪ preterite songs
(skip most of 2B,3A,3B chapters in book, for now)
Readings:
-Lección 6
-Una fiesta de Halloween
-En defensa de los vampiros / REFLECTIONS: Students should be aware of participation expectations and the interactive nature of the class
**Need to include freewrites and participation feedback
Introduction of a few imperfects
Era,
Habia
Tenia
Queria
Necesitaba / ALL SOS
VPAM students will be allowed to create and draw either a Wanted poster or a Eulogy for a character in the story—they may use media tools or art supplies / Textbook
Pgs 70-71,
74-75,pg 79 act.6,
pg 81 acts
9+10,
pg 84 act17,87 act 21 as class
pg 96=
vocab pg
pg 98 review
Workbook
Part 1, pg
27,28A, 29,
33
part 2
listen pg 28
acts 6+7+9
handouts
• Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of
listeners or readers on a variety of topics. / UNIT THREE
LA CHICA SOCIAL
3 –weeks
Reflexives cont./ vocab for end unit (chica social) / STORIES:

• Smelly Cat
• No deja de llorar
• Dumbo
• Roscoe quiere salir con…

Formal Assessment : LA CHICA SOCIAL reading and questions/
Zippy soñaba con ser popular quiz / Readings:
-boleto de lotería pres vs past
--tina necesitaba..
--Apesta o huele bien
--Una vaca en Weiser Idaho
--la foca
--quiero tener éxito con gorilas (?) / The preterite and imperfect tense are introduced here, mainly for sound and meaning recognition
Q+A, little text use
Notes and transparencies
**Need to include freewrites / NO SOS connection, focus on formation of verbs /

Textbook

Review pg
98+99
Handouts
To start
Preterite
Formation
Of regular
Verbs
Goal 2: Gain Knowledge And Understanding
Of Other Cultures
• Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
the practices and perspectives of the culture studied. /

UNIT FOUR A: LOS DOS ESPOSOS

Preterite forms
2-3 weeks
Continued sounds differentiation of preterite and imperfect tenses thru stories
Telling what happenED or WAS happening
Unit 4A cont. preterite forms /

UNIT 4A

Preterite forms
Cuando éramos niños
Vocabulary: toys; play terms; describing children
Grammar: the imperfect tense: regular verbs and irregular
verbs; (Repaso) indirect object pronouns
STORIES:

• El hombre flaco y calvo
• Brutus
• Reading/TEST: Los dos esposos

Quizzes on forms / Q+A, workbook pages / SONGS
♪♪♪♪♪ include all 3 preterite songs.
Handouts and text ancillaries
REALIDADES TEXT 4 A from book
Reading:
--La pareja casada-cantas como Elvis / A few previous stories will be rewritten in past, as class
**Need to include freewrites
and SPEAKING ASSESSMENTS / NO SOS connection, focus on formation of verbs / Handouts on preterite
Formation
Textbook pgs 186-189,190 acts 4+5, pg 192 acts 9+10, pgs 194-196 acts 14+16,
Pg 199 act 22(I.O.s)
• Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between
the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
CC: W1a-h Correct and effective writing / UNIT FOUR B (part 2)
CHILDHOOD
2-3 weeks
Cuando era pequeño—
Talking about the past
Telling what happenED or WAS happening / Cuando era pequeño..
Focus on imperfect tense vs preterite
STORIES:

• La traviesa

Assess:test.project
Participation
ABA , ía endings =
Description
Used to
Wasing/wereing
Internal, thoughs
Time and age / REALIDADES TEXT 4 A from book—
Workbook pages for focus on form, spelling/ Readings: --
--Magdalena, la mal educada
--El muchacho que llegó tarde
DVD from book / Personalization creates interest in expressing in TL
SONGS
♪♪♪♪♪ include all 3 preterite songs. (cont learning)
**Need to include freewrites and participation feedback / SOS project –“When I was little/young”—presentation (in past tense) about your childhood (VPAM)
SONGS
♪♪♪♪♪ include all 3 preterite songs. (cont learning) (for the singers in class)
CC: A/H Sing and interpret music (a stretch here on corecontent, but will work in music vocab) / Page 202-el grillo y el jaguar (reading)
Pg 208 is vocab list

Workbook

Part 1
Pgs 71,73,
74,75, 76,79
part 2
pg 70 listen acts5+7 /pgs 75+77
3: Connect With Other Disciplines And
Acquire Information
• Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines
through the foreign language.
CC: Cultural traditions (SS 2.2) / UNIT FIVE: EL restaurante elegante
…AND Realidades 4B
4-5 weeks
Continued practice of past tenses
Telling what happenED or WAS happening
Direct and indirect objects / Review food vocabulary from Spanish ONE
4B:
Celebrando los días festivos
Vocabulary: expressions describing
family celebrations
Grammar: the imperfect tense:
reciprocal actions
STORIES:

• El príncipe
• El perro que tiene ganas de comer algo
• La propina
• La mosca
• Roscoe y Wilma
• El Sr Papa se casa

FORMAL ASSESS: El restaurante elegante / Realidades chapter 4 B activities/wkbk
And…
Readings:
--En vacalandia
--El pescado es diferente
--Gizmo e Izzy
--Me olvido
--El senor papa casi no se casa
--Somos novios desde hace 4
minutos / Expressing duration of action
participation feedback
Cultural differences in restaurants and food
Cultural differences in wedding ceremonies in US vs LatinAmerica
**Need to include freewrites
and SPEAKING ASSESSMENTS / VPAM connection : Creating a weddning invitation for Mr PotatoHead’s wedding / being a wedding planner /

Textbook

Pgs 212-213, 216 act 5, pg 219 read,
Watch gramactiva,
220 act 11,
reciprocal actions pg 224-225, as class
pg 228-el seis de enero reading, pg 234 vocab list
pg 236-37 reivew
workbook
part 1
pgs 83,85,87
88(as class p vs i)
part 2
pg 82 7+8 listen / pg 84+85
• Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints
that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures. / UNIT SIX : novella : ¿ DONDE ESTÁ EDUARDO?
And “los perros olímpicos” unit
4 wks-5wks
SHOW AND TELL (Muestre y explique) during Eduardo novel
Past tense forms continued
Telling what happenED or WAS happening / We will read a novella in class, as class, in groups entirely in Spanish .
Assessment : Guided questions as they read, and test
REALIDADES 6A: ¿Viste el partido en la televisión?
Vocabulary: watching television programs; sporting events
Grammar: the preterite of -ir stem-changing verbs; other
reflexive verbs
STORIES:

• “Fido”
• “El entrenedor”

ASSESS: READING Los perros olímpicos / Donde esta Ed.
And VIDEO ON COSTA RICA if available
VHS video of the novella
Review Sports vocabulary
Realidades textbook level 2 chapter 6A
Readings:
--En vez de entrenarse
--Los huesos fritos
--Dora la entrenadora / The past tenses should be more familiar at this point in the semester/continued with irregular forms/
**Need to include freewrites
and SPEAKING ASSESSMENTS
and participation feedback / CC(?) biodiversity of Costa Rica
may act out scences from novel ??? /

Textbook

Pgs 294-295
Pg 298 acts 4+5,pg 300 Q+A
Pg 302(ir stem changers) act 14
Pg 316 is vocab list

Workbook

Part 1
Pg 113, 116,
Pg 117 in class, 119,121
Part 2
Pg 113+114(?)
Goal 4: Gain Insight Into The Nature Of Language
And Culture
• Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language
through comparisons of the language studied and their own. / UNIT SEVEN: UN acto heróico, /En el hospital
Realidades 5A/5B
Theme: emergencies and natural disasters/ hospital vocabulary
2 weeks-3 wks / UNIT SEVEN
Theme: emergencies and natural disasters
/ hospital
Stories:

• La araña que necesitaba…
• The belly button

Assess/ “las citas con el doctor”/
skit :in the hospital / Realidades textbook level 2 chapter 5A and 5B, select vocabulary from chapters / DVD/text/
Workbook activities
Readings:
--las citas con el doctor
--Alicia la alérgica / little CI on vocab=selected vocab only / VPAM ties:
Whiteboard activities of drawing parts / create skit in hospital, use vocabulary/
Watch selected sections of disaster movies and discuss/critique (segments of war or world/poseidon avent.) or write about /

Textbook

Pg 240-243,244+245
acts 4+6,pg 266-267,272, pg 288=vocab
pg 248 act 12, pg 256 reading of news article
Workbook part1 5A
pgs 93,96,
97 as class (Pv.I),98
5B-(part 1) pg 102,103-107
• Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture / UNIT EIGHT: MOVIES/las películas
And
EN busca de la verdad videoseries from text and Realidades 6 B
3-4 weeks
review all story words from year
Telling
what HAS HAPPENED (present perfect) / Content : The present perfect tense/start

• STORIES:
  Elvis está vivo
• Viaje a la luna
• El beso
• La guitarra

(written)
ASSESS: El perro que ha hecho todo
6B: ¿Qué película has visto?
Vocabulary: movies; making a movie
Grammar: verbs that use indirect objects; the present perfect
(its and thems) / SONG:
♪♪♪♪♪ abierto dicho hecho puesto…irregular participles
Realidades workbook and text for 6B (assessment as well)
Readings:
--Manuela y Manuel
--La película más violenta
DVD EN BUSCADE LA VERDAD / will start “have done”(present perfect tense)
May need to slow down after this, due to multiple verb tenses
 And questions from videoseries / VPAM connection: MOVIES and movie related vocabulary are the main topics / possible movie review in Spanish / Textbook
Pgs 320-323,328,331,
Pg 342=
vocab
Workbook
Part 1
Pgs 122,125
126, 127,
131(yo song
review)
part 2
pg119 acts 6+7
listen / pg 125 as basis for movie review
Goal 5: Participate In Multilingual Communities
At Home And Around The World
• Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting. / UNIT NINE: the future tense/El VIAJE MUNDIAL DE ROGER
2-3 wks plus
FUTURE TENSE
Telling what will happen / Realidades chapter 9A material and 9B
Discussing careers
Stories:

• Iceberg City revisited
• Fido
• No alcanzará su destino
• Dracula’s story= in 3 sentences
• Presidente de la granja
• MAYBELLE
• Thumbelina pt 1
• Thumbelina pt 2
• Las amigas que se odian (Carla charla)

ASSESS: el viaje mundial de Roger rading and questions / ¿Qué profesión tendrás?
Vocabulary: professions; making plans for the future;
earning a living
Grammar: the future tense; the future tense of irregular verbs
Readings :
--Algún día sere(9A)
--Holgazán
--Emilia y el huevo gigante
--La Chiquita jovencita que..
El superhéroe del futuro (9B)
Text: vocab for professions / SONG:
♪♪♪♪♪diré haré …
Presentation: SELL something to the class
COMPOSITION: the future / 9A vocabulary deals with the professions / SOS discussion of careers may work well here /

Textbook 9A

Pgs 452-455, pp456-75
Acts 4+5+6,
,459 act 11, pg 461 act 14,462 act 16, pg 472 is vocab list
9B-476-477, 481 acts 6+7+8, pg 494 reading
496=vocab
Workbook
Part 1 9A
Pg 173,176,177
178,181
part 2pg 170-71 acts 6+8(listen)
Workbook 9B part 1
Pgs
182,184,185
• Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the
language for personal enjoyment and enrichment. / UNIT TEN: un viaje en avión, REALIDADES chapters 8 A and 8B
And END YEAR REVIEW
2-3 weeks
The subjunctive:
Shows doubt, wishes, emotional reactions to something
REVIEW VOCABULARIO FROM YEAR / Eight a
Vocabulary: visiting an airport; planning a trip; traveling safely
Grammar: the present subjunctive; irregular verbs in the
subjunctive
eight b
Quiero que disfrutes de tu viaje
Vocabulary: staying in a hotel; appropriate tourist behaviors;
traveling in a foreign city
Grammar: the present subjunctive with impersonal
expressions; the present subjunctive of stem-changing verbs
FINAL EXAMS / REALIDADES text and workbook chapters 8a and 8b
Readings
SONG:
♪♪♪♪♪subjunctive formation
♪♪♪♪♪ dé, esté…
Readings:
--El viajero infeliz(8A) pt 1
--El viajero infeliz Pt 2 / The subjunctive may prove difficult, we will mainly focus on formation
**Need to include freewrites
and SPEAKING ASSESSMENTS / ---- / Textbook 8A
Pgs 401-405
Pg406 acts 4+5, pg 410(subj.),
Pg 413
Pg 418 Ecuador reading
Pg 422= vocab
8B pgs 434,437438 act 15
workbook
8A wkbkpart 1
153,154,157,159,
8B wkbk pt1 page 164,166,167
wkbk pt 2
,pg 149-150
(listen)
pg 154-writing
Handouts on subjunctive
Unit 11- 7A la excursion / Food Preparation / If time permits

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