Berto y sus buenas ideas

Essential Questions:

• Why is school important?
• What makes up the culture of a place?
• How are the cultural products, practices, and perspectives of Madrid, Spain, similar and different to mine?

#Idiota

Preguntas Esenciales (Essential Questions):

• What is the difference between learning a language and acquiring a language? Which will help me to be able to communicate?
• Do songs/stories help me to acquire the language? If so, how and why?
• What effects can social media have on a relationship?
• How are the cultural products, practices, and perspectives  in the song/story "#Idiota" similar and/or different to mine?

Enduring Understandings (Students will understand that):

• Acquiring a language feels easier compared to learning a language.
• Acquiring a language involves lots of listening, which then leads to → reading → writing → and finally speaking. 
• Acquiring a language will lead to communication. 
• However, language acquisition is slow, piecemeal and different for everyone.
• In order to acquire high frequency structures and vocabulary, a lot of repetition and input are required.
• An engaging story, images, and acting help me to acquire the language in an enjoyable way. 
• Social media can have a variety of impacts on a relationship, both positive and negative.
• The cultural products, practices, and perspectives in the song/story "#Idiota" are similar and different to mine.

Evaluaciones:

• Interpretive Listening: Cierto/falso statements about Nuestra Historia
• Interpretive Listening and Writing: Edpuzzle
• Presentatinoal Speaking: Say a summary of the story with the same structures and vocabulary.
• Presentational Writing: Write an original story with similar themes, structures, and vocabulary.
• Interpersonal Speaking: Answer questions as if you were Juan.

Ferdinando y Bianca

Preguntas Esenciales:

• How are traditions in Spain similar and/or different than in the United States?
• How does family affect who I am?

Metas de la unidad:

• I can describe things that I and others did in the past using high frequency vocabulary.
• I can compare and contrast my own life and traditions with those of the characters in the story "Ferdinando el toro" and the book Bianca Nieves y los siete toritos.
• I can show that I understand a story and a book in a variety of ways, including: answering questions, summarizing, choosing the correct words to complete the story, choosing the correct pictures when hearing sentences, drawing, acting out the story, and others

Cuentos del Pasado

Goals for Unit:

• I can describe things that I and others DID IN THE PAST using high frequency vocabulary.
• I can show that I understand a story in a variety of ways, including: answering questions, summarizing, choosing the correct words to complete the story, choosing the correct pictures when hearing sentences, drawing, acting out the story, and others.

Alba
Quizlet - vocabulario

Textivate - preguntas

Textivate - many activities w/ preguntas

Textivate - versión simplificada

Mi Rutina de la mañana

Pregunta Esencial (unit packet):

• How is my morning routine similar and/or different than that of others?

Metas de la unidad:

• I can communicate about my and someone else's morning routine.
• I can interpret and show that I understand a morning routine related story in a variety of ways.
• I can look at someone's schedule and answer questions about their daily routine. 
• I can interpret (hear) authentic resources (commercials) related to morning routine activities.

Los Deportes

Preguntas Esenciales:

• What role do sports have in culture?
• What sports are popular in the Spanish speaking world? Who are some popular athletes in the Spanish speaking world?
• How is my interest in sports and that of my culture similar and/or different from that of some parts of the Spanish speaking world?

Amnesia

• Quizlet
• Sr. Wooly

Mini Unit: El Cactus

Metas para la unidad:

• When directed, I can function in a "solo español" classroom.
• I understand that in order to learn new words and structures, it is important that I repeat, act out, and listen/read for meaning.
• I can show that I understand a story in a variety of ways, including: answering questions, summarizing, choosing the correct words to complete the story, choosing the correct pictures when hearing sentences, drawing, acting out the story, and others.
• I can remember previously learned vocabulary, pronunciation rules, and grammatical structures (including: stem changers).

Online activities:

• Quizlet
• Textivate (menu with all activities):
• Put story in order
• Millonario
• Fill in the blanks
• Fútbol
• Put the spaces in the sentences (this is not for everyone!)
• Space Invaders (might sound more fun than it is) 
• Speed read - *advanced*

La Ciudad Coloreada

Metas para la unidad:

• When directed, I can function in a "solo español" classroom.
• I understand that in order to learn new words and structures, it is important that I repeat, act out, and listen/read for meaning.
• I can show that I understand a story in a variety of ways, including: answering questions, summarizing, choosing the correct words to complete the story, choosing the correct pictures when hearing sentences, drawing, acting out the story, and others.
• I can remember previously learned vocabulary, pronunciation rules, and grammatical structures (including: conjugations, adjective agreement and placement, and ser vs. estar).

Evaluaciones:

• Quiz: Vocabulario, grammar, and cierto falso about the story.
• Quiz: Listen to sentences about the story and identify the pictures.
• Examen:
• Listening: Listen to the questions about the story and answer them.
• Speaking: Look at some screenshot from the story and describe 5-8 of them.
• Reading: Read a similar story in Spanish and answer questions about it in English.
• Writing: Write a similar story, but with a twist.
• Grammar: Conjugations, adjective agreement and ser vs. estar

Online activities:

• Quizlet - Main Vocab
• Quizlet - Vocab Adicional
• Quizlet with questions after Versión 2
• Texitvate - Versión 1
• Millonario
• Fill ins
• Texivate - Summary of entire story
• Put story in order
• Fill in the blanks - You can choose how many gaps in the bottom right hand corner
• Millonario
• Put words in order to make sentence
• Fútbol
• Textivate - Preguntas después de la versión 3
• Actividad #1 - Multiple Choice
• Actividad #2 - Match question and answer
• Actividad #3 - Millonario

Un cuento y una canción: Siendo #Idiota

El banco

¡No voy a levantarme!

Preguntas Esenciales:

• How is my morning routine similar and/or different than that of others?
• Why is it important to have healthy habits?

Metas de la unidad:

• I can communicate about my and other people's morning routine.
• I can interpret and show that I understand a variety of morning routine related stories by answering questions, summarizing, choosing the correct words to complete the story, choosing the correct pictures when hearing sentences, drawing, acting out the story, and others.
• I can look at someone's schedule and answer questions about their daily routine.
• I can interpret (hear) authentic resources (commercials) related to morning routine activities.

Online resources:

!No voy a levantarme!

Sr. Wooly site
Quizlet

Alarma:

Ordena la lectura - Textivate

Preguntas de comprensión - Textivate opción múltiple

Preguntas de comprensión - Textivate: Papel para dominó con compañeros

Preguntas de comprensión - Quizlet

Purpose Games

Kahoot (por desarrollar)

Completa la lectura - Textivate gap fill

El Monstruo del armario

Ordenar la lectura - Textivate

Preguntas de comprensión - Textivate with parallel text
Edpuzzle

Destino (from Elena)

Vocabulario (Quizlet - básico)

Vocabulario (Textivate - escribir)

EduCanon

Kahoot -juego interactivo

juego interactivo individual - Purpose games

ordena la lectura por oraciones - Textivate

completa la lectura - Textivate

preguntas de comprensión - Textivate

domino de preguntas - Papel para trabajar con compañeros

Dictado - Papel

Alma y El Centro

Preguntas Esenciales:

• How do I describe events in the past tense, including what happened in the cortometraje "Alma" and doing errands downtown (-ar preterite song)?

Click here for ALMA TEXTIVATE activities

1. st, etc. in the left column in Unit Six, #72)

3A QUIZLET (with pictures - easier - click here)