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CANON CITY HIGH SCHOOL

Department: Foreign Language

Course Title: Spanish II

Date: September 2005

Grade Level: 9 - 12

Prerequisite/Requirements: “B” or better in Spanish/French I or written teacher recommendation.  New students will be assessed by department for placement.

Costs to Students:

  • $5 per quarter for cultural activities/crafts
  • Notebook
  • Dry Erase Marker

General Course Outcomes:

 Upon completion of this course the proficient student will know and be able to: (core concepts/essential skills).

  • Respond to simple commands
  • Read and understand simple words and expressions
  • Comprehend short conversations/stories on familiar topics
  • Identify peoples and objects based on oral and written description
  • Interpret gestures, intonation and other visual or auditory cues
  • Comprehend the main idea and identify the principles characters of short stories or children’s literature
  • Comprehend and interpret a brief narrative
  • Comprehends simple recorded materials
  • Follow simple written instruction
  • Identify parts of a short story,e.g.,climax, main idea, conflict
  • Comprehend the main idea or themes and identifyand describe the main characters in selected literary texts
  • Comprehend the main idea in authentic oral and written materials on a familiar topic
  • Identify emotions and feelings from selected reading material
  • Greet people, make small talk and close conversation
  • Give and follow simple instructions and ask and answer questions
  • Express likes and dislikes
  • Describe people, place and thing in their daily lives 
  • Express feeling
  • Give and follow directions to carry out a specific task and ask questions for clarification
  • Exchange information about personal events and memorable experiences
  • State options about objects, people and events present everyday lives
  • Express and react to a variety of feelings
  • Support options with factual information
  • Recite short and simple materials (i.e., stories, songs, poems, advertisements and popular sayings) with an appropriate expression
  • Write or orally present short messages
  • Present description of familiar people, places and things to a group
  • Read and recite short poems or stories with appropriate expression
  • Perform short plays, poem and songs
  • Write or orally present brief messages that provide information
  • Present basic (biographical) information about self or others in others in front of a group
  • Share their interpretations, reactions and feeling about a piece of literature
  • Perform short, student-created skirts and scenes
  • Retell a story
  • Use appropriate gestures and oral expression for greetings, leave-takings and courtesy phrases
  • Participate in age –appropriate cultural activities such as games, songs, celebration and short dialogues
  • Identify and describe a variety of objects from the cultures, e.g. toys, dress, buildings, foods
  • Identify parts of the world where the language is spoken
  • Identify and discuss (in English, if necessary) typical behavior from the target culture in a variety of specific settings
  • Identify on a map the countries where the target language is a spoken and the major cities very minimal
  • Discuss culturally appropriate language and behavior is basic school and social situations
  • Explore topics related to other school subjects in the target language including weather terms, math facts, and animals.
  • Read and listen to and talk about age-appropriate folk tales, short stories, poem and songs that are written for native speakers
  • Recognize that words are borrowed from one language by another
  • Make basic comparisons between the celebration of the target culture and their own culture  (e.g., Halloween, and Día de los muertos; bastille day and Independence Day)
  • Identify and compare (in English, if necessary) cultural perspectives of people in both their own culture and the culture being studies relating to family, school, work and play
  • Recognize (in English, if necessary) the process of word/idea borrowing from one language by another
  • Distinguish between the sound system and the writing system of the target language and the same element in their own 
  • Know the plural regular present tense
  • Know vocabulary studied in level 2

 

Standards:

List State Standards addressed in this course.  (Identify the course outcomes that support those standards.)

 

  1. Students communicate in a foreign language while demonstrating literacy in all four essential skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
    1.1  Students listen to and derive meaning from a variety of foreign language sources.
    1.2  Students speak in foreign language for a variety of purposes and for diverse audiences.
    1.3  Students read and drive meaning from a variety of materials written in a foreign language.
    1.4  Students write in a foreign language for a variety of purposes and for diverse audiences.

2.   Students acquire and use knowledge of cultures while developing foreign language skills.

 

Required Unit of Study:

Themes within the course/Specific concepts being targeted

 

  • More verb/subject agreement (conjugations- telling stories from different points of view- all forms)
  • Adjective agreement
  • Infinitive uses (quiere, tiene que, empieza a, va a, le gusta, puede, trata de, etc. )
  • Reflexive vs. objective pronouns
  • Preterite vs. imperfect       

 

Unit Modifications/Enrichments:

  • Assistance to students having difficulty and/or special needs

    Follow requirements of IEPs:

Pass /fail

Modified assignments

Time extensions

 

  • Additional experiences for students capable of advanced work (cooperative learning, adaptive materials, re-teaching, second chance, etc.

 

            Technology, class presentations, connect to native speakers, field trips

 

Materials/Resources:

  • Textbook (CORE and Supplemental) (Publisher, Edition, Year Adopted)

    Paso A Paso 2 (Scott Foresman, 1999)
    A Bord (Glencoe, 1999)

·        Media materials used

 

Variety of cultural media

Contemporary movies in target language  (rated G or PG)

Audio cassettes

Contemporary music in target language

Magazines/periodicals in target language

 

  • Technology needs

    Computer Lab, DVD/VCR, Foreign Language software, Internet, Quia

 

  • Other resources (guest speakers, field trips)

    Native speakers/Foreign exchange students, field trips

Assessment Program

            Publisher Developed (list test)

            Teacher Developed

 

·        Tests and Quizzes, Homework

·        Type:  Essay, constructed response, criterion referred, oral presentation

·        Notebook

·        Authentic production (i.e. piñata)

·        Proficiency Test Requirement

 

 

Instructional time:

            List units or interdisciplinary themes and approximate length of time (actual or percent, etc.)

 

  • Daily Routines – 6 weeks
  • Food/Restaurants – 6 weeks
Activities – 6 weeks