422 - Spanish II Course Description Grades: 9-12 Group: I Units: 1.0 Prerequisite: Spanish I The second year continues to emphasize speaking and listening skills through a variety of instructional techniques and materials, including the text, internet activities, presentations, projects, listening comprehension, and reading comprehension exercises, thus enabling the student to speak, read, and write with greater fluency. Students will learn theme-based vocabulary and will integrate that vocabulary with grammatical concepts. They are expected to use Spanish as their primary means of communication in class. Essential Questions 1. Why communicate in languages other than English? 2. Why gain knowledge and understanding of other cultures? 3. How does this knowledge and understanding impact us and our understanding of our own? 4. Why is it important to connect with other disciplines and acquire information that requires us to examine the perspectives from which we assess life? 5. Why and how do we participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world? Assessment 1. Participation and use of Spanish 2. Quizzes 3. Individual and group oral presentations 4. Compositions 5. Individual and group projects 6. Daily homework assignments 7. Unit Tests 8. Fall and Spring Cumulative exams 9. The “Cuento Espantoso” project is a major assessment for the preterite and imperfect tenses unit. Students read, listen to, and watch a version of the traditional scary story “La Llorona” from Latin America. They also read a storybook written at Siempre Verde by Lovett and Ecuadorian students. Finally, they study a list of vocabulary related to scary stories. Then they collaborate in groups to write their own frightening story in Spanish. After they have written and edited the story with the help of the teacher, they make a visual aid (storybook or video) and present it to the class. In this project, students communicate in Spanish and English to collaborate together and create their own work inspired by an authentic cultural resource. Over the course of the project, they work on reading and listening comprehension, writing, and oral presentation skills.
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