Dover-Sherborn Middle School

Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                 6th Grade Spanish                                                         Grade:     6     

 

Unit:                 Chapter 1 -   Personality, Interests                                           

Month Presented:         October - November                Unit Length (in weeks):             5         

 

Essential Question (s):

 

What are you like?   ¿Cómo eres?

What do you like to do?      ¿Qué te gusta hacer?

 

 

Learning Objectives:

 

Students will:

·        talk about their interests

·        their personalities

·        compare their likes and dislikes with other people's

·        agree or disagree with someone

·        compare the meaning of friendship and acquaintances in the Spanish-speaking world with friendships in the United States

 

 

Skills:

 

  • Introduction to infinitive verbs
  • Introduction to adjectives along with the use of masculine and feminine
  • How to use también and tampoco
  • How to use ni . . . ni

 

 

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

 

To practice listening comprehension:

 Teacher will

·        speak to students in the target language

·        use the language lab (audio and video)

·        offer TPR instruction

Students will

·        identify key vocabulary through board work

·        the overhead projector, ( fly swatter)

·         Bingo

·         21 questions

·        memory activities.

 

To develop speaking skills:  Students will:

·        speak together in paired activities or in "inside / outside circle" rotating partners

·        talk about pictures, describe what they see

·        describe a famous sports figure, singer, or actor

·        create and answer questions using organizational charts and other visual aids

·        conduct class  surveys / polls.

·        create skits imagining they have just met one another and are finding out about one another.

 

To develop reading skills:  Students will:

  • read aloud from text, ¿Qué Tal? scholastic reader, and other materials. 
  • develop strategies to "guess" any unfamiliar vocabulary through context, using graphic organizers. 

 

To develop writing skills:  Students will:

  • complete practice worksheets.

 

Materials Utilized:

 

Overhead projector, ancillary materials, white boards, markers, flash cards, dialogue cards, easel, maps, Koosh ball, fly swatters, realia, props, worksheets from Practice Workbook and Writing, Audio & Video Activities, teacher handouts.

 

 

Assessment Strategies:

 

Bi-weekly  listening comprehension assessments given (true / false)

Quizzes and tests

Portfolios

Grids used for writing assignment and skits.