Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

Course Title: Spanish 8 Grade: 8

Unit: Paso a Paso 2 – Chapter 5 – Childhood

Month Presented: March - April Unit Length (in weeks): 4-6

Essential Question (s):

• ¿Qué te gustaba hacer de pequeño? – What did you like to do when you were a child?

Learning Objectives:

• Tell what you were like as a child
• Tell what you used to like to do
• Talk about what you learned to do

Skills:

• Use childhood vocabulary to talk about what one had and used to like as a child.
• Use of the imperfect tense to talk about activities that ocurred over a long period of time during childhood.
• Use of the imperfect tense of the verbs ser to talk about what one was like as a child.

Instructional Strategies & Activities:

• Vocabulary Bingo
• Card Game
• Power Point presentation
• Grammar Battleship
• Language Lab activities
• Listening activities
• Video activities
• Activities on www.quia.com
• Paired discussions on extra-curricular activities.
• Project – Power Point presentation to talk about one’s childhood.

Materials Utilized:

• Textbook
• Workbook
• Teacher-made worksheets
• Language Lab
• Audio tapes
• Video tapes
• Computers
• Power-Point

Assessment Strategies:

• Quizzes
• Unit test
• Classroom Participation
• Homework completion
• Language lab “check-ins”
• Cooperation during group/paired work.