Dover Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:                 Spanish 8                                                         Grade:              8         

 

Unit:                 Paso a Paso 2 – Chapter 6 – Celebrations and Family                          

Month Presented:                     May - June                Unit Length (in weeks):    4 -6     

 

Essential Question (s):

 

  • ¿Cuándo, cómo y qué celebramos?  - When, how and what do we celebrate?

 

Learning Objectives:

 

  • Name and describe members of an extended family
  • Describe special family occasions, holidays, and other celebrations
  • Greet people in several different ways
  • Discuss how one culture can influence another

 

Skills:

 

  • Use party-related vocabulary to talk about one sees, does and says at a party or family gathering.
  • Use advanced vocabulary to talk about one’s extended family.
  • Use numbers, months and days to talk about when American holidays and Spanish-speaking country holidays are celebrated.
  • Use the present and preterite tenses of the verb pedir to talk about what people order/ask for at restaurants and other occasions.
  • Use the imperfect to express different things that occurred in the past.  (We would go, we used to go, we were going…)
  • Use reciprocal reflexive verbs to talk about what people to do to each other.  (Hug, kiss, shake hands, greet, etc…)

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.

 

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.