Plymouth Elementary School’s Mission Statement: Educating children to become caring, capable citizens and lifelong learners in a global community. Spanish Philosophy Statement: ​
The purpose of the Spanish program is to offer an introduction and exposure to the Spanish language and its cultures through music, games, stories, partner and group activities, audio & visual activities, and cultural art projects. Each year incorporates and expands upon previously introduced material/content. Kindergarten Experience ​
(Once a week for 35 minutes) Grade One Experience ​
(Once a week for Grade Two Experience ​
(Once a week 45 minutes) for 35 minutes) Overarching Question(s): What is language? What does one need to be able to communicate in another language? Sampling of Topics of Study: Greeting and Goodbyes, Numbers 1­10, Day of the Dead, Hispanic Christmas Traditions, Colors, Feelings, Asking and telling one’s name, Shapes, Animals. Critical Skills and Standards: ● Greet and respond to someone while speaking Spanish, ● Count to and identify numbers to ten in Spanish, Overarching Question(s): What is language? What does one need to be able to communicate in another language? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, Greetings, Numbers, 11­30, Colors, Animals, Hispanic Christmas Traditions, Days of the week, Food and drink, Sentences, Body parts, People, Family. Critical Skills and Standards: ● Read and produce Grade One Spanish vocabulary, ● Discuss traditions from one’s own Overarching Question(s): What is language? What does one need to be able to communicate in another language? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, Action verbs, Family, Day of the Dead, Hispanic Christmas Traditions, Classroom objects, Places around town, Transportation, Numbers 11­30. Critical Skills and Standards: ● Read and correctly pronounce Grade Two Spanish vocabulary, ● Arrange Spanish story sentence ●
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culture and the Hispanic culture, Differentiate between a Hispanic calendar and an American calendar, Demonstrate understanding of and create Spanish sentences, Sing and act out Spanish songs. ●
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strips in order, Read and comprehend stories written in Spanish, Understand traditions and their origins in Hispanic culture. Grade Three Experience ​
(Once a week for 45 minutes) Grade Four Experience ​
(Once a week for 45 minutes) Grade Five Experience ​
(Once a week for 45 minutes) Overarching Question(s): How are people from different cultures universally alike? How does one use the understanding of another language and culture to reinforce and expand knowledge of other disciplines and vice versa? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, Spanish alphabet, Numbers 40­199, Day of the Dead, Transportation, Countries, Christmas in Hispanic countries, Months, Seasons, Weather, Cinco de Mayo, God’s Eyes, Time. Critical Skills and Standards: ● Demonstrate acquisition of Grade Three Spanish Vocabulary, ● Identify countries on a World Map, Overarching Question(s): How are people from different cultures universally alike? How does one use the understanding of another language and culture to reinforce and expand knowledge of other disciplines and vice versa? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, new vocabulary based on various mini­stories. Critical Skills and Standards: ● Demonstrate acquisition of Grade Four Spanish Vocabulary, ● Practice new vocabulary and grammar through a series of stories, ● Demonstrate understanding of Overarching Question(s): How are people from different cultures universally alike? How does one use the understanding of another language and culture to reinforce and expand knowledge of other disciplines and vice versa? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, new vocabulary based on various mini­stories, Spanish speaking countries, Critical Skills and Standards: ● Identify the 21 Spanish­speaking countries, ● Demonstrate acquisition of Grade Five Spanish Vocabulary, ● Practice new vocabulary and grammar through a series of ●
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Understand traditions and their origins in Hispanic culture. Understand the differences between the calendar in Hispanic countries and in the U.S.A. ●
new vocabulary and grammar by acting them out or using manipulatives, Create and present original stories incorporating new and previously learned vocabulary. ●
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stories, Demonstrate understanding of new vocabulary and grammar by acting them out or using manipulatives, Create and present original stories incorporating new and previously learned vocabulary. Grade Six Experience ​
(Twice a week for Grade Seven Experience ​
(Twice a week Grade Eight Experience ​
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45 minutes) for 45 minutes) screening at the end of 7​
Grade) Spanish I High School Course​
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(Four times a week) Spanish 8 ​
(Once a week) Overarching Question(s): What are “language patterns” and how can they help me learn and use a new language? What is the connection between a people’s perspectives, practices, products, and their language? How do I use my knowledge of language and culture to enrich my life and broaden my opportunities? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, Interpersonal skills, Metric system, Overarching Question(s): What are “language patterns” and how can they help me learn and use a new language? What is the connection between a people’s perspectives, practices, products, and their language? How do I use my knowledge of language and culture to enrich my life and broaden my opportunities? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material, Overarching Question(s): What is the connection between a people’s perspective, practices, products, and their language? How do I use my knowledge of language and culture to enrich my life and broaden my opportunities? Sampling of Topics of Study: Review & recycling of previous material,Dinner foods, Leisure activities, Places, Extending/Accepting/Declining invitations, Regular & Irregular verb Punctuation marks, Accents marks, Festivals. Critical Skills and Standards: ● Demonstrate acquisition of Grade Six Spanish Vocabulary, ● Appropriately engage in conversations while Speaking Spanish, ● Discuss the typical differences in greeting people and saying goodbye between people from the US and people from Spanish­speaking countries, ● Discuss geography and climatology in the Southern hemisphere, ● Discuss things that they like and do not like to do, ● Describing one’s own personality and characteristics, ● Describing someone else’s personality and characteristics, ● Practice new vocabulary and grammar through a series of stories, ● Demonstrate understanding of new vocabulary and grammar by acting them out or using manipulatives, ● Create and present original stories incorporating new and previously learned vocabulary. School subjects, School supplies, Ordinal conjugations, Families and Traditions, numbers, Conjugating regular verbs, and Celebrations, Restaurant. Prepositions, Breakfast and lunch food Critical Skills and Standards: and drinks, Personality traits, Familiar ● Exhibit understanding of the objects, Friendships, Adjectives, Definite conventions of grammar and indefinite articles. mechanics and usage of the Critical Skills and Standards: Spanish language through both ● Demonstrate acquisition of Grade original written work and speaking. Seven Spanish Vocabulary, ● Make meaningful connections and ● Engage in conversations while comparisons between Speaking Spanish, Spanish­Speaking cultures and ● Discuss building vocabulary their own from information gained through the use of root words through reading, discussions, and ● Explain gender­agreement rules multimedia sources,, with the use of adjectives, ● Practice new vocabulary and ● Demonstrate acquisition of Grade grammar through a series of Four Spanish Vocabulary, stories, ● Practice new vocabulary and ● Demonstrate understanding of grammar through a series of new vocabulary and grammar by stories, acting them out or using ● Demonstrate understanding of manipulatives, new vocabulary and grammar by ● Create and present original stories acting them out or using incorporating new and previously manipulatives, learned vocabulary. ● Create and present original stories incorporating new and previously learned vocabulary.