How do stories, legends, myths, and fables from Spanish-speaking cultures reflect and shape cultural values and beliefs?
Adaptive Perseverance: Continue effort through task completion despite challenges.
Learner’s Mindset: Demonstrate positive attitudes and beliefs about life-long learning.
Communication: Articulate thoughts and ideas effectively.
Responsibility: Act with integrity and honor obligations.
Global Citizenship: Embrace responsibilities for making the world a better place.
Critical Thinking: View problems to gain insights for solutions.
Collaboration: Address challenges as a team and leverage strengths of others.
What themes and values are commonly found in stories, legends, myths, and fables from Spanish-speaking cultures?
How do narrative techniques differ between Spanish-speaking cultures and your own culture?
How can creating and sharing stories help us understand and appreciate cultural diversity?
Analyze Cultural Themes:
Proficiency Expectation: Students can understand and analyze narrative texts, identifying main ideas and supporting details, and can discuss cultural themes and values in a variety of contexts.
Student Outcome: Students will analyze and interpret the cultural themes and values expressed in stories, legends, myths, and fables from Spanish-speaking cultures.
Narrative Skills:
Proficiency Expectation: Students can narrate and describe in major time frames with connected discourse of paragraph length, using a variety of advanced vocabulary and complex sentence structures.
Student Outcome: Students will create and present their own stories, legends, myths, or fables in Spanish, using advanced vocabulary and complex sentence structures.
Comparative Analysis:
Proficiency Expectation: Students can compare and contrast cultural practices and perspectives, providing detailed explanations and justifications for their observations.
Student Outcome: Students will compare and contrast stories, legends, myths, and fables from Spanish-speaking cultures with those from their own culture, identifying similarities and differences in themes, values, and narrative techniques.
Critical thinking
Analytical skills
Empathy
Communication skills
Historical Context
Communication: Engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Cultures: Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connections: Connect with other disciplines and acquire information.
Comparisons: Develop insight into the nature of language and culture.
Communities: Participate in multilingual communities at home and around the world.
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