Objectives & Assessments

SEMESTER 1:

Unit 1: Bienvenidos

• I can identify countries where Spanish is spoken.

• I can name facts about one of those countries.

• I can answer basic questions about myself.

• I can say the day, date and weather.

• I can count up to 30.

• I can use cognates to help me understand Spanish.

Unit 2: ¿Qué te gusta?

• I can talk about foods and activities I like and don’t like to do.

• I can identify subject pronouns.

• I can make sentences using the verb SER.

• I can talk about how people are feeling using the verb ESTAR.

Unit 3: ¿Cómo eres? & La familia

• I can describe myself and others using adjectives.

• I can demonstrate noun/adjective agreement.

• I can use definite and indefinite articles.

• I can describe my family and use common family terms.

Unit 4: Novel - Capibara con botas

Unit 5: En la escuela

• I can use numbers up to 100

• I can talk about my daily school schedule

• I can describe classes and classroom objects

• I can name places in the school

• I can use the present tense of AR, ER and IR verbs

SEMESTER 2:

Unit 6: Novel - Llama en Lima

Unit 7: ¿De qué tienes miedo? 

• I can identify vocabulary to talk about fears.

• I can identify and use the forms of tener in the box of six.

• I can say what I am afraid of and what someone else is afraid of.

• I can read a Spanish legend and describe it .

• I can identify the present tense and conjugate -AR, -ER and -IR verbs in the box of six.

Unit 8: Novel - Mata la piñata

Unit 9: Ser & Estar

• I can use the present tense forms of ser and estar

• I can identify when to use ser and when to use ester in common situations

• I can describe myself and others

• I can talk about my emotions and where I am.

Unit 10: ¿Tienes hambre?

• I can identify vocabulary to talk about food.

• I can say what my favorite food is and what someone else's favorite food is.

Students will have regular performance assessments to show me what they know. These will be a combination of quizzes, exams, and projects. They will be announced well in advance both in class and on Google Classroom.

There will be a final exam at the end of Spanish 1. The FINAL EXAM is cumulative - it will cover all of the content we learn over the year.