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Purpose and Description of this Project
Purpose and Description of this Project
For this “Español en mi Vida” project, you continue your exploration of Spanish-speaking cultures and make connections to them in your life and community. You practice your language skills by researching a topic, developing a presentation, and delivering it to the class. The purpose of this project is to help develop your language skills and cultural knowledge while fostering lifelong connections to the Spanish language and the communities that speak it.
For this project, you have 2 options:
1. Option 1: You explore a Hispanic/Latinx community organization, event, or connection to your major/career/interests and create a presentation about it using your language skills.
AND/OR
2. Option 2: You complete a personal interview with a Spanish speaker or member of the Hispanic or Latinx community about themes from this class, including language and cultural products, practices, and perspectives. This could be a friend, family member, co-worker, teacher, tutor or anyone else you know who is willing to share their language and culture with you. Then, you practice your language skills and share what you learned in a presentation.
Project Tasks
Read the article about Latinos in Wisconsin.
Read the "Mis Comunidades" infographic
Explore resources and choose a topic for the “Español en mi Vida” project. You can choose a topic from our course materials or find one through your own research and investigation.
✅ Tarea: Add new vocabulary words and phrases to your personal flashcards or notes
✅ Design and practice delivering your project presentation.
✅ Deliver your presentation to a friend or record yourself presenting it.
✅ Reflect on your learning in the reflection journal and interactive Padlet discussion board.
Learning Outcome Checklist for this Project
This is the learning checklist you can use to evaluate yourself on this project. If there are parts of the checklist that you would like to change, feel free to modify it and add to it to fit your learning style and language level.
Design communication products for presenting information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish.
You develop a presentation that uses descriptions and comparisons. You practice using vocabulary and phrases for presenting and explaining.
Investigate cultural products, practices, perspectives, and community connections.
You explain cultural products, practices, and perspectives in Latinx/a/o or Hispanic cultures. You examine how these aspects connect to communities.
Compare Latinx/a/o and/or Hispanic cultures with students’ personal cultures in Spanish.
You examine similarities and differences between Spanish-speaking cultures. You make comparisons to your own culture(s) and identity.
Cultivate cultural humility through language learning.
You reflect on your learning about Spanish-speaking cultures and yourself through this project and the Spanish language. You identify relationships between cultures and language learning. You participate in self-exploration or self-critique with a willingness to learn from others.
Project Template
Project Template
You can use the template to the right to design your presentation. Feel free to put your own spin on the template design, too. I encourage you to add new slides and expand the template based on your topic.
You can include a description of your topic, vocabulary words you learned, and examples of cultural products, practices, and perspectives. You can also include interesting background information you learn from your research, connections to your life and community, and reflections on your overall learning. Feel free to add pictures, color, and other design elements as they relate to your topic, too!
To make a copy of the template, click Project 2 Template
1-2. Community Connections and Latinos in Wisconsin
1-2. Community Connections and Latinos in Wisconsin
Learn about Spanish speakers in Wisconsin by reading the article "Latinos in Wisconsin" written by Professor Victor M. Macías-González. The article below is from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse Blog and comes from the URL: https://www.uwlax.edu/currents/latinos-in-wisconsin/
As you read, consider your own local connections and relationships to Spanish-speaking communities. How do you see yourself connecting with others who speak Spanish in your daily life, at school, in your current or future job, and in your community? What ways do you see yourself connecting with the Spanish language locally, nationally, and globally?
After reading the article, view the "Mis Comunidades" infographic to see an example of how your instructor connects to Spanish-speaking people and communities.
3. Exploring Resources and Choosing a Topic for the Culture and Language Project
3. Exploring Resources and Choosing a Topic for the Culture and Language Project
Explore the resources below about Hispanic and Latino/a/x cultures by clicking the blue buttons. You can choose one of the topics for your “Español en mi Vida” project. Feel free to choose a topic that is not part of these resources, too.
4-5. Designing and Drafting Project 2
4-5. Designing and Drafting Project 2
Review the presentations and websites below to help you design and draft your project. These resources cover common vocabulary, phrases, and sentence-starters for delivering presentations and discussing topics in Spanish.
Making Comparisons and Connections
Making Comparisons and Connections
Source Attribution: Spanish in Texas. The University of Texas at Austin. https://grammar.spanishintexas.org/adjectives/comparisons/
Using Adjectives and Giving Descriptions
Using Adjectives and Giving Descriptions
Source Attribution: Spanish in Texas. The University of Texas at Austin. https://grammar.spanishintexas.org/adjectives/formation-and-placement/
6. Presenting and Discussing Project 2
6. Presenting and Discussing Project 2
When you are ready, share your presentation with others and listen to their presentations. You can find a friend, classmate, family member, instructor, or anyone willing to listen. Deliver your presentation to them and keep the conversation going by receiving feedback and asking questions. You can use the resources below to help you with Spanish language skills for conversing and asking questions.
Source Attribution: First Year Spanish 1 Copyright © 2019 by Paul Eckhardt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.
7. Sharing your Learning with Classmates in the Padlet
7. Sharing your Learning with Classmates in the Padlet
Click the + signs in the Padlet below to share your learning moments with others. A "Padlet" is an interactive discussion board where you can anonymously share your learning moments. In this Padlet, you share local, national, and global connections to the Spanish language.
7. Reflecting on your Learning with Journal Writing
7. Reflecting on your Learning with Journal Writing
Complete this journal after you finish the major project. Reflect on your language, culture, and identity learning. You can write in Spanish, English, and/or Spanglish. Answer the questions completely with about 1-2 paragraphs (5+ sentences) for each learning competency.
Learning Competency: Design communication products for presenting information, concepts, and ideas in Spanish.
Compare your skills at designing presentations from the beginning of this project until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments when it comes to designing presentations in Spanish?
What words, phrases, and sentences did you use to present about yourself?
What words, phrases, and sentences did you use for presenting about your topics?
What did you learn from viewing your classmates' presentations and leaving them feedback?
Learning Competency: Investigate cultural products, practices, perspectives, and community connections.
Compare your understanding of the three P’s, cultural products, practices, and perspectives, from the beginning of this project until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments?
What products, practices, and perspectives have you recognized in your own culture? How do they connect to the communities you are a part of?
What products, practices, and perspectives have you learned about from Latinx/o/a and/or Hispanic cultures? How do they connect to communities?
Learning Competency: Compare Latinx/a/o and/or Hispanic cultures with students’ personal cultures in Spanish.
Compare your understanding of culture and language from the beginning of this project until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments?
What are similarities between your culture and language and the Spanish-speaking cultures and languages you have explored for this project?
What are differences between your culture and language and the Spanish-speaking cultures and languages you have explored for this project?
What words, phrases, and sentences have you learned for making comparisons in Spanish?
Learning Competency: Cultivate cultural humility through language learning.
Compare your understanding of identity, culture, and language from the beginning of this project until the end of it. What have been some of your major learning moments? How has your thinking changed?
What have you learned about yourself through this project? What have you learned about others?
In what ways have you improved your knowledge and skills at interacting with people from various cultural backgrounds through this project?
In what ways have you developed your willingness to learn from others with an open mind? How have you participated in self-reflection and self-critique through this project?
Vocabulary Flashcards and Review
Vocabulary Flashcards and Review
Use the Quizlet flashcards below to review many of the vocabulary words and phrases from the first project's topics. You can use these flashcards to make your own list of vocabulary and flashcards, too.
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