560A Beginning Spanish A ACP
Gr 11 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
NOT OFFERED IN 2024-2025 SCHOOL YEAR.
This course is an introduction to Spanish for students who find the experience more challenging. The focus is real-world communication. Instruction is presented at a pace that allows for solid comprehension of beginning level Spanish. The course is conducted in Spanish, and is open to juniors only.
Performance Target: Novice-High on the ACTFL scale.
Goal Areas (From the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for World Languages):
Interpretive Communication - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
Interpersonal Communication - Interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and perspectives
Presentational Communication - Present information, concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and perspectives to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media, and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
Intercultural Communication - Interact appropriately with others in and from another culture.
Cultures - Gain cultural competence and understanding.
Comparisons - Develop insight into the nature of language and culture to interact with cultural competence.
Essential Skills:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using novice-mid language.
I can mostly be understood by someone used to a language learner.
I use highly practiced words and expressions and can add simple details.
I use sentences, and simple questions. I begin to combine words and phrases to create original sentences.
I convey my knowledge of a few basic cultural products and practices.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication.