561 Spanish 1 H / 562 Spanish 1 ACP
Gr 9 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This course is the typical first-year Spanish course for most students who have not taken Spanish before. The course stresses a proficiency approach, with primary emphasis on the context and purpose of communication through the three modes: Interpersonal (Two-way, unrehearsed communication between individuals); Interpretive (One-way communication using receptive skills of listening and reading); and Presentational (One-way communication using productive skills of speaking and writing).
Performance Target: Novice-High on the ACTFL scale.
Students who successfully completed 8th grade Spanish may not register for Spanish 1 without prior approval from their Spanish teacher and the department head.
Essential Skills:
(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.
Success Criteria:
ACP:
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.
Honors:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using novice-high 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 consistently use a variety of vocabulary from in-class resources and/or previous units.
I consistently use sentences, and simple questions. I consistently 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. I have strong control of word order and targeted structures.