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.