560A Beginning Spanish A ACP

 Gr 11 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle

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.