Submitted by Tamie Morphew

Language: Spanish Unit Cultural Theme or Academic Content Area: Educational Systems Target Audience: Traditional High School Year of Instruction: 3 Proficiency Level: Novice High

Standards: Communication:    1.1, 1.2, 1.3 Cultures:    2.1, 2.2 Connections:    3.1 Comparisons:    4.2 Communities:    5.1

Unit Timeframe:

18 50-minute periods.

Unit Overview:

The students will examine the culture of their school, compare their own school culture with a school from a Spanish-speaking country. The students will produce a PowerPoint presentation or web page in Spanish designed to act as an orientation for Spanish-speaking students new to Jackson County Central High School, with the goal of helping ease their transition to a new school culture. Students will also exchange emails with students in a Spanish-speaking school or interview international students to compare school cultures.

Context:

This unit will be used in a Spanish III class. Students will have completed the CoBaLTT Unit "Más allá del Lago Wobegon" from the CoBaLTT web site prior to starting this unit. By completing that unit first students will have knowledge of concepts and vocabulary that will allow them to examine the culture of their high school. Most students had some experience using the PowerPoint program and required minimal assistance. I had to learn how to save that program as HTML and how to link various PowerPoint programs. The district technology person found a place for the finished web page on the school server.

General Unit References and Resources:

Links or files for unit content:     A new window will open for each lesson.

Lesson 01: ¿Cómo es nuestra escuela?
Lesson 02: ¿Cuáles son las perspectivas de nuestra escuela?
Lesson 03: ¿Cómo son otras escuelas en el red?
Lesson 04: Las entrevistas: ¿Cómo es su colegio?
Lesson 05: ¿Cómo somos diferentes? ¿Cómo somos lo mismo?
Unit Assessment