World Languages Department

Essential Knowledge and Skills

In Spanish I Honors students will transition from level I to level II in the same year. Students in Spanish I Honors will develop the competencies delineated in the Standards of Foreign Language Learning as set by the state of Utah and the Catholic Diocese of Salt Lake City. Students will explore the vocabulary and grammar used to communicate in a school setting, have a conversation with friends, have a conversation about food, personal hygiene, clothing, shopping and transportation. Students should be able to ask for and give directions. Students will review the present tense of regular and irregular verbs. They will learn how to use the preterit and imperfect tenses in order to tell stories or talk about a past event.

Indicators of Student Learning

Upon the completion of the course, students will:

Cultural Knowledge

• Gain information about cultural festivals, products, foods, and places around the Spanish speaking world through the Cultural Sections of their text.

Oral Communication

• Engage in conversation about chapter topics impromptu.

• Present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners on a variety of topics using visual aids such as power point presentations.

• Comprehend the situational scenarios in each chapter and be able to respond to them.

• Understand and interpret the spoken language by using listening skills through the audio and video program companion to their textbook.

• Work in groups, with partners, or individually to create scenes from each chapter in which the students will use the vocabulary to show their mastery of it.

• Share ideas and information in discussions.

• Use their knowledge of Spanish to give oral presentations of art and culture.

Written Communication

• Use parts of speech correctly to write daily paragraphs, letters, advertisements, and skits, and stories in Spanish.

• Synthesize information to answer questions, respond to questions, complete text book activities, and communicate ideas.

• Translate from Spanish to English and English to Spanish

• Students will learn new vocabulary

• Connect prior learning to scaffold better writing skills.

Listening Comprehension

• Use auditory clues such as intonation to infer meaning of words.

• Use contextual clues to infer meaning of words.

• Students will listen to the audio program companion to their text and answer correctly comprehension questions about what they hear.

• They will write down answers to questions after hearing a situation take place.

• Students will be able to engage in conversation by interpreting what others are saying.

Reading Skills

• Read Spanish in a way that meaning is communicated.

• Read Spanish and comprehend that which was read.

• Gain comprehensible input through practice activities, culture notes, and text reading selections.

Technological and media Skills

• Students will learn to access the Publisher Website for extra resources

• Students will learn how to use the web page www. Avancemos.conjuguemos.com

• Students will use Power Point to aid during oral presentations.

• Students will be exposed to media in the target language in the form of TV shows from and movies played in the target language with comprehension packets.

Assessment

Upon the successful completion of the course, students will:

• Interpret and engage in conversations in group, partner and classroom settings.

• Read and comprehend what is read

• Learn and expand on vocabulary

• Improve writing skills

• Learn the preterit and imperfect tenses in order to tell stories or talk about a past event.

• Translate Spanish to English and English to Spanish

• Engage in impromptu conversations

• Use Power Point as visual aid during oral presentation