World Languages Department

Essential Knowledge and Skills

Students in Spanish II 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 and discuss emergencies and heroic acts, injuries and treatments, television shows, movies plots and characters, food and indoor and outdoor cooking, and travel. Students will review present tense of regular and irregular verbs. They will learn other verbs conjugations forms in the preterite tense, other uses of the imperfect tense, the imperfect progressive, the present perfect tense, affirmative and negative commands, and regular and irregular verbs in the present subjunctive They will use direct and indirect object pronouns, demonstrative adjectives, adjectives as nouns, and possessive pronouns.

Indicators of Student Learning

Upon the completion of the course, students will:

Cultural Knowledge

• Form comparisons between languages in both the grammar explanations in the text, on the videos, and in sections in the text titled Exploration of Language.

• Gain information about cultural festivals, products, foods, and places around the world.

• Acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.

Oral Communication

• Engage in impromptu conversation about chapter topics.

• Present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners on a variety of topics.

• 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 program.

• Translate from Spanish to English and English to Spanish.

• 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 their daily routine, their childhood, and their community.

Written Communication

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

• Synthesize information to answer questions, complete textbook activities, and communicate ideas.

• Compose emails to pen pals in a Spanish speaking nation to communicate in Spanish about everyday topics.

• Build Spanish vocabulary skills by incorporating new terms into sentences written grammatically correct.

• 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.

• Write down dictations in Spanish

• Write down answers to questions after hearing a situation take place.

• 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 magazine articles, culture notes, and text reading selections.

Assessment

Upon the successful completion of the course, students will:

• Maintain a journal in Spanish

• Interpret and understand Spanish to share in discussions

• Read & comprehend Spanish texts

• Oral presentations using Power Point

• Gain insight and appreciation for the Spanish & Latin American culture and share their knowledge within the classroom.