Keeping Kids ConnectedPaula Meyer, Appleton North High School

meyerpaula@aasd.k12.wi.us

Outline

• Development• Marketing and Growth• Content

Development

• History– Elementary pilot program– Classical Charter School

• Results– Entry at level 3 or level 4

Development

• Develop new courses to create 4 year sequence– Tradiciones y Costumbres del Mundo

Hispanohablante– ¡Viva España!– Un Viaje por las Américas– Misterios de los aztecas, incas, mayas

Development

• Semester long• Offered simultaneously – mistake!• Rotation

– Viva España and Tradiciones– Viaje and Indios

Marketing and Growth

• Educating others– Classical Charter School teacher– Guidance Counselors– Students and parents via letter mailed home

(see packet)

• Growth– One class of 18 – 3 classes of 30

Content – Tradiciones y Costumbres

• investigate the connections that link celebrations, religious / family traditions and traditional foods

• compare the original practices associated with the celebration to the contemporary practices

• read and discuss legends and folktales that relate to traditions and customs

Content – Tradiciones y Costumbres

• Materials– De Paseo Capítulo 9– Authentik Inter - http://authentik.com

Useful websites:– http://www.veintemundos.com/en/– http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/

Contents - ¡Viva España!

• family life, work and recreation• current social, political and economic issues• contemporary Spanish people • regionalism• effects of historical events on contemporary Spain• media in Spain

Content - ¡Viva España!

• Materials– Textbook: Imágenes de España– Videos/Movies

• Aventuras Vascas• The Disappearance of García Lorca• Carol’s Journey (

http://www.filmmovement.com/index.asp?)– Authentik Inter

Contents – Un Viaje por las Américas

• current events in politics and society• impact of immigration of Latin Americans to the United

States• Latin Americans’ contributions to the United States• influence of Latin American food, music, and the arts• muralism and literature as social commentary

Contents – Un Viaje por las Américas

• Materials– Textbook – Imágenes de América Latina– Movies/Videos (we don’t watch all of them)

• In the Time of the Butterflies• Romero• Missing• Los 80 (Canal 13 from Chile)• The Other Side of Immigration• Bajo la Misma Luna• South of the Border

Content – Misterios de los aztecas, incas y mayas

• Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs and other indigenous groups

• conquerors and important leaders of that time

• study the magnificent structures created by these indigenous people

Content

• Materials– Realidades 3 – Capítulo 7– Imágenes de América Latina– Videos/Movies

• The Road to El Dorado• The Emperor’s New Groove• 500 Nations• History Channel• Ancient Aliens

Content

• Complete course information is available at the district website:– http

://www1.aasd.k12.wi.us/sp/dept/ACI/worldlang/Pages/Curriculum.aspx