La Clase de Español

6th Grade Spanish 1A

Sra. Gray

Course Description

Based upon 3 of the AP themes:

Personal and Public Identities

Families and Communities

Beauty and Aesthetics

Effective communication, cultural understanding, and global awareness are the focus.

Course Proficiency Goals

• Students will strive to meet proficiency goals in speaking, reading, writing, and listening by the end of Spanish 1 and subsequent courses.

• Spanish 1 – 6th Grade (1A)-end of 7th Grade (1B)

• Proficiency standards are aligned with the guidelines of the American Council on Teaching Foreign Languages (ACTFL)

• Proficiency Levels: Novice Low – Novice Mid – Novice High – Intermediate Low – Intermediate Mid – Intermediate High – Advanced Low…

End of Spanish 1A – 6th GradeNovice Low to Novice MidProficiency and Performance

• Proficiency: levels that tell us what we can do with the language and where we are headed next

• Performance: how we show the language from our proficiency level

An example…

How would you talk about… a taco?

Novice low - beef, lettuce, cheese ( a few simple words)

Novice mid - adding in some repetitive phrases : beef, cheese on top, lettuce on top, no hot sauce, eat every day

Novice high - When you can put some sentences together (still simple!) and show you know how cultures are different:

I like tacos. Tacos, beef and I like beef. I put cheese. My friend John, no cheese. He doesn’t like cheese. My friend Maite, no cheese, she says no cheese on Mexican taco and she is from Mexico.

Where are we going next?We’re adding connectors and more vocabulary and creating with language:

Intermediate low-My family eats tacos a lot, often, because we all love the tacos. My mom makes amazing the tacos. She learns recipes from a friend by our house, the mom is Mexican, and makes best tacos with different ingredients, meat from the head! Do you want you come to my house to try my mom’s tacos?

And so on…2015 – Sara-Elizabeth Cottrell –musicuentos.com