La Clase de Español 6 th 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 – 6 th Grade (1A)-end of 7 th 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 – 6 th Grade Novice Low to Novice Mid Proficiency 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