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Spanish IV Std. 1.2 Students comprehend and interpret written and oral Spanish on a variety of topics.

Lesson Plans: Museums, Museums, Museums! In this lesson students will visit a website, read, answer questions, and give descriptions. Diego Rivera In this lesson you will visit a website with Diego Rivera, one of the three greatest muralists of modern Mexico. You will recognize an artist's influences, style, size, use of color, message, interpretation of history, and impact on culture. Artistas Mexicanos Rivera y Kahlo In this lesson students read about Rivera and Kahlo. They read about the different styles of painting: Muralist and Surrealist. Students then create their own version of a mural or surrealist painting. Borders: Metaphors & Realities Students will explore and create definitions of the word "border." Students will engage in a multi-perspective way of looking at the border. La Frontera In this lesson the student will learn the geography of the border between the US and Mexico and will explore reasons why people choose to come to the US. Mexico - Language and Literature The students will develop their language and literature skills and knowledge by engaging themselves within a realm of the Mexican culture. Mexican Food This lesson introduces Mexican food and the history behind it. The main objective of this lesson is to introduce new food vocabulary to the students. In addition, the students will also participate in classroom activities, make a menu of their own, take quizzes, and use the internet to practice the vocabulary. The students will apply what they learn in a Mexican restaurant, by ordering their meal in Spanish Spanish Bingo This is a great lesson for review. It is the same as playing Bingo, but you may call it whatever you wish and have the student call that name out when s/he wins. Spanish This lesson teaches the numbers 0-100 the fun and easy way. Students create their own bingo chart, the teacher calls out numbers randomly; six matches in a row wins. The Mayans This is an interdisciplinary unit which will explore why the Mayan are not as prominent today as they were in the past. Students will also develop a better understanding of Mayan culture and their civilization. Building Communities/Construyendo Comunidades The objective of the lesson is to allow students to take responsibility for their own learning of a foreign language through exploring the theme of what community means. All groups develop their own core vocabulary of words associated with their concept of community. For the Grade and Middle School students the lessons should be kept at a concrete-operation cognitive level. For High School students their theme remains the same, but their development is more on the abstract cognitive level. Questions and answers in a Foreign Language The object of this lesson is for students to recognize all the interrogative words, how to phrase questions and how to answer questions in a foreign language. Vocabulary Review in Spanish This lesson is a vocabulary review. The class is divided into two teams. Each person has a corresponding partner with which he competes. One person from each team goes to the board, and the one who answers correctly first and can write the answer on the board scores for his/her team. Baseball Vocabulary This lesson can be used as a review of vocabulary and verb conjugations. All levels from beginning levels through advanced can benefit from this lesson. Concrete Biopoems In this lesson, Concrete Biopoems, students create poems about themselves. This reinforces use of adjectives and other vocabulary. To really get the students involved have them put their poems inside a drawing of a shape that is important to them. For example: a football, a car, a parent's face, etc. Curriculum Archive: SAT or Foreign Language Vocabulary Students will be able to work cooperatively in groups to create a restaurant menu which accurately depicts the definitions of the given vocabulary words.

Resources: Spanish Grammar Tutorial This site features an online grammar guide for those interested in learning Spanish. From this page, visitors can link to individual pages providing instruction in parts of speech, vocabulary, and common phrases and expressions. Hispanic Magazine This magazine has a list of links to articles for and about Hispanics. Site includes Hispanic culture, business, sports and more. CNN En Español CNN world news in Spanish. A great resource for Sports, weather, international concerns, health, fashion and everything else you are used to from CNN. El Espectador This site is a daily paper from Colombia. Includes front page stories, economics, sports, links to back issues, and more. Online Resources-Spanish This site is dedicated to materials for language learning. It includes courses, grammar, links to practice materials in all four modalities, and much more. Webspañol: Spanish Language Resources on-line This site boasts of their commitment to Spanish Language study with Internet resources. Noticias y Revistas In case none of the others interest you, here is a nice listing of many of the Hispanic Newspapers available on the web. TeachSpanish.com The TeachSpanish.com Country Resource Center will allow you to explore any Latin American country you choose in either English or Spanish. Also, when you get to a country, simply click on the country flag to get some general demographic information in English about that country. Quia - Class Page Kathleen Pepin This is basically a site for Spanish II which can also be used later in Spanish I Bienvenidos a mi página WEB This is a Super Website with links to over 630 sites and growing daily.
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