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Curriculum for Spanish - Level 2

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Standard:  Interpersonal Communication

Measurment Category 1.1:  Conversations

Year 2 – Novice-intermediate

While engaged in tasks involving interpersonal communication, the student engages in brief conversations to demonstrate level appropriate language in culturally authentic situations by being able to correctly:

·         ask questions and give answers

·         make requests

·         describe self, family, friends

·         describe people, places and things

·         exchange familiar information and opinions

·         express agreement and disagreement

·         give and respond to directions and commands

Standard:  Interpersonal Communication

Measurement Category 1.2:  Written or Oral Response

Year 2

While engaged in tasks involving interpersonal communication, the student demonstrates the ability to correctly write a level appropriate response based on a culturally authentic stimulus such as:

Standard:  Interpretive Communication

Measurement Category 2.1:  Reading Comprehension

Year 2 – Novice/High – Intermediate/Mid

While engaged in tasks involving interpretive communication, the student demonstrates the ability to:

·         understand central messages (1)

·         extract details (2)

·         combine elements (3)

·         make an inference (5)

·         make a prediction (5)

·         make a judgment (6)

·         respond to the text (6)

from reading authentic literary or informational texts such as those found in Appendix A.

Standard:  Interpretive Communication

Measurement Category 2.2:  Listening Comprehension

Year 2  – Novice/High – Intermediate/Mid

While engaged in tasks involving interpretive communication, the student demonstrates the ability to

·         understand central messages (1)

·         extract details (2)

·         combine elements (3)

·         make an inference (5)

·         make a prediction (5)

·         make a judgment (6)

·         respond to the text (6)

from listening to authentic works such as those found in Appendix B.

Standard:  Presentational Communication

Measurement Category 3.1:  Sentence Development

Year 2

While engaged in tasks involving presentational communication, the student generates level appropriate sentences in both writing and speaking including:

·         nouns with irregular genders

·         descriptive, quantitative and demonstrative adjectives

·         verbs in the past, present and future tenses

·         adverbs

·         subject, object and relflexive pronouns

·         prepositional phrases

·         simple and compound sentences

·         syntactical differences

·         idiomatic expressions

·         transitions to express time or chronological order

·         transitions to give example

·         transitions to show order of importance

Standard:  Presentational Communication

Measurement Category 3.2:  Paragraph Development

Year 2

While engaged in tasks involving presentational communication, the student demonstrates level appropriate paragraph development

Standard:  Culture

Measurement Category 4.1:  Cultural Products and Practices

Year 2

While engaged in tasks involving culture, the student demonstrates knowledge of cultural products and practices by being able to correctly:

·         describe (2) basic social practices (such as celebrations and holidays, fashion, sports)

·         describe (2) products, perspectives and symbols of Hispanic culture

·         describe (2) factors that influence culture (such as geography, weather, demographics, history)

·         examine (3) Hispanic influence in the U.S. (such as place names)

·         describe (2) contributions from others cultures (such as art, music, literature, famous people)

·         investigate (4) cultural practices (such as traditions, fashion, sports, dating)

·         describe (2) factors that influence culture (such as geography, weather, demographics, history)

Standard:  Comparisons

Measurement Categories 5.1:  Written and Spoken Language

Year 2

While engaged in tasks involving comparisons, the student demonstrates an understanding of the relationship between written and spoken language by being able to correctly:

·         pronounce vowels correctly without English interference

·         pronounce diphthongs correctly without English interference

·         pronounce consonants correctly without English interference

·         demonstrate accurate intonation

·         spell syllables containing the sounds /k/  /Q/  /s/  /g/  /h/  /gu/

·         use punctuation and diacritical markings accurately

·         use the dieresis and hyphen correctly

·         type diacritical markings and special characters on the computer

·         divide words into syllables and understand the importance of dividing words into syllables

·         apply the rules of correct stress

·         apply the rules of accentuation and use written accent marks accurately

·         use capital letters correctly

Standard:  Comparisons

Measurement Category 5.2:  Thematic Vocabulary

Level 2

Standard:  Comparisons

Measurement Category 5.4:  Translation

Year 2

While engaged in tasks involving comparisons, the student demonstrates the ability to translate level appropriate texts from one language into another, including:

·         simple and complex sentences

·         prepositional phrases

·         simple paragraphs

·         idiomatic expressions

Standard:  Comparisons

Measurement Category 5.5:  Grammar

Level 2