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World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.6

Connect with other disciplines while using the target language.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • the importance the metric system plays in measurements throughout the world.
  • that weather patterns are dependant on geographical locations.
  • currency changes from country to country and exchange rates are variable
  • where the target language is spoken.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
  • identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
  • identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
  • investigate other disciplines using the target language language.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
  • world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
  • strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
  • a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.

Aligned Learning Resources

Personalidades con Animales
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
Aliméntate bien para jugar con ganas
Utilizar el Ordenador
Clothing Store
Donnerwetter: The Germans and Their Weather
Monet's Waterscapes
Women and Revolution: In the Time of the Butterflies
A Weekend in France
French Cinema
Google Maps: Exploring France
The 22 Spanish Speaking Countries of the World
Hispanic Demographics Map Research
Latin America Map
Country Research Project
Latin America Upside Down
Weather Reports in Chinese
Shopping in Beijing
German Suduko
La Subasta - The Auction
Vamos al Supermercado
Map of Paris Arrondissements
Real Estate Group Presentation - Phase 1
Real Estate Group Presentation - Phase 2
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.7

Interpret information related to diverse perspectives in the target culture.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • that a person's culture, background, and previous experiences affect the way they view and interpret information.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • access and evaluate information available through the target language and its culture.
  • identify personal perspectives on various topics related to school.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • access and evaluate information available through the target language and its culture.
  • identify personal perspectives on various topics related to school.
  • investigate other disciplines using the target language language.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
  • world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
  • strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
  • a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.

Aligned Learning Resources

Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Spanish
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: French
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: German
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Chinese
German Football
Die Familie
Donnerwetter: The Germans and Their Weather
I'm Sick! - Ich bin krank!
German Magazines
A Weekend in France
Sénégal Fast Food by Amadou Bagayoko & Mariam Doumbia
Paris Match Magazine
French Cinema
French Professions -Interpersonal Conversations
Vamos al Supermercado
Quinceañera Digital Breakout
Yo Soy de América: Examining the Word "Americano" from Different Perspectives
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.8

Identify characteristics of the target language and the native language.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • how to recognize similarities among root words in order to aid comprehension in the target language.
  • that conjugations can effect the formality/tone of the provided information.
  • that word order varies across langauge and may differ from their native language.
  • that some expressions (ex.
    • idiomatic expressions) may not translate literally from language to language.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • use the alphabet or writing system to express ideas.
  • identify appropriate situations in which to use formal and informal structures.
  • memorize common idomatic expressions.
  • match words from the target language to similarly structured words in the native language.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • use the alphabet or writing system to express ideas.
  • use diacritical markings to clarify meaning when writing.
  • identify appropriate situations in which to use formal and informal structures.
  • memorize common idomatic expressions.
  • match words from the target language to similarly structured words in the native language.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
  • other understandings will depend on theme taught.

Aligned Learning Resources

Pitch Perfect Pinyin
French Cognates
French Grammar Games: Play, Learn, Improve
French Prepositions Printable
Naval Battle
Spanish Question Word Posters
Spanish Grammar Bell Ringers and Exit Slips
Los Verbos
A Los Pasillos!
Utilizar el Ordenador
Cognates - First Day of Spanish
Spanish Prepositional Phrases
20 Spanish Conversation Starters Poster
AR Verb Conjugation Game in Spanish
Reflexive Verb Conjugation Game in Spanish
Los Saludos
Common AR Verbs in Spanish
Common ER Verbs in Spanish
Common IR Verbs in Spanish
Mi Rutina Diario
Joyeux Noël - French Prepositions
Grimm Grammar
German Football Fans
I'm Sick! - Ich bin krank!
Schnuffel – der Schnuffelsong
Greetings - Beyond Estoy Bien!
Foux da fafa Flight of the Conchords
Paris Match Magazine
French Interviews: Presentations and Introductions
French Interviews: Weather, The Weekend, Vacations
French Interviews: Celebrities and Stereotypes
Que Douillet - Omnikrom
Cubra su tos
¿Quién es?
Puedo Classroom Posters
Spanish Family Tree Vocabulary
French Interviews: Food
French Interviews: Around the House
French Interviews: The Media
Chinese Radical Bingo
Canine Language - Spanish Emotions Poster
Canine Language - Chinese Emotions Poster
Jeopardy: French Novice Mid Review
French Prepositions of Location
French Tongue Twisters
Influential Leaders With Descriptors Activity
Using the Interpretive Mode to Introduce Verb Formation
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.9

Identify products, practices, and perspectives of the target culture and the native culture.

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Knowledge

Student know:
  • how to identify important cultural products, practices, and perspectives that are important within their own personal lives.
  • how to use present tense verbs to describe what people do.
  • how to use adjectives to describe nouns.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • identify the products, practices, and perspectives that are unique to native culture.
  • identify the products, practices, and perspectives that are unique to the target language culture including celebrations, music, games, and rhymes.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • identify the products, practices, and perspectives that are unique to native culture.
  • identify the products, practices, and perspectives that are unique to the target language culture including celebrations, music, games, and rhymes.
  • compare and contrast native and target culture products, practices and perspectives.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • there are similarities and differences in the characteristics of the target culture and their own.
  • custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
  • by studying another culture, one can better understand and appreciate their own.
  • other understanding will depend on theme being taught.

Aligned Learning Resources

Comercial McDonald's McTrio (actividad auditiva)
¿Adónde Quieres Viajar? Where Do You Want to Travel?
What's Your Schedule? (French)
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Spanish
La Calavera - Sugar Skull Pattern
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: French
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: German
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Chinese
La Oca: Vocabulary Game
German Television Programs
German Football Fans
Mexican Culture and History Through Its National Holidays
French Interviews: Celebrities and Stereotypes
Sacré Charlemagne - France Gall
Culture Venn Diagram
Shopping in Beijing
Quinceañera Digital Breakout
Virtual Exploration: Visiting Mexico's Day of the Dead Celebration
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.10

Communicate using the target language within the classroom and globally.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • how to appropriately participate in a variety of basic conversations with the target language speakers.
  • how to describe themselves and others to the target language speakers.
  • how to ask and gather basic information through conversations with the target language speakers.
  • how to recognize opportunities to use the target language beyond the classroom.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • identify places aoround the world where the target language is spoken.
  • identify places in the community where the target language is spoken.
  • set own learning goals.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • identify places around the world where the target language is spoken.
  • identify places in the community where the target language is spoken.
  • recognize their own proficiency level.
  • set own learning goals.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • the target language is used around the world every day in many different contexts.
  • the target language can help one better understand the world around them.
  • the study of world languages expands one's opportunities.
  • language is a tool to connect with the world.
  • other understandings will depend on theme being taught.

Aligned Learning Resources

Art for Social Change - Middle School Spanish
Influential Leaders With Descriptors Activity
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L1.11

Identify opportunities to use the target language beyond the classroom environment.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • the locations of the target language specific countries.
  • the key attractions within the target language specific countries.
  • the key celebrations within the target language specific countries.

Skills

Students are able to:
Novice Mid Level
  • access important travel documents and safety information online.
  • use physical and online resources to identify and participate in celebrations within the target language countries.
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • access important travel documents and safety information online.
  • use online resources to evaluate hotels and attractions within target language countries.
  • use physical and online resources to identify and participate in celebrations within the target language countries.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • the target language is used around the world every day in many different contexts.
  • the target language can help one better understand the world around them.
  • the study of world languages expands one's opportunities.
  • language is a tool to connect with the world.
  • other understandings will depend on theme being taught.

Aligned Learning Resources

¿Adónde Quieres Viajar? Where Do You Want to Travel?
German Clap Dance
Baila! Latin Dance in the Spanish Classroom
30 Latinos Who Have Helped Shape the United States
A Weekend in France
The 22 Spanish Speaking Countries of the World
Los Agentes de Viajeros
Weekend Travel Itinerary - Phase 1
Restaurant Virtual Visit, Review, and Conversation - Phase 1
Weekend Travel Itinerary - Phase 2
Restaurant Virtual Visit, Review, and Conversation - Phase 2
Restaurant Virtual Visit, Review, and Conversation - Phase 3
Virtual Exploration: Visiting Mexico's Day of the Dead Celebration
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L2.1

Communicate and share on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in the past time frame.

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Knowledge

Students know:
  • question words and how to recognize and use them in conversation.
  • how to describe themselves in first person.
  • how to describe others in third person.
  • interpret information from texts, graphs, and pictures.
  • utilize the language to express needs.

Skills

Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • use basic greetings.
  • introduce themselves.
  • respond to yes/no questions.
  • respond to either or questions.
  • answer who, what, when where.
  • say age.
  • say what one likes/dislikes.
  • talk about places.
  • interpret meaning of question words when used in conversation and respond appropriately.
  • collect information using basic question words.
Intermediate Low Level
Students are able to:
  • ask and answer questions related to school subjects.
  • have a simple conversation on a variety of concrete topics.
  • relate information using basic informal commands.
  • construct verbs using formations that indicate past actions.
  • interpret meaning of question words when used in conversation and respond appropriately.

Understanding

Students understand that:
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

Aligned Learning Resources

¿Adónde Quieres Viajar? Where Do You Want to Travel?
Fast Food in German-Speaking Countries
Esperanza Novel Unit
Personalidades con Animales
Spanish Question Word Posters
French Reflexive Verbs
Oú se trouve - Where Is?
Autobiografía
Listening for Family History - Spanish
El Amor y la Vida
Las Comidas Favoritas
La Oca: Vocabulary Game
Daily Spanish Prompts
Fruits and Vegetables
Les Cornichons - Nino Ferrer
French Interviews: Health and Hobbies
French Interviews: Education
French Interviews: Jobs and Professions
French Professions -Interpersonal Conversations
El Arte de Regatear
Entrevistas en Parejas: Comida, Salud, Celebraciones
French Discussion: What Did You Do This Summer?
Accepting and Rejecting Invitations in French
A Visit to the Doctor
Let's Go to the Movies! - Phase Two
World Languages (2017) Grade(s): 07-12 - World Languages

WL17.WL.L2.2

Interpret what is heard, read, or viewed on familiar topics using the past tense.

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Knowledge

Students know: how to:
  • interpret audio and visual documents in the target language
  • identify key information and details from the target language materials
  • explain how the target language is connected to other content areas through geography, history, etc.
  • recognize basic products of the target language culture.

Skills

Novice High Level
Students are able to:
  • identify the key idea presented by a speaker or published work on a familiar topic.
  • differentiate between questions and statements.
  • gather basic information from graphs, charts and pictures.
  • rely on background knowledge to aid in comprehension of difficult or new words.
  • recognize characters and punctuation marks that are unique to the target language.
Intermediate Low Level
Students are able to:
  • identify patterns in the contruction of past tense verbs and how this impacts meaning of texts.
  • how to recognize and use descriptors in basic conversations
  • restate key information.
  • use cognates to assist in comprehension of target language materials.

Understanding

Students understand that:
Novice High Level
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.
Students understand that:
Intermediate Low Level
  • effective communication requires knowing how when and why to say what to whom.
  • the purpose of language study is to communicate so one can understand others and be understood.
  • other understandings will depend on the theme being taught.

Aligned Learning Resources

Comercial McDonald's McTrio (actividad auditiva)
¿Adónde Quieres Viajar? Where Do You Want to Travel?
Fast Food in German-Speaking Countries
Esperanza Novel Unit
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Spanish
Personalidades con Animales
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: French
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: German
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Chinese
French Reflexive Verbs
Oú se trouve - Where Is?
Autobiografía
Childhood Listening Activity - Spanish
Ser and Estar Audio Activity - Spanish
Listening for Family History - Spanish
Discussion Activities for Spanish Classes
5 Minute Listening Comprehension Quizzes for Spanish
Les Conversations: Narrating in the Past
Les Conversations: Making Hypotheses
Les Conversations: Asking Questions
Les Conversations: Comparings
Les Conversations: Describing
Les Conversations: Reacting and Recommending
Les Coversations: Talking about the Future
El Amor y la Vida
Las Comidas Favoritas
Fruits and Vegetables
Qu'est-ce que tu as fait?
Learning Opportunities in Germany
German Football
The Doctors: A Tribute to Westerland
German Magazines
Comme d'habitude - Claude François
Les Cornichons - Nino Ferrer
Sous le ciel de Paris - Yves Montand
Y'a une fille qu'habite chez moi - Benabar
Que Douillet - Omnikrom
Sacré Charlemagne - France Gall
Cubra su tos
French Interviews: In the Past
French Interviews: When You Were Little
French Interviews: Health and Hobbies
French Interviews: Education
French Interviews: Jobs and Professions
French Professions -Interpersonal Conversations
Inca Kola
Los Animales y Ecosistemas - Flashcards
Jeopardy: French Novice Mid Review
French Maps and Directions
Let's Go to the Movies! - Phase 1
Holiday Narrative and Comparison - Phase 2
Let's Go to the Movies! - Phase 3
The Pulsera Project
Los Poemas de Pablo Neruda

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