WL17.WL.L2.2a
Restate information from audio and visual documents in the target language.
Restate information from audio and visual documents in the target language.
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WL17.WL.L2.2b
Locate key information from announcements and messages connected to daily activities in the target culture.
Locate key information from announcements and messages connected to daily activities in the target culture.
WL17.WL.L2.2c
Relate the main themes and significant details on topics from other subjects and products of the cultures.
Relate the main themes and significant details on topics from other subjects and products of the cultures.
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Presentational Mode
Presentational Mode
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Present information on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in the past time frame.
Present information on familiar topics with a variety of words, phrases, and simple sentences in the past time frame.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to describe their needs for school or work.
- how to express thoughts on topics of interest or current events.
- how to retell or present a short skit, poem, or song.
- how to describe common activities.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- recall vocabulary from themes taught.
- correctly pronounce vowels and key phonetic sounds when presenting orally.
- correctly write sentences using correct punctuation and diacrytical markings.
- correctly type special characters, accent marks, or other markings necessary to the target language.
- 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.
- sing songs in the target language.
Students are able to:
- create command forms of verbs to give directions.
- identify patterns in past tense verb formations.
- form simple sentences using common idomatic expressions and/or vocabulary focusing on proper word order.
- recite short songs, skits, or readings from memory.
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.
WL17.WL.L2.3a
Present basic information about people and activities.
Present basic information about people and activities.
WL17.WL.L2.3b
Recite songs, short skits, or dramatic readings.
Recite songs, short skits, or dramatic readings.
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Cultures
Cultures
WL17.WL.L2.4
Identify perspectives through practices of the target cultures.
Identify perspectives through practices of the target cultures.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to appropriately greet and address a variety of people within the target culture.
- how to explain why specific holidays, celebrations and events are important to the target language culture.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- address others in a culturally appropriate manner.
- identify practices associated with specific target language culture events such as celebrations and holidays.
- identify practices associated with the student's own events, celebrations, and holidays.
- investigate the relationship between cultural practices and perspectives.
Students are able to:
- address others in a culturally appropriate manner.
- dentify and explain practices associated with specific target language culture events, celebrations, and holidays.
- identify and explain practices associated with the student's own events, celebrations, and holidays.
- investigate the relationship between cultural practices and perspectives.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- an ability to communicate in another language fosters a better.
- understanding of my own language and culture.
- custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
- similarities and differences in the practices of another culture often stem from the perspective of that culture.
- other understandings will vary according to theme taught.
WL17.WL.L2.4a
Use appropriate gestures in common interactions.
Use appropriate gestures in common interactions.
WL17.WL.L2.4b
Describe behaviors in a variety of environments.
Describe behaviors in a variety of environments.
WL17.WL.L2.4c
Describe perspectives related to celebration of traditional religious and national holidays.
Describe perspectives related to celebration of traditional religious and national holidays.
WL17.WL.L2.5
Identify perspectives through products of the target cultures.
Identify perspectives through products of the target cultures.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- a tangible or intangible product is influenced by the target language life and culture.
- the perspective of a the target language culture is interconnected with the products of the culture.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- list common target language cultural products such as paintings, songs, and foods.
- watch video clips or music videos and identify cultural products.
- describe basic craft products from target language countries.
- investigate the relationship between cultural products and perspectives.
Students are able to:
- utilize common target language cultural vocabulary to discuss paintings, songs, foods, etc.
- investigate and explain the relationship bewtween cultural products and perspectives.
- investigate and explain the realtion between cultural practices and perspectives.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- similarities and differences in the products of another culture often stem from the perspective of that culture.
- an ability to communicate in another language fosters a better.
- understanding of my own language and culture.
- custom and tradition vary within a culture, as well as between cultures.
- other understandings will vary according to theme being taught.
WL17.WL.L2.5a
Describe products of the target culture.
Describe products of the target culture.
WL17.WL.L2.5b
Describe arts, crafts, or graphic representations of the target culture.
Describe arts, crafts, or graphic representations of the target culture.
WL17.WL.L2.5c
Describe the cultural elements found in music and short video clips.
Describe the cultural elements found in music and short video clips.
WL17.WL.L2.5d
Listen to, read, and describe the products in a variety of texts.
Listen to, read, and describe the products in a variety of texts.
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Connections
Connections
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Connect with other disciplines while using the target language, utilizing the past time frame.
Connect with other disciplines while using the target language, utilizing the past time frame.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how their peers in the target language culture typically spend their freetime.
- what a typical school day in the target language culture is like.
- what kinds of media are popular among their peers in the target language culture.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
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.
Students are able to:
- interpret simple statistics on daily life activities of their peers in the target language culture, such as schooling, freetime activities, and social media usage.
- identify and interpret basic information from authentic sources, such as news articles, event flyers, invitations, and advertisements.
- identify a few target language news sources and stores.
- use the target language to learn about other disciplines.
- use information learned in the target language in other disciplines.
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.
WL17.WL.L2.6a
Exchange information on patterns of behavior typical of their peer group in the target culture.
Exchange information on patterns of behavior typical of their peer group in the target culture.
WL17.WL.L2.6b
Examine authentic materials containing current events, social announcements, and classified ads.
Examine authentic materials containing current events, social announcements, and classified ads.
WL17.WL.L2.7
Describe information related to diverse perspectives in the target culture.
Describe information related to diverse perspectives in the target culture.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to ask simple questions about and describe audio and visual texts.
- how to find and describe the main idea, theme, and topic of a text.
- that a person's culture, background, and previous experiences affect the way they view and interpret information.
- that media sources from the target language culture may show issues from a diverse perspective or mindset.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
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.
Students are able to:
- describe photos, artwork, images, charts, and videos.
- ask simple questions about photos, artwork, images, charts, and videos.
- identify the main idea and topic of online articles, videos, advertisements, announcements, and social media posts.
- recognize target language perspectives on basic cultural topics such as families, holidays, food.
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.
WL17.WL.L2.7a
Exchange ideas on various audio and visual documents to interpret content.
Exchange ideas on various audio and visual documents to interpret content.
WL17.WL.L2.7b
Identify the main idea of information from authentic websites and materials to interpret topics.
Identify the main idea of information from authentic websites and materials to interpret topics.
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Comparisons
Comparisons
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Compare characteristics of the target language and the native language.
Compare characteristics of the target language and the native language.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to recognize similarities among root words in order to aid comprehension in the target language.
- which pronouns and verb forms to use in formal and informal situations.
- how to politely ask for assistance or information.
- how to greet and thank someone formally and informally.
- that word order varies across langauges and may differ from their native language.
- that some expressions (ex. idomatic expressions) may not translate literally from language to language.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
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.
Students are able to:
- identify which situations would require formal or informal forms of language.
- use correct word order when writing and speaking about dates and descriptions.
- recognize and use very common idomatic expressions.
- match words from the target language to similarly structured words in the native language.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- languages can show formality and informality in ways different from their native language.
- cognates and false cognates exist between languages.
- not every word or phrase has an equivalent translation in another language.
- word order often differs between languages.
- by learning another language one can better understand how the native language works.
- other understandings will depend on theme taught.
WL17.WL.L2.8a
Use formal and informal forms of language.
Use formal and informal forms of language.
WL17.WL.L2.8b
Compare word order for dates and placement of descriptors.
Compare word order for dates and placement of descriptors.
WL17.WL.L2.8c
Use high-frequency idiomatic expressions.
Use high-frequency idiomatic expressions.
WL17.WL.L2.8d
Use cognates.
Use cognates.
WL17.WL.L2.9
Compare products, practices, and perspectives of the target culture and the native culture.
Compare products, practices, and perspectives of the target culture and the native culture.
Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how people in the target culture tend to spend their days.
- what holidays are celebrated in the target culture and how they are celebrated.
- a few games, fairy tales, songs, and rhymes in the target culture.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
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.
Students are able to:
- compare and contrast daily life activities in the target and native cultures, such as schooling, working, freetime activities, and daily routines.
- compare and contrast holiday celebrations and traditions in the target and native cultures.
- identify games, fairy tales, songs, and rhymes from the target culture and compare them with those of the native culture.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- daily routines may differ between cultures as a result of several contributing factors.
- different cultures may celebrate holidays in diverse ways.
- different cultures may celebrate different holidays.
- different cultures have original games, stories, songs, and rhymes.
- 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.
WL17.WL.L2.9a
Compare daily routines in the target culture and the native culture.
Compare daily routines in the target culture and the native culture.
WL17.WL.L2.9b
Compare celebrations in the target culture and the native culture.
Compare celebrations in the target culture and the native culture.
WL17.WL.L2.9c
Compare games, stories, songs, and rhymes from the native culture and those from the target culture.
Compare games, stories, songs, and rhymes from the native culture and those from the target culture.
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Communities
Communities
