Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how to communicate in a variety of tenses and moods.
- the target language vocabulary for specific purposes.
- how perspectives of a target culture are portrayed through media and advertising.
Skills
Intermediate High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- use the target language to investigate, compare, and contrast current events and advertisements from the target culture to a student's own culture.
- identify and explain the diverse perspectives of the target culture through the lens of a culture's perspectives.
- communicate in the target language in a variety of time frames and moods.
- use the target language to make comparison of current events and how they are reported.
- use the target language to identify advertisements and compare them with target culture and students'own culture.
- research how a major figure from history, science, or the arts is described in the target language and use it to expand what they already know.
- compare how products are marketed in the target culture versus the United States.
- compare news articles on front pages of newspapers from countries where the target language is spoken.
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.
