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.
