WL17.WL.L3.7

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

WL17.WL.L3.7

Acquire information related to diverse perspectives in the target culture.

Unpacked Content

Knowledge

Students know:
  • a variety of the target language specific vocabulary.
  • verb conjugations in a variety of time frames.
  • are familiar with current events and news across the world.
  • are familiar with the impact of marketing and how it reveals a target culture's perspectives.

Skills

Intermediate Low Level
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.
Intermediate Mid Level
Students are able to:
  • use the target language to find and analyze information on the diverse perspectives of the target culture and make comparisons with the diverse perspectives of their own culture.
  • 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.

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

Esperanza Novel Unit
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Spanish
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: French
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: German
Foreign Language News and Newspapers: Chinese
Translation for Mama by Richard Blanco
Fake News in French
Fake News in Spanish
Fake News in German
Current Events
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