WL17.WL.L5.7

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

WL17.WL.L5.7

Acquire information related to diverse perspectives in the target culture using varied vocabulary and more complex sentence structure.

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:
  • 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.

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
¿Independencia o sedición? El movimiento independentista en Cataluña
¿Arte o tortura? El debate sobre los toros en España
¿Mezquita o Catedral? La disputada identidad de uno de los monumentos más importantes de España
¿Protección o racismo? La venta ambulante ilegal
Lazarillo de Tomas Audio Book
Rima LIII por Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer - Audio Reading
Las Ciencias y Tecnología: Puerto Rico
Los Desafí­os Mundiales: Chile
Los Identidades Públicas y Privadas: Honduras
Sor Juana, la poetisa: Los sonetos
Las Presidentas de Chile y Argentina
El Canal de Panamá
Investigando la Educación y la Alfabetización en Centroamérica
La artesanía textil y las multinacionales
What Would They Do?
Indigenous Voices: Cultural Identity and Challenges (Phase 2)
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