Instructional+Plan

Instructional Plan for Spanish
Jason Ulman Kat Schermer Morgan Falck

Instructional Context
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 * Grade Level – 11th
 * Content Area/Course – Spanish; History of Spain
 * Length of Unit – 4 weeks
 * Time of Year/Month - Beginning of 3rd Quarter

Instructional Purpose
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 *  Unit Title – La historia de España
 * Unit Goals/Essential Question(s) (3 max)
 * What effect has Spain's history had on modern day Spain?
 * If history repeats itself, what can 21st century minds learn from the history of Spain?
 * Content Standards met (for Transitioning Students)
 * Communication; A. Interpersonal: Conversation:
 * A2: Questions: Students will ask and answer a variety of questions that require follow-up questions and responses for more information.
 * A3: Opinions: Students will defend personal preferences, feelings, and opinions with more complete explanation.
 * Communication; B. Interpretive: Listening and Reading:
 * B1: Listening: Students will understand spoken language that incorporates more advanced vocabulary and structures.
 * B2: Listening: students will comprehend the main ideas and supporting ideas of oral presentations, and selected authentic materials including videos, and radio and television broadcasts.
 * B4: Reading: Students will comprehend the main idea and key supporting ideas, and begin to make inferences in selected authentic written materials.
 * B5: Strategies: in addition, students will use the dictionary to look up words that cannot be deciphered via previously learned strategies.
 * Culture; D. Practices:
 * D2: Cultural Activities: Students will compare and contrast activities from other cultures to their own in relation to home, school, community, and nation.
 * D4: Historical Influences: Students will exhibit broader and deeper knowledge of historical and philosophical backgrounds that explain patterns of interaction.
 * Culture; E. Products:
 * E1: Objects and symbols: Students will research the historic background of objects and symbols and how they came to represent certain cultures.
 * E2: Contributions: Students will examine the role and significance of the contributions of other cultures in today's world.
 * E3: Mutual Influences: Students will discuss how historical and contemporary influences from other cultures shape people's views of the world and their own attitudes toward issues facing the world.
 * ISTE Student Standar ds met
 * 1. Creativity and Innovation
 * 2. Communication and Collaboration
 * 3. Reserach and Information Fluency
 * 4. Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making

Instructional Activities and Resources (learning objects)

 * List sequentially
 * Research historically significant locations in Spain and pick one location to use for photo editing assignment.
 * Create a photo of yourself inserted into the previously chosen significant photo.
 * Write extended historical significance to be narrated over the significant photo.
 * Narrate historical significance using Fotobabble.
 * Research Picasso and other famous people from Spain and choose one for project.
 * Use Inspiration to make a flow chart/outline for chosen famous historical person.
 * Create podcast narration about chosen famous person using your outline.
 * Research and plan a trip through Spain, may detail one city or several.
 * Make a travel brochure for the trip detailing some of the sites in Spain.
 * Find a current event from Spain and create a newsletter about it.
 * Create a homemade movie about historical Spanish event.
 * Have a fiesta with authentic Spanish food!
 * Assignment Breakdown
 * Photo Editing and Fotobabble project
 * Edit self into photo of a significant Spanish location then narrate that significance using Fotobabble
 * [[file:photo Editing- Fotobabble rubric Sheet1.pdf]]
 * Removing background using Photoshop, instructional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPOGXYJtafw
 * Inspiration and Podcasting project
 * Use Inspiration to create outline/flow chart for a famous Spanish person then use outline to create audio podcast biography
 * [[file:Bibliographical MindMap & Podcast Sheet1.pdf]]
 * List of famous Spaniards
 * Travel Brochure
 * Make a 3-fold brochure detailing a trip through Spain, could be just one city in more detail, or several cities with just major locations
 * [[file:Spain Travel Brochure Rubric Sheet1.pdf]]
 * Current Event Newsletter
 * Find a current event and make a newsletter about it
 * [[file:Current Event Newspaper Sheet1.pdf]]
 * Spanish Newspapers: La Razón, El Mundo, El País
 * Spanish Newscasts: La Sexta Noticias CNN en Español
 * Historical Event Movie
 * Make a short film about a historical Spanish event
 * [[file:Movie Rubric Sheet1.pdf]]
 * PowerPoint
 * Put all projects into a PowerPoint.
 * [[file:Powerpoint rubric Sheet1.pdf]]
 * Note:

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 * Attach samples for all tech rich assignments -- A level work, C level work, differentiated sample (one sample per group member, tell who created each)
 * Attach rubrics for all tech rich assignment