HS Spanish Guide

SPANISH LEVEL 3

UNIT 5 UNA COMUNIDAD SOSTENIBLE

PACING

PROFICIENCY LEVEL

RESOURCE(S) ● Entre Culturas Unit 4 ● Realidades Tema 4

KEY LANGUAGE USE(S)

3-4 weeks

Intermediate Low

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S)

CULTURAL CONNECTION(S)

● ¿Cómo es una casa ecológica? ● ¿Qué valores del mundo hispanohablante favorecen la creación de comunidades sostenibles? ● ¿Qué debemos hacer para crear una comunidad sostenible?

● Medellín y Vitoria-Gasteiz ● Viviendas ecológicas en el mundo hispanohablante ● Programas que desarrollan viviendas ecológicas ● La importancia de crear viviendas y comunidades sostenibles y verdes ● Los cambios que han hecho estas comunidades sostenibles

ESSENTIAL VOCABULARY & STRUCTURE ● Elaborate the characteristics of a sustainable community. ● Analyze how ecological habits in fl uence a sustainable community. ● Assess whether my community and Spanish-speaking communities are sustainable and how they can be improved. Language Functions & Features: ● words and phrases related to the community and sustainability (comunidad sostenible, hogar, reduce, reutiliza, recicla, movilidad, ciudad, ventajas, ecohuertas, urbana, rural) ● subjunctive tense to make impersonal expressions (para + in fi nitivo y para que + subjuntivo) ● conditional tense to talk about probabilities and hypothetical situations (eg. Habría menos basura en los parques y las calles de nuestra comunidad si todos lo cuidamos.) https://wida.wisc.edu/sites/default/ fi les/resource/WIDA-ELD-Standards-Framework-2020.pdf SCAFFOLDING IN ACTION Skill Building ● Use a graphic organizer to differentiate vocabulary, phrases, & images for students to make associations between objects & vocabulary. ● Pair with partners to practice conversation/group students to allow opportunity for them to practice speaking. Before assigning students a conversation, model the conversation, and provide sentence frames or sentence starters. ● Use gestures and oral repetition of key phrases and words in multiple contexts.

● Provide opportunities for more conversation with fl uent speakers via Zoom or Google Meet. ● Interview or survey other students about a chosen topic in Spanish, then present your fi ndings to the class. ● Provide more complex text in Spanish for students to read. ● Have students record themselves speaking the language and re fl ect on their progress. ● Students can practice translating from English to Spanish in speech or writing.

Extension

*Updated 7.12.23