To see what I have done in past years see: Curriculum years 1-3 & Curriculum – year 4.
Below you will see how I tentatively lay out the year. I like to see everything side by side, week by week a running Google Spreadsheet. As a department of one, it helps me to balance out starting new units and films. I used to think it was easier to plan if all classes started and ended units at the same time. Yeah right! Now I prefer to space out when assessments will be taking place if possible. Sometimes with the end of a semester it is not possible, but it helps if you can. I try to do about one novel unit per quarter, each using the supplemental Teacher’s Guides, movies, and additional resources to round out the units. The colors mean the following: Yellow – Martina Bex Somos Units, Purple – TPRS Novel units, Blue – Culture mini units, Orange – Intro or Choice Novels.
This is my tentative curriculum spreadsheet of the year – see below for more details Yellow – Martina Bex Somos Units Purple – TPRS Novels Blue – Culture Units Orange – Intro or Choice Novels |
Spanish 1
- Spanish 1 – Quarter 1 (with sub)
- 1st Week Plans with proficiency introduction
- Martina Bex Somos curriculum Units 4-9
- Canela movie mini unit to go along with Unit 8 (Latin food)
- Telling Time to go with Paul y el avión story
- Spanish 1 – Quarter 2
- Day of the Dead mini unit
- Tumba with Mexico & Libro de Vida movie
- Martina Bex Somos curriculum units 9-10
- Navidad mini unit
- Spanish 1 – Quarter 3
- Reyes – 1st week back from winter break
- Martina Bex Somos curriculum units 10-12
- Robo en la Noche (present tense) with Costa Rica & Medio Ambiente
- Las Fallas mini unit
- Spanish 1 – Quarter 4
- Martina Bex Somos curriculum units 14,15 &17
- Semana Santa
- Peter va a Colombia with Biblioburro, Yipao parade & La Bicicleta
Spanish 2
- Spanish 2 – Quarter 1 (with sub)
- 1st Week Plans with proficiency introduction
- Esperanza & Immigration Unit
- including the movies Living on $1 & Which Way Home
- Spanish 2 – Quarter 2
- Day of the Dead mini unit
- Martina Bex past units 1 & 2
- Fiesta Fatal
- Spanish 2 – Quarter 3
- Reyes – 1st week back from winter break
- El Internado – Introduction mini Unit & every Friday
- Felipe Alou with the movie Sugar
- Martina Bex Irregular past unit – El Secreto
- Las Fallas mini unit
- Spanish 2 – Quarter 4
- Bianca Nieves y los 7 torritos/ Bullfighting
- Continue with El Internado – every Friday
- Semana Santa
(This year there is no Spanish 3 because of our move from trimesters to semesters. Spanish 4 are actually juniors this year).
Spanish 4
- Spanish 4 – Quarter 1 (with sub)
- Spanish 4 – Quarter 2
- El Internado – every Friday
- Day of the Dead mini unit
- Vida y Muerte en la Mara Salvatrucha with Voces Inocentes
- Spanish 4 – Quarter 3
- Immigration with Cajas de Cartón short story, McFarland USA & Postville
- Literature Circles with the following books
- La hija del Sastre
- La Guerra Sucia
- Todo lo que brilla
- Spanish 4 – Quarter 4
- La Calaca Alegre & El Orfanato
- El Internado unit to end year
Exploratory Spanish – 1 quarter each of 7th & 8th grade
- 8th grade – Exploratory Spanish – same as quarter 1 of Spanish 1
- 1st Week Plans with proficiency introduction
- Martina Bex Somos curriculum Units 4-8
- Canela movie mini unit to go along with Unit 8 (Latin food)
- Telling Time to go with Paul y el avión story
- 7th grade – Exploratory Spanish – similar to this post from last year
- Martina Bex Somos curriculum Units 1-5
- Geography Mini Unit
- Other cultural units as seasonally relevant (Los Reyes, Semana Santa etc)
Allison Wienhold of Mis Clases Locas has a decade of experience as a #deptof1 secondary Spanish teacher in Iowa. She enjoys creating curricula using novels, films, and music. Allison provides professional development to World Language teachers, including being the keynote speaker at MALT and Comprehensible Iowa, and workshop presenter at dozens of state & regional organizations, school districts, AEAs, and virtual conferences.
Anonymous says
How do review with your level 2s and 4s?