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.
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| 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)
