Mis Clases Locas Curriculum for Spanish 1-4

Inside: Scope and Sequence for Spanish 1-Spanish 4 using novels and comprehensible input curriculum without a textbook. Mis Clases Locas curriculum for Spanish class. High School Spanish curriculum using comprehensible input. 

Author – Allison Wienhold

Originally published June 1, 2018 & most recently updated on June 4, 2025

Mis Clases Locas Spanish Curriculum

Spanish Curriculum – Mis Clases Locas Curriculum

Over the years I have looked at many different Spanish curriculum plans. Remember I have had ultimate freedom as a #deptof1. So, I have had the chance to try out a lot of different Spanish lessons from a variety of Spanish courses for my Mis Clases Locas curriculum. 

To be honest, I started creating my own Spanish curriculum, when I realized what worked for me, was a mash-up of many different styles and resources. A traditional curriculum based on vocabulary words and a specific grammar concept from a textbook no longer served me. 

My Spanish students thrived using the Spanish language in culture rich units, with lots of physical movement. Practicing authentic language skills using music, novels, culture of all Spanish-speaking countries, and more. 

First, when planning a High School Spanish curriculum, it would be helpful to read this post – How I Create a CI Curriculum for Spanish 1-4

This is where you will see the thought process of lesson planning for a year, month, and week, using my lesson plan templates. 

If you teach French, make sure to check out French 1-4 Curriculum.

Below you will find my ideal curriculum. Click on the links for previous blog posts explaining the units or resources to make your life easier. If you are interested in getting many of the resources I use, I would suggest starting with the Spanish 1 Mega Bundle & Spanish 2/3 Mega Bundle (or the same thing on TPT Spanish 1 Mega Bundle) & Mega Bundle Spanish 2 or 3as well as clicking the links below. 

Mis Clases Locas Curriculum –  my ideal Spanish Curriculum

Since I have always taught all levels at once, my high school Spanish curriculum has always been a mash-up of my own resources & resources from others. 

While I do not currently have my own classroom, what you see below is what I would use in my ideal situation, with the freedom to use what I want. 

It is important to note that I started moving quickly to keep student interest. This includes reading some books in the style of 1 novel in 1 weekThis is why it might seem like I have more content listed than in other years. 

I also pick and choose from SOMOS units. When I use Somos units, I cut them down to about 1 week. I  skip most story activities and other things I am not a fan of. (For a typical new lesson story unit I: Intro vocab, do a quick story, and get right into the culture of the unit). Then we move on the the next lesson, which is usually a different type of language learning style unit. 

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Spanish 1 Curriculum

This could be used as High School Spanish curriculum for Spanish 1, or later middle school Spanish. 

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Mis Clases Locas Spanish 1 Curriculum

*Depending on if Spanish 1 has had Exploratory Spanish (which includes Super 7 unit, & SOMOS units 1-3), will depend on where you start in Spanish 1. The plan below is assuming a quarter of exploratory. If you are starting from scratch in 9th grade, use my Exploratory Spanish quarter one & move forward from there. 

Spanish 1 Quarter 1

Spanish 1 Quarter 2

Spanish 1 – Quarter 3

Spanish 1 – Quarter 4 

Spanish 2 Mis Clases Locas Curriculum

Para Empezar Bundle 2025 from my store OR the same NEW TPT Para Empezar 2025 – year round

Spanish 2/3 Mega Bundle from my shop OR TPT Mega Bundle Spanish 2 or 3 includes many resources listed below

Mis Clases Locas Spanish 2 Curriculum

Spanish 2 – Quarter 1

Spanish 2 – Quarter 2

Spanish 2 Quarter 3

Spanish 2 – Quarter 4

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Spanish 3 High Spanish Curriculum

Show each Friday. For 2025 I would pick Tierra Incógnita using Tierra Incógnita Season 1 Spanish class guide. Past shows I have used are: El Internado (now hard to find & older) & Go! Vive a tu Manera (pretty cheesy)

Para Empezar Bundle 2025 from my store OR the same NEW TPT Para Empezar 2025 – year round

Spanish 2/3 Mega Bundle from my shop OR TPT Mega Bundle Spanish 2 or 3 includes many resources listed below

Mis Clases Locas Spanish 3 Curriculum

Spanish 3 – Quarter 1

Spanish 3 – Quarter 2

Spanish 3 – Quarter 3

Spanish 3 – Quarter 4

Spanish 4 High School Spanish Curriculum

Show each Friday. For 2025 I would pick Tierra Incógnita using Tierra Incógnita Season 1 Spanish class guide.

Para Empezar Bundle 2025 from my store OR the same NEW TPT Para Empezar 2025 – year round

Mis Clases Locas Spanish 4 Curriculum

Spanish 4 – Quarter 1

Spanish 4 – Quarter 2

Spanish 4 – Quarter 3

Spanish 4 – Quarter 4

For constant resources for teaching with novels, follow this Pinterest board

Mis Clases Locas Spanish 1-4 Curriculum

Alternate Hybrid-Block Mis Clases Locas Curriculum

The 2020 school year started out with me teaching on a Hybrid Block with distance learning. This means I taught a semester of Spanish in a quarter, on a block schedule. I taught 100-minute classes of Spanish 1, Spanish 2, and a combined Spanish 3/4 every day. But, students rotated being in person and online every other day. So digital access language teaching was needed as well. 

My curriculum was much different than in other years since I needed literally everything to be posted digitally on Google Classroom. Also got through about half of what we would have done in a typical year. Due to circumstances, we did very few novels. My new digital High-Frequency verb units were created for that strange year & they SAVED me. See the following blog posts for more details.

So if you need to teach virtually, paperless, or want more ideas on curriculum, please see below for my 2020-2021 Spanish 1-4 Curriculum.

Spanish 1 Semester 1 High School Spanish Curriculum

in a quarter on a Hybrid Block – Para Empezar – year-round

(Then they had a quarter off of Spanish)

Spanish 1 Semester 2 – in a quarter on Block

Semester 2 started Hybrid but moved to an everyday block schedule. So we got through a lot more this semester with more contact time. I tried to mix up the type of units to keep it fresh with 100-minute classes & we played a lot of Blooket.

Spanish 2 Semester 1-  in a quarter on a Hybrid Block – Para Empezar – year round

Spanish 1 Semester 2 – in a quarter on Block

Semester 2 started Hybrid but moved to an everyday block schedule. So we got through a lot more this semester with more contact time. The big goal for semester 2 of Spanish 2 was introducing the past tenses. Once we moved to everyday classes, Friday we would watch an episode of Go! Vive a tu Manera

Spanish 3/4 Semester 1-  in a quarter on a Hybrid Block – Para Empezar – year round

Teaching both Spanish 3 and Spanish 4 during the exact same block was quite a challenge. It was my largest class, and it had a huge range of proficiency levels. It included the very high Spanish 4 students, who had been with me for 6 years since 7th grade exploratory & earned I5 on the AAPPL test.

Also, the same class period included Spanish 3 students who had not had class for 6 months. Many did 0 virtual work during the shutdown, and who were very much still novice Spanish 2 level.

The Spanish 4 students had watched El Internado the year before & the Spanish 3 students had watched Go! Vive a tu Manera. So together we opted to instead watch Street Food Latin America between units as our show. We found it worked best to do the same content across both levels most of the time but to differentiate among the students.

Spanish 3/4 Semester 2 –  in a quarter on a Block

 

Past years curriculum 

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