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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. Spanish curriculum using comprehensible input. 
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 things 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. 
Forst, it would be helpful to read this post – How I Create a CI Curriculum for Spanish 1-4. 
What 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 Spanish 1 Mega Bundle & Mega Bundle Spanish 2 or 3, as well as clicking the links below. 

 Mis Clases Locas Curriculum –  my ideal Spanish Curriculum

It is important to note that I have started moving quickly to keep interested, such as reading some books in the style of 1 novel in 1 week. This is why it might seem like I have more content listed than in other years. I also pick and choose from SOMOS units, with them typically just lasting 1 week (Intro vocab, story, and get right into the culture of the unit). Please remember this is all subject to change and I will adjust as needed.

Spanish 1 Curriculum

Para Empezar – year round
Spanish 1 Mega Bundle  (includes many resources listed below)
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. 

Spanish 1 Quarter 1

Spanish 1 Quarter 2

Spanish 1 – Quarter 3

Spanish 1 – Quarter 4 

Spanish 2 Mis Clases Locas Curriculum

Para Empezar – year round
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

Spanish 3 Spanish Curriculum

El Internado or Go! Vive a tu Manera  each Friday
Para Empezar – year round
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 Curriculum

El Internado each Friday
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. 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.
My curriculum was much different than 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 – 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, since they 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 

If you are looking for bundles of curriculum 

If you need help with planning your own Spanish curriculum and want to set up a consultation, please check out upcoming Professional Development or reach out via Contact Mis Clases Locas. 
Originally published 6.14.18 by Allison Wienhold – most recently updated by Mis Clases Locas 5.23.22

Comments

  2. Unknown says

    Thank you for everything you share! It's a great resource as I delve deeper into my CI practice. Do you read El Capibara con Botas after only doing the Super 7 Unit? Or is it somewhere in between the Somos 1-5 units?

  4. Unknown says

    Do you have anymore details for the Identidad unit mentioned at the end of quarter 4 for Spanish 4? What resources do you use for that?

  5. Unknown says

    This is so helpful. I have purchased a lot of your resources and this gives me a good outline for when to use them. Thank you so much!

  7. KristiBean says

    Thanks! This is awesome. One question, we are on a semester block schedule at my school, so our "quarters" are only 4.5 weeks long, but we see our students for 90 min every day. I teach level 1, so how would you adjust this pacing for a schedule like that?

    • Mis Clases Locas says

      I would honestly pace the same. The contact hours should be similar.

  9. Unknown says

    Hi Allison. Thank you for sharing such wonderful resources. I am looking over your scope and sequence for Spanish 1 and I noticed that for quarter 3, you have Somos 1 Unit 19 Biblioburro. I am concerned that this unit might be a bit difficult for the students. What are you thoughts and reasoning for placing Biblioburro in the 3rd quarter of Spanish 1? Again, thank you for all that you do.

    • Mis Clases Locas says

      Allison Wienhold
      6:37 PM (0 minutes ago)
      to Norma

      Norma,

      We do this unit to introduce the biblioburo (which is a big part of the novel Peter va a Colombia). We do not do everything in the unit, but iot is a good intro to help them understand the book!
      Allison

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