REVISED+MS+Program+of+Studies

 __ World Languages __   The objectives of the World Language Department of the Laboratory Schools are to impart an appreciation for and love of the languages and cultures taught, and to prepare students to communicate well in the target languages. The teachers in the World Language Department use a variety of methods and techniques to accomplish these objectives, depending on the developmental stage, linguistic level, and learning styles of the students. In teaching younger students, our emphasis is on understanding and speaking the language; gradually, reading and writing are incorporated into the curriculum. World language classes are primarily conducted in the target language and effective communication in a variety of settings is the primary goal.   At the Laboratory Schools language study begins in the third grade. All students study one language (French, German, Mandarin Chinese or Spanish) from the third grade through the eighth grade to attain linguistic competence. At the high school level they may change languages or add a second foreign language. Latin is also offered at the high school level. In the early grades, appreciation of the language is encouraged through activities that include songs, games, skits, and the celebration of cultural events and holidays. In the Middle School textbooks and readers are implemented in order to facilitate a systematic approach to language learning. In the Middle and High Schools the curriculum increasingly introduces grammatical concepts while deepening the students’ appreciation of the various cultures through the study of art, literature and film.   The World Language Department has a carefully articulated curriculum. The curriculum allows flexibility for individual cultural projects that teachers may wish to add. However, the expectation is that all students at a particular level gain mastery of the same basic material, allowing them to proceed to the next level successfully. In the High School, students of French, German and Spanish have an advanced track culminating in the AP track. By 2012-13 the Chinese program will also have an advanced track. Additionally, students of French or Spanish can be placed in an intermediate track. We also offer first-year beginning classes in all languages, which are offered based on enrollment. The majority of our students study their language of choice well beyond the two-year requirement. This commitment, as well as the excellent performance by our students on the Advanced Placement examinations and the national foreign language contests, attest to the success of our program.   In addition to the curricular offerings, travel and exchange programs in China, France, Germany and Spain or Latin America are open to all students enrolled in the four modern languages. During these trips abroad the students live with families, meet students their own age, attend classes in the language, and visit sites of cultural and historical interest. They have the opportunity to increase their fluency in the language they are studying and to get to know first-hand the customs and traditions of the country they are visiting.   We believe that the study of a world language broadens the student’s view of the world, encourages appreciation of cultural diversity and allows him or her to learn to communicate more effectively in our increasingly multi-cultural world.    ** Mandarin Chinese ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Fifth Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue the lower school's emphasis on listening comprehension and speaking of everyday Chinese, but at a more advanced level and about more topics. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce students to reading and writing Chinese characters. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce students to self-study skills including dictionary skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Enhance students’ grammatical awareness. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce students' organizational skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students' knowledge of Chinese history and culture <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: greetings, number 1-100, dates, age, telephone numbers, family members, self-introduction, occupation, time, daily routine, means of transportation, colors, clothing and body parts. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: the positions of prepositional words and phrases, yes and no questions and wh-quesions sentences orders, the usage of Chinese structural particle "de". <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Culture: respect for seniors and authority, traditional and contemporary Chinese families, different meanings of certain colors, Chinese fashion history. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Activities and projects: singing, making family portraits, designing fashion, celebrating holidays, language day including playing Chinese traditional sports, field trip to Chinatown, visiting Chinese restaurant, gift shops, museum and temple etc. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Materials: textbook, workbook, audios, videos, selected websites, use of computer programs for projects and use of the Language Lab to improve the students' listening and speaking. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Sixth Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Review and reinforce materials learned in the fifth grade. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teach learning methods and organizational skills to aid in the transition from the fifth grade. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase students’ listening ability by using authentic audio recordings. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase students’ speaking ability including pronunciation, intonation and overall fluency through role-plays, skits, and individual presentations. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Enhance students’ reading ability by gradually eliminating the phonetic spelling Pinyin from some of the reading materials. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students’ ability to write Chinese characters with correct stroke order. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Assist students in making the transition from writing short paragraphs in Pinyin to writing in Chinese characters. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce more grammatical structures, and improve students’ ability to write short paragraphs. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Improve students’ ability of typing Chinese texts on a computer. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foster cooperative learning through pair and group work. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue to integrate teaching of Chinese culture into the curriculum. Start conversations and discussions about the contemporary Chinese society through documentary films and real time news reports. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: countries, languages, subjects of study, making phone calls, weather, seasons, sickness, and hobbies including music, sports and dance, etc. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: usage of particle “guo” to indicate past experience, usage of particle “le” to indicate completion of an action or change of situation, usage of particle “ba” to express a request or proposal, present continuous tense, modal verbs “hui”, “xiang” and “yao”, question words “how”, “how many”, ‘when” and “what time”, usage of series of verbs, word order with time and location expressions, predicative adjectives, superlatives, imperatives, adverbs, duration of an action. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Culture: Learning about traditional Chinese holidays, geography, regions and dialects, ethnic minorities, zodiac, climate and weather, education, contemporary Chinese artists, music and sports. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Activities and projects: Chinese poems, tongue twisters, songs, finger gestures, number games, role plays, oral presentations, skits, character-writing competitions, class schedule project, week-long weather report project, my favorite city project, and a talent show. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Materials: textbook, workbook, audios, videos, additional reading materials, selected websites, Chinese-English dictionary, and the use of the Language Lab to improve students’ listening and speaking abilities as well as their typing skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Seventh Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Review and reinforce the materials learned in the sixth grade. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase students’ listening ability by utilizing more authentic audio and video clips. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase students’ speaking ability through unscripted oral presentations and role-plays. Encourage spontaneous conversations. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Enhance students’ reading ability by eliminating Pinyin from most of the reading materials. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students’ ability to figure out the correct stroke order sequence of each selected character. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teach more complicated grammatical structures, and improve students’ ability to write short compositions in Chinese characters. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Further improve students’ ability of typing Chinese texts. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce more Chinese radicals, and expand students’ dictionary skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue to integrate teaching of Chinese culture into the curriculum. Encourage deeper discussions about the contemporary Chinese society through documentary films and real-time news reports. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: vegetables, fruits, three meals a day, Chinese food, Western food, fast food, dining out, house, furniture, neighborhood, relatives, appearance, seeing a doctor. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: measure words, prepositions, expressing plural, expressing distance, expressing sequence of events, structure for emphasizing the past action, time and place, auxiliary verbs such as “ke yi” and “neng”, alternative question, future tense, more time expressions, “there is” construction, verb-complement construction, the usage of Chinese adverb “jiu”, imperatives. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Culture: Learning about Chinese currency, cuisine, table manners and dining etiquette, modern Chinese family structure, the largest human migration, endangered ethnic minority cultures and wildlife, one-child policy, labor issues, contemporary Chinese artists, and traditional Chinese medicine. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Activities and projects: Chinese tongue twisters, songs, role plays, oral presentations, skits of shopping and bargaining, selling a house, dining out and seeing a doctor, character-writing competitions, a class auction, restaurant menu project, beach house (for rental) project, dream community/neighborhood project, family tree project, self-portrait project, Chinese New Year video project, and a field trip to Chinatown visiting Chinese American Museum, interviewing native Chinese speakers and having dim sum in a Chinese restaurant. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Materials: textbook, workbook, audios, videos, additional reading materials, selected websites, Chinese-English dictionary, flip camera, editing software, and the use of the language lab to improve students’ listening and speaking abilities as well as their typing skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Chinese - Eighth Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Review and reinforce the materials studied in the 7th grade <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Improve the students' listening comprehension of more authentic and complex Chinese materials <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Encourage the students to make up more complex conversations more freely and spontaneously. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Improve the students' ability to read longer and more complex materials and their ability to get the text from the context and to read between the lines. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Help the students to write more Chinese characters by hand and with more accuracy and speed. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce the students to the Chinese cursives. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand the students' grammatical knowledge. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Help the students to acquire more advanced typing skills with more accuracy and speed <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Further enhance the students' self-study skills with an emphasis on the dictionary skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand the students' knowledge and understanding of the Chinese history and culture. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: seasons, occupations, hobbies, subjects of study, school facilities, stationary, fresh market, snacks, eating out, neighborhood, asking the way, neighbors. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: the usage of positional and spatial words, the passive voice, comparative and advanced degrees, indicators of past and past perfect tense. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Culture: the history and variety of Chinese educational systems, the shift of focus in education from liberal arts to science and technology, Chinese neighborhoods, Chinese foods, the bias and discrimination towards certain occupations and in job applications. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Activities and projects: learning to sing Chinese songs, skits about hobbies and occupations, designing a future school, grocery shopping and dining activities in Chinatown, exploring the neighborhood in Chinatown. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Materials: textbook, workbook, audios, videos, selected websites, use of computer programs for projects and the use of the Language Lab to improve the students' listening and speaking. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> GERMAN__German - Fifth Grade__ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Present learning activities based on a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce the Lower School German curricula <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase students speaking ability (pronunciation, free dialogues) and aural comprehension <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students writing and reading ability and implement a systematic study of grammar <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teach appropriate study skills for learning a foreign language including use of technology <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Integrate cultural components into the curriculum to heighten students' interest in German and enable students to function with ease in a foreign setting <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: living environment, shopping, colors, family members, weather, time, clothing, parts of the anatomy, city, countryside, geographical directions, means of transportation, farm animals, amusement parks, crafts, trades, sports, birthday parties, cooking, metric system, the Euro currency <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: personal pronouns, gender, definite and indefinite articles, basic present tense conjugation, word order, imperative <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Emphasis on audio-visual material <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Traditional children's poems and rhymes, including fairy tales <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foreign language day: students are immersed in a daylong German cultural program that includes guest speakers, a German meal, and traditional German games <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Sixth Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Review and reinforce concepts and vocabulary from previous levels, while continuing to integrate the teaching of culture within the general curriculum <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teach study and organizational skills to aid in the transition from fifth grade, including appropriate technology <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students listening ability with the use of authentic recordings <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase students speaking ability <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students reading ability by including increasingly longer cultural reading selections <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand students writing ability <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: continue and broaden previously-learned words in the topics of animals, family members, leisure pursuits, parties, food, new topics include the German school experience and other cultural information <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: plural forms of nouns, possessive pronouns, dative and accusative cases, prepositions in the accusative, interrogatives, the imperative, irregular present tense conjugations, separable verbs, modal verbs, definite and indefinite determiners <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: geography of Europe and certain areas in the German-speaking countries, writing addresses, reading schedules, famous characters from German legends and fables, German school curriculum <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Materials and Projects ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Family trees, various songs and poems <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Authentic taped audio and visual materials, textbook, appropriate German readers <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Seventh Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce material learned in the preceding levels and continue to integrate teaching of culture into general curriculum <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Enhance listening ability <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase use of spoken German <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Improve reading comprehension <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Improve students' writing skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Learn basic dictionary skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: additional terms associated with previously learned topics such as everday life of German students, travel, food, rooms, sports leisure-time activities, musical instruments, parties and other celebrations, orientation and parts of a typical city, city festivals, international cuisine, cooking terminology, clothing, various idioms, verbs and adjectives <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: ordinal numbers, review of possessive pronouns in all cases studied, reflexive pronouns, review of the present tense (regular and irregular verbs) and its use as an expression of the future, questions with question words, imperfect of the verbs “sein” and “haben,” the present perfect tense (with “haben” and “sein” as auxiliary verbs), simple past, comparative and superlative forms of adjectives, modal verbs, review of the imperative, inverted word order, prepositions with the accusative case, the dative case and two way prepositions <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Materials, and Projects ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Textbook, workbook, including authentic written materials, authentic taped audio materials, videos, selected Web sites, and use of selected computer programs for projects. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Supplementary level-appropriate readers, creation of a travel film, report of youth hostal, German cooking project, re-enactment and a creation of modern versions of legends, fairy tales or fables, summary of various authentic texts in writing or by means of a cartoon. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Language Laboratory is used for enhancing aural comprehension and spoken production as well as for exploring German websites <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Eighth Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce material studied in seventh grade <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foster free-speaking ability by emphasizing student-generated activities such as role-playing, dialogues and discussions <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand dictionary skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foster cooperative learning, through pair and small group work <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue reading comprehension at an advanced level <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand understanding of cultural aspects of the German-speaking countries, thereby enabling students to function with ease in a foreign setting <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: review of sports, hobbies and leisure activities, conflicts/problems, stress at home and at school, phone conversations, letter writing, student exchange, television viewing habits and planning, map-reading, healthy eating habits, teenage activities and rights in the German speaking-world, icons, friendships, fashion and shopping for clothing, youth magazines, review of parts of the body. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: review of the present tense, modal verbs, and the present perfect tense, the simple past, review of the imperative, review of adjectives and their forms in comparative and superlative, adjective endings with the nominative, accusative and dative cases, dependent vs. main clauses, indirect speech and subordinate clauses with “daß”, conjunctive clauses with “denn”, “weil,” “wenn” and the corresponding word order, review of prepositions, verbal collocations with prepositions with the dative case and verbs requiring a dative object, personal pronouns in the accusative and dative, reflexive pronouns in the accusative and reflexive verbs. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Textbook, workbook, readers, and authentic written audio and video material, <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Use of computer programs such as Mediablender to create a visual/written accompaniment for a fashion project including an oral presentation. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Film project of a sports interview with a famous sports figure and a cooking segement on a talk show. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Students are frequently assigned writing assignments including dialogues and journal assignments to enhance meaningful written expression of daily experiences. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Language laboratory is used for enhancing aural comprehensive and spoken production. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> French__Fifth Grade__ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce the Lower School French curricula, continuing with a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Re-introduce Lower School French curricula in written and oral form <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Implement a systematic study of grammar structures (e.g., -er verb conjugations in the present tense, auxiliary verbs like être and avoir, definite and indefinite articles, prepositions, accents and the partitive) <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teach appropriate study skills for learning a foreign language <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Elicit an increasingly active response from the student and more student-generated activities such as role-playing, dialogues and speaking. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Integrate cultural components into the curriculum to heighten the students' interest in French and enable them to function in a foreign setting <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Frequent use of the Language lab to reinforce oral and aural skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: numbers 1-100, professions, family, telling time, clothing, food, and parts of the anatomy, rooms in the house, classroom objects and review of colors. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: regular er verb conjugations, Être, avoir, definite and indefinite articles, adjective agreement, question formulation and the importance of accents. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: structure of a traditional French meal and appropriate table etiquette, introduction to the culture of various Francophone countries, French folk dancing <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Development of listening, speaking and recording activities in the Language Lab, writing and reading skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Activities, Projects, and Materials <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Videos such as French Folk Dances by Cindy Lopez. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Various French poems and songs <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Various projects: family tree, une journée typique (time and “er” verbs), restaurant project, fashion show, recipe book and verb folder for “er” verbs. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foreign language day: students spend the day immersed in artistic and recreational activities carried out in French; a traditional French petit-déjeuner, Matisse Découpages; the French game of pétanque, making madeleines, a traditional déjeuner at La Sardine and folk dancing. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> __Sixth Grade__ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teach organization and study skills to aid in the transition from fifth grade <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Familiarize students with the textbook and how to use it <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Familiarize students with terminology to study sentence structure <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Teaching students to write more complex sentences <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Give the students the ability to improve their writing production <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Include age-appropriate reading comprehension materials <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foster cooperative learning through activities such as work in pairs and small groups, and dialogues <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Enable students to engage in full conversations in the target language with their peers. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue integrating cultural components into the curriculum to heighten the students' interest in French and enable them to function with ease in a foreign setting <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: café, nationalities, professions, school objects, household objects, modes of transportation, musical instruments, family, expressions using the verb faire, expressions using the verb avoir, public places and buildings, giving directions, expressions of time, expressions relating to organizing an activity <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: review of grammar covered in fifth grade, adverbs, verbs aller and faire, the infinitive, interrogatives, use of the expressions il y a and voilà, possessive adjectives, prepositions, the imperative. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continued development of listening, speaking, writing, and reading skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: French café, culture, geography of France and study of various French cities and regions, the francophone world, unit on Surrealism through the study and making of a "rayographe" and diverse fun written projects such as “cadavre exquis”. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Materials, and Projects ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Keynote or Power Point presentations on “le monde francophone”. Each student will give a presentation on a francophone country. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Using systematically the language laboratory to reinforce speaking and listening skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Intensive use of technological tools such as Comic Life, keynote, imovie, for various cultural projects. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Memorization of several poems written by French and African poets. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Current and classic songs and pop culture events. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Movies __ : “L’argent de poche” by François Truffaut is shown when we cover the units on “La famille et le logement”. In addition, we screen “Rue Case Nègre” to complement a unit on “Le monde francophone”. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Field Trip __ : <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> To the Art Institute which follows a unit on French surrealism. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Surrealist picnic which complements the unit on French surrealism. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Seventh Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce material studied in sixth grade <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue developing all language skills on a more complex level than in sixth grade <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Expand dictionary skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foster cooperative learning through activities such as working in pairs and small groups, creating dialogues and videos <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue integrating cultural components into the curriculum to heighten students' interest in French and enable them to function in a different culture <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: shopping for food in France, market vocabulary, expressions of quantity, clothing, vocabulary for buying and trying on clothing, descriptive words for clothing, types of clothing stores, train and train station vocabulary, air travel vocabulary, sports vocabulary <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: irregular verbs vouloir / pouvoir / devoir / faire / mettre / sortir/ partir / dormir/ croire / voir / lire /dire / écrire, regular -IR verbs, regular -RE verbs, verb + infinitive formations, demonstrative adjectives, partitive articles, expressions of quantity, comparative forms, passé composé with avoir and être, quel et tout, various ways of asking a question and question words <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continued development of listening, speaking, writing, reading skills <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: shopping for food in France, importance of neighborhood shops and the fresh food market, fashion and clothing in France, a brief study of Marie-Antoinette, sports in France, France during the German Occupation, in debth study of Louis Malle's film //Au Revoir, les enfants,// memorization of various French poems relevant to the units we're studying. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Materials, and Projects ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Using the language laboratory to reinforce speaking and listening skills, writing a journal from the perspective of one of the characters in Louis Malle's film //Au Revoir, les Enfants,// creating a video based on the French fashion show "Change de Look, study and memorization of various French poems, "dégustation de fromage"-cheese tasting and study of the varieties and importance of cheese in French culture, memorizing a French recipe and executing the recipe from memory in class. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">   <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">   <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">**__ Eighth grade __** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce material studied in seventh grade, especially the passé compose. The passé composé is studied in-depth in the 8th grade. (7th grade, passé compose with avoir, 8th grade, passé compose with avoir and être) <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce intuitive use of imperfect tense, which is formally studied in ninth grade <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue composition writing, culminating in essay writing during the Impressionism unit <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Increase in-class use of French and focus on aural comprehension through storytelling. Aural comprehension is reinforced during the unit on Impressionism <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue reading comprehension at a more advanced level <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: vacation activities (summer at the beach, winter at a ski station), personal routine (get up, wash face, shave, brush hair, brush teeth), routine at home (set the table, do the dishes, turn on the t.v., do homework), going to the movies, theater, and museum, health problems and going to the doctor <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: passé compose, pronominal verbs, direct and indirect object pronouns, negative expressions (ne...plus, ne...rien, ne...jamais, ne...personne), savoir, connaître, souffrir, ouvrir, and commands <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: a three-week unit on Francois Truffaut, the French New Wave, and the 400 coups and a comprehensive study of Impressionism. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Materials, and Projects ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Memorization of various French poems, culminating in a French Recital in the evening. Students present poems and/or musical pieces by French composers. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Elaboration of an Impressionist notebook, with nine compositions <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Spanish ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Spanish-Fifth Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinfoce the students' language skills with activities based on a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> While the emphasis is still on listening and speaking, in 5th grade, we add emphasis on writing and reading. Students now have their first reader. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce study and organizational skills that are age-appropriate to the fifth grade level. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Integrate cultural components into the curriculum to heighten students’ interest in Spanish and enable students to function with ease in a foreign setting. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: greetings, numbers 1-100, family, school, telling time, days, months, seasons, weather, descriptive adjectives. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: definite and indefinite articles, plurals, adjective agreement, personal pronouns, present tense of regular -AR verbs and irregular verbs //ser, estar//, ir, idioms with tener, introduction to stem-changing verbs. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: addressing people formally and informally with tú and usted, traditions regarding names, activities relating to Hispanic Heritage Month and to Day of the Dead and other holidays. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Textbook, workbook, reader, audiovisual and interactive materials, games and selected websites and computer programs for projects. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Language laboratory is used for enhancing aural comprehension and spoken production. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foreign Language Day: field trip to a Mexican neighborhood in Chicago in which students spend the day immersed in cultural activities (e.g. arts and crafts, ordering food in Spanish in a restaurant, neighborhood scavenger hunt). <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">**__ Spanish - Sixth Grade __** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Present learning activities that continue to incorporate a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition utilizing the four language modalities: listening, speaking, reading and writing. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Integrate culture and geography into lesson planning to heighten student's interest in Spanish and enable students to function with ease in a foreign setting. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce material from the fifth grade level, in addition to focusing on age-appropriate study and organizational skills. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Introduce and encourage the use of a Spanish-English dictionary in conjunction with reading comprehension. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: use of appropriate greetings and leave-takings, adjectives that describe people and places, names of classes and places in school, family members, weekend activities <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar: regular –er and –ir verbs, stem changing verbs and some irregular verbs in the present tense. Talking about the future using the expression "going to", possessive adjectives, talking about schedules, describing where you are going and what you have to do, expressing location of people and things. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts: learning about and holidays such as the Day of the Dead (el Día de los Muertos), and Hispanic Heritage Month. Studying the geography of Latin America. Comparing and contrasting American and Hispanic family structures <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Textbook, workbook including authentic taped audio materials, videos, selected Web sites, and use of selected computer programs for projects <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Language laboratory is used for enhancing aural comprehension and spoken production <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Various projects, which vary from year to year including writing and presenting a famous Hispanic person, interviewing native speakers of Spanish, researching and producing a brochure about a Spanish speaking country and creating an end-of-the-year video, project in talk-show format <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">__ Seventh Grade __ <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Present learning activities based on a multi-sensory approach to language acquisition <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue developing all language skills (listening, speaking, writing and reading) on a more complex level than in sixth grade, with increasing emphasis on reading and writing <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Develop reading comprehension skills through reading the novel //El Zorro// in Spanish <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Build on material and organizational skills from the sixth-grade level <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Foster cooperative learning through activities such as working in pairs and small groups <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue to integrate cultural components into the curriculum to heighten students’ interest in Spanish and develop awareness of diversity within the Spanish-speaking world <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: expressing preferences, vocabulary related to foods, ordering food at a restaurant and reviewing a restaurant experience, making polite requests, giving instructions in a variety of different situations, daily routines, talking about staying fit and healthy, describing emotions, describing everyday activities, vocabulary related to the legend of El Zorro (our reader), shopping vocabulary. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar skills: use of regular, irregular, stem-changing verb forms in the present tense, direct object pronouns, regular and some irregular affirmative tú commands (with and without direct object pronouns attached), reflexive verbs, use of the verbs //estar, sentirse// and //tener// to express feelings and physical states, using reflexive pronouns with informal commands, demonstrative adjectives, introduction to the preterite tense. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects and Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Students use textbook, workbook and videos from the Holt, Rinehart and Winston //Exprésate 1B// series <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Students read the novel //El Zorro// (published by CIDEB) and watch a Zorro movie in Spanish <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Restaurant Review Project //La cuenta, por favor// (Check, Please) <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> The language laboratory is also used for enhancing aural comprehension and spoken production <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">**__ Spanish-Eighth Grade __** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Goals ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Encourage age-appropriate study and organizational skills that prepare students for high school <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Reinforce material from previous grade levels with increasing emphasis on oral production and composition writing <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Practice getting the "gist" of unscripted aural input <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Practice speaking with minimal or no use of models or scripts <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Encourage student-generated activities (e.g. skits, dialogues, and discussions) <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Continue to integrate cultural components into the curriculum to heighten students' interest in Spanish and help students to function with cultural sensitivity in the Spanish-speaking world <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Utilize technology to facilitate language learning <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Skills and Concepts ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Vocabulary: emotions, getting to know people and their communities, household chores and objects, daily and leisure activities, and festivities, foods, and behavioral norms of the Spanish-speaking world <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Grammar skills: question formation, present-tense verbs including irregular and stem-changing forms, reflexive verbs, uses of //ser// vs. //estar//, possessive adjectives, discussing daily activities and routines, likes and dislikes, subject, reflexive, direct and indirect object pronouns, the present progressive, regular preterit verbs with an introduction to some irregular forms. <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Cultural concepts as determined by teacher and student interests <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">** Activities, Projects, Materials ** <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Students use the textbook/workbook //Invitaciones: Segunda parte// published by Vista Higher Learning <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Students use the online grammatical and cultural videos, tutorials, games, and activities from the web-based //Supersite// by Vista Higher Learning <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Students use authentic written and audio materials, selected websites, and selected computer programs for projects <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> Language laboratory is used for enhancing aural comprehension and spoken production <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;"> <span style="line-height: 17.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">