Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Listos Para Viajar!

Name: Catherine Vega

Content Area: Spanish

Grade Level: 9-12 Native Speakers

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Content:
3.1h. Students address concrete and factual topics to the immediate and external environments, including: h. cultural, historical,
and geographic aspects of traveling
Communication:
3.0 Students use planned language (paragraphs and strings of paragraphs)
3.3 Present to an audience of listeners, readers, or ASL viewers.
3.6 Produce and present a written, oral or signed product in a culturally authentic way.
Cultures:
31. Use products, practices, and perspectives in culturally appropriate ways.
Structures:
3.0 Students use knowledge of text structure to understand topics related to the external environment,
Settings:
3.0 Students use language in informal and some formal settings.
Big Ideas:

Latin American countries and their capitals: Identify country names, placement, and their capitals.
Essential question: What is the name of this country and its capital? Where is it located in the map?
Countries History: It is important to learn the history of each country but history in general is a lot of information, for this unit the
concept of history will be reduced to the students personal interest on the country selected. This will allow for the research
conducted to be self-guided.
Essential question: What big events changed the countries view? Who were the significant historic people? What dates are the
most important for your country and why? (Students are not obligated to answer these questions. These are only here to guide the
students during their research for this section.)
Traveling perspective: This is a fun way to learn the geography, historic landscapes, and important celebrations and events of
each country.
Essential question: Which cities, landmarks, historic landscapes are the most important? What festivals and events are important to
your country? What places where you like to go if you could travel within this country?

Unit Goals and Objectives:

Each
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student will:
Be able to identify country names, placement, and their capitals.
Comprehend and share with others information received about history.
Collaborate with others to research, analyze, and report on the history, facts, festivals, and cities.
Be able to summarize the information found properly integrating the language skills learned in previous classes.

Unit Summary:

It is difficult to understand how so many different countries share the same language. Just think about it! Spanish is spoken in all of
South and Central America, Mexico, and Spain. With only one language you can communicate with millions of people. But to get to
know everything of the countries that speak this language is nearly impossible, therefore, the goal of this until will be for us as a
class to learn key things about each country. We will start by reviewing the names, capitals, and geographical location of each of
them. Within groups you will be required to collaborate by conducting research that will allow you to get to know one country and
later share with the class. At the end of the unit we will all have a great amount of information about the countries that speak this
language. Your big project for this unit will be for you create a traveling route/guide for somebody who is interested in visiting your
country. Summarizing the unit with a QuickWrite in which you will select one country that you will like to visit explaining in detail
why you chose it, making references to the historic part, cities, sites, and festive shared by your classmates.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:

Formative:

Summative:

Who Am I?- Identify if students are familiar with all

the countries or with at least some.

Where do I go? - Test Prior Knowledge of students

to see if they know the geographical location of the
countries at interest.
What do you know about these countries? Carousel Brainstorm to identify what students know
about the countries itself.
Webercise- Responses on specific aspect of
countries history, geography, and culture.
Loteria- Review of countries and names and their
capitals.
Concept map- Organize countries information.

Create a Prezi tour- Present to the class the

information you found as a tour guide.
Where would you go? Use the information learned
to explain why the student would travel to a specific
country.

Lesson 1

Student Learning
Objective:
Be able to identify the
names, capitals, and
geographical location
of Latin America
countries.

Acceptable Evidence:
Positive responses
when asking students
to label a map with
country name and its
capital.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Begin with the activity Who Am I? to activate students prior
knowledge and identify the students knowledge level
regarding the subject.
Continue by giving the students the lesson through Prezi
titled Who Speaks Spanish? Also hand out the Guided notes if
see fit. This lesson includes several questions that require for
the instructor to give students sufficient time to respond.
This is important since depending on the answer, the pace for
the rest of the material can be determined. This lesson ends
with a group activity titled What do you know about these
countries? Carousel Brainstorm. This must be done in groups.
Students will need a poster board with a country name on
each. Share with students the instructions on the cite.

Acceptable Evidence:
The amount of
information presented
during the
presentation at the
end of the unit titled
Give me a tour!
Response given to
Where would you go?
Is supported with
evidence given in
students
presentation.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Provide students with the webercise and review the
instructions for the assignment. Remind students that this
information will be used for a later activity.
Present students with the instructions for Give me a tour!,
read them, and answer any questions. Set a reasonable
deadline in which students will have an opportunity to review
the information with you.
End this lesson by doing the activity titled Loteria. This is like
a bingo in which you will be giving students the names of
countries or facts related to the countries. Students will
identify what is being said by marking its corresponding
capital.

Acceptable Evidence:
Grading the content
presented in the
graphic organizer
Spain Mother
Country.

Instructional
Strategies:
Communication
Collection
Collaboration
Presentation
Organization
Interaction

Lesson Activities:
Introduce students the activity for the graphic organizer. The
importance of this activity is to know the origin of Latin
America.

Lesson 2
Student Learning
Objective:
For students to
become more familiar
with particular
countries history,
festive, miscellaneous
facts, and events.

Lesson 3
Student Learning
Objective:
For students to gain
knowledge about
Spain, the country
that conquered Latin
America and
influenced it so much.

Now allow time for students to present their Give me a Tour!

To the rest of the class. Require for students to take notes of
what is being presented.
End this lesson and the unit by giving the students the
assessment titled Where would you go? Require at least a
page in a half for each student in which they also include a

personal critique on how they did on their group and

individual projects.

Unit Resources:

http://www.mondolatino.eu/paises/paises.php
http://www.tuparada.com/fechas-especiales/
http://html.rincondelvago.com/independencia-de-latinoamerica.html
http://mihistoriauniversal.com/edad-contemporanea/independencia-de-latinoamerica/
http://www.wordreference.com/
http://www.rocketlanguages.com/spanish/learn/spanish-grammar-rules/
http://www.gramaticas.net/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sby3sMIApUQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX4rdwpI4ks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAoj0IuVoes
Useful Websites:
http://www.aresearchguide.com/
http://dropoutprevention.org/effective-strategies/
http://www.nasponline.org/resources/principals/Student_Services_-_Oct_2012.pdf
http://www.rae.es/
http://www.nacacnet.org/studentinfo/Pages/Default.aspx
https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/prepare-for-college
http://www.trade-schools.net/
http://teens.webmd.com/
http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/tab/
http://www.pacerteensagainstbullying.org/tab/