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Grade Level: High School 9-12 Teacher: Cecilia Serrato

Subject: Spanish non-natives
Select grade level appropriate standards:

Common Core State Standards:

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1
Language: I. Conventions of Spanish language: Demonstrate command of the conventions of the target
language grammar and usage when writing or speaking.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.SL.9-10.1
Listening and Speaking: I. Comprehension and Collaboration: Prepare for and participate effectively in a
range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing
1 their own clearly and persuasively.
Common Core
and Content Content:
Standard(s) Content.StageI.1.1.g
1.1. Students address discrete elements of daily life, including:
g. Leisure, hobbies and activities, songs, toys and games, sports
Communication.StageI.1.0
1.0 Students use formulaic language
Communication.StageI.1.1
1.1 Engage in oral, written…language
Communication.StageI.1.2
1.2 Interpret written, spoken…language

2 What materials and resources will you and the students need for the lesson?
Materials/ White board
Resources/ Projector to display warm-up
Lesson Students’ memory
PowerPoint
Preparation
Sheet of paper
Pencil
Actions and words

What should students know and be able to do after the lesson?

3 Students know how to say the dates
Objective(s) Students know the words and their actions

Students can say today’s date

Students can recognize some familiar words and phrases when they hear them.
Students can communicate/write on some very familiar topics using single words and phrases
that they have practices and memorized.
Level 1: Recall Level 2: Skill/Concept
Level 3: Strategic Thinking Level 4: Extended Thinking

Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

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Level 1: Students will recall all content learned before to apply it to the new content. Students will be
Webb’s Depth of responsible for using what they already know to facilitate the comprehension of the new information.
Knowledge Level
Level 2: Students organize their ideas using their past knowledge and the new information learned today.
Students will construct fragment sentences utilizing the new vocabulary words.

5 Demonstrating independence Building strong content knowledge

College and

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 Career Ready Responding to varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline
Skills
Comprehending as well as critiquing Valuing evidence
Using technology and digital media strategically and capably
Coming to understand other perspectives and cultures

Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

Students will have to work alone to create sentences, but they learn from their mistakes as they keep
practicing the new information.

In this lesson, students will add more vocabulary to their knowledge of the language. Students will learn
new words, their meaning and in what context could be use. Student will comprehend the new information,
process it and apply it using their own lives.

Students will be given the opportunity to complete a small project to check how good they understand the
new words and if they are capable of constructing phrases using those words. Students will have to use
technology to get creative and do the project (assessment).

Communication Collaboration Critical Thinking  Creativity

Explain how the lesson addresses each box you checked:

Students will articulate ideas using written and oral communication. Students will figure out meaning and
6 intentions of what is being introduced.
21st Century
Skills
Students demonstrate ability to work with other, showing respect and working together effectively.
Students will elaborate and analyze their ideas to create effective assignments. They will demonstrate
originality in their work and will reflect their views.

Lesson Delivery
Identify vocabulary and key terms that are important for students to know to understand the lesson:
Aficciones/hobbies
7 Tiempo libre/free time
Vocabulary/Key Me encanta/ I love it
Terms
Bailar, arte, jugar, leer, escuchar música, montar en bici, ir de compras, cine, baile etc.

8 Describe how you will adapt your lesson for the following learners:
Differentiated
 English Learners
Instruction
Hands and facial gestures to figure out meaning and words. Slow talk and the use of
cognates. Students will also get pictures and objects to figure out the meaning and
facilitate knowledge and comprehension.
 Special Needs
Depending on their identified needs, students will get the necessary adaptations. For
example, give them a special seat; give them more time for assignments, individual help
and more. In a few words, investigate the possible accommodations/modifications and
give them special attention
 Accelerated (Gifted/Talented)
The gifted students may help the teacher with those students that need extra explanation of
the content. These students will help other struggling students and at the same time their

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 knowledge will increase. Or maybe give them harder task to push them to the limits and help
them expand their knowledge.

9 Describe at least TWO different types of formal or informal assessments you will use during your
Assessments lesson to check for student learning:
Students will create a brief project using any technology tool, to illustrate their knowledge and
part of their lives. It will check for their understanding of vocabulary words and how well they
were able to use previous knowledge to create sentences that work with the new content.
An informal assessments is: every student will share with the teacher and classmates two
sentences about the things they life to do in their free time using the vocabulary words or other
words learned before. Teacher will give immediate feedback as well as the classmates.

10 Prior Knowledge, Context, and Motivation (How will you connect the beginning of the lesson
Lesson to what students already know and/or motivate them to learn about the topic?)
Delivery
At the beginning of the lesson, students will be given a question that will make them use what they
learned the day before. This is a way to get students to use phrases or the vocabulary words they
learned in the past. Students tend to pay more attention if what they are learning is somehow
connected to their lives. Therefore, that question will make students to provide a little information
about themselves and their lives.
Describe each step of the lesson

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 Teacher will…
 greet the students “Buenos días, ¿cómo
están?
 ask today’s date ¿Cuál es la fecha de hoy?
 instruct students to do their warm-up (asks
students what do the questions mean, to
check their understanding.
 review with students the vocabulary
Students should be able to remember the
words and the actions of those words.
 ask students to stand up and share two
small phrases about their activities during
their free time.
 ask questions to classmates to promote
participation and guide them to correct
their classmate’s sentences
 give feedback
 give instructions about the project their
will do inside the classroom to
demonstrate their understanding and get
them used to technology.
 ask them to share their projects with the
teacher for a grade.
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Students will…
 answer to teacher’s greeting
 say the day
 take their phones out and start the
warm-up
 students will write warm-up answers on
the board
 other classmates will help them correct
their answer.
 act the words if teacher says the word
or say the word if teacher acts out the
word.
 stand up and share their two small
sentence fragments using their
vocabulary words or other words they
might have learned before.
 give feedback to classmate and receive
feedback when it becomes their turn.
 use their phones, computers or tablets
to go online or use apps to create a
small projects that will have to be done
before class ends.
 have to get creative and add pictures or
other creative arrangements, and create
sentences using everything they have
learned so far and combine it with the
new content. The sentences will need to
make sense.
 have to make sure that before they go,
to share it with the teacher for a grade.
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