Heritage Spanish · Week 5 · Mi español: acentos, ortografía e historias
Mi nombre con tilde
Students write their names with correct accents and explain why their name deserves to be spelled and pronounced correctly.
- Students will
- Students write their names with correct accents and use diacritical accents in sentences ("tú y tu", "él y el", "sí y si").
- SEL skill
- Explain why the accurate spelling and pronunciation of a name matters to you or to someone you imagine
- What it looks like
- Students practice honesty about who they are by claiming the correct spelling and pronunciation of their names.
- Content focus
- Accents in names; diacritical accents ("tú y tu", "él y el", "sí y si")
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
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What you get
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Standards
- WL.CM3.I: Communication Standard 3, Presentational Communication (Intermediate range)
- WL.CM6.I: Communication Standard 6, Productive Structures in Service of Communication (Intermediate range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Cultural Comparisons, Presentational Communication
- Proficiency range: Intermediate
More self-awareness activities for Heritage Spanish
- Mi español, mi historia Self-awarenessStudents write a language autobiography and name the feelings, pride or insecurity, attached to their Spanish.
- Spanglish y cambio de código Self-awarenessStudents reflect on when they switch languages and what feelings or audiences drive the switch.
- Reflexión del semestre Self-awarenessStudents compare their first writing sample to a recent one and name their growth in accents, spelling, and register.
- Odas de Neruda Self-awarenessStudents analyze a Neruda ode and write their own oda to an ordinary object that brings them comfort.
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