Heritage Spanish · Week 11 · Registro, comunidad y voz académica
Spanglish y cambio de código
Students reflect on when they switch languages and what feelings or audiences drive the switch.
- Students will
- Students reflect on when and why they code switch and describe the audiences and feelings that drive switching.
- SEL skill
- Map when you switch languages and name the audience or feeling that triggers the switch
- What it looks like
- Students use self-awareness to understand how emotions and audiences shape the language they choose.
- Content focus
- Code switching and Spanglish; when to use each register
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is recognizing your own feelings, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they steer your choices. More self-awareness activities
What you get
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Standards
- WL.CL4.I: Cultures Standard 4, Intercultural Influences (Intermediate range)
- WL.CN2.I: Connections Standard 2, Diverse Perspectives and Distinctive Viewpoints (Intermediate range)
- WL.CM7.I: Communication Standard 7, Language Comparisons in Service of Communication (Intermediate range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives, Cultural Comparisons, Interpretive 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.
- Mi nombre con tilde Self-awarenessStudents write their names with correct accents and explain why their name deserves to be spelled and pronounced correctly.
- 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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