Spanish 3 · Week 7 · Días inolvidables y expresión

Los murales cuentan historias

Studying Chicano murals in Coachella's "Pueblo Viejo", students infer the stories and struggles the artists wanted told.

Social awarenessGrades 9 to 12About 20 minutesIntermediate

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Students will: Students use both past tenses to describe a mural and infer the story it tells.
SEL skill: Infer an artist's message for a community from visual evidence
What it looks like: Students practice empathy and citizenship by inferring what artists wanted their community to know.
Content focus: Preterite vs imperfect to describe art and history
Format: Collaborative analysis

Social awareness

Social awareness is seeing situations through other people's eyes and caring about them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social awareness activities

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Standards

WL.CM1.I: Communication Standard 1, Interpretive Communication (Intermediate range)
WL.CL2.I: Cultures Standard 2, Cultural Products, Practices, and Perspectives (Intermediate range)
WL.CN2.I: Connections Standard 2, Diverse Perspectives and Distinctive Viewpoints (Intermediate range)
National (ACTFL World Readiness): Acquiring Information and Diverse Perspectives, Cultural Comparisons, Interpretive Communication, Relating Cultural Products and Practices to Perspectives
Proficiency range: Intermediate

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Te recomiendo que Social awarenessStudents give advice with the subjunctive only after listening fully to a peer's problem and reflecting it back.
Las manos del valle Social awarenessLearning about Coachella Valley farmworkers and the UFW, students recognize the labor behind the food they eat.
Servir a mi comunidad Social awarenessStudents identify a local need by listening to what neighbors say and plan a small service project in Spanish.

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