Spanish 4 and AP · Week 7 · Identidades y familias
Las familias de hoy
Students compare family structures in Mexico, Argentina, and the Coachella Valley and honor the many shapes a family takes.
- Students will
- Students use the subjunctive with adverbial conjunctions ("para que, antes de que") and family vocabulary to compare family structures.
- SEL skill
- Describe the many shapes a family can take with kindness and respect
- What it looks like
- Students show kindness by honoring the many shapes a family can take.
- Content focus
- Subjunctive with adverbial conjunctions ("para que, antes de que"); family vocabulary
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
Social awareness
Social awareness is trying to see through someone else's eyes and caring about how they feel, especially when their background differs from yours. More social awareness activities
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Standards
- WL.CM1.I: Communication Standard 1, Interpretive Communication (Intermediate range)
- WL.CM2.I: Communication Standard 2, Interpersonal Communication (Intermediate range)
- WL.CL2.I: Cultures Standard 2, Cultural Products, Practices, and Perspectives (Intermediate range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Interpersonal Communication, Interpretive Communication, Relating Cultural Products and Practices to Perspectives
- Proficiency range: Intermediate
- AP Spanish Language and Culture theme: Families and Communities
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