DYERSBURG HIGH SCHOOL CURRICULUM

Subject:  SPANISH II                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           _____   Semester            

Grade:    10-12                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             __X___Year

 

 

TOPIC

ESSENTIAL QUESTION

AUGUST

 

 

1.       Review Spanish I

2.       Weather terms

3.       Personal characteristics

4.       Home

 

1.    What are the similarities and differences in Spanish and American home structure?

SEPTEMBER

 

1.       School subjects

2.       Classroom equipment

3.       Education

1.         How are schools in the United States and Mexico similar and different?

 

OCTOBER

1.       Extracurricular activities

2.       Leisure time activities in Spanish speaking countries

3.       Reflexive verbs

1.       In what American leisure time activities in the United States do we see the influence of Spanish culture?

 

NOVEMBER

1.       Clothing

2.       Textiles

3.       Currency

4.       Grammar: Preterit tense and

5.       Demonstrative Adjectives

 

1.         What is currency exchange?

2.         How is the currency rate of exchange decided among countries?

3.         Why is the currency exchange rate different for all countries?

DECEMBER

1.       Leisure time activities

2.       Frida Kahlo – Diego Rivera

3.       Childhood Memories

4.       Imperfect Tense

5.       Jose Marti

1.       How does the art of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reflect the issues of Mexican history?

2.       How would studying Jose Marti benefit American students?

JANUARY

1.       Holidays

2.       Special Occasions

3.       Pedir, Dar

4.       Personal Possessions

5.       Possessive Adjectives

 

1.       How do customs for holidays in Spanish speaking countries differ from ours in the United States?

2.       How are they similar?

3.       How have the Caribbean countries followed, combined, or created their holidays as influenced by the Spanish and American cultures?

FEBRUARY

1.       Early American civilization

2.       Preterit Tense

3.       Imperfect Tense

 

1.         Why would early American civilization be so different from European culture at the same point in history?

 

 

MARCH

1.       Transportation

2.       Directions

3.       Town

4.       Shopping

1.         Compose directions in Spanish to local places and then have classmates deduce where they are going.

2.         Role play in Spanish the locations and bargaining procedures in a drugstore and/or department store.

APRIL

1.       Accidents

2.       Medicine

3.       Food

1.       What questions would you need to know to ask for help in case of accidents or sickness when traveling in a Spanish speaking country?

MAY

1.       Airport

2.       Hotel

3.       Don Quixote de la Mancha

1.       Why would D

2.       on Quixote be considered an important literary work?