Mission, Vision, Competencies, Standards, and Benchmarks

‣ Listing and identifying practices observed in a video/magazine article that are
outcomes of perspectives of Hispanic culture.
Comparisons
‣ Identifying and comparing common American and Hispanic topics such as food,
weather, and family.
‣ Via the natural approach noticing structural differences between English language and
Spanish language word forms, grammar, idioms, syntax.
‣ Differentiating between the Spanish and English alphabet.
Communities
‣ Explaining the benefits of learning Spanish as a second language.
‣ Acknowledging the importance, growth of the Hispanic population in the United States.
‣ Recognizing and discussing the impact and importance of using Spanish within our
community.
Lower School Spanish: Acquisition Level II
Students in Language Acquisition Level II use a series of sentences and re-combinations of
learned words, phrases, and expressions with frequency of errors proportionate to the
complexity of the communicative task. As students enter Level II, students begin to create
new combinations of the language learned in Level I; messages are understandable, but
some patterns of error may occur with full comprehension.
In Language Acquisition Level II (Grades 5-6), students will work to master:
Communication
‣ Describing varying emotional states and execute usage of gustar-type verbs
in conjunction with emotions.
‣ Understanding common activities and discussing their relative importance with regard
to likes and dislikes.
‣ Identifying family members with regard to physical and personality characteristics.
‣ Differentiatv and discussing professions and occupations.
‣ Discussv special and common places, including home and community.
‣ Understanding the difference between masculine and feminine articles in the singular
and plural form.
‣ Communicating in complete sentences using article, noun and adjective agreement
while describing clothing and accessories.
Hispanic culture
‣ Identifying vocabulary for important sports and their components in Hispanic countries.
‣ Being exposed to the richness and diversity of cultures within the Hispanic world.
Connections
‣ Recite passages from the Bible.
Comparisons
‣ Continue to compare syntax of Spanish and English languages.
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