To introduce the students to the Spanish language by providing the following language skills:
- Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing
Students will learn the following topics:
- Spanish alphabet - Numbers 1 through 20 - Colors - Days of the week - Seasons - Weather - Animals - Body parts - Clothing items - Sports - Family Members - Parts of the house and household items - Food at the table - School supplies - Helpers in the community - Professions - Where are you going? - Transportation
To introduce the students to the Spanish language by providing the following language skills:
- Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing
Students will learn how:
- To greet and to say goodbye to people - To express simple courtesies - To say the days of the week - To say the months of the year - To count from 0 to 100 - To say the seasons - To ask who someone is - To state where someone is from - To describe a person or thing - To identify people or things - To talk about a famous Spanish novel and some Hispanic culture - To talk about more than one person or thing - To discuss class subjects in school and to express opinions about them - To tell time - To tell at what time an event takes place
Grade 8 Curriculum Narrative Spanish
To provide the students with the following language skills:
- Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing
The students will learn how:
- To identify and describe school supplies - To identify and describe articles of clothing - To shop for school supplies and clothing - To state color and size preferences - To speak to people formally and informally - To discuss differences between schools in the United States and in Spanish-speaking countries - To talk about going to school - To talk about some school activities - To greet people and ask how they feel - Tell how you feel - To describe where you and others go - To describe where you and others are
Students will also be introduced to a Cooperative Learning Program called “En Grupos”. This program will encourage them to converse among themselves and become active participants of each project/activity by working in groups of four.