Grade 12 - Spanish

SPANISH 12

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Thinking and communicating

Personal and social awareness

Language learning is a lifelong process.

Sharing our feelings, opinions, and beliefs in a new language contributes to our identity.

With increased language proficiency, we can discuss and justify opinions with nuance and clarity.

Exploring diverse forms of cultural expression promotes greater understanding and appreciation of cultures worldwide.

Becoming more proficient in a new language enables us to explore global issues.

Derive and negotiate meaning in a wide variety of contexts

Locate and explore a variety of Hispanic texts

Retrieve, research, and analyze information from authentic resources to complete meaningful tasks

Recognize different purposes, degrees of formality, and cultural points of view in a variety of texts

Analyze and compare elements of creative works from diverse communities

Use various strategies to increase understanding and produce oral and written language

Narrate stories, both orally and in writing

Respond personally to a variety of texts, including oral, written, and visual forms

Exchange ideas and information, both orally and in writing

Express themselves effectively, with fluency and accuracy, both orally and in writing

Share information using the presentation format best suited to their own and others' diverse abilities

Analyze personal, shared, and others' experiences, perspectives, and worldviews through a cultural lens

Recognize the regional and ethnic diversity of Spanish language and Hispanic culture

Engage in experiences with Hispanic people and communities

Identify and explore opportunities to continue language acquisition beyond graduation

Identify and explore educational and personal/professional opportunities requiring proficiency in Spanish

Recognize First Peoples perspectives and knowledge; other ways of knowing, and local cultural knowledge

increasingly complex vocabulary, sentence structures, and expressions, including:

complex questions and opinions

sequence of events in stories

needs and emotions

explanation and justification of opinions

First Peoples perspectives connecting language and culture, including oral histories, identity, and place

past, present, and future time frames

language formality and etiquette

distinguishing features of major Hispanic and Spanish regional dialects

Hispanic resources and services

Hispanic works of art

ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism