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Unit 15: All about yesterday

Childhood games and toys, cultural practices relating to children; family crests. Oral and written description of past events; interviewing; group project and presentation. The unit lasts for 5 days.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Work in teams to create and present a bulletin board or poster board that describes and illustrates a fictional family's personal history and describes what each member of the family was like as a youth
• Describe events that occurred in the past related to school, family, leisure activities, likes and dislikes, food and customs, professions and work and the arts
• Communicate via short oral paragraphs, using adverbs of time and other linguistic elements related to organizing and linking sentences into a paragraph format

Lessons

• Day 1: My favorite play activities
• Day 2: My childhood portrait
• Day 3: Conversations about childhood
• Day 4: Group rehearsal
• Day 5: Presentation of family shield or crest

Meeting the ACTFL national standards

Students:

• 1.1: Engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
• 1.3: Present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
• 2.1: Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
• 3.2: Acquire information and recognize distinct viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language and its cultures.
• 4.2: Demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the language studied and their own.

Meeting the World Language Content Standards for California Public Schools

Students will:

• Make requests
• Understand and express ideas
• Describe and compare
• Express emotions
• Speak face to face
• Listen to classmates
• Communicate effectively with some errors during Stage Two functions

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