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Unit 16: In the news

Newspaper vocabulary and organiztion; internet research and pen pal emails; reading and writing news and sports articles, editorials, letters to the editor, classified advertisements. The unit lasts for 8 days.

Objectives

Students will be able to:

• Discuss current events and weather conditions
• Correspond with a student pen pal
• Narrate their ideas, emotions, and life experiences to another student
• Participate with fellow classmates to create a group newspaper

Lessons

• Day 1: Let's read the newspaper
• Day 2: Writing a news story
• Day 3: Correspondence
• Day 4: Writing a sports article
• Day 5: Editorials
• Day 6: Classified advertisements
• Day 7: Creating our newspapers
• Day 8: Presenting our newspapers

Meeting the ACTFL national standards

1. Communication: Students discuss, share opinions, work collaboratively; compose, read and interpret correspondence; plan and present a project to classmates, write an article for a team newspaper, present information about current events.
2. Culture: Students gain insight into the patterns of behavior of the culture being studied and use art media to reflect that culture.
3. Connections: Students further their knowledge of the target language in an interdisciplinary fashion.
4. Comparisons: Students are able to give sociologically correct information on current events of the culture being studied.
5. Communities: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.

Meeting the World Language Content Standards for California Public Schools

1. Content: Students address topics related to the immediate environment, including people in the community, climate, cultural and leisure-time activities, cuisine and fashion, health care, and technological advances.
2. Communication: Students use created language (strings of sentences) or planned language (paragraphs and strings of paragraphs). Students produce and present a written product in a culturally authentic way.
3. Cultures: Students demonstrate understanding of the roles that products, practices and perspectives play in the culture.
4. Structures: Students use knowledge of text structure to understand topics related to the external environment.
5. Settings: Students use language in informal and some formal settings. Students initiate age appropriate cultural or language use opportunities outside the classroom.

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