Unpacked Content
Knowledge
Students know:
- how their peers in the target language culture typically spend their freetime.
- what a typical school day in the target language culture is like.
- what kinds of media are popular among their peers in the target language culture.
Skills
Novice High Level
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
Students are able to:
- use map skills to identify countries and geographical features around the world.
- identify resources needed to calculate exchange rates and measurments.
- investigate other disciplines using the target language language.
Students are able to:
- interpret simple statistics on daily life activities of their peers in the target language culture, such as schooling, freetime activities, and social media usage.
- identify and interpret basic information from authentic sources, such as news articles, event flyers, invitations, and advertisements.
- identify a few target language news sources and stores.
- use the target language to learn about other disciplines.
- use information learned in the target language in other disciplines.
Understanding
Students understand that:
- proficiency in a foreign language is a vehicle to gaining knowledge that can only be acquired through that language and its culture.
- world language learning offers opportunities to uncover big ideas in and about other disciplines.
- strategies used to acquire a language are transferable to other areas of learning throughout life.
- a second language facilitates the acquisition of information about the world outside our experiences.
