Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Theme/Topic:
Approximate
Length:
Approximate
number of minutes
weekly:
Number of lessons
in the unit:
Customs and traditions
5 weeks
280 min
40
Enduring
Understanding(s):
Summative
Performance
Assessments:
Interpretive Mode:
Students will assume the role of
ethnographers, they will become experts of
their country and create a Lonely planet
volume. Creating this book will allow
students gain awareness of their costumes
and traditions and provide them with tools to
promote inter-cultural awareness.
Interpersonal Mode:
At the beginning of their sharing session
Presentational:
Making
conclusion and
taking action:
Present their
understandings,
what they have
created, and
done.
Culture:
Connections:
Making Connections:
Comparisons:
Language
Comparisons:
Cultural Comparisons:
Communities:
Lifelong Learning:
Common Core:
NA
Related
Structures/Patterns
Vocabulary Expansion
Adjectives
Complete sentences
Paragraph structure
Punctuation marks
Tier 1:
Tier 2:
Unit
Vocabulary
Mode of
Communication:
Interpretive
Interpersonal
students` prior
knowledge and
gain some ideas of
how much they
already know
about this unit.
Unit goal: 2
Module 2:
Product: Virtual trip
Student will choose one
country, and then, after
researching more they will
choose one city. Student
will use Google maps
(might change) to guide
their classmates around
this place, which will be
added in tier final book for
their summative
assessment.
This Learning
experiencing will
allow students to
inquire about
Cultural Products
and Practices, and
to participate in
cultural
interactions.
Module 3:
Product: Survey
Students will design and
create a survey using
surveymonkey.com
They will use this data to
deepen their understanding
about customs and
traditions and gain learn
how to collect, organize,
analyze to and present
data. This findings will also
be used in the creation of
their final book.
This Learning
experiencing will
provide
opportunities for
interactions, and
use language to
explain, inquire
and compare.
Resources
The book of life
Interpersonal
Presentational
Unit goal: 4
ISTE: 2 b, c
ACTFL: 1.3
Interpersonal
Unit goal: 1, 3
ISTE: 3 a, d
ACTFL: 1.3
Technology Integration
https://www.google.com/earth/
https://www.google.com/earth/
https://www.surveymonkey.com