Standards-Based Unit Template by Clementi & Terrill

Curriculum Design Fall 2014

Language and
Level
Theme
Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings

Korean
Novice high Intermediate low

Approximate Length of Unit

Approximate Number of
Minutes Weekly
Healthy Diet: What shapes our body?
What is a healthy diet?
How does what we eat effect our life?
Healthy diets make healthy bodies inside and outside.
Students will be able to:

Goals

Summative
Performance Assessment
(a performance task using GRASPS
with a rubric or an Integrated
Performance Assessment)

Yeji Goodman
5 weeks
50 minutes / week

Identify traditional & modern Korean dishes that are healthy.

Describe different dishes using adjectives that describe food.
Compare different eating styles/habits in varying countries, using comparative grammar such as more
than ( ) or asas () along with relevant adjectives for description and adverbs for
frequency.
Describe the social views on ideal body shapes for men and women, using it looks like, it appears to
be ( ) with various adjectives that describes body.
Explain how social views on under-/over-weight people change the societys eating culture
Identify health issues in Korea and compare them to the health issues in the U.S.
Give suggestions to solve the health issues caused by bad eating habits, using (they) should/have to
( ), and it would be good if ( )
Goal: Understand the benefits and risks of allegedly effective diets that have been
commercialized in Korea; and understand how what we eat affects our body and mind
Interpretive: Ss will read an article about 12 different diets to lose weight.
Interpersonal: In pairs, they will choose one of the 12 given diets to try out. The pairs should
talk about which diet each of them wants to try and why; and come to an agreement on one.
Presentational: The students will try the chosen diet for at least two days in a row, and give a
presentation about the reason they chose the diet, pros and cons of the diet style, and how
their body and mind felt differently while doing the diet.

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Standards-Based Unit Template by Clementi & Terrill

Curriculum Design Fall 2014
Cultures

Yeji Goodman

Product: Poster for the Korean booth at the international food expo
Practice: Giving a presentation with a poster about a selected Korean dish that they think represents
healthy Korean food
Perspective: People have different views and standards of what healthy food is

Product: Diet trial to loose weight

Practice: Trying out one of the popular diets to loose weight, identify strengths & weaknesses
Perspective: Understand how what we eat affects our physical and mental health
Acquiring Information and Diverse
Making Connections
Perspectives
Connections
Health and diet: how diet affects ones physical and
Different standards of eating healthy, and
mental health
looking healthy in varying countries
Social Views: how social views can shape ones diet
Language Comparisons
Cultural Comparisons
- Adjectives describing body shapes and the differences
- Cultural eating styles / habits in
Comparisons
in definitions
different countries
- Differences in using soft / strong voice when making
- Different social views on under- or oversuggestions to other people
weight people
School and Global Communities
Lifelong Learning
Communities
- Share information on healthy diets
- Identify ones ideal ways of eating
- Give supports to people who are struggling with bad
healthy and staying healthy mentally and
diet habbits in the community
physically
Toolbox
Language Functions
Related Structures / Patterns
Vocabulary Expansion
Describe ones eating habits
Past and present tense.
Adverbs to show frequency: , ,
, , etc.
Compare different representative dishes in
(more than), (asas) Adjectives describing food: , ,
Korea
, , , , etc.
Express opinions on Healthy diets
- (it looks like, it would
Verbs related to eating: , , etc.
be, it appears to be)
Make suggestions about healthy diets/eating
- (Have to/should)
ACTFL Keys to Planning for Learning by Clementi & Terrill 2013

Standards-Based Unit Template by Clementi & Terrill

Curriculum Design Fall 2014

Yeji Goodman

(it would be good

if -)
Key Learning Activities/Formative Assessments
Key learning activities/formative assessments
How do these support unit goals/performance tasks?
Activate interest in different dishes in Korea
Watch a video about traditional & modern Korean dishes and talk in
pairs about how the norm of Korean food has changed over time
- Introduce the norm of healthy food
Each group of Ss will choose a Korean dish and prepare a
- Learn to defend ones own opinions by promoting the
presentation as the Korean booth manager at the International food
selected dish; and to compare ones choice to that of other
expo
habits

people
Understand ones own & other peoples ideal body shape
Learn about common social views on different body shapes
in the U.S. and in Korea

Give to each group of students a range of pictures of female

celebrities from the U.S. and Korea (the pictures wont have faces of
the celebrities to minimize Ss stereotypes about them); and have
them divide the pictures into groups of different body types with
their own standards; ask them to give reasons for their groupings.
- Identify the healthy problems that are oftenly confronted
Watch a video of a Korean girl who became anorexic; read the
in our society
comments on the video; and write what the social views are about
- Make suggestions for people with healthy problems
heavyset girls in Korea with some suggestions to help her become
- Learn to use soft/strong voice for making suggestions
healthy again (individual activity)
Resources
Technology Integration
Article : 12
(http://www.wikitree.co.kr/main/news_view.php?id=190741&fb=1)
TV monitor, computer with a HDMI adapter
Video:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6nEIRBwlWI)

ACTFL Keys to Planning for Learning by Clementi & Terrill 2013