Why Projects?

• Project based learning is a student center approach to teaching!

• Students fortify their critical thinking abilities by being held responsible for their education

• Students also develop teamwork skills by working with others

• Communication amongst students is important in the development of the projects

• Students most be resourceful and ready to think outside the box

Teaching with Projects

The benefits are great! •Development of Critical thinking •Improved attitude towards learning •Responsibility of own work •Problem solving, teamwork and

communication skills. • Able to apply information to different

formats and to real life situations

Unit Summary

Using group project presentation students will develop a skit that demonstrates the importance of verb conjugation using the correct verb tense, nouns, adverbs, adjectives, articles, and pronouns.Students then will concentrate on how forming sentences that follow a sequence is key for communication.Students then will analyze human ability to manipulate our language to express different emotions, needs or wants. Students will apply what they learned by showing different reactions to “wrongly formulated” sentences or conversations.

Project

• Given teacher instruction students will review and be exposed to basic Spanish grammar. Major emphasis will be given to verb tense and conjugation. The grammatical function of verbs, nouns, articles, adjectives, and adverbs in sentence structure. Students will be working together developing news broadcast, novelas, or theatre that explains and demonstrate the different aspects of grammar that will be reviewed. Students will also be encourage to use youtube, blogs and real time video.

• Teamwork is central to solving questions that are thought provoking and essential to understanding the main ideas of a unit

• Curriculum-framing questions and content standards form the base to uniting a students education to real world problems or events

Target Content Standards

• D 1.2 Student identify similarities and differences in orthography within the parameters of the languages they know.

• B. 2.0 Students use created language (sentences and string of sentences)

• B.2.3 Students present to an audience of listeners or viewers.

Unit Objectives

• Students learn content standards• Develop interest in human ability to communicate• Encourage critical thinking and in-depth inquiry of

the language• Inspire student creativity through projects that use

technological resources• Students develop understanding of Spanish

grammar and it’s function• Assessments that are effective to gauge students

needs.

Curriculum Framing Questions• Essential Question: How has Spanish transformed over the

last two centuries and how are the changes manifested in the language today?

• Unit Questions: How does our linguistic competence help develop our language?

• Do different dialects affect the grammatical structure of a language?

• Content Questions= What are the functions of the different parts of speech and how do we recognize them?

• How do can you recognize an adjective, adverb and noun in sentence and what most a sentence include if no there is no noun present?

Using Assessments to Gauge Student Needs Purpose of assessment • Develop understanding of students prior knowledgeWhat am I looking for?        Obtain and evaluate the level of mastery of my students in regards

to basic Spanish grammar through questioning and journaling.How to develop critical thinking in students?        Content questions will analyze and in-depth response generated

through teamwork with fellow students. What will I gain from Assessment?        Develop activities and lessons that meet my student’s intellectual

abilities. Acquire information that helps develop meaningful instruction and facilitates student learning.

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