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=**__Vision__ **=

The vision of our school as a whole is “Excellence for everyone”. What I believe this means is that each students who puts forth effort on a daily basis will receive the best possible grade they can earn. I don’t believe that everyone who puts all their effort into a class will receive the “A”.


 * __Knowledge base__ **

Based on what we have know in our curriculum (that is always changing), I am going to want to make sure that the students are able to synthesize and evaluate a variety of readings in Spanish 4. In addition to the readings, the students will be able to communicate with 85% efficiency using the indicative, subjunctive and the imperative tenses.

__**Effective teaching/well known project**__
I don’t see us doing necessarily “projects” but activities that they students will be assessed on summativly at the end of the quarter. Please let me know if I am interpreting this incorrectly.


 * __Experts In the Field__ **

Stephen Krashen who focused his theories on Second Language Acquisition looks at to aquire a second language, as teachers, we need to do the following:


 * the Acquisition-Learning hypothesis,--Information of the second language needs to be meaningful for the students.


 * the Monitor hypothesis--due to this, the students become better writers before speakers because of this approach. The students monitor unconsciously their errors and autocrrect them.


 * the Natural Order hypothesis, -- You can’t teach a baby to walk before it crawls. In the same sense, you need to go in a progression when teaching a language. You wouldn’t be able to teach hypothetical situations from the very beginning.


 * the Input hypothesis--This is to say i+1. You can not go to far above the understanding of the students you are teaching. If they become lost, you need to go back to their level until they are comfortable again

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 * the Affective Filter hypothesis--Many times, the students are very nervous about learning a language. When being put on the spot, the student may freeze. This is just making sure the students are as little nervous as possible.

__**Commercial materials** (high quality materials that you will include in your project)__ In World Language classrooms, we have to consistently look at language and culture in respects to its Products, Practices and Perspectives. Products are realia that is used in different cultures. Practices can be tangible or intangible based on the activities. Perspectives are looking the views from inside the culture.

__**Teaching activities** (either specific activities or sources for finding activities)__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching activities will be prereading strategies such as circumlocution with new vocabulary words, using pictures to predict what may happen in the story.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__**Assessment/evaluation** (methods for assessing the activities, objectives, and goals)__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Some of the assessments would include listening activities, reading comprehension activities, storyboards, critiques, creating a video based on the variety of readings.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">To be able to create an electronic facebook page <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Review the indicative mood and create a PSA on endangered species <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compare and contrast the students world to those living in Spanish speaking countries. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Create a self portrait and evaluate what aspects you would put in your portrait to show who/what has influenced your life. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Research and analyze Latin Americans that live in our community and how they have contributed to the Latin American culture.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline;">__Objectives__ <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: Over the course of the semester, the students will be able to: **