Spanish IV
Unit, Topic, Content
Projects and Assessment
Standards
Theme
Personal Characteristics
Communication Topics
Adjectives and descriptions
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Describe yourself
Describe your best friends
Tell how you get along with others
Talk about your role in society.
Project: Self-description poem
Culture
Compare/Contrast extra-curricular activities from
Spanish-speaking schools with American schools
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
Oral
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Give advice to a friend
Tell to whom/for whom you do something
Talk about an unidentified object
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Oral: Describe where you live
Indicate advantages and disadvantages of living in a
certain place
Describe a place that you visited
Explain why you prefer to live where you live now or
move to another place
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
Realia: Pictures of Costa Rica
Oral
Grammar
Affirmative “tú” commands
Review: Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns
Other uses of “lo”
Theme
City
Communication Topics
Around town
Culture
Describe advantages and disadvantages of living in
city/suburbs/country
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Talk about actions that happened repeatedly in the
past
Describe people, places and situations in the past
Describe conditions of people and things in the past
and present
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Describe various works of art
Project: Create a work of art for class art show.
Grammar
Review: Imperfect Tense
Other uses of Imperfect Tense
Using past participles as adjectives
Theme
Art
Communication Topics
Styles of Art (Realism, Surrealism, Impressionism)
Types of Art (Still-life, Painting, Mural)
Culture
Specific pieces of art
Specific Artists (Picasso, Dalí, El Greco, Fernando
Botero, Diego Velasquez)
Grammar
Review: Preterite of “poner”
Preterite of “influir” and “contribuir”
Review: Imperfect Progressive
Review: Uses of Preterite and Imperfect
Progressive
Theme
Television
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Tell where someone put something.
Tell how a work of art made you feel.
Talk about something that was happening when
something else happened.
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Project: Create a movie poster
Project: Plan a trip to movies
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
Realia: Discuss programs from TV Guide
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Tell what someone has done or hasn’t done
Talk about situations that occur at a certain moment
in time.
Talk about what someone said
Communication Topics
Types of programs and movie ratings
Culture
Television in Spanish
Grammar
Present Perfect Tense
Irregular Past Participles
Review: Preterite of “poder, tener, estar, decir,
dar”
Oral: Describe a work of art and identify the artist
that created it
Theme
Ancient Civilizations
Communication Topics
Archeological Sites
Mayan Calendar
Mayan Math
Aztec city of Tenochtitlán
Culture
Mayans of past and present
Grammar
Hace …que, Hacía … que
Pluperfect Tense
Using “seguir” with Present Progressive tense
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Describe contributions of Mayan Civilization
Talk about what remains today from the Mayan
Civilization
Project: Create Class Calendar based on Mayan and
Aztec Calendars
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
Realia: Aztec Calendar
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Tell how long ago something happened or how long
something was happening over a period of time.
Describe an action that happened before something
else in the past.
Describe something that began in the past and is still
happening today.
Theme
Communication
Communication Topics
Post Offices and Telephones
Making a phone call
Culture
Communication and technology
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
Oral
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Describe an action that will happen in the future.
Tell how we will communicate with each other in the
future.
Respond without repeating words by using direct
and indirect object pronouns
Grammar
Review: Future Tense (Regular Verbs)
Review: Future Tense (Irregular Verbs)
Using direct and indirect object pronouns
Theme
Geocaching
Role play a phone call
Use Skype to connect with someone from another
country
Write and send an email to someone from another
country
Communication Topics
Learning GPS Technology
Specific Vocabulary (Coordinates, to hide, and
more)
1.2, 1.2, 1.3, 5.1
Culture
Geography of Spanish-speaking countries
Project: Solving Puzzles on Geocaching.com from
Spanish-speaking countries
Project: Create a cache, Publish on Mohawk Wiki,
then hide and seek
2.1, 2.2, 4.2
Recognize and Identify all 20 Spanish-speaking
countries
1.2, 3.1, 3.2, 4.1
Creating Cache Descriptions
Creating and Solving Puzzles
Writing Logs
Grammar
Grammar topics vary by student
* Projects throughout the year contribute to students being able to show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for
personal enjoyment and enrichment. Projects include: concert, field trips, celebrations, scrapbook, researching current events, publishing work
on web site and more. Additional activities include, but are not limited to: Podcasting, Maintaining Web Page, Reading Don Quijote, Reading El
Ojo de Agua, Role-playing various tourist activities, research and plan a trip to Mexico/Costa Rica/Spain.
Standards for Foreign Language Learning
COMMUNICATION: Communicate in Languages Other Than English
Standard 1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Standard 1.2 Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
Standard 1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
CULTURES: Gain Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures
Standard 2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Standard 2.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
CONNECTIONS: Connect with Other Disciplines and Acquire Information
Standard 3.1 Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that are only available through the foreign language
Standard 3.2
and its cultures.
COMPARISONS: Develop Insight into the Nature of Language and Culture
Standard 4.1 Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
Standard 4.2 Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
COMMUNITIES: Participate in Multilingual Communities at Home and Around the World
Standard 5.1 Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
Standard 5.2 Students show evidence of becoming life-long learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.