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AUGUST:
Content
Capitulo Preliminar:
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(two weeks)
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SEPTEMBER:
(Four weeks)
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Map of the Spanish
Speaking world/nombres
en español.
Why is important to learn
Spanish
Frases útiles/los cognados
El alfabeto
Los colores
Los números 0-30
Chapter 1
Primer Paso (two weeks)
 Greetings
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Skills
To learn about Latino
culture(places Spanish is
spoken, common names,
famous Latinos)
To recognize and say
Frases útiles/los cognados
To recognize and say Los
colores
To recognize and say the
alfabeto
To recognize and say los
números (0-30)
1. Saying hello and good bye
2. Introducing people and
responding to an
introduction
3. Asking how someone is
and saying how you are
4. Greetings in Spanish
countries
5. La distancia personal
6. First names and last
names and saint days
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Assessments
Homework: Study
Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulary
Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises)
 Homework: Study Vocabulary
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulary
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises
and using the book)
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Chapter 1
Segundo Paso (two weeks)
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Subject Pronouns
(yo, tú,él,ella usted)

Forms of SER and
Tener
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Forming questios with
cómo, cuándo, de
dónde
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Punctuation marks

Accent marks

Introduce definite
articles and indefinite
articles

Noun gender and
agreement
1. Asking and saying how old  Quiz: Once a week on all
someone is
introduced topics and
2. Asking where someone is
vocabulary
from and saying where
 Test: Given at the end of the
you are from.
unit
3. Introduce Questions
 Review: every class (bell
words
ringers, games, oral exercises,
4. Introduce and use subject
book activities )
pronouns
5. Identify and use definitive
and indefinite articles
6. Use of nouns with correct
Gender and agreement
7. Use of the verb tener and
ser
8. Practice numbers (0-30)
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Content
Skills
Assessments
Chapter 1
Tercer Paso (One week)
1.

T he verb Gustar

Singular Indirect
object (me,te,le)

Nouns and definite
articles
 Vocabulary:
Sports, Food, Music, Classes
Talking about like and
dislikes
2. To learn the vocabulary
put forth this week
-Sports, Food, Music,
Classes
3. Properly express your
likes and dislikes to a
Spanish speakers
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
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Content
Skills
Assessments
Chapter 2
Primer Paso (two weeks)

Singular form of the
verbs:
Tener, necesitar, querer

1. Talking about what you
want and what you need
2. Proper use of the
vocabulary and
grammatical topics
introduced
School Supplies
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell ringers,
games, oral exercises, book
activities
 Indefinite articles:
Un, una, unos, unas

Plural nouns

Subject Pronouns
(el, ella)
Segundo Paso (One week)
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Bedroom Items
Agreement of mucho
y cuánto
Reinforce
Tener,necesitar y
querer
1. Describing contents of a
room
2. Being able to use tener,
necesitar and querer in
questions and statements
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell ringers,
games, oral exercises, book
activities
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Content
Tercer Paso (One week)
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Identifying infinitives
and their use with
querer
Expressions with
necesitar and querer
Números (31-199)
Skills
1.talking about what you need
and want to do
2.Proper use of the vocabulary
and grammatical topics
introduced
3.how do you properly express
what you want to do or need
Assessments
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell ringers,
games, oral exercises, book
activities
NOVIEMBRE
Chapter 3
Primer Paso (two weeks)
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
Classes/academic
subjects
Review:
→numbers (0-199)
→tener,ser,querer
→School supplies
 Culture:
-Grade scales
-¿cómo es un día típico?
-Student course loads
1. Talking about classes and
sequencing event
2. Proper use of vocabulary
and grammatical topics
introduced
3. Be able to describe your
classes in Spanish
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell ringers,
games, oral exercises, book
activities
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Content
Segundo Paso (One week)
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Sequence of events
Telling time
Telling time SER
Time expressions
Talking about being
late or in a hurry
Skills
1. Telling Time/properly telling
time with the verb SER
2. Telling about being late or in
a hurry
3. Time expressions
4. Being able to ask time
5. Being able to tell time
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
The preposition de
Plural definite
articles:
los and las
 Culture:
 Hora Latina
Assessments
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell ringers,
games, oral exercises, book
activities
Tercer Paso (One week)




Forms of the verb SER
Adjectives that
describe people and
things (and
agreement)
Tag questions
Past times, events,
and exams
1. Describing people and
things
2. Talking about things you
like and explaining why
3. To learn the vocabulary
put forth this week
4. Be able to properly
describe people, things
and your personal likes
and dislikes
5. Be able to form questions
6. Be able to write a story
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
Review: every class (bell ringers,
games, oral exercises, book
activities
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Content
Skills
Assessments
Chapter 4
Primer Paso (two weeks)

Present Tense forms
ar verbs
 The verb jugar and
the contraction “al”
 Con, conmigo,
Contigo
 The relative pronoun
que
 Vocabulary:
↔activities around
the house
↔everyday activities
 Review:
→numbers (0-199)
→tener,ser,querer
→School supplies
 Culture:
-Popular sports in Spanish
speaking countries
-Greetings in Spanish speaking
countries
-Use of tú and usted
-el paseo
-school sponsor activities
-Posadas/Christmas in Spanish
speaking countries
1. Talking about what you
like to do
2. Discussing what others
like to do during free time
3. To learn the new
vocabulary for this week
and “posadas’
4. Properly describe what
you and your friends like
to do in their free time.
5. Discuss las posadas
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulary
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Homework
 Review: every class
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Content
Skills
Assessments
Segundo Paso (One week)
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
Present tense of
ESTAR
Subject Pronouns
Places
Preposition of
location
Present tense of ir
Use of el and los with
the days of the week
Review of verb ser
 Culture:
 Posadas
1. Properly describe
location.
2. Properly tell where you
or someone else is going
 Quiz: Once a week on all introduced
topics and vocabulary
 Test: Given at the end of the unit
 Homework
 Review: every class
3. Recognize and being
able to use the verb ser
and estar correctly
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












bell ringers,
games,
Drills -oral and written
Pictures
book activities
Handouts/worksheets
Dictation
Educational/communicative
games
Songs
Expanded vocabulary list
Short Stories (reading and
writing)
Short term projects
Videos/DVDs
Special guest s
Personal experience
Computer software
Flashcards games and drills
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Content
Skills
Assessments
Tercer Paso (One week)


Present tense of
ESTAR
Subject Pronouns
Places
Preposition of
location
Present tense of ir
Use of el and los
with the days of the
week
Review of verb ser

Culture:

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



4. Properly describe
location.
5. Properly tell where you
or someone else is
going
6. Recognize and being
able to use the verb ser
and estar correctly
 Quiz: Once a week on all introduced
topics and vocabulary
 Test: Given at the end of the unit
 Homework
 Review: every class
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








bell ringers,
games,
Drills -oral and written
Pictures
book activities
Handouts/worksheets
Dictation
Educational/communicative
games
Songs
Expanded vocabulary list
Short Stories (reading and
writing)
Short term projects
Videos/DVDs
Special guest s
Personal experience
Computer software
Flashcards games and drills
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MARCH
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Content
Skills
Assessments
1. Listen to people talk about how
they spend their time at different
seasons of the year.
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 Technology:
Proyectos:
Chapter 5
Primer Paso (One week)
 Discussing how often you
do things



The verb Gustar
Singular Indirect
object (me,te,le)
Nouns and definite
articles
 Vocabulary:
Sports, Food, Music, Classes
2.Read a weather map in English
and Spanish
3.Celcius and Fahrenheit
(conversion)
4.Write a diary entry about the
student weekly routine
la temperatura
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Content
Skills
Assessments
Chapter 5
Segundo Paso (One week)
 Talking about what you
and your friends like to
do together
 Talking what you do
during a typical week
1. Be able to talk about the
weather
2. Find out about seasonal
activities in Spanish-Speaking
countries.

The verb Gustar
3.Celcius and Fahrenheit
(conversion)

Singular Indirect
object (me,te,le)
4. Write a diary entry compare
and contrast seasonal activities.

Nouns and definite
articles
 Vocabulary:
Sports, Food, Music, Classes
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulary
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
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Content
Skills
Assessments
1. Be able to give the date; to talk
about the weather
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 Technology:
Proyectos:
Chapter 5
Tercer Paso (One week)
 Giving today’s date,
talking about the weather
 Talking about what you
and your friends like to
do together
 Talking what you do
during a typical week
 Discussing how often you
do things

The verb Gustar

Singular Indirect
object (me,te,le)

Nouns and definite
articles
 Vocabulary:
Sports, Food, Music, Classes
2. Find out about seasonal
activities in Spanish-Speaking
countries.
3.Learn the months and days and
the grammar uses.
mi amigo
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Assessments
APRIL
Chapter 6
Primer Paso (One week)
 Describing a
family

Learn family members

To understand and be
able to describe family
members

To use and understand
plural possessive
adjectives
1. Be able to talk and write
about family members
2. Be able to use and
understand possessive
adjetives
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 cultural:
Madrina, padrino, ahijado,
compadrazgo, comadres and
compadres.
Compare and contrast the
concept of privacy
 Technology:
Proyectos:
mi familia
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APRIL
Chapter 6
Segundo Paso (One week)
 Describing people
 Describing things
a family does
together

Learn family members

To understand and be
able to describe family
members

To use and understand
plural possessive
adjectives

Learn and be able to use
new adjectives
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 cultural:


Hispanic family vs. American
family
Learn and use with the
proper pronouns the
 Technology:
verb: Hacer in the present
Proyectos:
tense
mi familia
Learn and be able to use
direct objects and the
“personal a
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APRIL
Chapter 6

Tercer Paso (One week)
 Discussing
problems and
giving advice
 To understand
words and
expressions for
household chores
Be able to use
successfully the verbs:
Hacer, tener que, deber,
tener ganas, and poner.

To understand and be
able to describe family
members

To use and understand
plural possessive
adjectives
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 cultural:
 Describing people
 Describing things
a family does
together

Learn and be able to use
new adjectives

Learn and use with the
Elders and living at home
proper pronouns the
verb: Hacer in the present  Technology:
tense
Proyectos:

Learn and be able to use
direct objects and the
“personal a
Role that family members
play in the Hispanic family.
mi familia
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Assessments
MAY
Chapter 7

Primer Paso (One week)
 Talking on the
phone
 Extending and
accepting
invitations

To understand vocabulary
related to places and
events
Be able to use
successfully the verbs:
Hacer, tener que, deber,
tener ganas, and poner.
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 To understand and be
able to use e-ie Stem
changing verbs
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 Review verb: Gustar
 cultural:

Review days of the week

Review time:
A la –A las
Es la—Son las
Punctuality in Hispanic
countries
 Technology:
Proyectos:
Make an e-invitatation
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Skills
Assessments
MAY
Chapter 7

Segundo Paso (One week)
Be able to use
successfully the verbs:
Pensar and
ir +a+ infinitive
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Making plans
 Talking about
getting ready
 To produce forms of –ar
verbs and ir+a+infinitive
 To understand and be
able to use reflexive verbs
(infinitives only)
 To use –ar and reflexive
verbs to describe getting
ready.
 Future expressions: hoy,
mañana, próxima semana
 Expressions of frequency:
Muchas veces, nunca,
siempre, sólo cuando, todos
los días.
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 cultural:
 Transportation in
Hispanic countries.
Drivers etc.
 Cinco de mayo.
 Technology:
Proyectos:
Research information about
the cinco de mayo.
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Assessments
MAY
Chapter 7
Tercer Paso (One week)
 Turning down an
invitation and
explaining why
1.Expressions with “tener” and
“tener que”
2.Be able to categorize
expressions of accepting and
turning down invitations
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 cultural:
 Transportation in
Hispanic countries.
Drivers etc.
 Cinco de mayo.
 Technology:
Call Mexico: Be able to
communicate and understand
a native speaker
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Skills
Assessments
Chapter 8
Primer Paso (One week)
1.The verb encantar and indirect
 Talking about
meals and food
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
object pronouns
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
2.0—ue stem changing verbs
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
3. Expressing likes and dislikes
 cultural:
4. e—ie stem changing verbs
 meals and times for each
meal.
 Technology:
Make a restaurant menu in
Spanish with pictures
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Assessments
JUNE
Chapter 8
Segundo Paso (One week)
1. Use of ESTAR to talk about

Commenting on food
how things taste SER to talk
about generalizations.
2. Expressions with tener
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
 cultural:
 meals and times for each
meal.
 Technology:
Research Latinoamerican
foods
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Skills
Assessments
JUNE
Chapter 8
Tercer Paso (One week)
Making polite requests
1. Otro and gender
agreement
2. Cuánto
Ordering dinner in a restaurant
 Quiz: Once a week on all
introduced topics and
vocabulario
 Test: Given at the end of the
unit
3. Mucho
Asking for and paying the bill in
a restaurant
4. To identify food vocabulary
 Review: every class (bell
ringers, games, oral exercises,
book activities )
5. To understand the use of
numbers commas and
periods
 cultural:
 tortillas
6. To understand and use
expressions people use in a
restaurant
 table manners
 who pays the bill
girls or boys?
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*teaching is a journey