Foreign Language Curricula

Scope and Sequence for ___Exploratory Spanish/Italian______ Grade _6___

Semester Course effective 2015-16

Quarter	Unit	Title	Instructional Days
1		Greetings (formal/informal cultural differences) and expressions, alphabet and pronunciation.
Spanish		Calendar: date, months, seasons and weather, and birthday
		Numbers (1-50)
		Culture related to calendar: Spanish calendar begins with lunes (Monday); months and seasons are not capitalized.
			14
2		Greetings (formal/informal cultural differences) and expressions, alphabet and pronunciation.
Italian		Calendar: date, months, seasons and weather, and birthday
		Numbers (1-50)
		Culture related to calendar: Italian calendar begins with lunedì (Monday); months and seasons are not capitalized.
			14

Scope and Sequence for __Intro to Spanish______     Grade ___7___

Semester course for 15-16

Quarter	Unit	Title	Instructional Days
1 & 2		Review (survey class): introduction, greetings, date,alphabet, weather,likes/dislikes with activities; numbers 0 to 100, subject pronouns, time, class objects, body parts, noun endings, pluralization, definite and indefinite articles, description with Ser noun/adjective agreement,
		cultural readings (pertaining to topics above), conversation, listening activities  and vocabulary are  aligned to topics with respect to context and linguistic content.
			28

Scope and Sequence for ____Spanish_____________________ Grade ___8_____

Year long effective 2015-2016

Quarter	Unit	Title	Instructional Days
1		Review introduction topics
		subject pronouns and verb conjugations ar, er, ir verb conjugations, indirect object pronouns (with gustar) with vocabulary in context such as food, healthy lifestyles, verb Estar and prepositions of location (with classroom object vocabulary)Use verb traer (with food) and hacer (with exercise) (irregular verbs)
		cultural readings,conversations, listening activities and vocabulary are aligned to topics with respect to context and linguistic content
			20
2		school schedules with verb Tener, ordinal numbers, time, school subjects, verb IR (+ a+place/infinitive), interrogatives, leisure activities,
		cultural readings, conversations, listening activities and vocabulary are aligned to topics with respect to context linguistic  content
			20
3		continue with interrogatives, family vocabulary, possession,possessive adjectives, review verb tener descriptions with Ser and noun /adjective agreement,
		cultural readings, conversations, listening activities  and vocabulary are aligned to topics with respect to context and linguistic content
			20
4		Ser and Estar, stem changing verbs (e to ie, o to ue, u to ue, e to i) , rooms in the house, comparisons, colors
		cultural readings, conversations, listening activities and vocabulary are aligned to topics with respect to context linguistic  content
			20

Scope and Sequence for Italian Grade 8

Year long effective 2015-2016

Quarter	Unit	Title	Instructional Days
1		alphabet, numbers 0-49; basic greetings/conversations
		classroom rules practices
		calendar, date, months, seasons
		noun endings, plurals
		definite articles/indefinite articles/c’è ; ci sono linked with vocabulary for the city
		subject pronouns/essere/descriptive adjectives , nationalities and agreement
		Culture: tu and Lei; geography (regions and their capital cities, borders, rivers and lakes, volcanoes) calendar, leisure time
2		numbers 50 to 1,000,000,000
		sentences using noun adjective agreement
		avere with idiomatic expressions
		prepositions and prepositional  contractions
		question words
		vocabulary for school /subjects, classroom objects
		Culture: school system, Money (Euro), architecture and famous locations of Ancient Rome,
3		conjugations are, ere, ire, ire/isc
		question words, foods, partitive, adverbial prepositions
		piacere with indirect object pronouns
		vocabulary for foods, birthday party
		Culture: food, eating, celebrations, holiday, Onomastico (Name day)
4		irregular:andare, bere, stare,fare,dire,potere,volere,dovere, uscire, venire
		idiomatic expressions with fare
		telephone vocabulary
		direct object pronouns
		family,possessive adjectives
		sapere vs. conoscere
		Culture: The family, art and music