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

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

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

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