xml Samanta Lopez 19.05.08: Developing Higher-Order Thinking Through Personal Narratives in a Spanish II Classroom English spanish high school narrative spanglish higher order thinking hybridity spanish II Microsoft Word 2020-10-27T16:39:16Z 2020-10-27T16:39:16Z uuid:0461FD3F-92B9-48BB-AB9E-99743C8DEC90 uuid:9d6ff92a-28a7-45f0-a0db-1ec140736699 spanish, high school, narrative, spanglish, higher order, thinking, hybridity, spanish II

Curriculum Unit

Developing Higher-Order Thinking Through Personal Narratives in a Spanish II Classroom

Samanta Lopez

Title Author

KEY LEARNING, ENDURING UNDERSTANDING, ETC.

This unit is designed for high school level of Spanish II but can also complement other levels and grades in a Spanish curriculum when modified. This lesson focuses on the development of higher-order skills in Spanish through the practice of personal narrative writing. Students will write a creative personal narrative using hybrid language writing methods. They will be able to explore key vocabulary and writing organizational skills through their written presentation of what they do and do not do in their daily life.

In this unit, Rites of Passage and The Lion King, students discuss various rites of passage that have changed their life or someone they know. Rites discussed may include birth, baptism, religious events, graduation, marriage and death. Various examples of rites of passage will be shared with students. I will then relate these passages to “The Lion King.”

ESSENTIAL QUESTION(S) for the UNIT

  •  How do individuals describe what they do daily at home, school, and work?
  •  How do individuals share about their daily routine?
  •  How do routines and activities differ in the U.S. compare to other countries?
  •  How do musicians make meaningful connections to creating, performing and responding?
  •  How do the other arts, disciplines, contexts and daily life inform creating, performing and responding to music?

    • CONCEPT A CONCEPT B CONCEPT C

    Personal Narrative

    Culture

    Hybridity

    ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS A ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS B ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS C

    How do individuals in the U.S. share personal stories about their daily life?

    How do others write a real-life story about their routines, and activities in Spanish?

    How do individuals use Spanish and English to express what they like and do not like to do?

    VOCABULARY A VOCABULARY B VOCABULARY C

    Los quehaceres

    Mi vida diaria

    Mi rutina

    Antes

    Después (de)

    Spanglish

    Code-Switching

    Mixed Language

    Oral Storytelling

    Non-fiction

    Reflexive pronouns

    Creative writing

    ADDITIONAL INFORMATION/MATERIAL/TEXT/FILM/RESOURCES

    Culture: Scherff, Lisa, and Karen Spector. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Clashes and Confrontations. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2011.

    Personal Narrative: Flaherty, Francis. The Elements of Story: Field Notes on Nonfiction Writing. 1st ed. New York: Harper, 2009.

    Hybridity: Sebba, Mark, Shahrzad Mahootian, and Carla Jonsson. Language Mixing and Code-Switching in Writing: Approaches to Mixed-Language Written Discourse. Routledge Critical Studies in Multilingualism, 2. New York: Routledge, 2012.