Unit/ Lesson Plan Template (including IPA)

Language Level
Unit Theme and Question
Daily topics:

Spanish 1 - Novice High

Age

15-18

Date

Day in
Unit

Minutes

50

How do family celebrations in the United States differ from those in Mexico?

Party paraphernalia (decorations and food)

STANDARDS
Which modes of
communication will be
addressed?

LESSON OBJECTIVES
Students can:
Identify party / celebration items
Create a culturally distinctive decorative item: el papel
picado

What are the communicative

and cultural objectives for the
lesson?

Communication

If applicable, indicate how

Connections / Comparisons
Communities / Common Core
will be part of your lesson.

Connections

Art Students will create a small piece of Mexican artwork

Comparisons

A Comparison of American and Mexican party items

and
Cultures

X Interpretive
Interpersonal
Presentational

Communities
What students need to do to reach the learning
targets?

Students will make their own papel picado

What students need to know in order to reach the

learning targets?
Vocabulary: menor /mayor

IPA
Interpretive Assessment

Teacher will observe students as they participate in the TPR activitiesespecially when their eyes are closed.

Interpersonal Assessment
Presentational Assessment
Revised from Keys to Planning for Learning, 2013

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Activity/Activities
What will learners do?
What does the teacher do?

Lesson Sequence

Time*
How many
minutes will this
segment take?

Materials Resources
Technology
Be specific. What materials will you
develop? What materials will you
bring in from other sources?

Gain Attention / Activate

Prior Knowledge

Teacher exhibits and explains a personal Christmas family

photo

5 minutes

Christmas family
photo

Provide Input

TPR Party vocabulary

5 minutes

Party items (realia)

TPR activity continued students show what they know

by pointing to the party items when asked Dnde est
el papel picado? etc

5 minutes

Party items (realia)

Provide Input

Students will listen to and repeat party vocabulary

Cultural Qu es el papel picado?
Show students examples of papel picado

8 minutes

Party items
Papel picado

Elicit Performance / Provide

Feedback

Demonstrate how to make el papel picado

Students will make their own papel picado,
Students will string papel picado together to make a
strand.

20 minutes

scissors (25 pairs)

tissue paper
string
tape

Ask students questions: Es fcil o difcil a hacer el papel

picado?

Teacher says: Es importante estar preparado para una

fiesta, No? (Ask party related vocabulary questions.)

Elicit Performance / Provide

Feedback

Closure

Revised from Keys to Planning for Learning, 2013

7 minutes

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Enhance Retention &
Remember to always point to / touch / refer to realia when talking
Transfer
about it.
Reflection Notes to Self
What worked well? Why?
What didnt work? Why?
What changes would you
make if you taught this
lesson again?
????

Revised from Keys to Planning for Learning, 2013