Carnavales - Scaffolded Cultural Activity: Familias y Comunidades

Carnavales – Familias y Comunidades – Tradiciones y Valores (República Dominicana)

The cultural scaffolded activities in this bundle include 3 versions so they can be completed by novice, intermediate low/mid, and intermediate-high/advanced students.

Activity description:

In this Visual Interpretation activity, students learn about Carnivals, traditions, and values in the Dominican Republic.

Why your students will ❤️ this activity: Students learn, investigate and talk about carnivals, and will be amazed to make a colorful mask!

• Novice students read a short text, match sentences with pictures, learn new vocabulary in context, and identify nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
• Intermediate Low/Mid students also make a carnival mask following instructions.
• Intermediate High/Advanced students read extracts with descriptions of the carnival celebration in the Dominican Republic, think and talk about how celebrations represent the culture of a community, and compare their own traditions.

Theme and Sub-Theme: Families and Communities - Customs and Values

Includes:

1 version for novice students

1 version for intermediate low/mid students

1 version for intermediate high/advanced students

Teacher's notes with pre-activity, during activity, and post-activity strategies for each proficiency level

Answer key

FREE download of one of our AP Spanish themed, scaffolded cultural activities here → Color Rosa Mexicano: La identidad pública y privada – Identidad nacional y étnica (México)

Use our Spanish AP themed scaffolded activities...

• To introduce the AP themes to your students from their first year of Spanish.
• If you teach multiple levels.
• If you have mixed groups of students at different levels.
• If you have heritage speakers.
• If you want students to connect with broad cultural aspects of the Hispanic world.
• If you want your students to learn from each Spanish-speaking country.
• If you want to incorporate authentic resources and materials.

Check out our Spanish scaffolded activities covering more Spanish-speaking countries.

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