Advancing with CI

This is a multimodal activity taking students through a biography of Bad Bunny, Vocabulary work with past tense of Deber, Poder, Tener, song fill in, song analysis and making a video of what they would take more photos of. This activity includes 2 levels, Novice and Intermediate. It includes a biography of Bad Bunny including his history, album release, residency in Puerto Rico and Super Bowl performance. It also includes activities with the song DtMF. Finally students willcreate a personalize

In this project students will go through all the steps to plan their own fiesta de Quince Quinceañera party. They will research typical prices in the United States for various aspects of the party, choose their clothing and cake, plan the music and event space as well as choose the flavors and appearance of their cake. Finally, students will write a comparative paragraph comparing the quinceañera celebration and a significant celebration in their culture. Slides include links to student research

Take advantage of all the attention Bad Bunny has gotten recently to help students analize the reality of Puertoricans living on the island. This self guided activity introduces new vocabulary using Frayer models, gives a scaffolded news article with keywords and chunked analysis, comprehension and deeper thinking questions that encourage colaboration. Finally, students will analyze the situation in Puerto Rico to compare it with their area in an AP aligned email. The email includes a guided no

Take advantage of all the interest in Bad Bunny to teach your students more about Puerto Rico and practice AP skills of article analysis, using evidence and writing and email. This self-guided multi-day activity uses Frayer Models to introduce vocabulary, provides a scaffolded version of the article with keywords defined, comprehension and deeper thinking questions that encourage collaboration. Finally, students will use the planning doc to organize their ideas to send an email to the governor o

In this lesson students will dive into the historical background of the piñata through reading an authentic infographic. Then, they will read an adjusted text about posadas. The document includes warm up questions, comprehension questions, syntheseis and a cultural comparison questions. The document also includes a word bank to better understand the texts. A key is included. This would be sutible for one class period at the intermediate low-mid proficiency level. CLO: Los Estudiantes Podrán exam

This fun review game will help students learn about Día de Reyes in a fast paced, competitive game. The template is fully clickable and each number will take you to the question and each page can take you back to the home page.

In this guided activity, students will identify dietary restrictions and preferences for people living in their home, go grocery shopping on an online supermarket website, analyse photos of what groceries people in other countries buy and write a comparative text examining their food choices and those of people in other countries. This is an interactive way to get students to think about how dietary differences impact the food people eat and buy. It also helps them consider how cultural and soci

This high investment game gets kids going back over the first 3 chapters of Minerva by Nelly Andrade-Hughes. The game gets all students involved in a battle to answer questions and steal points while employing the physical prowless necessary to sink a paper ball in the trash can. This game includes all the student facing material including direction slide, linked question and game board slides. This is a great way to spice up class while allowing the teacher to have a lower energy day.

This is a project to support the study of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Domincan Republic. It can also be used in conjunction with the book Minerva by Nelly Andrade Hughes or En el tiempo de las mariposas by Julia Alvarez. This is a collaborative project that has the students read an infographic describing the 7 universal human rights, summarize them and find examples of how the Trujillo dictatorship violated human rights. Students will write a CRE paragraph, explain the history of univers

Buring scarecrows, playing with fireworks and stopping cars to give the 'widows' of the old year money?! What a unique celebration! In this fun new years activity students will learn about the unique cultural celebrations for New Years in Ecuador through examining a map, video and article. Students will identify key details in each and compare their experiences and celebrations to those in Ecuador. This activity is ideal for novice mid- intermediate low students with geography, video, article an

In this guided project (or extended activity) students will have to work together to plan the menu of a dinner party given a variety of guest profiles with different dietary restrictions and create a poster sharing what food and why they have chosen to serve. The lesson includes guided interpersonal conversation about food and the activity culminates with a gallery walk of the student created posters where students will identify the best dinner party for a variety of people based on their dietar

These slides go over the Spanish and English meaning of 5 common verbs used in the subjunctive with the conditional to discuss hypothetical situations (Pudieras, estuvieras, fueras, tuvieras, quisieras, parecía). There are vocabulary slides with the ASL signs to help students with gestures and 2-3 PQA slides for each word. There are also 5 open ended discussion question slides to have students discuss hypothetical situations. All questions include sentence stems to help students discuss the ques

These slides contain over 60 (and continually being added to) daily conversation topics in Spanish. There are questions to use with students Novice mid - Intermediate High in a variety of verb tenses and topics. The questions vary from standard day after day (what did you do last night), to current event (Superbowl, holidays, etc.) to silly debate questions (should guacamole be considered a vegetable). All questions are in Spanish with images to clarify meaning, sentence stems for a variety of a

This Gallery Walk allows students to read about a diverse group of LGBTQ+ Activists and identify key information about their lives from the 1st person perspective. Readings include Megan Rapinoe, Alok, Laverne Cox and Ricky Martin. Finally, students will write a brief biography about themselves in the same style as the activists.

In this activity students will get a brief introduction to the día de muertos celebration. They will watch a comercial with a día de muertos theme, translate and order the story of the commercial and finally, they will watch a video of día de muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico and fill out a KWL chart. The TV commercial does have LGBTQ+ themes

This intermediate level resource in Spanish guides students through a leveled article discussing the challenges that many Dreamers face after they have returned to Mexico. Students will read the article with key words defined, summarize paragraphs, identify how people in the article have been accepted or rejected and write an evidence based paragraph giving their opinion.

This activity uses authentic resources to teach students about Día de Reyes. They will watch a video and read an infographic. Finally, they will create a mini quiz for other students and decorate their own shoe to put out for los Reyes. It can be combined with a review game to reinforce what they have learned that is also be posted.