Curriculum MapDepartment of World Languages – San Pedro HS – Italian 3a

August / September / October / November / December
Essential Questions /
  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students learns and retain essential vocabulary?
  • Can students work independently to improve Italian skills?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students adjust study skills to match their needs?
  • Can students understand and transfer more complex grammatical structures?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students transfer knowledge from one language to another?
  • Are students using common graphic organizers on their own to help master concepts?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students connect their foreign language knowledge to other subjects?
  • Can students follow more complex directions in Italian without translation?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students divide work to complete a group project?
  • Can students accurately present research in Italian?

Content /
  • The comparative
  • The superlative of adjectives and adverbs
  • Irregular comparatives
  • Reading authentic advertisement from newspapers or the web
  • Disccussion of effects of English on Italian
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  • Review of the “passato prossimo”
  • Review of the “imperfetto”
  • Use the format to predict the content
  • Reading authentic articles from newspaper or the web
  • Passato Prossimo of dovere, potere and volere
  • Using parallel writing to improve writing skills
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  • Simple prepositions
  • Articulated prepositions
  • Using other unusual prepositions
  • Review of the “Passato prossimo vs imperfetto”
  • Discussion of Stereotypes and Archetypes
  • Using double-bubble maps to compare and contrast
  • Distinguishing the main idea from supporting details
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  • Review of all the types of object pronouns: direct, indirect, reflexive.
  • Combining direct, indirect and reflexive object pronouns
  • Reviewing the imperative and its uses
  • Discussion of Italian music past and present
  • Discussion of the difference between formal and colloquial speech.
  • Writing an informal letter
/ The forms and uses of the “passato remoto”
Compare and contrast “passato prossimo to passato remote”
Compare and contrast “imperfetto” to “passato prossimo (or remoto)
Indefinite adjectives and pronouns
Recognizing Metaphors and Similes
Writing Fairy Tale
Skills /
  • Be able to read an intermediate level of Italian
  • Be able to discuss current topics in Italian and English when necessary
  • Use comprehensions strategies
  • Do pre-reading exercises to help with comprehension
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  • Students start to distinguish between the “passato prossimo” and the “imperfetto”
  • Using context clues to figure out new vocabulary words.
  • Students learn to use parallel writing to improve their writing skille
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  • Students must know what prepositions are in English and Italian
  • Students need to know what the pluperfect is in English
  • They need to be able to use a double bubble map.
  • They need to be able to create a Tree Map
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  • Continuing use of double bubble map
  • Students know how to follow explicit direction
  • Students know how to complete a rough draft of a simple descriptive paragraph
  • Students know how to read a rubric
/ Students know how to distinguish between academic language and colloquial language
Students know how to work in a group
Divide work to complete project
Assessments /
  • Survey –pre-assess first essential question
  • Daily Homework
  • Listen to students dialogue
  • Dictation
  • Written quizzes
  • Play word games
  • Block notes
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily homework
  • Oral quiz on dialogue
  • Dictation
  • Written quizzes
  • Word games
  • Pair share information
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily homework
  • Listen to student dialogues
  • Treasure Hunt quiz
  • Written quizzes
  • Jeopardy
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
  • Midterm
/ Rough draft and final draft of descriptive paragraph
Daily homework
written quizzes
Exit ticket - Yabla /
  • Group Project Presentation
  • Gallery Walk
  • Students report on what they learned from others projects
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
  • Final Exam

Curriculum MapDepartment of World Languages – San Pedro HS – Italian 3b

January / February / March / April / May
Essential Questions /
  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students transfer more complex knowledge to other content areas?
  • Can students articulate what they have learned in Italian?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students use their new language in real world situations?
  • Can students use their Italian language skills to improve CST language scores?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students reflect on their study habits to improve learning
  • Can students use technology to enhance their Italian skills?
  • Can students use their language skills to improve SAT scores other content areas?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students articulate their challenges in learning Italian grammar and vocabulary in Italian?
  • Can students teach what they have learned to others?
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  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students evaluate the class so instructor can improve instruction/
  • Can students retain what they learn?

Content /
  • Reviewing all the compound tense
  • Unit on Famous Italian
  • Reviewing the future perfect
  • Reviewing the present conditional
  • Reviewing the past conditional
  • Reviewing relative pronouns
  • Discussion of technology use in school and in Italy
  • Using email to communicate with students in Italy
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  • Reviewing the subjunctive mood.
  • Unit on Famous Italian
  • Reviewing the tenses of the subjunctive:
  • present, past, imperfect and pluperfect
  • Reviewing hypothetical sentences
  • Reviewing tense sequence with the subjunctive
  • Distinguishing fact from opinion
  • Writing a review
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  • Reviewing the passive form of a verb
  • Unit on Famous Italian
  • Reviewing the “si passivante” and the “si impersonale”
  • Giving directions
  • Give and receive instructions
  • Discuss different types of games
  • Recognizing chronological organization.
  • Discussion of how difficult it is to live in an historic city inundated by tourists
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  • Reviewing direct and indirect discourse
  • Introduction to the Divine Comedy
  • Reviewing the pronouns “ci” and “ne”
  • Reviewing the verb “piacere” and similar verbs
  • how to summarize
  • Discussion of Italian cinema
  • Compare and contrast two of your favorite movies we have seen in class
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  • Reviewing the infinitive: its forms and uses
  • Reading of Cantos I, III, V, XXXIII
  • Reviewing the present and past participles and how they are used
  • Reviewing the gerund and the present and past progressive tenses
  • Reviewing various idioms and proverbs in Italian.
  • Discuss practical aspects of living in Italy
  • How to use the Appendix of the book?

Skills /
  • Understand how word position can change meaning
  • Understand how to use a 3-2-1 graphic organizer to jigsaw read a long essay
  • Contiue using doubl-bubble maps to compare Italian to AmericanSchool systems
  • Students understand compound and simple tenses in English and Italian
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  • Students understand the difference between fact and opinion
  • Students understand the difference between a simple and complex sentence
  • Students know what a hypothetical sentence is
  • Students continue to use the internet to do research
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  • Students understand the difference between the active and passive voices
  • Students know how to create a time line to visualize the history of a city
  • Students know the norms for respectful discussion of controversial topics
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  • Students understand the difference between direct and indirect discourse
  • Students understand the construction of the verb “piacere”
  • Students have seen several Italian films that they can compare and contrast using Double-Bubble maps as an organizer
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  • Understand how to review for a final exam
  • Understand how to study for a final exam
  • Understand how to choose a topic for oral presentation
  • Understand how to employ different strategies to memorize a passage

Assessments /
  • Daily HW
  • Written quizzes
  • Oral dialogues
  • Group discussions
  • Peer tutoring
  • Journal entry on what was learned today
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily HW
  • Written individual and group quizzes
  • Oral practice and assessment
  • Dictation
  • Journal entries
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily HW
  • Writtien individual and group quizzes
  • Written midterm
  • Group discussions
  • Journal entries
  • Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily HW
  • Written group and individual quizzes
  • Oral dialogues
  • Group discussions
Journal entries
Exit ticket - Yabla /
  • Survey –end of term assessment of first essential question
  • Oral presentation
  • Written Final Exam
  • Exit ticket - Yabla