Curriculum MapDepartment of World Languages – San Pedro HS – Italian 2a

August / September / October / November / December
Essential Questions /
  • Do students understand why they are learning a foreign language?
  • Can students learns and retain essential vocabulary?
  • How much do students remember from last years?
  • Were they able to use their new language outside of school?
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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 to real-life situations?
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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 them 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 /
  • Review of all grammar , vocabulary and idioms from last year
  • Present Indicative tense of ARE, ERE and IRE verbs
  • Passato Prossimo: which helping verb to use
  • Review of irregular participles
  • Review of irregular verbs in the present tense
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  • Review continues
  • Possessive Pronouns and adjectives
  • Direct Object Pronouns
  • Disjunctive Pronouns
  • Riflexive Pronouns and verbs Negations
  • The imperfect tense
  • Comparing the imperfect to the Passato Prossimo
  • Common idioms and proverbs
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  • Learn vocabulary for clothing in context
  • Review colors
  • Spellling changes when certain nouns become plural
  • Learning the verbs conoscere and sapere
  • Exploring the city of Milano and the Region of Lombardia
  • Discussion about Italian cinema
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  • Learn vocabulary for parts of the human body
  • Combine vocabulary about clothing with parts of the body
  • Learn about indirect object pronouns
  • Compare them to indirect object pronouns
  • Constuctions with the verb piacere
  • Reciprocal reflexive verbs
  • Exploring the city of Torino and the region of Lombardia
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  • Learning sports vocabulary
  • How to form the future tense and how to use it in Italian.
  • Special use of the future to express probability in the present
  • Learn how to use the pronouns NE and CI
  • How to form and use the compound tenses in Italian

Skills /
  • Read Latin Alphabet
  • Ability to repeat sounds heard
  • Understanding of what cognates are
  • Review strategies for memorizing vocabulary
  • Writing complete sentences
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  • Compare English pronouns to Italian
  • Compare English past tenses to Italian
  • Strategies for recalling information learned last year
  • Reading comprehension strategies.
  • Writng complete sentences
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  • Understand the concept of possessive adjectives
  • Know how to use a double-bubble map to compare Italian and English tenses
  • Know how to do research on the computer.
  • Continue practice reading comprehension skills
  • Continue practicing answering questions with complete sentences
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  • Continuing use of double bubble map
  • How to use DB map to write a coherent paragraph
  • How to follow explicit direction
  • How to complete a rough draft of a simple descriptive paragraph
  • How to read a rubric
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  • Understand the concept of regular and irregular verbs
  • Understand the difference between a dialect and an accent
  • 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
  • Daily Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily homework
  • Oral quiz on dialogue
  • Dictation
  • Written quizzes
  • Word games
  • Pair share information
  • Daily Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Daily homework
  • Listen to student dialogues
  • Treasure Hunt quiz
  • Written quizzes
  • Jeopardy
  • Midterm
  • Daily Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Rough draft and final draft of descriptive paragraph
  • Daily homework
  • written quizzes
  • Word games
  • Daily Exit ticket - Yabla
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  • Group Project Presentation
  • Gallery Walk
  • Students report on what they learned from others projects
  • Daily Exit tickets -Yabla
  • Final Exam

Curriculum MapDepartment of World Languages – San Pedro HS – Italian 2b

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?
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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 /
  • Continued discussion about food, meals and restaurant etiquette
  • Vocabulary for meals and utensils
  • How to form and use the present conditional
  • Double object pronouns
  • Use of the relative pronouns CHE and CUI
  • Exploring Sardegna
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  • Discussion about the subjunctive mood?
  • Present subjunctive: how its formed and how it’s used with verbs of volition, desire and hop
  • Irregular verbs in the present subjunctive
  • The subjunctive with impersonal expressions.
  • Exploring the city of Naples and the Campania Region
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  • Use of the subjunctive with verbs of emotion, doubt
  • How to form the past subjunctive and when it is used
  • The use of the subjunctive after certain conjunctions
  • The impersonal and passive “si” contruction.
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  • Discussion of the tenses of the subjunctive
  • How to form and use the imperfect subjunctive
  • How to forma and use the Pluperfect subjunctive
  • Hypothetical sentences
  • Correlation of the tenses.
  • How to form and use the past conditional
  • Discussion of Florence and the region of Tuscany; origins of modern Italian.
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  • Thorough review of all the concept covered since February
  • Survey of students see what they liked and disliked about the class from a content point of view and from an instructional point of view
  • Study Guide for final exam

Skills /
  • Understand how word position can change meaning
  • Understand how to use a 3-2-1 graphic organizer to jigsaw read a long essay
  • Continued use of double-bubble map to compare Italian and American governments
  • Understand that verbs have tense, mood, voice, number and person
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  • Understand that a verb can have mood
  • Understand the difference between fact and opinion
  • Understand what an impersonal expression is.
  • Continue working on strategies to memorize vocabulary.
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  • Understand what verbs of emotion are
  • Understand the need for a past subjunctive
  • Understand that tense need to be logical
  • Understand the difference between indicative and subjunctive moods
  • Understand passive voice and impersonal expression
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  • Understand why the imperfect tense in the subjunctive is necessary
  • Be able to see patterns and apply them to other situations.
  • Understand what a hypothetical sentence is in English and the difference between possible and contrary to reality.
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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
  • Yabla – Daily Exit ticket
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  • Daily HW
  • Written individual and group quizzes
  • Oral practice and assessment
  • Dictation
  • Journal entries
  • Yabla – daily exit ticket
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  • Daily HW
  • Written individual and group quizzes
  • Written midterm
  • Group discussions
  • Journal entries
  • Yabla daily exit ticket
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  • Daily HW
  • Written group and individual quizzes
  • Oral dialogues
  • Group discussions
  • Journal entries
  • Yabla daily exit ticket
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  • Survey –end of term assessment of first essential question
  • Oral presentation
  • Yabla – daily exit ticket
  • Written Final Exam