1. UNIT PLAN INVENTORY Unit Title: Arrive on time to school
Author(s): Danielle Kieser
Language/Level: Spanish/novice
School grade: 5th
grade
Scenario/Unit Overview
The students will learn the names of school subjects in Spanish. Cultural aspects include the Spanish calendar (with Sunday on the far right), and the use
of military time in Spain. Time (learned in a previous unit) may needto be reviewedprior to lessons on military time.
Stage 1: What students should know and be able to do
EnduringUnderstanding(s)/Big Idea.
Students will understand that:
- Calendars vary depending on the country one is in
- Military time is another way to tell time that many people use
Students will be able to:
- Recite their school schedule in Spanish
- Recite the schedule in military time
Essential Question(s):
- How do I present my school schedule in Spanish?
- What is military time?
- Where is Sunday on the Spanish calendar?
TargetedQuestions:
- What is your school schedule?
TargetedStandards:
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, expressfeelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship betweenthe practices and perspectivesof the culture studied
Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship betweenthe products and perspectives of the culture studied
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own
Outcomes/Objectives/ProgramIndicators. (Rememberthe Bloom’s Taxonomyverbs)
Students will be able to:
1. explain their school schedule
2. provide the schedule in military time
3. find Sunday on a Spanish calendar
Stage 2: Howstudents willdemonstrate what they know and can do. Performance-basedAssessment
Interpersonal Task and Rubric Interpretive Task and Rubric Presentational Task and Rubric
Horarios (day 4 roughly)
- Students work in pairs. One student has
“Horario A” and the other has “Horario B.”
Each student takes a turn and follows the
example to provide information from their
Horario. The objective is to end with one
complete schedule between the partners.
Descripcionesde las asignaturas (day 2)
- Students match the subject to the
correct description and picture;
both Spanish and English
descriptions are given,but students
work with Spanish description.
Mi propio horario (starting on day 4 roughly)
- As a final project, students present their
own personal school schedule in front of
the class in Spanish.
- Use new words and military time in
Spanish.
- Presenting words they are familiar with.

2. - Schedulesare given in military time.
- Engage in communication with another
student about a schedule.
- Handout 5
- Rubric 5
- Interpret the text and photo and
match it with the vocabulary.
- Handout 2
- Rubric 2
Las asignaturas crucigrama (day 2)
- Students are given descriptions of
their Spanish vocabulary to fit into a
crossword puzzle.
- Read given information (in English
at a novice level,Spanish at
intermediate and higher) and draw
conclusions as to what the
information may be describing.
- Handout 3
- Rubric 3
Horarios (day 4 roughly)
- Students work in pairs. One student
has “Horario A” and the other has
“Horario B.” Each student follows
the example to describe their
schedule in full sentenceswhile the
other one locates the differences.
- Schedulesare given in military time.
- Listen to information provided by
another student and draw
conclusions about the differences.
- Handout 5
- Rubric 5
- Handout 7
- Rubric 7
Stage 3: Preparingstudents to demonstrate what they knowand can do
Language and Communication
Culture(s)
Subject
Content
(Connections)
Essential Materials Learning Activities,
Performances
(Please detail on next page)
Language
Functions
Grammatical
Structures Vocabulary
Describing
school
schedule
- I have…
- At _
o’clock, I
have…
- Tengo…
- A las…
- En…
- Un examen
de…
- Matemáticas
- Literatura
- Biología
- Historia
- Arte
- Gimnasia
- Recreo
- Practice: Military
time in Spain
o Using it to
recite a school
schedule
- Product: Spanish
calendar
- Math: military
time
- Art: designing a
grid with a
schedule in it
- Students will
acquire the
- Provided
handouts
- Pencil
- Notebook
- Scissors
- Possible video
recorder
Beginning:
- TPR Vocabulary
Introduction
Middle:
- Descripciones
- Crucigrama

3. - On __ I
have __ at
_ o’clock
Announcing a
test
- Química
- Música
- Horario
o Producing a
calendar with
Sunday on the
far right
- Perspective:
Spaniards view
military time as a
more accurate
method of time
telling
Spanish names
of school
subjects.
- Microsoft
PowerPoint
- Computer
- Projector
- El calendario español
PowerPoint
- La hora militar
PowerPoint
- Matamoscas
- Horarios
End:
- Mi Propio Horario
- Test announcement
- El horario de Arnesto
(test review)
- Performance Assessment
Comparisons:
- Calendars in US and Spain
- Time telling in US and Spain
Communities:
- Parents will have the option of agreeing to have their child’s presentation of their schedule filmed and placed on the school website
- Students will be asked to look for military time clocks around the town
Appendix/Stage 3: Preparing students to demonstrate what they know and can do
Learning Activities, Performance
Beginningof unit:
- Day 1: Group discussion of what a typical American school schedule looks like
- Day 1: Group discussion of easiest/hardest/most fun subjects
- Day 1: Vocabulary Introduction (handout 1 given out; lesson plan 1)
Middle of unit:
- Day 2: Descripcionesde las asignaturas (handout 2; lesson 2)
- Day 2: Las asignaturas crucigrama (handout 3; lesson 2)
- Day 3: Presentation on the difference in Spanish calendars (el calendario español PowerPoint; lesson 3)
- Day 3: Introduction to military time and explanation of Spaniard’s perspective on time telling (la hora militar PowerPoint; handout 4; lesson 3)
- Day 4?: Matamoscas with the new words
- Day 4?: Horarios (handout 5)
- Day 4?: Testannouncement(handout 6 given out)
- Day 4?: Mipropio horario project announcement (handout 7 and rubric 5 given out)
End of unit:
- Day 5?: Testreview – el horario de Arnesto (handout 8)
- Day 5 - 6? Mi propio horario presentations
- Day 6 or 7?: Test (performance assessment)

4. o Note: the goal will be to have the test on day 6 as this unit plan is designedfor 2 weekswith 3 classes each;however,if neededthe test
will be moved to the third week