This document outlines the objectives, standards, and content of a Spanish 2 lesson on costumes and traditions from Spanish-speaking countries. The objectives are for students to differentiate between costumes and cultures, identify traditions from different Spanish-speaking countries, compare their own culture to others, and discuss costumes and traditions in small groups. The lesson defines costumes as customs associated with daily routines and traditions as customs passed down through generations. Examples of costumes and traditions are provided. Students create bubble maps of examples and discuss the differences between costumes and traditions in their own words.

1. Costumes and
Traditions
Spanish 2
9th-10th grade
Maestra Alonso

2. Objectives
• Lecture objectives
• Students will be able to differentiate between costume and culture.
• Students will be able to identify different traditions from different
Spanish speaking countries.
• Students will be able to compared their culture with others
• Students will be able to discuss in small groups about other
costumes/traditions.

3. Standards
• WL.CM1.N Demonstrate understanding of the general meaning and some basic
information on very familiar common daily topics. Recognize memorized words,
phrases, and simple sentences in authentic texts that are spoken, written, or signed.
• WL.CM2.N Participate in real-world, spoken, written, or signed conversations on very
familiar topics. Use memorized words, phrases, and simple sentences, and questions
in highly predictable common daily settings.
• WL.CM3.I Make simple presentations in culturally appropriate ways on transactional
and informal topics related to self and the immediate environment. Use sentences
and strings of sentences through spoken, written, or signed language using the most
suitable media and technologies to present and publish.
• WL.CM4.N Recognize opportunities to use age-appropriate, culturally authentic, real-
world, and academic language in highly predictable com mon daily settings within
target-lan guage communities in the United States and around the world.

4. Hook
What are some special
events that you and your
family celebrate?

5. Video
• Diference between costumes and
traditions
• https://youtu.be/Fr2mLVA3n6g

6. Costume
• The custom is associated with a
daily routine or individual
habit, acquired by particular
inclinations of the character of
each family or group of
coexistence.

7. Costume
• Frequent practice
• It can be something that only you do
• Maybe you created that custom or
another family member
• Part of your identity
• Over time, customs become traditions

8. Examples of Costumes
La fiestas de Quinceaños
Las Piñatas
La cena familiar en Navidad/acción de gracias
Can you mention others?

9. Bubble Map
• As a class mention some
examples of costumes that you
celebrate or know about

10. Tradition
• Tradition is the set of cultural
assets that is transmitted from
generation to generation
within a community. It is about
those customs and
manifestations that each
society considers valuable and
maintains them so that they
are learned by the new
generations, as an
indispensable part of the
cultural legacy.

11. Traditions
• Over time, customs become traditions
• They are those customs that the
community decides to establish as part
of its uses and customs.
• They pass from generation to
generation

12. Examples of Traditions
Día de los Muertos
El carnaval de Venecia
Semana Santa
Can you mention others?

13. Bubble Map
• As a class mention examples of some
traditions that you celebrate or know about

14. Remember that…
• Custom and tradition are part of the
cultural identity that can be
positional, community, regional,
state, national or global.

15. Now You try
• What is a costume?
• What is a tradition?
• Can you mention some costume/traditions that you know of?
• Are there special customs or traditions that your family celebrates?
• Is it the same a custom and a tradition?

16. Video-guided notes
• Instructions
• Pay attention to the video and fill in the table
with the information for the five celebrations
that you like the most.
• The 10 best festivals and traditions in the
world
• https://youtu.be/UPoFw5-3kt4