This curriculum unit focuses on the theme of friends and peers. Students will work on identifying people from physical descriptions, completing a survey about their best friend, and presenting descriptions of two of their friends. The performance assessments target beginning, developing, and transitioning proficiency levels in interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational communication. Students will learn vocabulary for physical and personality attributes and structures like the present tense of ser and tener to be successful. The unit connects to standards about beliefs and attitudes towards friendships, popular media, and comparing language structures and cultural characteristics.