Eighth Grade Spanish

 

Instructor: Laine Dedmon

 

Curriculum Map, Class Page

 

In Spanish, students focus on the politics of Latin America and how Latin America arrived where it is today. Students complete a project on Latin American political figures focusing on the contributions and mishaps of their era. During Hispanic Heritage Month, students examine the contributions our society has received from notable Hispanic Americans.

Through an integrated unit with Science, students look at the ancient peoples of Latin America and their contributions in Astronomy.

In grammar, students learn six different verb tenses and examine the differences between the Preterit and Imperfect modes in the past tense. An in-depth examination of the two past tenses continues throughout the 8th grade year. Students read children's books to better understand how the two tenses tell a story in the past, and finally, students create their own children's book as a culminating project.

 

Text: Navegando 2 is a very comprehensive text that aids in the application of grammar and units of vocabulary. This text will be used at Part 1 of Spanish II. 

 

Questions to consider:

• How did Latin America evolve politically?
• From a political standpoint, what is considered progress?
• Why is Latin America in the political state that it is?
• What is the role of the United States in Latin American politics?

 

By the end of 8th grade Spanish, students must be able to: converse in the past, using both past modes appropriately, as well as use the future and conditional modes.

 

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