Native American Culture Didactic Sequence Level A2

El principio… Tema…  competencias generales y comunicativas Cultura nativa americana Temática  Enfoque por tareas  enfoque comunicativo - Tareas de la vida real  school trip - Tareas pedagógicas  role play Atención a la diversidad

Tareas Ámbitos de interés -personal (vida privada) -público (miembro de la sociedad) -profesional (trabajo) -educativo (escuela) Carácter  creativas planificación acción basadas en destrezaspresentación resolución de problemasleer y responder transacciones habituales debate teatro

Atención a la diversidad Groups of students  different levels, backgrounds, interests and learning profiles Needsmeaningful tasks supportive learning environment differentiated learning experiences ways to explore the curriculum variety of sense making activities variety of options to demonstrate learning

Competencias generales Saber  conocimiento del mundo, sociocultural Saber hacer  destrezas prácticas e interculturales Saber ser  actitudes, creencias, motivaciones personalidad intercultural Saber aprender  sistema de la lengua, destrezas estudio destrezas heurísticas: descubrimiento análisis

TIM & Bloom Equilibrio TIM  lingüística, lógica, visual, intrapersonal, interpersonal, kinestésica, musical Bloom  LOTSRememberUnderstandApply HOTSAnalyzeEvaluateCreate Encourage critical reading  relate info with past experience interpret figurative language determining purpose evaluating ideas and applying them

Learning objectives Understand and apply essential information in transactions during trips Understand and apply basic features and moral values in another culture Handling conversations successfully Understand and use information in web sites and apply it in plans Practice repairing communication breakdowns Understand and apply essential information in transactions during trips Understand and apply basic features and moral values in another culture Handling conversations successfully Understand and use information in web sites and apply it in plans Practice repairing communication breakdowns

Evaluation criteria Identify and apply essential information (gist, main points and relevant details) Identify and apply relevant communicative functions and discourse patterns Understand and apply socio-cultural and socio-linguistic knowledge Understand and apply prosody, tone and pronunciation patterns Syntactic structures and common lexis Negotiation strategies

Language awareness Communicative functions Initiating and maintaining relationships Physical and abstract descriptions Requesting and offering information, opinions, advice and warnings Expressing preferences and suggestions Negotiating meaning and narrate events Vocabulary Housing / daily life / work / trips / shopping / natural environments values / ICTs Reflection on learning Planning a school trip / Role play

Socio and intercultural awareness Socio-cultural and socio-linguistic aspects: Social conventions Habits, values and beliefs Non verbal language Interculturalism Intercultural awareness Intercultural knowledge Communicative competences Linguistic lexical / semantical/ phonological / orthoepic Sociolinguisticsocial relationship markers / courtesy / values Pragmaticdiscourse / functions

Students exposition to Video documentmain cultural aspects Flashcardsart forms / types of housing Written documentNative American values Written documentFair Trade principles … will lead to… FINAL PRODUCT  Role play

Session 1 Sharing objectives Task 1.1Brainstorming about Native American culture Task 1.2Video + Request of gist / main points Task 1.3T/F questions + comparing and justify answers Task 1.4Providing examples and differences of elements

Session 2 Sharing objectives Task 2.1Brainstorming about school trips + Brochures Task 2.2Planning school trip (Web site + Group form) Task 2.3Compare resulting group forms with other groups Task 2.4Share individual conclusions with group

Session 3 Sharing objectives Task 3.1Brainstorming about types of house + art forms Task 3.2Match flashcards with texts + share information Task 3.3Write role play about commercial transaction Task 3.4Do the role play

Session 4 Sharing objectives Task 4.1Brainstorming about moral values Task 4.2Text Indian moral values + provide examples Task 4.3Text Fair Trade + gist / main ideas Task 4.4Rewrite role play with the new information Task 4.5New role play + Self assessment

Moral values + Fair Trade

Assessment Teacher’s journal / Role play / Teacher’s rubric / Students’ rubric for self assessment

Assessment