Eighth Grade Curriculum Guide
EIGHTH GRADE AT THE ORCHARD SCHOOL
Spanish
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Each Spanish lesson in eighth grade at The Orchard School is designed to engage students in all three modes of communication — interpretative, interpersonal, and presentational. A main objective of the class is to give students the ability to carry on a simple conversation, to establish a strong foundation, and promote future success in Spanish learning. The four foreign language acquisition skills are developed in every class: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The Spanish curriculum is based on Standards for Foreign Language Learning from the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Eighth-graders grow as Spanish speakers by:
• Communicating in Spanish orally and in writing • Understanding Hispanic cultures. • Understanding other people’s perspectives and behavior. • Expanding their view of the world.
Topics of study
• Formal and informal greetings, personal questions, feelings/emotions • Hispanic culture and main artists of different Hispanic countries • House/home vocabulary, chores, daily routines • Food vocabulary, food items • City vocabulary, places in the city, transportation • Shopping vocabulary, places to shop, places to visit, immediate and future tenses • Grammar, subject pronouns, possessive pronouns, infinitive verbs, reflexive verbs, future tense, immediate future tense, past tense, and conjugation of irregular verbs
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