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Trinity Episcopal School
Middle School World Languages Curriculum
We believe the purpose of the World Languages curriculum is to prepare students to communicate successfully in a pluralistic American society and increasingly
interconnected global community. Our K-8 curriculum aims to provide Trinity students the ability to obtain conversational proficiency in familiar situations.
Across the world languages curriculum, students will: understand and interpret foreign languages in various contexts (writing, reading, listening, and speaking); provide
and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions; identify and appreciate differences between their own and other countries; take risks,
persevere, and think critically in learning another language; and use their acquisition of another language for personal enjoyment/enrichment and for future
professional opportunities.
*Please note that the curriculum overlaps in this transition year as we analyze the vertical alignment and predicted progress for the advancement of the Spanish
program.
First Trimester
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5 Grade Spanish Big ideas:
5 Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
5 Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Geography of Spanish-speaking countries
1) Noun-adjective agreement and conjugation of
1) Telling time with the verb ser and frequency
in Latin America
ser to express permanent characteristics
2) Tener + que to express the need to do something
2) Subject pronouns and conjugation of
2) Conjugation of tener to describe possession
3) Conjugation of regular –ar verbs
ser to express origin and profession
3) Definite and indefinite articles
4) Prepositions of position
3) Conjugation of estar to express feelings
4) Gustar + infinitive / + nouns and object
5) Ir to express destination
4) Conjugation of llamarse to
pronouns
communicate names
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6 Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
6th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
6th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) The construction of a sentence using direct object
1) Repaso: communicate vs. translate
1) Ownership and relationship
pronouns differs from Spanish to English
2) Ser vs. estar: qualities vs. conditions
2) Comparisons: Equal and unequal comparisons
2) Reinforcement of ser and estar: permament vs.
3) Destination
with or without an adjective
temporary characteristics
4) Interrogatives for specificity
3) Expressions with tener
3)
Ordinal numbers in conjunction with gender and
5) Present action: conjugation of regular
4) Stem-changing verbs have regular –ar, -er, and
number agreement
-er/-ir verbs
–ir endings
7th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Reinforcement of ser and estar:
permanent vs. temporary characteristics
2) Continued practice of all three verb types
in the present tense: -ar, -er, and –ir
3) Expressions of “like” and gustar- type
verbs
7th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Comparative words used to express
similarity/dissimilarity
2) Stem-changing verbs in the present tense
3) Direct object pronouns
4) Ordinal numbers in conjunction with gender
and number agreement
7th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Irregular stem-changing verbs
2) Pragmatic use of informal, affirmative commands
3) The verbs saber and conocer
4) Introduction to the simple past: preterite forms
8th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Present tense verb endings follow patterns
depending on whether they are regular or
irregular verbs
2) Present tense verb stems in irregular verbs
cannot change
3) The use of prepositional phrases to
emphasize and clarify
8th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Demonstrative adjectives indicate proximity to a
speaker
2) Communicating something that is in progress
requires the verb estar
3) Verbs about daily routines are often reflexive
4) Indirect object pronouns are placed differently
in Spanish
8th Grade Spanish Big Ideas:
1) Relationship between effective reading and context
+ critical thinking
2) The preterite tense expresses an action completed
in the past
3) Words that indicate the affirmative or negative
must agree
4) You can communicate in any situation if you
use circumlocution