REFLECT CRITICALLY ON LATINO CULTURES OF THE UNITED STATES.

• Learning Objective: Understand the geographical context of the global Hispanophone.
• Learning Objective: List key demographic information about Latinos in the US. and local community.
• Learning Objective: Express in Spanish how English language dominance changes from immigrant to later generations.
• Learning Objective: Describe in Spanish elements common to family celebrations such as birthdays and the quinceañera.
• Learning Objective: Communicate in Spanish basic information about the components of familismo.
• Learning Objective: Explain in English how components of familismo may contribute misunderstandings with the dominant culture.
• Learning Objective: Analyze, through close reading exercises, an English-language poem about an aspect of the Latino experience.

EXPLAIN HOW DIVERSE INDIVIDUALS AND GROUPS AND PERSPECTIVES HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE LOCAL AND WIDER COMMUNITIES.

• Learning Objective: In Spanish, communicate information about the contributions of and obstacles to Latino-owned businesses in the United States.
• Learning Objective: In Spanish, make comparisons about one’s own community and the local community.
• Learning Objective: Evaluate how works of public art reflect the cultures and concerns of the local and wider communities.

DEVELOP A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF THE WAYS THAT THE EUROPEAN CONQUEST OF LATIN AMERICA AND THE RESULTING COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE PARTICIPATED IN THE SHAPING OF LATINO IDENTITY.

• Learning Objective: In Spanish, categorize foods by place of origin (Old World/New World).
• Learning Objective: In Spanish, list some indigenous American and African words borrowed by Spanish.
• Learning Objective: In Spanish, list important Europeans diseases brought by colonizers and their impact on indigenous populations.
• Learning Objective: In Spanish, name European economic and social activities that created mestizaje.
• Learning Objective: In Spanish, identify learned historical events and social practices and products represented in art and music.
• Learning Objective: In Spanish, document historical reasons for the varied names throughout the Hispanophone world for the holiday celebrated on October 12.

COMMUNICATE IN SPANISH IN BASIC WAYS WITH A NOVICE LEVEL OF ACCURACY AND FLUENCY.

• Learning Objective: Read Spanish at novice mid level on the American Council of the Teaching of Foreign Languages’ (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines.
• Learning Objective: Write in Spanish at the novice mid level on the ACTFL proficiency guidelines.
• Learning Objective: Speak in Spanish at the novice mid level on the ACTFL proficiency guidelines.
• Learning Objective: Listen to spoken and recorded Spanish at the novice mid level on the ACTFL proficiency guidelines.