Appendix: implementing teaching standards
This unit will address the following standards from the North Carolina Common Core and Essential Standards for K-12 Modern Languages-Alphabetic and Logographic:
Essential Standard #1: use the language to engage in interpersonal communication.
Essential Standard # 2: understand words and concepts presented in the language. Essential Standard # 3: use the language to present information to an audience.
Essential Standard #4: compare the students' culture and the target culture.
This unit will require students to collaborate, discuss and share ideas in the target language. Students will demonstrate comprehension of language through appropriate choices in inflection, elocution, facial expression, and body language during performance. Students' choice of vocal and physical expression will also reflect their understanding of the cultural backgrounds of the people whose testimonies they perform, and hence they will have an opportunity to demonstrate awareness of cultural distinctiveness.
This unit will address the following strands across the four essential standards:
Connections to Language and Literacy
Connections to Other Disciplines
Communities
Through performance, students will change their relationship with the written word and will learn to read for shades of meaning and subtext. Students will reinforce their knowledge of geography and of key topics covered in the history curriculum. By accessing locales studied through technology, students will reinforce their 21 st century skills, part of the communities strand. By performing publicly, whether in class, in a larger school setting, or in a performance shared digitally with the wider community, students will lift their language engagement from the interpersonal to the community level.
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