Spanish-language film as the curriculum.
Spanish-language film is the most underused asset in most classrooms. The teachers who play Coco on a Friday because they are exhausted are missing the point. A well-built movie guide is a four-day mini-unit where the film is the anchor text. Pre-watch, during-watch, post-watch. Three proficiency levels. A presentational task that is not a quiz.
Coco is shipping first. Roma and Encanto follow. A series guide for La Casa de Papel (Season 1, three-week unit, Intermediate High and up) is scoped. If you teach an immersion section, every guide ships with a Spanish-only track.
Every Spanish teacher hits the morning when the kid is throwing up at 5:30am and you have not even thought about what period 1 is going to do.
A good single lesson is not a worksheet.
A mini-unit is the right unit of work for most of the year.
AP Spanish is the test that pretends to be a course.