Las familias y las comunidades
AP Spanish Language & Culture · Theme 1 · 4-Week Mini-Unit
Twenty days of AP-aligned interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational work on tradición, educación, and the role of family across México, Argentina, and Spain.
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- Coverfor you
- Teacher Overview + 28-page TOCfor you
- Standards Crosswalk · CED Theme 1 + ACTFL Advancedfor you
- The Honest Take · what this unit is, and what it isn'tfor you
- 4-week pacing · 20 days at a glancefor you
- Master vocabulary · Pt 1 · familia, tradición, comunidadfor students
- Master vocabulary · Pt 2 · educación, redes, technologyfor students
- Day 1. Week 1 · Vivir Mi Vida · present-tense hookfor students
- Day 2. Week 1 · Anchor reading · La tradiciónfor students
- Day 3. Week 1 · Apuntes · El presentefor students
- Day 4. Week 1 · Project · Una tradición en mi paísfor students
- Day 5. Week 1 · Quiz · El presente · /15 ptsfor you
- Day 6. Week 2 · Educación · gráficos comparativosfor students
- Day 7. Week 2 · Vocab packet · La educaciónfor students
- Day 8. Week 2 · Julián y Biblioburro · comparisonfor students
- Day 9. Week 2 · Speaking prompts · La educaciónfor students
- Day 10. Week 2 · Writing · La educación (formative)for you
- Day 11. Week 3 · Apuntes · El pretéritofor students
- Day 13. Week 3 · VLOG · Problemas cuando era jovenfor students
- Day 14. Week 3 · Quiz · El pretérito · /16 ptsfor you
- Day 16. Week 4 · Listening · Fuente auditiva (AP Section 1B)for students
- Day 17. Week 4 · Interpersonal · El individuo y la comunidad (AP 2C)for students
- Day 18. Week 4 · Summative · AP-style argumentative essay (AP 2B)for students
- Summative Rubric · AP-aligned · /30 pts · 5 strandsfor you
- Proficiency Scales · Presentefor you
- Proficiency Scales · Pretéritofor you
- Differentiation Menu + Heritage Variantfor you
- Year-3 Cheat Sheet · pacing, grading, vibes trapsfor you
- Print-ready PDF
- Editable Word file
- Editable slides
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The unit I have been teaching since Obama's first term, with every revision year-three me would have wanted year-one me to know. Twenty class days, four weeks, AP-aligned three modes from Day 1 through the summative. Day 1 opens with Marc Anthony's Vivir Mi Vida as a present-tense hook (the cheesy uncle song works on 85% of classes; the other 15% gets Bad Bunny). Week 1 anchors on an authentic-style essay about tradición and a project where students defend a tradition from México, Argentina, Spain, or their own family (heritage track explicitly invited). Week 2 pivots to educación with real OECD completion-rate data, a Schaum-style vocab packet you can give out on Day 6 (not Day 1; retention doubles), the Julián-vs-Biblioburro comparison run as 8-minute oral discussion in groups of 3, and a formative writing assessment. Week 3 runs el pretérito Cornell-style with focus on the 8 high-frequency irregulars, a 60-90 second vlog narrating problemas cuando era joven, and a quiz. Week 4 stacks an AP-style listening worksheet, a Section 2C interpersonal simulation, the summative argumentative essay (200-400 words, two sources, defending a position on redes sociales and family), and peer review against the AP-aligned rubric. Includes proficiency scales for presente and pretérito, a full differentiation menu with Heritage Track 4 honoring family-register Spanish, a Standards Crosswalk against CED Theme 1 plus ACTFL Advanced, and a year-3 cheat sheet covering the pacing traps, grading traps, and vibes traps I learned the hard way. Polished 28-page PDF plus editable Word + Slides scaffolds.
- Interpretive
- Interpersonal
- Presentational
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