Three to five days of real content.
A mini-unit is the right unit of work for most of the year. It is long enough for an interpretive task on day one, real structured input by day two, and a presentational performance you can actually grade. None of these are stretched out single lessons. They are built backwards from a summative, with the homework and the family letter and the differentiation already wired in.
La Nomofobia.
Four days of interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational work on phone addiction. Authentic Spanish text. Subjuntivo. Viral campaign assessment.
AI Ethics in Spanish.
Five days of AP-level discussion on ChatGPT, AI bias, and academic integrity. All in Spanish. AP Theme 3 follow-up.
Día de los Muertos.
Three days of cultural inquiry on Mexico's most misunderstood holiday. Authentic resources, ofrenda project, no Halloween conflation.
AP Spanish is the test that pretends to be a course.
IB Spanish B is a different animal from AP.
Most Spanish curriculum was built for the kid whose first encounter with the language is your classroom.
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.