Learning Experience Plan

Subject: Spanish Grade level: 8

Unit: Day/Periods: 45 Minutes
Topic: Describing yourself to others
Content/Literacy Standards:

Learning Experience Outcomes
Students will:
Describe themselves sharing a
couple of simple details.
Learning Experience Assessments

Students will write a 50 word essay about
themselves.
Differentiation
Approaching
These students will have a
hard time recalling all of the
vocabulary that this activity
calls for. I will provide these
students with a cheat sheet
that contains suggestions for
vocabulary that pertains to
each question. The cheat
sheet will be graphically
divided into five columns,
each column will have one of
the five questions they are
supposed to answer, and
vocabulary pertaining to that
subject matter will be in the
spaces.
On-level
These students will also have
access to that cheat sheet if
they need it; however, these
students most likely will be
able to recall most of the
vocabulary that they need for
the questions. These students
will most likely have trouble
forming the complete
sentences verbally so I will try
to encourage these students to
participate when asking for
people to volunteer
information verbally, and even
call on them when they dont
raise their hands so they can
get the practice they need.
Beyond
These students wont need the
questions to guide them to share
the correct information when
describing themselves. They will
be able to say simple sentences
and thoroughly describe
themselves. When these students
are in pairs, I will encourage them
to elaborate on one of the
questions, for example, how will
my future be? I will ask them to
practice a more detailed and
complicated conversation while
the others are practicing the
basics.
Curriculum Integration

Materials/Resources Procedures/Strategies







Smartboard










Five questions
sheet





Sponge Activity (3-4 minutes) (activity that will be done as students enter
the room to get them into the mindset of the concept to be learned)
If you were to meet someone new right now, what would you want them to
know? Write everything you would tell the person about yourself. IN
SPANISH.
Anticipatory Set (1-2 minutes) (focus question/s that will be used to get
students thinking about the days lesson)
Who are you?

Activating Prior Knowledge (4-5 minutes) (what information will be shared
with/among students to connect to prior knowledge/experience)
I would ask them to recall some things that they know how to say to describe
people. They would have learned this vocabulary in their familia lesson when
they were provided descriptive vocabulary. They should also know how to
say how old they are and what their hobbies and interests are. As they tell me,
I will write what they know on the board. I will cue them if they dont recall
or arent willing to volunteer the information theyve learned by saying
things like how do you say about topics weve already discussed (how
do you say how old you are? Etc).
Direct Instruction (10-15 minutes) (input, modeling, check for
understanding)
I would explain that we would be using questions to help us choose
information to describe ourselves. I will provide them with the questions and
each question will have a group of questions that pertains to that particular
theme of questions. These are the questions and what the questions should
entail:
Who am I? (physical description, personality traits, female/male, age)
How did I get like this? (background information: where youre from, where
you live, what your family is like, etc) (I would emphasize that this section
isnt literally asking how you got to be the way you are, just that it is asking
about your background information)
What do I like? (Interests, hobbies, likes/dislikes, favorites)
Who do I do things with? (friends and family members and who you spend
the majority of your time with)







Smartboard







Smartboard









How will I be in the future? (What your dreams/goals are, what you plan to
be when you grow up)
I will go one by one and use the questions to write a description of myself on
the board. I will ask them to shout out suggestions of answers to the questions
I have to answer (this could be funny/fun for them. youre funny looking!
Youre old! You spend the most time with your cat! etc.)
I would write a description like this:
Me llamo Anna. Tengo 20 aos. Tengo pelo castao y ojos morenos. Soy
delgada y de estatura mediana. Soy inteligente, divertida, y simptica. Soy de
Brooklyn, pero vivo en Bayport en Long Island. Fui a Manhattan College.
Tengo un padre, una madre, una hermana, y dos hermanos. Tengo treinta tos
y tas y muchisimos primos. Me gusta aprender idiomas. En mi tiempo libre,
me gusta escuchar msica, pasar el rato con amigas, y leer. Mi cantante
favorita es Florence and the Machine y mi autor favorito es Juan Rulfo. Mis
mejores amigos son Ali, Samantha, Lauren, Luke, Jake, Kathleen, y Danielle.
Me gusta pasar el rato con ellos y con mi hermana, Darcy. Cundo graduo,
quiero viajar mucho y, algun dia, hacerme profesora de idiomas.

Guided Practice (10 minutes) (how students will demonstrate their grasp of
new learning)
I would put the questions up on the board again and would call on students to
answer some of them verbally, and I would make sure that all students
answered in complete sentences. I would start by asking specific questions
like how many brothers and sisters do you have, where are you from, what do
you like to do. Then, I would ask the broad questions Who are you? How
did you get that way? etc. After 8 or so students have participated, I would
ask if any of the students were ready to try describing themselves using these
questions. I would have them get up in front of the room and the class and I
would ask them the questions together: Who are you? Then I would give
them a minute or two to say a couple of sentences about who they are. Then
we would say How did you get like that? and would give them a couple of
minutes to share their background info, and we would ask all five questions
in this way. I would repeat this process with one more volunteer.
Then, I would ask them to get into partners. First, one partner would ask their
partner each of the five questions and give them time in between to answer
each. Then they would switch and the other partner would become the asker.
I will tell them ahead of time that they will be responsible for writing a
couple of facts about their partner. During this time, I will walk around and
monitor that theyre speaking in complete sentence and staying on task.






Closure (4-5 minutes) (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson
presentation to an appropriate close)
After a few minutes of partner work, I would ask them to get back to their
seats. I would ask them to write five facts (preferably one fact per each of the
five questions) that they learned about their partner in complete sentences. I
would collect this as an exit slip.
Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the
lesson)
Students will be expected to write a 50-75 word composition describing
themselves using the 5 questions as a guide as to what kind of information
they can include.









































Who are
you?
Soy...
Tengo pelo
rubio/castao/rojo/
moreno/negro
Tengo ojos
morenos/azules/verd
es/grises
Tengo ___ aos
Simptico/antiptico
Inteligente/tonto
Alto/de estatura
mediana/bajo
Paciente/impaciente
Trabajador/perezoso
Divertido/aburrido
Cmico
Delgado/gordo
Organizado/desorgan
izado



How did you
get this
way?
Soy de
Vivo en
Hermano/a
Primo/a
To/a
Padre
Madre
Abuelo/a

What do
you like?
Me interesa(n)
No me interesa(n)
Me gusta(n)
No me gusta(n)
Mi ___favorito/a es
Cantante, autor,
actor/actriz, pelcula,
programa de
televisin, novela
Nadar, escuchar
msica, jugar a
deportes, tenis,
baloncesto, futbol,
futbol
norteamericano,
bailar, cantar,
estudiar, leer, pasar
el rato con amigos
En mi tiempo libre

Who do you
do things
with?
Amigo/a
Hermano/a
Familia
Primo/a
Compaero/a
Compaero de
equipo
Equipo
Mejores amigos
Mejor amigo/a
What will
my future
be like?
Quiero hacerme
Cuando sea mayor
Mis metas son
Mis sueos son
Mi meta es
Mi sueo es
Futbolista
Artista
Autor
Periodista
Cantante
Bailerina
Ejecutivo de
negocios
Enfermero/a
Doctor/mdico/a
Actor/actriz
Profesor(a)
Carpintero/a
Monja
Sacerdote



Who are you?
What are your physical characteristics? What are your personality traits? How old are you? Are
you a male or female?

How did you get that way?
What is your background information? Where are you from? Where do you live now? What is
your family like? How many siblings do you have?

What do you like?
What are your interests? What are your hobbies? What are your favorite things, who are your
favorite singers/authors/actors? What are your interests? What do you like to do? What are your
likes and dislikes? Are you on any sports teams?

Who do you do things with?
Who are your best friends? Who do you spend the majority of your time with? Your friends?
Your family? Teammates?

What will your future be like?
What goals and dreams do you have? What do you want to be when you grow up