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Unit Title: Passive Voice

Name: Silbana Martinez

Content Area: Spanish

Grade Level: Spanish III

CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):

Stage of Performance:
Stage III (Planned): Learners understand and produce paragraphs and strings of paragraphs.
Content
Stage III
3.0 Students acquire information, recognize distinctive viewpoints, and further their knowledge of other disciplines.
3.1 Students address concrete and factual topics related to the immediate and external environment, including:
a. Social norms
b. Historical and cultural figures, stereotypes
c. Animals and their habitats
d. Community issues, current events
e. Origins of rite of passage, social and regional customs
f. Environmental concerns
g. Media, Internet, television, radio, film
h. Cultural, historical, and geographic aspects of travel
i. Curricular and extracurricular subjects
j. Significant historical events
k. Careers and future plans
l. Nutrition, fitness, and health
m. Geographically and culturally appropriate clothing
n. Cultural differences in health care
o. Effects of technology on the modern world
Communication
Stage III
3.0 Students use planned language (paragraphs and strings of paragraphs).
3.1 Engage in oral, written, or signed (ASL) conversations.
3.2 Interpret written, spoken, or signed (ASL) language.
3.3 Present to an audience of listeners, readers, or ASL viewers.
3.4 Describe, narrate, explain, and state an opinion.
3.5 Demonstrate understanding of the main idea and key details in authentic texts.
3.6 Produce and present a written, oral, or signed (ASL) product in a culturally authentic way.
Cultures
Stage III
3.2 Describe similarities and differences in the target cultures and between students own cultures.

3.3 Describe how products and practices change when cultures come in contact.
Structures
3.0 Students use knowledge of text structure to understand topics related to the external environment.
3.1 Use paragraph-level discourse (text structure) to produce formal communications.
3.2 Identify similarities and differences in the paragraph-level discourse (text structure) of the languages the students know
Settings
Stage III
3.0 Students use language in informal and some formal settings.



Big Ideas/Unit Goals:
Students will review the active voice and the simple and compound verb tenses of the indicative mode.
Students will learn the grammatical structure, formation and use of the passive voice.
Students will be able to express complete sentences using the passive voice.
Students will identify the passive voice in a passage.
Students will be able to express themselves in written and oral form, using the passive voice.
Students will be able to debate using the passive voice.
Students will be able to use the passive voice to create a script to present the news.
Students will be able to produce a News Video.


Unit Summary:

In this unit, students will learn the grammatical structure, formation and use of the passive voice in the different simple and compound verb tenses from the
indicative mode while learning about cultural, customs and practices and the presentation of news. The lesson is designed to promote the use of the passive
voice orally and written. Students will be able to formulate simple open and closed questions, to debate, describe and present using the passive voice in the
indicative mode of the verb tenses. Students will be able to clearly define the difference between the active and the passive voice.


Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level:
Prior Knowledge through CLOZE, evaluating the
active voice.
Anticipation Guide

Formative:
Compare and Contrast
Peer Questioning
Paragraph Writing
Think, Pair and Share
Debate Participation

Summative:
Quiz- Students will present at the end of the lesson
a quiz in the form of CLOZE but this time evaluating
the passive voice.

Lesson 1
Student Learning Objective:

Students will review the
structure of the active voice
in the simple and compound
verb tenses of the indicative
mode.












Students will learn the
grammatical structure,
formation and use of the
passive voice in the indicative
mode.





Students will be able to
identify the passive voice in a
passage.

Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):
Students will complete a
CLOZE questionnaire using
the appropriate simple and
compound verb tense to fill in
the blanks. To activate prior
knowledge but at the same
time promote students
interest the statements will
be written to question
students on customs and
cultural practices. The
assignment must be
completed correctly in at
least 80%



With the use of call cards,
students will participate
orally providing examples of
the passive voice
grammatical structured just
learned.


Passive Voice Quizlet
flashcards and test: The
assignment must be
completed correctly in at
least 60%


Students will share their
opinion on three cultural
traditions.

Lesson Activities:

Online Cloze to activate Prior Knowledge

Students will be assessed on their knowledge of the use of the active voice and verb tenses, before
introducing the verb tenses in the passive voice.
















Teacher will lecture on the grammatical structure, formation and use of the passive voice in the Spanish
Indicative Mode of Simple Verb Tenses.

Students will be asked to display Hand Signals for understanding.





Students will use Quizlet flash cards to review important concepts from the lecture. They will take the
test, to assess their understanding of the topic.




Survey Monkey Tradiciones Culturales.





Students will be able to
discuss a topic using the
passive voice.


Students will be able to
formulate questions in the
passive voice.




Students will be able to
debate using the passive
voice in the indicative mode
of the simple and compound
verb tenses.

Students will read a passage

and will identify and circle
the passive voice. Students
will choral read their
findings. The assignment
must be completed correctly
in at least 90%

Students will reflect on this
polemic tradition focusing on
the use of the passive voice.
At least 50% class
participation.

Students will participate in an
activity of oral questioning
based on the news
paragraphs shared. 100%
participation.

Students will get in groups of
four. Each group will be
assigned with a cultural
tradition. Two students will
have to defend the tradition
and the other two must
oppose to it. The debate must
be focused on using the
passive voice.

Read and identify the passive voice in the passage La Tauromaquia

Choral Reading La Tauromaquia.

Acceptable Evidence:

Students will complete an
anticipatory guide to
evidence their ability to
differentiate the active and
the passive voice in the
indicative mode of simple
verb tenses.

Lesson Activities:

Anticipatory Guide








Teacher will lecture on the grammatical structure, formation and use of the passive voice in the Spanish

Debriefing on La Tauromaquia.

Passive Voice Students Interactive Oral Questioning.

Cultural Traditions Debate

Lesson 2
Student Learning Objective:

Students will clearly
differentiate the active and
the passive mode in English.











Students will be able to read
the news in the passive voice.

Students will be able to write
short paragraphs describing
an event in the passive voice.





Students will be able to
formulate questions in the
passive voice.









Students will be able to write
a script to communicate the
news while using the passive
voice.

Passive Voice Quizlet
flashcards and test: The
assignment must be
completed correctly in at
least 80%


Students will read
newspapers. They will select
some news and will write a
short paragraph (4 or 5
sentences) describing what
happened. They will share it
with the class.




Based on the classmates
news paragraph, students will
participate in an activity of
oral questioning based on the
news paragraphs shared.
100% participation.






Students will produce a 2
minutes news video using the
passive voice in at least three
verb tenses and the active
voice in at least three verb
tenses.

Indicative Mode of Compound Verb Tenses.

Students will use Quizlet flash cards to review important concepts from the lecture. They will take the
test, to assess their understanding of the topic.

Acceptable Evidence:

Graphic Organizer: Mode, Voice and Tenses.

Think-Write-Share News.

Passive Voice Students Interactive Oral Questioning.

News Report Video

Students will research some news. In groups of 3, they will produce a news video. One student will be the
anchor, the second student will be the reporter and the third student will be a witness.
Students must be focused on the use of the passive voice on at least three verb tenses.

Lesson 3
Student Learning Objective:

Summarize and Synthesize

In groups of two students

the description and use of the will complete a graphic

Students will summarize and synthesize information regarding to verb tenses in the indicative mode of the
voice, mode and verb tenses.
passive and active voice.
organizer following the


exact instructions.




Passive Voice Quizlet test as
Students will use Quizlet flash cards to review important concepts from the lecture. They will take the

exit card, The assignment
test, to assess their understanding of the topic.

must be completed correctly


in at least 90%









Unit Resources:
1) https://edutin.com/clases/online/40988943/1
2) http://www.ejemplode.com/12-clases_de_espanol/1870-ejemplo_de_voz_activa_y_voz_pasiva.html
3) http://roble.pntic.mec.es/acid0002/index_archivos/Gramatica/voz_pasiva.htm
4) http://sites.duke.edu/mercerspain302/2015/01/27/hello-world/
5) https://espanol.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/verbos/voz-pasiva
6) http://www.aprenderespanol.org/verbos/pasiva.html
7) http://www.rae.es/sites/default/files/Sala_prensa_Dosier_Gramatica_2009.pdf
8) http://www.escueladigital.com.uy/espaniol/verbos.htm
9) http://popplet.com/app/#/home
10) https://www.wevideo.com/
11) https://prezi.com/

Useful Websites:

Unit Resources:
1) https://edutin.com/clases/online/40988943/1
2) http://www.ejemplode.com/12-clases_de_espanol/1870-ejemplo_de_voz_activa_y_voz_pasiva.html
3) http://roble.pntic.mec.es/acid0002/index_archivos/Gramatica/voz_pasiva.htm
4) http://sites.duke.edu/mercerspain302/2015/01/27/hello-world/
5) https://espanol.lingolia.com/es/gramatica/verbos/voz-pasiva
6) http://www.aprenderespanol.org/verbos/pasiva.html
7) http://www.rae.es/sites/default/files/Sala_prensa_Dosier_Gramatica_2009.pdf
8) http://www.intel.ph/content/dam/www/program/education/us/en/documents/assessing-projects/strategies/sample-assessment-plans.pdf

 9) http://www.levy.k12.fl.us/instruction/Instructional_Tools/60formativeassessment.pdf
10) http://roble.pntic.mec.es/msanto1/lengua/1verbo.htm