Project+and+Product+Based+Units

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These need (among other things):
Weekly themes Resources needed Assessments (ongoing and formal) Checkpoints for completion for the big projects One detailed week One finished lesson plan

=Banderas personales=
 * usando temas como estos (de [|la bandera de Argentina)]: la paz, la honestidad, la verdad, la lealtad, la perseverancia, la justicia....
 * ¿Cómo te representarías en una bandera (con los colores, los símbolos, los imágenes...)?

=**Journalism as expression**= =Or Freedom of Speech and censorship **(groups 2-4) (6 weeks)**= Product: newspaper Including a writer’s workshop

People: Elena Poniatowska

Subtopics:
 * Editorials: opinions (polite)
 * Agree/disagree,complaint/support; give possible topics
 * subjunctive
 * Example: [|editorial example]
 * Comics
 * Interviews (sports, singers...)
 * Broadcast journalism (recorded)
 * Articles (reporting) __(local and world)__
 * More sophisticated words/adjectives
 * Ordinal numbers
 * Not editorial teach difference
 * Transition words
 * Pret/imp
 * Weather
 * Descriptive
 * Illustrations
 * Personal ads/job ads/classifieds
 * Adjectives
 * Advice columns
 * Obituaries
 * Entertainment

Literacy component: children’s magazines (leveled readers), fashion magazines, read-alouds with [|Spanish newspapers]

=**Art as social commentary (5-6 weeks)**= Product: piece of art that comments on social issue; written explanation: 1 pg People: Goya, Picasso, Botero, Rivera, Kahlo, Lam

War, hunger, injustice, racism/prejudice, unfair practices, unjust/unresponsive authority, other groups (women/minorities)
 * Part 1:** What? Why?
 * Part 2:** Symbolism in art
 * Part 3:** Comparison/perspectives on same event (compare and contrast) +history
 * Spanish civil war
 * Mexican government
 * Part 4:** Brainstorming/experiencing creation/
 * smaller scale/ in groups
 * Discuss specific things, create, explain (talk/write)
 * Have them take different perspectives (if you were: a teacher, a student, a govt leader)
 * Then share
 * Part 5:** choices (framework and rubric)
 * larger scale/
 * rough draft with explanation of symbols they will use
 * finished product/individual
 * display in school somewhere (with written display/explanation card)

=**Legends/myths/just so stories /Fables/Fairy tales/, (remembering the past, morals) (5-6 weeks)**= Product: Write a short story and tell it or act it out and give feedback to classmates Choice: group/individual, which kind of story, tell it/act it out Background: setting, characters Problem/challenge/villain Solution Other Examples: Lazarillo? Resources: Children’s books
 * Part 1**: Teacher tells a story (or read a loud)
 * Part 2**: What makes a good story?
 * Part 3**: Why? Purpose of these types stories
 * **Fairy tales** Cenicienta, Caperucita,
 * **Fable (moral)** Aesop fables (Samaniego), La lechera,
 * **Legends/myths/just so** **stories** Popul Vul, Rudyard Kipling Just So stories

=Other possible products:=