| Curricular Competency |
Recognize connections between language and culture |
Italian 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: language and culture |
Elaboration: as expressed through creative works, regional dialects, historical origins of words, and expressions |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify perspectives in texts |
Italian 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: perspectives |
Elaboration: A text can reflect the author’s personal point of view which may include bias. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Share information using the presentation format best suited to their own and others' diverse abilities |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: presentation format |
Elaboration: e.g., digital, visual, verbal; aids such as charts, graphics, illustrations, music, photographs, videos, props, digital media |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express themselves with growing fluency, both orally and in writing |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Exchange ideas and information, both orally and in writing |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Exchange ideas |
Elaboration: with peers, teachers, and members of the wider community; can include virtual/online conversations |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond personally to a variety of texts |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Respond personally |
Elaboration: provide personal interpretations or opinions |
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| Curricular Competency |
Narrate and write stories |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Narrate |
Elaboration: Use expressions of time and transitional signs to show logical progression.Use past, present, and future time frames. |
| Keyword: stories |
Elaboration: Stories are a narrative form of text that can be oral, written, or visual. Stories are derived from truth or fiction and may be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use various strategies to increase understanding and produce oral and written language |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: strategies |
Elaboration: For example:rephrase in Italian to compensate for unknown expressionsmake personal notes to use as a reference for oral and written productionactively review common, useful expressions and patterns to refine communication |
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| Curricular Competency |
Adjust speech and writing to reflect different purposes |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: speech |
Elaboration: e.g., adjust register when speaking |
| Keyword: purposes |
Elaboration: e.g., to convince, inform, entertain |
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| Curricular Competency |
Interpret a wide variety of texts |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: “Text” is a generic term referring to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication. Oral, written, and visual elements can also be combined (e.g., in dramatic presentations, graphic novels, films, web pages, advertisements). |
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| Curricular Competency |
Comprehend stories and different viewpoints |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Derive meaning in speech and a variety of other texts |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Derive meaning |
Elaboration: Understand key information, supporting details, time, and place. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize how choice of words affects meaning |
Italian 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: choice of words |
Elaboration: e.g., degrees of formality, degrees of directness, choice of verb tense and modality |
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| Big Ideas |
Developing proficiency in a new language provides opportunities for careers, travel, personal growth, and study abroad. |
Mandarin 11 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Exploring diverse forms of cultural expression promotes greater understanding of our own cultural identity. |
Mandarin 11 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: forms of cultural expression |
Elaboration: representing the experience of the people from whose culture they are drawn; for example, celebrations, customs, folklore, language use, traditions, and creative works (e.g., books, paintings, pictures, sculpture, theatre, dance, poetry and prose, filmmaking, musical composition, architecture) |
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