Sellwood School
World Languages
Spanish is offered at Sellwood as a two-year sequence in the seventh and eighth grades. By successfully completing two years of middle school Spanish, students receive one high school credit and are eligible to enter second year high school Spanish. For those students continuing onto the International Baccalaureate (IB) program at Cleveland, five years of study is required for the IB certificate in Spanish.
In addition to using a textbook, Spanish is taught using student-centered games, songs, skits and music. Students work equally in all the communication areas: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
By the end of their second year, students are able to:
In addition to using a textbook, Spanish is taught using student-centered games, songs, skits and music. Students work equally in all the communication areas: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
By the end of their second year, students are able to:
- Greet
- Introduce and describe self
- Ask and answer questions regarding age, past times, school schedule and daily routine
- Name and list vocabulary of common everyday items (colors, objects in school and the house, days of the week, months, weather, etc.)
- Use numbers in telling time, bartering in a market and saying phone numbers
- Order and discuss food in a restaurant
- Ask and give directions
- Locate all the Spanish speaking countries on a map and identify several facts about each
- Identify, compare and contrast common cultural practices among Spanish speaking countries with their own practices and traditions.
- Learn about and experience some of the celebrations that are practiced such as Day of the Dead, Cinco de Mayo and the holidays that our cultures have in common.
