Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment: A group of students from Mexico is coming to visit your school and attend classes next month. You will give some information about your schedule this year.

Interpretive Task: Watch a video about the first day of school.  Write down the classes by period as a schedule is described. What time is lunch? After the video, write down your classes by period and when you have lunch.

Interpersonal Task: Discuss your schedule with a friend in Spanish class. Ask each other questions to find out what classes you and your friend like and don’t like, and explain why.

Presentational Task: Send an e-mail to a student in another country.  Tell what class you have each period and when you have lunch. Tell which classes you like and don’t like, and explain why.

Unit Understanding

Students will understand that …

• Students in Spanish-speaking countries study many of the same subjects they do.

Unit Essential Question

• How are schools in other countries similar to and different from schools where I live?