Context for the Integrated Performance Assessment: A group of students from <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Madrid</st1:place></st1:state> is coming to spend two weeks in your school. They would like to know if American students do the same activities on Saturdays that Spanish students do.

Interpretive Task: Watch a video in which several students from <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Madrid</st1:place></st1:state> talk about their Saturday activities. Make a list of these activities.

Interpersonal Task: Compare your list with your partner’s list to make sure that you both know what the Spanish students do on Saturdays. Work with your partner to add a list of activities that American students often do on Saturdays.

Presentational Task: Write an e-mail to one of the students from <st1:state w:st="on">Madrid</st1:state> comparing the activities students in Spain and the U.S. do on Saturdays. Be sure to include similarities and differences.

Unit Understanding

Students will understand that after-school activities can vary by culture.

Unit Essential Question

• Do teens in Spanish-speaking countries enjoy similar after-school activities to those in my community?

Students will know … / Students will be able to …

• Talk about activities outside of school

• Extend, accept, and decline invitations

• Tell when an event happens

• Understand cultural perspectives on after-school activities