Glastonbury Foreign Language Program
Curricular Unit: What defines your self-identity? (Spanish)
Lesson Title: ¿Cómo nos identificamos?
Grade: 11
Subject/Topic Area(s): Self-identity
Key Words: estereotipos, costumbres, imágenes
Time Frame: 2 days
Designed by: L. Rosa

Standards:

Major Standards -- 3.1, 4.1
Supporting Standards -- 1.3.1, 1.3.2

Materials:

Pasajes (literatura, actividades)

Brief Summary of Lesson:

Students will define “ethnic identity”, will discuss the components of this concept and will respond to the question: “How do we identify ourselves?”

Activities:

Students will define the term "ethnic identity" by brainstorming a list of aspects by which we identify our ethnicity and forming a list of the necessary vocabulary words to define themselves and others (politics, clothes, language/accent, food, holidays celebrated, religion, social values, i.e. family, music...)
Students will respond in their journals to the question: “How do we identify ourselves?”

Identify Desired Results

What do they already know that will help them learn new information? Where and when did they learn it?

Preconceived notions about certain ethnic groups

Students will understand...

The components of one's identity.
Stereotypes can vary from different perspectives.
The differences between immigrant groups.

Student will know...

Stereotypes are generalizations about certain groups that do not reflect reality
The differences between “ser” and “estar” to talk about temporary and permanent conditions.

Student will be able to...

Use the present tense to refer to the way they identify themselves

New vocabulary, structures acquired:

Identidad, cualidades externas vs. internas, estereotipos, costumbres, imágenes

Determining acceptable evidence

Performance Tasks: Speaking - class discussions

Other evidence: Writing- stereotypes from different perspectives

Examples of Student Work: