11th Grade Spanish Thematic Unit Plans

Are you teaching a Spanish 2 or 3 unit about Travel and Vacations?  Exhausted from creating all of the activities your students need to be successful?  This unit called “Nuestras vacaciones” includes EVERYTHING you need to teach this unit, without a specific textbook! Reading, writing, speaking, listening and cultural activities are all included, along with step by step lesson plans, homework assignments, assessments and answer keys.  Save your time and energy for the millions of other things teachers must do!

Being a new teacher or even teaching a new course can be so overwhelming and so time consuming.  Even districts that have textbooks don’t always provide all of the individual activities students need for practice in building both performance and proficiency.  These lesson plans are designed for about 5 weeks (5 classes a week) for any curriculum teaching about travel and vacations and the past (preterite) tense. They are written day by day, week by week, in a logical sequence.  Each activity is linked into the lesson plans, so you don’t need to go searching for what you need.  Everything is made with Google Docs or Google Slides, so you can modify if you want or need to change anything!

These lesson plans combine all of the best practices of World Language Instruction.  Grammar is embedded into comprehensible input, but specific notes and practices for grammar are also provided.  There are TONS of contextualized practices to increase proficiency, but there are also discrete practices to help students memorize vocabulary and endings to help them along faster! I try to marry performance (being able to communicate on a very specific topic) with proficiency (a person’s overall ability to communicate).  

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Check out the learning objectives and activity count here!

All of these activities are included in these lesson plans, along with many more which cannot be bought separately.

1. Spanish Irregular Preterite e-i Interactive Google Slides with Pear Deck

2. Spanish Youth Hostels: Presentation, Video, Reading

3. Vacaciones en España Culture Presentation with Linked Activities Past Tense

4. Spanish Writing Prompt: Our Vacation Past Tenses Group Challenge

5. Spanish Task Cards: Travel Situations for Speaking or Writing!

6. Spanish Partner Conversations about Travel and Vacation: Guided Conversations

7. Spanish Verb Conjugating: Minuto Loco Print or Digital!

8. Spanish Write, Speak and Listen Activity: Any Level!

9. Spanish Seal of Biliteracy Listening & Speaking for Travel and Vacations

10. Spanish Boom Cards for Regular Pretertite and Ir Travel Theme

Why should you trust me?  I have 23 years of experience as a high school Spanish teacher in years 1, 2, 3, 4 and AP Spanish.   I have taught both with and without textbooks.  Once the pandemic hit and we did not have access to our resources at school, I created most of the materials my students needed on my own. I love designing lesson plans and student activities that are based on growing proficiency and setting students up for success!  I am happy to answer questions and help with any needs as you work through these lesson plans. 

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Who can use this product?

• This unit is appropriate for Spanish 2 or Spanish 3 students 

How can I use this product?

• These unit plans will take you through approx. 5 weeks of school
• Teach basics; grammar (preterite regular and irregular) and vocab related to travel and vacations (vocab list included)
• Practice proficiency-based Seal of Biliteracy activities
• Learn about families in different societies using curated articles, podcasts, class discussion, videos, free writing, and more!
• Formative, Interim and Summative assessments included!

What’s included in this product?

• 278 total pages/slides, etc.
• Teacher notes about the design and use of these lesson plans
• A table of contents which states each day’s learning objectives
• An activity count, so you can see exactly how many resources are included
• 5 weeks (30 days) of lesson plans, spelled out step by step, with all activities linked in
• The extra 5 days are an alternate to week 5, allowing you to differentiate for a writing or speaking summative
• Every activity, quiz, homework, assessment, study guide, etc is included!
• Vocab list
• Pre-made Quizlet for the vocabulary
• 10 reading activities
• 13 writing activities
• 8 speaking activities
• 11 listening activities
• 3 activities specifically focused on culture
• 21 grammar or vocab focused activities (quick practices/homeworks)
• 2 formative assessments
• 2 interim assessments
• 2 summative assessments
• Study guides
• Answer keys
• 5 activities that prep students for tests for the Seal of Biliteracy
• 7 activities that combine 2 or more skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening)
• Everything can be edited if you would like
• Everything is created and ready to use if you would like!

Other resources you may like:

AP Spanish Lesson Plans for the Whole Year Without a Textbook!

Spanish Seal of Biliteracy Test Prep Bundle

Task Cards for Present, Past and Future Spanish Speaking and Writing

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