12th Grade World Languages Unit Plans

New to teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture®?  Make Back To School easier and consider your Unit 1 Lesson Plans (Familias en diferentes sociedades) done!  These digital AND printable lesson plans have nearly every activity you will need linked in.  Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, Activities that combine 2 skills, homework, assessments and even a project are all included! Students will learn how to complete the AP® Exam Cultural Comparison in this unit as well as practice the reading and listening multiple choice style questions.  This is the first unit in the AP® Classroom curriculum and a great way to get the year started with your new students!  Best of all, these lesson plans do NOT require that you have a particular textbook!

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***Thank you so much for creating these! They are so helpful to have in class. My students were very engaged.****

Teaching a new course, or even trying to revamp a course you’ve taught for a while can be overwhelming.  These lesson plans will take you through the entire first unit for Families in Different Societies, starting with a “Hook Activity” to spark interest and then the essential questions, vocabulary list and grammar study guide you will need to get started. Every activity you need (with the exception of 3) is linked in.  Your prep will be limited to reviewing the lesson plans and sources ahead of your students, but the searching for appropriate authentic materials and creating accompanying activities is already done for you! Download the learning objectives and activity count here!

I am fortunate to have several textbook resources including Temas and Avance.  In these lesson plans I make use of these textbooks for 3 out of 50 activities.  However, especially after teaching on-line for a year, I have moved away from relying on textbooks and I create most of the activities myself. This makes these lesson plans very versatile and usable for anyone!  For teachers who need or like to teach digitally, all of the activities in this bundle can be assigned via Google Classroom or other learning management system. However, almost every activity is also printable for teachers and students who prefer paper copies.  Best of all, once you have these activities in your Google Drive, you can edit and adapt anything to suite your needs!

I have been teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture since 2014 and have 24 years of teaching experience.  My students have done overwhelmingly well on the AP® exam over the years and almost all have earned the scores needed to get college credit, with many receiving 4’s and 5’s. My course is also run as a collaboration with the University of CT.

I start the year with a set of lesson plans designed to last one week.  It is linked below.  We do all the paper-passing, signing up for different apps and classrooms, and become comfortable with the course and our classmates.  We also present our summer homework, also linked below.  This unit starts as if all of the beginning of the year “housekeeping” has been done already. 

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FYI:  This resource is included in the AP Spanish Lesson Plans for the Whole Year Without a Textbook" resource for sale in my TeachShare shop!

Who can use this product?

• AP Spanish Language and Culture® Students

How can I use this product?

• These unit plans will take you through approx. 2 months of school
• Teach basics; grammar and vocab
• Teach how to do the Cultural Comparison
• 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?

• Daily lesson plans for 18 school days (modified block: (three 45 min periods and one 90 min period a week) Easily adaptable to any school schedule!
• Table breaking down how many of each kind of activity in the unit
• Table of contents with learning objectives for each day
• 50 + activities
• Essential questions
• Vocab list + free quizlet link
• Study guide for grammar quiz
• Vocab and Grammar quizzes + answer key
• Formal writing assessment (study guide, rough draft and final draft)
• Traditions Project + Rubric
• 5 reading activities
• 9 writing activities (including diary-style free-writes)
• 7 speaking activities
• 7 listening activities
• 4 activities that combine 2 of the above skills
• 6 vocab and grammar activities
• 8 AP Style activities (cultural comparison and multiple choice reading and listening)
• 3 formative quizzes
• 2 interim assessments
• 2 summative assessments
• Homework
• Answer keys to most activities
• 50 Google Doc pages, 8 Google Slides, 1 Google Form
• Teacher notes to further explain certain activities 
• Time built in for holidays or time needed to catch up
• All parts of this product are Google docs and slides, and therefore can be edited so that they are just right for your students!

Need more AP resources to get started ?  Try these!

AP Spanish Lesson Plans for the Whole Year Without a Textbook (includes EVERYTHING you need for the whole year, including the resources below!)

AP Spanish: Week 1- Everything You Need to Get Started

AP Spanish Summer Assignment with Rubric Included

AP Spanish Open-Ended Responses: How To Bundle

AP Spanish: Unit Review Charts Digital and Printable Versions

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Back To School is here! The AP Spanish Language and Culture® Complete Lesson Plans for the Whole Year includes EVERYTHING you need to teach this course without being tied to a particular textbook!  Lesson plans are written by unit, and include specific, step-by-step instructions, # of minutes per activity, and every activity is linked into the lesson plans.  That means:

-no searching a folder for a particular activity!

-no searching the internet for authentic materials!

-no scrambling to make scaffolds and supports to make your materials accessible!

-no guesswork as to how or what to teach next!

Perfect for:

*Teachers teaching this course for the first time

*Teachers who need a refresh after teaching the course for a while

*Teachers feeling overloaded with all the responsibilities of the job

You can expect the following in each unit of study:

-a table that lists the types of activities and how many of each there are (view these in the previews)

-a table of learning objectives for each class for the entire unit (view these in the previews)

*Click HERE to download the learning objectives and activity count*

-Google Docs lesson plans with daily learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, teacher tips and explanations, and activities linked in

-embedded direct instruction and practice for the different parts of the AP Spanish® Exam

-Lessons organized by 3 45 minute periods and 1 90 minute period (our school uses a modified block schedule). The lesson activities are easy to move around to meet your school's schedule!

When we unexpectedly went to distance learning, I had to scramble as an AP Spanish® teacher. My students did not have access to their textbooks or the audio that went with it.  We used the Temas text, but I found that I had to adapt.  So, my lesson plans are now based almost entirely on authentic materials that I have found and curated.  I have created vocab lists around these materials and the activities that will go with them!  There are times during the lesson plans where I offer a suggestion from something that is found in the Temas textbook, but these lessons can be used fully without those suggestions.

Along with the honor of teaching our most advanced Spanish students comes the burden of heavy correcting and tons of planning.  We also have other preps.  Having an entire year’s worth of curriculum, lesson plans, projects and assessments ready to go will save you an incredible amount of time and relieve some of the pressure that we face as teachers. 

In my classes, we also review grammar and use the Avance text as a guide.  I include a study guide and a grammar quiz in each unit, but the practice activities (if you want to review grammar in class) are not included.

Required Materials:

-Access to the Internet and Google Docs/Slides/Forms

-Access to AP Classroom® via College Board  (free to all AP ®Teachers)

Referenced ancillary materials (though not necessary)

-Temas textbook

-Avance Grammar textbook

-A test prep workbook (several are suggested in the plans, though not needed)

Here is some feedback about my unit plans!

Extremely satisfied

Thank you so much for creating these! They are so helpful to have in class. My students were very engaged.

Extremely satisfied

Amazing resource! I have already purchased Unit 2 and 3!

Extremely satisfied

Extremely well planned unit. Everything you need is included here. I teach 3 different levels of Spanish and it is hard for me to revamp lesson plans. We use the textbook TEMAS at my school site but the readings can be very dry. I like how this unit incorporates soooo many resources that are authentic. 

I am definitely going to purchase more units. I wish there was a discounted bundle with all units because I would buy it!

Why should you trust me??

I have been teaching AP Spanish Language and Culture® since 2014 and have 24 years of teaching experience.  As I am still a classroom teacher, my activities and ideas evolve each year.  My students have done overwhelmingly well on the AP® exam over the years and almost all have earned the scores needed to get college credit, with many receiving 4’s and 5’s. I am successfully teaching this course in conjunction with the University of CT as another way for students to earn college credit. My former students report taking Spanish classes at the college/university level and having a high level of success!  

Consider asking your district to buy this product for you!   

**Please be sure to buy additional licenses if more than one teacher plans to use this resource.**

Who can use this product?

• AP Spanish Language and Culture® Teachers

How can I use this product?

• Literally everything you need, in order, organized, linked in from day 1 to day 180 to teach AP Spanish Language and Culture®

What’s included in this product?

• Week 1  Getting started
• Unit 1   Las familias en diferentes sociedades
• Unit 2  La influencia de la lengua en la cultura y la identidad 
• Unit 3  La influencia de la belleza y la estética
• Unit 4  La influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología
• Unit 5  Los factores que influyen en la calidad de vida
• Unit 6  Los desafíos ambientales, políticos y ambientales 
• AP Test Prep Mega Bundle
• AP Spanish End of Year Activities
• AP Spanish Summer Homework Assignment 

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