AMLA 610

Unit Plan Module 1

Maggie Seter
*Based on the Keys to Planning
Language and Level/Grade:
1st grade Spanish immersion
Novice learners

Approximate
Length:
Approximate
number of
minutes weekly:
Number of
lessons in the
unit:

5 days
100 minutes

5 lessons

Theme/Topic:
Enduring
Understanding(s):

Personal Timeline
Major events in a persons life can be
documented on a timeline.
A personal timeline explains a persons major life
events in chronological order.

Essential Question(s):

What can be characterized as a major life event?

Why do historians document change over time
using a timeline?

Unit Goals: Language

and Content

Students will understand the meaning of a

timeline and why it is special to ones personal
life.
Students will be able to create a personal
timeline that identifies at least three events from
ones own life.
Students will be able to state and describe three
major life events written and spoken in the target
language.
Students will be able to present and discuss the
significance and uniqueness of their timeline to a
small group including the teacher in the target
language.

Summative
Performance
Assessments:

Interpretive Mode:
https://esp.brainpop.com/ciencias_sociales/figuras_famo
sas/
Students will choose a famous person from the links on
Brain Pop to watch on the computer. After watching, they
will fill out a worksheet that asks what famous person
they learned about and one major event from their life.

Interpersonal Mode:
The students will find one classmate to share with about
their person they watched and what event they chose
from the video.

Presentational Mode:
Students will create their own personal
timeline using Google Drawings. They will
choose three major events in their life to
document on their personal timeline and
share it with the teacher during a small group
meeting. Personal Timeline

Standards/Benchmarks to be addressed:
Minnesota Common Core Standards: 1.4.1.1.1
Create a timeline that identifies at least three events from one's own
life. For example: Eventsbirth, walking, loss of first tooth, first day
of school.

4. History: 1:
History Thinking
Skills

ACTFL World-Readiness Standards

Culture:
Products: Timeline
Practices: Documenting personal events
Perspectives: People around the world document
major events about people, war, history, and more.
Connections:
Making Connections: Acquiring Information
Literacy: Students will use
and Diverse
sentence starters learned
Perspectives:
from previous literacy
Students will observe that
lessons. Examples: Cuando
major events may be
era joven, Habia muchos
special birthdays or

eventos en mi vida come

religious events.

Math: Students will be able

to identify what a year
means and how to say a
specific year in Spanish.

Comparisons:

Language
Comparisons:

Cultural Comparisons:

Students will compare major

events in their lives to the
events in the lives of people
from other countries.

Communities:

School and Global

Communities:
Students will share
their created timelines
with their families and
other immersion
classes. They will post
their timelines in the
hallway at school and
the teacher will post
them to the class
website for
parents/families to see
and enjoy.

Lifelong Learning:
Students will write one futuristic
goal on their timeline. For
example: Travel to a Spanishspeaking country, have a
conversation with someone from a
Spanish-speaking country, go to
college and study Spanish, etc.

Other State Language Standards or Benchmarks:

Toolbox
Language Functions:

Label your timeline

Say the date of each
event
Explain the event

Related
Structures/Patterns

Vocabulary
Expansion
My first event was. Tier 1:

My second event
was
My third event
was
This event is
important to me
because

Tier 2:

Year
Month
Day
Event
Timeline

Key Learning Activities/Formative

Assessments
Key Learning
How does this
Activity/Formative
activity support
Assessment
the unit
objectives
(language and
content)?
Students will be shown the
example of the teachers timeline.
They will verbally answer
questions to What does the
teachers timeline have? What are
some major life events the teacher
used on her timeline?
Students will do a think, pair,
share with their table members
about major events in their life. For
example, birthdays, vacations,
special
awards/games/competitions,
death in their family, moving to a
new home, etc.
Students will first create a draft of
their timeline using paper and
pencil. They will take corrections
from their peers and their teacher
in order to move on to creating
their timeline on the computer.

Students will identify

the components of a
timeline in order to
create their own
timeline.

Students will
brainstorm with one
another to decide
which three life events
they will use in their
own timeline.

Students will create a

rough draft of their
timeline before creating
it on the computer.

Mode of
Communication:

Interpretive

Interpersonal

Presentational

Resources

Google Drawings
Brain Pop espaol

Technology Integration

Chromebook