7th Grade: Portuguese/Grade 7
| Subject Area World Languages | Level Middle School | Grade 7th |
Course Description:
This introductory class focuses on language, customs, cultures, and geography for the areas where the language is spoken. Students learn practical vocabulary through a variety of written and oral activities. While language offerings vary, schools may choose to offer Spanish, French, German, and/or Latin at one or more grade levels, usually as an 18-week class.
Content Standards (AKS):
A - Communication
- exchange basic greetings, farewells, and expressions of courtesy, orally and in writing
- respond to classroom directions
- identify vocabulary and respond to simple questions on a variety of topics (e.g., weather, time, family, home, school, and food)
- manipulate common sequences (e.g., alphabet, calendar, and numbers)
- identify main ideas and basic details while reading or listening when strongly supported by context or illustrations
B - Cultural Perspectives, Practices, and Products
- develop an awareness of perspectives, practices, and products of the cultures where the target language is spoken
C - Connections, Comparisons, and Communities
- discuss academic and/or career benefits of language study
- use information acquired in the study of the target language and information acquired in other subject areas to reinforce one another
- compare the cultures of the target language countries to those of the United States
- compare basic elements of the target language to the English language
- demonstrate an awareness of current events in the target cultures