ND Curriculum Initiative

Subject & Standards

Understandings & Goals

Enduring Understanding: I want students to understand that knowledge of traditional cultural practices increases understanding of and appreciation for those practices.
Goal(s): 1. To understand the importance of the bullfight.  2. To understand what happens in a bullfight.

Questions Answered

Essential questions: 1. What happens in a bullfight? 2. Why would someone want to become a bullfighter? 3. Why are people in favor of bullfighting? 4. Why are people opposed to bullfighting?
Objectives: 1. To identify the parts of a bullfight.  2. To explain opposing viewpoints on the practice of the bullfight, using bullfighting terms. 3. To explain what happens in each part of the bullfight.

Assessment

What quiz and test items (e.g. simple content-focused questions that require a single, best answer) will provide evidence of understanding? Traditional oral and/or written quizzes and worksheets that require a single best answer will be used to develop and strengthen comprehension.
What academic prompts (e.g. open-ended questions or problems that require students to think critically and then to prepare a response / product / performance) will provide evidence of understanding? Students will respond orally in Spanish to teacher questions about readings and videos.
What performance tasks and projects (e.g. complex challenges that are authentic, mirror the real world and require a performance or product) will you include that will provide evidence of student understanding? Students will prepare a brochure and a Power Point presentation, plus respond to an impromptu essay.
What other evidence (e.g. observations, work samples, dialogues, student self-assessment) of understanding will you collect? Classroom observations of discussions and bullfighting vocabulary games will provide ungraded evidence of student understanding.