541ACC ITALIAN 1 ACCELERATED Unit 1: Unit 1 Benvenuti

Lesson 3: I numeri

Duration of Days: 7

Lesson Objective

Students will be able to count in the target language, as well as identify things like the amount of students in class and their ages.

Quanti anni hai?
Quanti studenti ci sono in classe oggi?

Connections / Culture / Comparison
Interpretive Communication
Interpersonal Communication

Students will grapple with the concept of "having" years in other languages, instead of "being" years in English. Higher level thinking is necessary.
DOK 1: Teacher says a string of complex numbers (e.g., years, large prices); students write them down.
DOK 2: Provide a simple bar graph in the target language showing demographic data (e.g., populations of different Spanish-speaking countries). Students must answer "how many" or "which is greater" questions.
DOK 3: Provide students with a pre-written "receipt" or "ledger" that contains mathematical or linguistic errors in the numbers. Students must find the errors, explain why they are wrong, and correct them. This addresses the "Self-Monitoring" and "Error Analysis" indicators in your look-fors.
DOK 4: Students research a local charity or a global issue (e.g., clean water access in a specific region) and calculate the impact of different donation amounts. This requires "application to real work" and "investigation,"

-Academic classes will engage with only numbers 1-10 in the first part of the lesson, and master that before progressing to 11-20, and so on.