Technology-based+Lesson+Plan


 * Technology-based Lesson Plan** **- "La última moda" (the latest fashion)**


 * Language/Level:** 2nd year high school Spanish


 * Intended Learning Outcomes:** Students will use the internet to research about designers from Spanish-speaking countries. The students will then create an audio file. They will act as news anchors reporting that the designer is opening a new store locally. They will describe the location, the clothes, how they look/fit, etc.

• National Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics. • National Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied. • National Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cutlures studied and their own.
 * Standards used:**


 * Context:** Students will have studied the language skills necessary for talking about how clothes look and fit.


 * Rationale:** This activity allows students not only to expand their knowledge on the fashion industry of Spanish-speaking countries, but also to practice their learned vocabulary/grammar and incorportate technology.


 * Procedure:**
 * 1.)** The students will spend about 15 minutes looking up different fashion designers who are natives of Spanish speaking countries (Manolo Blahnik, Cristobal Balenciaga, etc.). The students will take note of a few biographical facts and also look at samples of their designs. Remember, this news broadcast is fictional in that there really is not a local store opening, however it is necessary that the students learn a little bit about a few important hispanic designers.
 * 2.)** The students may want to take some notes on what they want to say during their news broadcast. They will be required to talk about the designer (where he/she is from), the location of the new store (incorporate direction vocabulary), and what the clothes are like (incorporate clothes vocabulary).
 * 3.)** The students will create VoiceThread accounts (this can be done a day in advance to save on time).
 * 4.)** The students will record their news casts on the VoiceThread account. This should be an authentic news cast in that the students should not have written down word-for-word what they will say. Thus, the students may feel the need to rerecord if they stumble through the recording.


 * It may be easier to have the students do the research part of the lesson plan for homework the night before, in order to avoid timing problems.

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