Lylia Schoepp

Culturally Relevant Mini Lesson

EDFD 459
Barcelona!

Where/When I actually used this lesson:

This lesson was intended for a Spanish 1 class about the city of Barcelona, Spain.

Originally the lesson was a little different. This is how I wanted to teach the lesson, as it is more

engaging and culturally relevant.

Content Standard(s) (From ACTCL World Readiness Standards for Language Learners)

Standard: Cultures

Learning Objectives: Relating Cultural Practices to Perspectives: Learners use the language to

investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of

the cultures studied.

Standard: Communication

Learning Objective: Interpretive Communication: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze

what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.

Assessment (Formative)

Students will be relating what they learned that day to their own cultural funds of

knowledge and making specific connections during a class share-out of the exit ticket, but will

also have to use this information on their future test.

Materials

1. PowerPoint with pictures of the topics being presented.

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Culturally Relevant Mini Lesson
EDFD 459
2. Notecards with cultural aspects of Barcelona written on one side, and questions to

guide investigation on the other.

Time & Learning Activities (Procedure) Purpose (Objective)

Materials
Orientation/Engagement/Motivation/Hook
3 minutes & Students will watch a video of Castellers and The students will start to
video learn about this first cultural aspect of form cultural knowledge
Barcelona. about Barcelona in the
target language.
Content Choose all that apply (Can repeat and add rows): Presentation/Explicit Instruction,
Structured Practice/Exploration, Guided Practice/Feedback, Independent Practice/ Application,
Formative Assessment,
5 minutes & Student investigation of Barcelona in small The students will learn
notecard groups. about the culture of
provided by me Barcelona by researching
& computer topics on their own.
5 minutes Share out of content investigated The students will teach one
another about the topics
that were investigated.
Closure
3 minutes & Exit Students will write on their exit ticket one The students will be able to
ticket (on back similarity and one difference between the analyze the differences and
side of culture of Winona and Barcelona. similarities between their
questions own culture and that of the
sheet) city being studied.

Modifications, Management, and/or Safety Issues

No modifications are necessary for this lesson.

I will monitor student work by walking around the classroom during their investigation.