![]() I will use this unit with my Spanish 4 students, who have an Intermediate Level on the ACTFL (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) Performance Guidelines for K-12. About 67% of the students receive reduced lunch. The school has a student body of about 700 students of which approximately, a 53% are African American, 27% Hispanic, 17% White, 3% Asian. Career, is magnet school for students interested in health sciences, business, and technology. The unit is to be taught at Hill Regional Career High School in New Haven. They will also learn basic notions of film studies, as well as how to watch, interpret and analyze movies as making connections and comparisons with the original text, decide the point of view of a text or film, who the narrator is, etc. In this unit, students will first learn about Latin American literature, to ultimately be able appreciate, read, understand, analyze, and interpret short stories or novel excerpts written by authors such as Gabriel García Márquez, Juan Rulfo, Isabel Allende or Laura Esquivel in order to compare them to some of their adaptations on the screen. As for films, they only think in terms of whether they like them or not, they do not think of films as stories that do have an structure, characters and many other aspects such as the cinematography, the mise-en scéne (settings and sets), the sound, the image, etc. Most of my students have not yet been exposed to foreign authors or to any kind of film analysis and they find it difficult to interpret what they read or see. The unit El realismo mágico en el cine provides me with the opportunity to introduce my students to "Magical Realism" in Latin American Literature and some of its adaptations in film while implementing the "5Cs"-Cultures, Connections (among disciplines), Comparisons (between cultures), Communication, and Communities- that the National Standards of Foreign Language Learning promote. Most of my high school students are exposed to other cultures daily, but choose not to take advantage of such an invaluable experience since they do not know how to deal with the unfamiliar. ![]() Students are not necessarily thrilled about learning a foreign language, so my task as a teacher is to make it engaging and appealing while they learn how to identify and absorb knowledge about the many different Spanish cultures and identities. Year after year I seek new approaches to inculcate respect and the ability to value global consciousness and cultural diversity to my students as well as to stimulate them to learn about the Hispanic and Spanish cultures while learning the grammar, vocabulary and other linguistic components of the Spanish language. the lines of demarcation that separates what."My most important problem was destroying.Lo "real maravilloso" y el cine by María Cardalliaguet Gómez-Málaga
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