Curriculum Map: Arabic I

January/February
-Use of Arabic subject
pronoun, plural
patterns and broken
plural
- Human and nonhuman plural
agreements Nominal
and verbal sentence,
-Possessive pronouns
Family/friends

February/March
-Arabic
culture(marriage
and individual
family workings,
traditions, food)
-Present tense and
its negation
-Arabic roots and
word patterns
-Object pronouns

March
-Arabic adverbs
-Nouns+ adjectives
-Weather
-Jobs and occupations
-Demonstratives (this/that)
-Arabic music

Essential
Questions/Objec
tives

- 10 plural patterns
-Subject pronouns
variation according
gender -identify
different kind of
sentence structure

-Present tense
subject and verb
agreement
- object pronouns
suffix variations

-Arabic adverbs ant its varied

diacritical marks
- Nouns and adjectives writing
structure.
-Most popular occupations in Middle
East
-Talk about weather

Assessment

-Grammar Quiz
-Word banks completed
- Collaborative rubrics
for group work
(Brief conversation in
target language)

-Vocab quiz
-Grammar quiz
-Collaborative
rubrics for group
work
-Word banks
completed
-Creating a
recorded passage
and submit it to us
-Authentic
individual projects
(writing journals)
-Field trip to Arabic
restaurant
(students engage in
conversations using
natural
communications)

-Vocab quiz
-Grammar quiz
-Collaborative rubrics for group work
-Word banks completed
- record a weather forecast reports
and submit to us
-Oral presentation to sing an Arabic
song

Content

Level 1: Standard (1.a,

1.c, 1.d, 4.a)
Ask and answer basic
question /Engage in
small conversations

Level 1: Standard
(2.a 2b, 2.c, 4.b.
4.c, 6.d)
Read, comprehend
and respond to

Level 1: Standard (2.e, 6.e, 3.b)

Read short narrative texts on simple
topics
-Demonstrate an awareness of music
and art from the target cultures

Theme/Focus

Skills,
Strategies,
Behaviors

-SWBAT identify the

variations of Arabic
subject pronouns and
plural patterns
-SWBAT form and
meaningful
conversation.
SWBAT to arrange
family members
diagrams
- SWBAT identity family
members

Resources

-Textbook Ch2 and 3

-Textbook DVDs
-YouTube videos ABOUT
basic Arabic
conversations

words and phrases

in a variety of
situations. (e.g.
Read and order
from a menu)
-SWBAT order food
from a menu using
the target
language.
-SWBAT compose
Arabic sentences
using present tense,
and object
pronouns.
-SWBAT arrange
words according to
their roots and
patterns

-Give short oral presentations (sing a

song)

-Textbook ch4
-Textbook DVDs
-Visual aids
(pictures and
articles from the
internet)

-Textbook ch5 -Textbook DVDs

-Visual/ audible aids (songs and
singers pictures from the internet)

-SWBAT read and locate Arabic cities

from a weather forecast report.
-SWBAT sing a short Arabic song
-SWBAT identify the difference in
writing nouns+ adjectives in Arabic
from English