Digital Unit Plan Template

Unit Title: Vietnamese Language and Culture. Name: Anh Tran

Content Area: Vietnamese Grade Level: 6-12
CA Content Standard(s)/Common Core Standard(s):
CA Content Standards
Communication
Stage I
- 1.0 Students use formulaic language (learned words, signs [ASL], and phrases).
- 1.1 Engage in oral, written, or signed (ASL) conversations.
- 1.2 Interpret written, spoken, or signed (ASL) language.
- 1.3 Present to an audience of listeners, readers, or ASL viewers.
Cultures
Stage I
- 1.0 Students use appropriate responses to rehearsed cultural situations.
- 1.1 Associate products, practices, and perspectives with the target culture.
- 1.2 Recognize similarities and differences in the target cultures and between students’ own cultures.
- 1.3 Identify cultural borrowings.
Common Core Standards.
- RL 11-12.4: Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in the text, including figurative and connotative
meanings; analyze the impact of specific word choices on meaning and tone, including words with multiple meanings or language
that is particularly fresh, engaging, or beautiful.
 - RL 9-10.6: Analyze a particular point of view or cultural experience reflected in a work of literature from outside the United
States, drawing on a wide reading of world literature.
- W 6.1: Write arguments to support claims with clear reasons and relevant evidence.
+ a. Introduce claim(s) and organize the reasons and evidence clearly.
+ b. Support claim(s) with clear reasons and relevant evidence, using credible sources and demonstrating an understanding of the
topic or text.
+ c. Use words, phrases, and clauses to clarify the relationships among claim(s) and reasons.
+ d. Establish and maintain a formal style. e. Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from the argument presented.
- W 9-10.6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce, publish, and update individual or shared writing products, taking
advantage of technology’s capacity to link to other information and to display information flexibly and dynamically.
- L 11-12.5: 5. Demonstrate understanding of figurative language, word relationships, and nuances in word meanings.
+ a. Interpret figures of speech (e.g., hyperbole, paradox) in context and analyze their role in the text.
+ b. Analyze nuances in the meaning of words with similar denotations.
- SL 11-12.3: Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric, assessing the stance, premises, links
among ideas, word choice, points of emphasis, and tone used.
Big Ideas/Unit Goals:

- 1. The target of this lesson is that students can listen, speak, and write in Vietnamese fluent. Therefore, they can communicate in
daily Vietnamese lives.
- 2. Students will learn about the daily life of Vietnamese and the general information of Vietnamese holiday, food, traditional, and
some tips for you if you travel to Vietnam.
- 3. The other target of this unit to understand the culture of Vietnamese then they will have the connection between language and
culture. students discern how a culture views the world. Students comprehend the ideas, attitudes, and values that shape the target
culture.
- 4. Students can get a better result by using technology to support their study.

Unit Summary:

- The unit is created to introduce students about Viet Nam from the Vietnamese language to the culture. Students will learn basic
Vietnamese new vocabularies, learn how to write sentences, how to have the conversations by using new dictionaries, and overall
understanding the Vietnamese culture and language.
- This unit will have RL 11-12.4, RL 9-10.6, W 6.1, W 9-10.6, L 11-12.5and SL 11-12.3, of the California Content Standards that
are listed on the bottom. This Unit is the Language Arts area, and it is for Grade level from 6 to 12.
 - Students will have some activities such as group communication about daily life in Vietnamese, group activity learning
vocabularies. Plus, for the last activity, students will read an article about Vietnamese's holiday to understand its culture.
Assessment Plan:
Entry-Level: Formative: Summative:
- Giving students an easy Vietnamese article about - When the lesson begins, the teacher will review, - At the end of the semester, the teacher will have
Vietnamese culture around 50-100 words. explain the materials in class such as the conversation by the Vietnamese language
- Ask students to read it, then ask them to do a vocabularies and phrases in Vietnamese. around 5 minutes face to face with each student.
matching - word quiz. - Group students, then they will have to answer Students can choose any topic that they are
- Students will have to fill in the correct word in the questions; the teacher will be asking during interested in.
the blank to make sentences have meaning. the lesson. - I will be looking for communication skills and
- This assessment will have the teacher - At the end of each lecture, the teacher will ask Vietnamese culture knowledge.
determine how level they are, how much the student to sum up and to remind students - The Exam will be given base on the Main
understanding of the lesson they have. about the online homework, and graphic organize Contents and Big Ideas.
as well.

Lesson 1 (Teacher Lecture)

Student Learning Objective:
Students will be able to
understand the most popular
holiday in Vietnam that is
Lunar New Year.
Acceptable Evidence
(Assessments):
Students will be able to learn
What is Lunar New Year? The
preparation, the culture behind
this holiday.
Lesson Activities:
- Making the group of 4 or 5 students. Students will share in their group what are their experiences or what do
they think about Lunar New Year? Then ask them to compare with their own culture.
- Students will also do the Lecture guide by answering the question on it.
- Teacher will be walking around classroom to support and clarify.
- At the end, sum up the lecture.

Lesson 2 (Webercise/ iPad Lesson)

Student Learning Objective:
Students will learn how to
prepare for the Lunar New
Year perfectly.
Lesson 3 (Graphic Organizer)
Acceptable Evidence:
Students should be able to use
the teachers’ website to
demonstrate that they have
learned the Preparation for
Lunar New Year Project.
Students will able to show what
they have learned the material
through the webercise.
Lesson Activities:
- Making the group of 4 or 5 students. Give student an article on my website then ask them what are the
vocabularies that they are struggle with.
- Give student 10 vocabularies that students strugle the most, then ask student to make 5 sentences, by using
new vocabularies. The group finish first will win.
- Teacher will be walking around to support students about lesson activities provided by website correct
sentences
- Ask student to do the Preparation for Lunar New Year Project by going to
https://vietnameseinamerica.weebly.com/to do the activities. Once done, students are to complete
webercise located in my teachers’ website as homework.
- At the end, sum up the lecture.
Student Learning Objective:
Students will also understand
the basic General about
Vietnamese people, and also
understand the culture behind
it.
Acceptable Evidence:
Students will demonstrate the
ability of understanding in form
of the classroom on a graphic
organizer by using Popplet This
will allow students to
understand the other articles
while learning how to use
technology.
Lesson Activities:
- Group student in 4 or 5 people. Giving student a Anticipation/ Reaction Guide.
- Give students 5-10 minutes to discuss and share what they do understand about the Vietnamese general life
and the culture be hide it. Then ask them to share the main point, culture, the preparation, the traditional
clothes, traditional food or something relate to Vietnamese life.
- While students do the activities, teacher will go around to support them.
- At the end, sum up the lecture.

Unit Resources:
Teacher Lecture:
• https://prezi.com/view/Wc5aUHfQHfQt4GI59lxW/
Webercise:
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%E1%BA%BFt
Graphic Organizer:
• https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/finalelaccssstandards.pdf
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBm7EQ0iD7k
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1RYpMi8sXqTQ77Lavx0Grwm8FXbhvXWXGOQP-dyUUUgA/edit#slide=id.i42
• https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-culture-of-vietnam.html
• http://www.eastbysoutheast.com/country-profiles/vietnam-profile/
Students will also use the material, the article that I will provide in class.

Useful Websites:
• http://popplet.com/
• https://www.duolingo.com/
• http://www.digitaldialects.com/Vietnamese.htm
• http://www.seasite.niu.edu/vietnamese/matching/matching_standard.htm
• https://vietnameseinamerica.weebly.com/
• https://translate.google.com/
• https://www.youtube.com/
• https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/index.asp
• https://www.verbling.com/find-teachers/vietnamese
• https://www.onlinevietnamesetutor.com/?clcsr=1&ad=332665363606&adgroup=Tutor
• https://www.verbalplanet.com/learn-vietnamese.asp
• https://www.wyzant.com/tutors/online/Vietnamese