Stage G - Foreign Language
Descriptors
28A - Students who meet this standard can understand oral
communication in the target language.
- Demonstrate understanding (e.g., retell, dramatize, illustrate)
of narratives, conversations, and aural presentations using
available resources.
- Follow multi-step instructions in a variety of contexts.
28B - Students who meet this standard can interact in
the target language in various settings.
- Produce original responses to a wider range of questions.
- Initiate conversation about familiar topics.
- Read aloud in the target language using correct pronunciation,
intonation, and inflection.
- Dramatize non-verbal cues, including gestures, common
to the culture of the target language.
- Use appropriate non-verbal cues, including gestures, common
to the culture of the target language.
28C - Students who meet this standard can understand written
passages in the target language.
- Explain the main message of a variety of written materials
with the help of available resources.
- Compare word use, phrasing, and sentence structure of
the target language with those of one or more other languages.
28D - Students who meet this standard can use the target
language to present information, concepts and ideas for a
variety of purposes to different audiences.
- Make a brief presentation on a topic of personal interest
or on a topic that has been studied in another subject area.
- Prepare a written or audio-visual presentation (e.g.,
information exchange with peers using available resources)
on a topic of interest in daily life.
- Create and present an original story or poem based upon
a model.
29A - Students who meet this standard can understand manners
and customs of various target language societies.
- Distinguish accepted roles of some social units in societies
associated with the target language (e.g., the role of the
extended family, the concept of friendship, the treatment
of elders, gender roles).
- Describe some specific social practices that occur in
the U.S., in the target language culture, and in both.
29B - Students who meet this standard can understand music,
dance, folk art, visual art, drama, and architecture related
to the target language societies.
- Describe the themes of selected art forms.
- Use target language vocabulary to describe selected works
of art.
- Apply essential target language vocabulary to refer to
tools and products of one or more art forms.
29C - Students who meet this standard can understand literature
and various media of target language societies.
- Demonstrate comprehension of selected materials (e.g.,
advertisement, cartoon, instructions, news article, play,
report) with assistance from resources.
- Demonstrate comprehension of theme, settings, plot, and
form of selected works of youth literature and abridgements
of adult literature in the target language.
- Create simple non-print media messages (e.g., tape recordings,
cartoons, commercials, videos) in the target language modeled
on media examples using available technology.
29D - Students who meet this standard can understand history
of areas where the target language is spoken.
- Write or present a simple report on a key historical figure
giving basic biographical information.
- Describe an historic event in basic terms.
29E - Students who meet this standard can understand geography
of various target language societies.
- Write or present information on a geographical aspect
of a target language society (e.g., natural resources, products
of the culture or ethnic groups) in the country(ies) where
the target language is spoken.
30A - Students who meet this standard can use the target
language to reinforce and further knowledge of other disciplines.
- Classify differing economic systems in a country where
the target language is spoken.
- Use the target language to gather and organize data (e.g.,
model, outline, summary, solution) to solve math problems
in a complex format.
- Cite examples of selected physical and geological features,
vegetation, or animal life indigenous to areas where the
target language is spoken.
- Describe diet, nutrition, and physical fitness issues
in areas where the target language is spoken.
30B - Students who meet this standard can use the target
language to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a variety
of career options.
- Identify and describe occupations unique to areas where
the target language is spoken.
- Describe the preparation for, and activities of, some
careers in which the target language can be used.
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