Standard 2: Cultural Understanding
Students will develop cross-cultural
skills and understandings.
Modern Languages:
Key Idea 1
Effective communication involves meanings
that go beyond words and require an understanding of perceptions, gestures, folklore, and
family and community dynamics. All of these elements can affect whether and how well a
message is received.
Performance Indicators
(Benchmarks)
Checkpoint A
Students:
- use some key cultural traits of the
societies in which the target language is spoken.
Checkpoint B
Students:
- exhibit more comprehensive knowledge of
cultural traits and patterns
- draw comparisons between societies
- recognize that there are important
linguistic and cultural variations among groups that speak the same target language
- understand how words, body language,
rituals, and social interactions influence communication.
Checkpoint C
Students:
- demonstrate sophisticated knowledge of
cultural nuances in a target language culture
- model how spoken language, body language,
and social interaction influence communication
- use appropriate registers
- write in the target language in a manner
that articulates similarities and differences in cultural behaviors.
Latin:
Key Idea 1
Latin acquisition provides the cultural
context for learning about the ancient world and its people. From this basis students can
compare and contrast antiquity and the present and thoughtfully contemplate the future.
Performance Indicators
(Benchmarks)
Checkpoint A Students:
- demonstrate knowledge of some aspects of
Greco-Roman culture and selected facts of daily life, myths, history, and architecture
- recognize manifestations of antiquity in
the modern world.
Checkpoint B Students:
- demonstrate increased knowledge of
Greco-Roman myths and legends, daily life and history, art, and architecture, and of their
influence on later civilizations
- read culturally authentic passages of
Latin adapted from Latin authors
- apply knowledge of Latin literature,
authors, and techniques of style to world literary traditions.
Checkpoint C Students:
- use adapted reading from Latin prose and
poetry to broaden knowledge about Greco-Roman civilization and its influence on subsequent
civilizations
- make comparisons of Latin literary style
with those of world literary traditions.
American Sign
Language:
Key Idea 1
Key cultural traits exist within the Deaf
culture, and cultural patterns are learned through the use of American Sign Language.
Performance Indicators
(Benchmarks)
Checkpoint A
Students:
- use key cultural traits that exist in
settings where American Sign Language is used
- become aware of cultural patterns, learned
through the use of American Sign Language, that characterize the Deaf culture.
Checkpoint B
Students:
- demonstrate more comprehensive knowledge
of the Deaf culture
- draw comparisons about different societies
both within the Deaf culture and other cultures
- recognize important linguistic and
cultural variations among different groups within the culture and in the various states
and Canadian provinces where American Sign Language is used.
Checkpoint C
Students:
- produce behaviors that are consistent with
the Deaf culture
- reflect a wide variety of different
contexts within the Deaf culture.
Native American
Languages:
Key Idea 1
Culture is transmitted and preserved
through knowledge about the lives of Native American people and the sharing of their
cultural ideology.
Performance Indicators
(Benchmarks)
Checkpoint A
Students:
- demonstrate an awareness of Native culture
- recognize the names of cultural items and
their uses
- understand the history and cultural
symbols of the people
- demonstrate knowledge about the clan
system.
Checkpoint B
Students:
- demonstrate increased knowledge of Native
culture through their myths and legends, art and architecture, and literature and
government
- recognize how Native cultural ideas exist
within modern America.
Checkpoint C
Students:
- demonstrate a through knowledge of the
Native culture
- distinguish between various subgroups
- relate their knowledge and understanding
of the culture to other Native American groups.
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