Standards+for+Thematic+Unit

 **COMMUNICATION Standards 1.1:** Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions
 * STANDARDS FOR FOREIGN LANGUAGE LEARNING**
 * Students discuss global warming, descriptions, likes and dislikes, where animals live, what they eat, brainstorm and discuss the reasons why the animals are becoming endangered.

**Standards** **1.2:** Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics
 * Students read a short paragraph in Japanese and draw the picture based on that paragraph. Students listen to teacher and draw, write, or color an animal
 * Students make animal sounds.

**Standards** **1.3:** Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
 * Students give presentations of their animals and read several sentences about the animal, its habitat, and a short message.
 * Students give a presentation about an endangered species: short biography, message, why it is endangered, and how we can save
 * Students create a website (Glogster) with a message about how to save their endangered species and why we should save the endangered species.


 * CULTURES**
 * Standards** **2.2:**  Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied
 * Discuss the significance of different animals in Japan and then make origami of those animals

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**CONNECTIONS**
 * Standards** **3.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language Arts: In the WebQuest assignment, students will read, think and write about their endangered species
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Technology: Students will use the internet to complete a WebQuest, make a digital poster using Glogster and learn how to use Hiragana/Katakana using on a word processor
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Science: Students learn about environmental issues (global warming), students identify endangered and not endangered animals

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**COMPARISONS**
 * Standards** **4.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students demonstrate understanding of the nature of language through comparisons of the language studied and their own
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Compare and contrast animal sound in Japanese and American English

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**Standards** **4.2:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students demonstrate understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discuss the significance of different animals in Japan and then make origami of those animals

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">**COMMUNITIES**
 * Standards** **5.1:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will post their completed PowerPoints on the web (WikiSpace, school website)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Students will post their digital posters on Glogster