DCD´s Block 4

Language Arts: What do different cultures give to the world?-Why are mountains important?–(Unit 10, 11, 12)

Unit 10

DCD1

To understand vocabulary for descriptive adjectives by identifying words in context activating the students existing knowledge about food and recipes.

DCD2

To demonstrate understanding of a story by discussing given questions and describing pictures to tell the story.

DCD3

To request information to describe places, pictures or situations and respond using short answers to follow a conversation.

Unit 11

DCD4

To talk about different landscapes throughout applying the new vocabulary and their existing knowledge about geography.

DCD5

To give a simple description of an action and focus the attention in the action, understanding that it is not important or not known; however, who or what is performing the action.

DCD6

To read, understand and discuss an informational text to give reasons for why things happened and what happened applying reading strategies.

Unit 12

DCD7

To describe different landscapes and mountains throughout applying the new vocabulary and their existing knowledge about geography.

DCD8

To read, understand and discuss a fictional narrative text; to apply a reading strategy to write a descriptive essay.

DCD9

To give a simple description of an action and focus the attention in the action, understanding that it is not important or not known; however, who or what is performing the action in the past.

Science:  Climate, an ever-changing air.

DCD1

To relate the characteristics of the climate in the forested regions with the characteristics of the flora and fauna of the region, from observation, description and interpretation of the aspects observed.  (Reinforcement Spanish Class)

DCD2

To differentiate the characteristics and composition of the atmospheric layers, from observation and interpretation of graphics and the description of each layer.  (Reinforcement Spanish Class)

DCD3

To analyze the information provided by weather stations for the weather forecast, from the experimental data acquisition, data interpretation and bibliographic information.

DCD4

To explain the impact that climate zones have on the forest biomes with observation and audiovisual interpretation, bibliographic research and comparative analysis of the characteristics and peculiarities of the mangroves on the coast, Andean cloud forests and Ecuadorian Amazon jungle.

DCD 5

To describe the main characteristics learn in the block by explaining the weather changes in a weather forecast.

Social Studies:  Hectic and Struggling years.

1. To analyse and describe the period from 1925 to 1947, the presidential periods during this period of time and the social, political and economic facts which cause social fights of and organized people to value the artistic expressions committed to a social changes that includes an examination of the way of living and women’s participation in the society.

(Reinforce for Spanish class)

2. To establish causes and consequences that origin the Peruvian invasion and the territorial division of Ecuador, popular reactions from a multi-causal analysis.

3. To characterize the social stability from 1948 to 1960, with the banana boom, the middle class up growth and the development of communication routes.

4. To value the development of political and social rights product of the civil Ecuadorian society fight for an increasing democracy.

5. To describe the main facts and changes that occurred in Ecuador from 1920 to 1940.