Identidad
Identity
Middle school opens with the deepest question: who am I? Personality, background, values — a self-introduction with substance, assessed by the year’s first IPA.
Unit objectives
- Describe personality with ser + adjectives
- Discuss background, languages, and heritage
- Interpret short authentic self-introductions by real teens
- Complete IPA: present “who I am” in three modes
Can-Do targets
- I can describe my personality with reasons.
- I can understand a teen’s self-introduction from an authentic video.
- I can present who I am beyond name and age.
Vocabulary scope
soy, la identidad, la personalidad, creativo, tímido, atrevido, la herencia, bilingüe, me identifico con, los valores
How this unit builds
Six years of me llamo and tengo mature into ser + adjective identity language; the IPA format debuts here and anchors every unit after.
What this unit will contain
Lessons are produced in the same fully interactive format as Kindergarten — flashcards with audio, games, listening tasks, and take-home activities — and will unlock here as they are finished.
¿Cómo soy? — personality
Mi herencia — background and languages
Voces reales — authentic teen intros
IPA: Yo — the three-mode assessment
Names carry stories
Two surnames — one from each parent — is standard across the Spanish-speaking world, and names carry family history. Students investigate what their own names carry.