Appendix I: Blank Unit Template

Language and Approximate Length

Korean/ Korean 3/ 11-12th 10 days
Level / Grade of Unit
Performance Approximate Number of
55 minutes
Range Minutes Weekly
Theme/Topic Age & Seniority in Korea

Essential Question What significance does age & seniority have in Korean culture and society?

Unit Goals
Learners will be able to:
Learners will be able to speak, write, and read ages in Korean using the Pure Korean numbers.
What should
Learners will be able to speak, write, and read dates in Korean using both the Pure and Sino Korean
learners know and
numbers.
be able to do by the
Learners will be able to know the difference between Korean age and International age.
end of the unit?
Learners will know the different rites of passage regarding different ages in Korean culture.
Learners will be able to discuss some of the ongoing social issues regarding age and seniority.
Summative Performance Assessment Tasks
• These tasks allow
Interpretive Mode
learners to
demonstrate how
well they have met
the goals of the
unit.
 The tasks follow
the format of the
IPA, but are Presentational Mode Interpersonal Mode
integrated
throughout the Polished:
unit.
 The template
encourages
multiple
Interpretive tasks.
 The Interpretive On Demand:
tasks inform the
content of the
Presentational
and Interpersonal
tasks.
 The tasks
incorporate 21st
Century Learning.
Standards
Cultures
Relating Cultural Practices and Products to Perspectives
(Sample Evidence)
Product:
Indicate the Practice:
relationship Perspective:
between the
product, practice, Product:
and perspective Practice:

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Acquiring Information and Diverse

Making Connections to Other Disciplines
Viewpoints
Math
Connections
(Students will be calculating people’s ages by
(Sample Evidence)
looking at people’s birthdays.
Students will be calculating “Korean age”
using a formula.)
Language Comparisons Cultural Comparisons
English America
(English only has one way of saying the International Age & rites of passage
numbers but Korean has two different ways Japan
to say numbers. Coming of age day in Japan and Korea
Comparisons English uses one way of saying numbers for First Birthday
(Sample Evidence) everything but Korean uses one of the two China
ways for different situations (i.e. dates, First Birthday
money, age, counting objects, number of India
objects.) First Birthday
Mexico
First Birthday

Intercultural School and Global Communities Lifelong Learning

Influences Students will learn what kind of behavior is
(Sample Evidence)
acceptable in certain social settings.
Connections to
Other Standards

Toolbox

Can Do Statements

Interpretive

Presentational

Interpersonal
Supporting Structures /
Supporting Functions Priority Vocabulary
Patterns

Key Learning Activities/Formative Assessments

This is a representative sample of activities/assessments across the 3 modes of communication.
Learning Activity/Formative Assessment
How does this activity support the unit Mode of
(Sample activities are listed from the beginning
goals or performance tasks? Communication
to the end of the unit).

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 Resources Technology Integration

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