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<h0 ref ="0" label="California World Language Content Standards for Public Schools">
<h1 ref ="1" label="Stage I">
<h2 ref ="2" label="1.0 Students acquire information, recognize distinctive viewpoints, and further their knowledge of other disciplines."></h2>
<h2 ref ="3" label="1.1 Students address discrete elements of daily life, including:">
<h3 ref ="4" label="a. Greetings and introductions"></h3>
<h3 ref ="5" label="b. Family and friends "></h3>
<h3 ref ="6" label="c. Pets "></h3>
<h3 ref ="7" label="d. Home and neighborhood"></h3>
<h3 ref ="8" label="e. Celebrations, holidays, and rites of passage"></h3>
<h3 ref ="9" label="f. Calendar, seasons, and weather"></h3>
<h3 ref ="10" label="g. Leisure, hobbies and activities, songs, toys and games, sports"></h3>
<h3 ref ="11" label="h. Vacations and travel, maps, destinations, and geography"></h3>
<h3 ref ="12" label="i. School, classroom, schedules, subjects, numbers, time, directions"></h3>
<h3 ref ="13" label="j. Important dates in the target culture"></h3>
<h3 ref ="14" label="k. Jobs"></h3>
<h3 ref ="15" label="l. Food, meals, restaurants"></h3>
<h3 ref ="16" label="m. Shopping, clothes, colors, and sizes"></h3>
<h3 ref ="17" label="n. Parts of the body, illness"></h3>
<h3 ref ="18" label="o. Technology"></h3></h2></h1>
<h1 ref ="19" label="Stage II">
<h2 ref ="20" label="2.0 Students acquire information, recognize distinctive viewpoints, and further their knowledge of other disciplines."></h2>
<h2 ref ="21" label="2.1 Students address topics related to self and the immediate environment, including:">
<h3 ref ="22" label="a. Social relationships"></h3>
<h3 ref ="23" label="b. People in the community"></h3>
<h3 ref ="24" label="c. Zoo and farm animals, fables"></h3>
<h3 ref ="25" label="d. Care of the home, interacting with people in the community"></h3>
<h3 ref ="26" label="e. Holiday customs and transition points in life"></h3>
<h3 ref ="27" label="f. Climate"></h3>
<h3 ref ="28" label="g. Cultural and leisure-time activities, outdoor, recreational activities, music"></h3>
<h3 ref ="29" label="h. Transportation, lodging, itineraries, geographic features and landmarks"></h3>
<h3 ref ="30" label="i. Curricular and extracurricular interests and events"></h3>
<h3 ref ="31" label="j. Significant historical figures "></h3>
<h3 ref ="32" label="k. Professions and the working world"></h3>
<h3 ref ="33" label="l. Cuisine and recipes"></h3>
<h3 ref ="34" label="m. Clothing and fashion"></h3>
<h3 ref ="35" label="n. Health, medical care"></h3>
<h3 ref ="36" label="o. Technological advances and innovation"></h3></h2></h1>
<h1 ref ="37" label="Stage III">
<h2 ref ="38" label="3.0 Students acquire information, recognize distinctive viewpoints, and further their knowledge of other disciplines."></h2>
<h2 ref ="39" label="3.1 Students address concrete and factual topics related to the immediate and external environment, including: ">
<h3 ref ="40" label="a. Social norms"></h3>
<h3 ref ="41" label="b. Historical and cultural figures, stereotypes"></h3>
<h3 ref ="42" label="c. Animals and their habitats"></h3>
<h3 ref ="43" label="d. Community issues, current events"></h3>
<h3 ref ="44" label="e. Origins of rites of passage, social and regional customs"></h3>
<h3 ref ="45" label="f. Environmental concerns"></h3>
<h3 ref ="46" label="g. Media, Internet, television, radio, film"></h3>
<h3 ref ="47" label="h. Cultural, historical, and geographic aspects of travel"></h3>
<h3 ref ="48" label="i. Curricular and extracurricular subjects"></h3>
<h3 ref ="49" label="j. Significant historical events"></h3>
<h3 ref ="50" label="k. Careers and future plans"></h3>
<h3 ref ="51" label="l. Nutrition, fitness, and health"></h3>
<h3 ref ="52" label="m. Geographically and culturally appropriate clothing"></h3>
<h3 ref ="53" label="n. Cultural differences in health care"></h3>
<h3 ref ="54" label="o. Effects of technology on the modern world"></h3></h2></h1>
<h1 ref ="55" label="Stage IV">
<h2 ref ="56" label="4.0 Students acquire information, recognize distinctive viewpoints, and further their knowledge of other disciplines."></h2>
<h2 ref ="57" label="4.1 Students address complex, concrete, factual, and abstract topics related to the immediate and external environment, including:">
<h3 ref ="58" label="a. Societal expectations"></h3>
<h3 ref ="59" label="b. Cultural and literary archetypes"></h3>
<h3 ref ="60" label="c. Endangered species"></h3>
<h3 ref ="61" label="d. World events, social and political issues"></h3>
<h3 ref ="62" label="e. Belief systems"></h3>
<h3 ref ="63" label="f. International environmental issues"></h3>
<h3 ref ="64" label="g. The visual and performing arts"></h3>
<h3 ref ="65" label="h. The nature of an interdependent world"></h3>
<h3 ref ="66" label="i. Issues in curricular and extracurricular subjects"></h3>
<h3 ref ="67" label="j. Authors and their times"></h3>
<h3 ref ="68" label="k. Transnational careers and economies"></h3>
<h3 ref ="69" label="l. Issues of world hunger and health"></h3>
<h3 ref ="70" label="m. Design, production, and marketing of clothing"></h3>
<h3 ref ="71" label="n. Policy issues in health care"></h3>
<h3 ref ="72" label="o. The promise and challenge of technology"></h3></h2></h1></h0></root>