Slovenian Language Curriculum - 5th Grade Advanced (2023-2024)

This curriculum outline details the topics covered in the Slovene Advanced program for 5th grade during the 2023-2024 academic year.

Block 1: Slovenia on the Map

• Topics:
• Slovenia's location and bordering countries
• Languages spoken in Slovenia
• National holidays
• European Union membership
• Grammar: Nouns and adjectives
• Activities:
• Review key facts about Slovenia
• Learn about the Slovenian flag and coat of arms

Block 2: Reading Programme

• Topics:
• Storyline
• Characters
• Summary
• Description
• Activities:
• Read a book or story from the school reader
• Explore content, characters, and create summaries and descriptions

Block 3: How We Used to Live (Iz asov brez televizije in raunalnika)

• Topics:
• Life before technology
• Understanding past customs and practices
• Activities:
• Read different texts about life before technology
• Explore vocabulary and improve reading and writing skills
• Practice grammar concepts

Block 4: Tell Me a Story, Tell Me a Poem

• Topics:
• Storytelling and different genres
• Diary writing
• Poetry
• Paragraphs
• Listening, reading, and answering questions
• Activities:
• Learn about different story genres
• Work with a diary, analyze characteristics, and write personal diary entries
• Focus on poetry

Block 5: Reading Programme

• Topics:
• Story
• Style
• Activities:
• Read and comprehend selected stories
• Analyze and discuss writing styles

Block 6: Description of a City/Village

• Topics:
• Reading comprehension
• Characteristics of a city/village
• Presentation skills
• Activities:
• Learn about describing cities and villages
• Research and present information about chosen locations

Block 7: Drama

• Topics:
• Reading of drama text
• Character analysis
• Time, place, and stage directions
• Activities:
• Work with drama texts, observing time, place, and stage directions

Academic Themes:

• Planning for Tomorrow: Focuses on water and its uses, including reading a story about a community without clean water and writing a letter to the mayor of Ljubljana suggesting improvements.
• The World Around Us: Students research and discuss the impact of human activities on the environment, creating reports and presentations on topics like deforestation, pollution, and overfishing.
• Opportunities for Everyone: Debates on topics related to equality, inclusion, and diversity, such as whether schools should have special facilities for disabled students. Also includes book reports on literature featuring characters from minority groups or with disabilities.
• The Working World: Literature study focusing on elements of the working world, analyzing language and thematic elements.
• Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Discussions on the importance of sleep and creating daily routine timetables incorporating adequate sleep.
• Keep it Green, Keep it Clean: Project work focusing on environmental themes, with students creating presentations, posters, or creative writing pieces.
• Better Together: Not detailed in the provided document.