High School Credit

This course introduces the basic features of Chinese characters, grammar, pronunciation, tones, and essential vocabulary and phrases. The course emphasizes the conversation ability in Chinese at the beginning level. Pinyin (the Romanization system of Chinese ideograms) will be practiced along with the practice of reading and writing some common Chinese characters.

 

High School Credit
Prerequisite: Chinese I

 

This course is a continuation of Chinese I. It emphasizes the four basic skills in Chinese language – listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Class activities include oral-aural drills, dialogues, reading aloud, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, production and recognition of Chinese written characters, and so on.

This course builds the foundation for reading, writing, listening and speaking the French language. Cultural themes provide a framework for providing practice in vocabulary acquisition, grammar acquisition and an understanding of Francophone culture. Grammar structures will include verb conjugation in present and past tenses and the correct usage of nouns, pronouns

and adjectives. Students will develop an awareness and appreciation of the Francophone world.

 

Prerequisite: French I

 

This course continues instruction in reading, writing, listening and speaking the French language. Content will include review of the basic grammatical principles of the language and an emphasis on the conjugation of the future, perfect and conditional tenses. Vocabulary acquisition will continue within the framework of cultural themes with a greater emphasis on communication skills. Students will continue to develop an awareness and appreciation of the Francophone world.

 

High School Credit
Text: Mosaik I

 

This course introduces students to effective strategies for beginning German language learning, and to various aspects of German-speaking culture. This course encourages interpersonal communication through speaking and writing, providing opportunities to make and respond to basic requests and questions, understand and use appropriate greetings and forms of address, participate in brief guided conversations on familiar topics, and write short passages with guidance. This course also emphasizes the development of reading and listening comprehension skills, such as reading isolated words and phrases in a situational context and comprehending brief written or oral directions. Additionally, students will examine the practices, products and perspectives of German-speaking culture; recognize basic routine practices of the target culture; and recognize and use situation-appropriate non-verbal communication. This course further emphasizes making connections across content areas and the application of understanding German language. In this course we use the Communicative Approach. This approach recognizes that we gain ability in a language by way of German input through various means--from the teacher, classroom activities and audio/video recordings.

High School Credit
Text: Mosaik II

 

German II continues on from the German I course. By the end of the year the students should be able to converse simply in German about everyday events and activities in the past and present, ask questions, and express opinions. When expressing yourself in writing students will have the tools to go beyond simple sentences, and they should also be able to read basic German texts. Students will continue to learn about German culture and improve their language learning strategies. In this course, as in German I, we use the Communicative Approach. This approach recognizes that we gain ability in a language by way of German input through various means--from the teacher, classroom activities and audio/video recordings. Students will use the language to communicate rather than just talking about German in English.

This course focuses on introducing students to skills across the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational) and continuing instruction started in World Language and Cultural Studies by listening, speaking, reading and writing in Spanish.  Basic grammatical principles are emphasized including conjugation of verbs in present and past tenses.  Students continue to develop awareness and appreciation of Hispanic culture.

 

Prerequisites: Spanish I

 

This course focuses on developing students’ skills across the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational) through the use of modified and authentic materials.  The Spanish II curriculum completes the presentation of basic grammar. Students will develop communication aptitude in listening, speaking, reading and writing.

 

Prerequisite: Spanish II

 

This course focuses on advancing students’ skills across the three modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational) through the use of authentic materials. The Spanish III curriculum lays the foundation for earning Advanced Placement credit at the university level in the AP Spanish Language and Culture class. Students will continue to develop their skills in all four areas of communication (listening, speaking, reading and writing). Each unit of study will be centered on one of the six themes established by the College Board: Global Challenges, Science and Technology, Contemporary Life, Personal and Public Identities, Families and Communities, Beauty and Aesthetics.

Prerequisite: Spanish III

 

This course establishes the fundamentals of language acquisition and communication through the introduction to the study of Spanish, Latin, French, German and Chinese. Students will learn language concepts and survey the culture and history of the peoples who speak those languages. Through the development of reading, writing, listening and oral communication skills students will experience a variety of media, including text materials and authentic resources in the classroom and language lab. Additionally, students will build a foundation for further language learning and cultivate a greater sense of global cultural awareness.