This course will continue to add to the vocabulary you know, including units on travel, occupations and your home. Grammar topics include three new tenses: the imperfect, the future and the conditional. Cultural studies will include parts of France as well as Canada, the French educational system, and the European Union. The activities continue to be varied, but will get more challenging as you progress through the course.
French 2
French listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills will be expanded using various Internet tools. Students will be expected to do daily work, and do weekly projects or assignments to demonstrate their learning. The text uses online exercises and videos, flashcards and quizzes. The units studied are food, daily routines, sports, and music. The grammar that will be mastered are past and future tense, and also the imperfect and descriptive past. Students will be involved in reading and telling, and in monthly speaking check with the web-cam or telephone. Students should have at least a C in French I to enroll and should be able to manage their time well. Cultural units to be studied are on the French speaking world and the geography of France. The online text Allez, Viens has activities and online assessments.
American Sign Language (ASL)
This course is meant to introduce students to introductory vocabulary to ASL and to Deaf culture.
You will work on fingerspelling and then building vocabulary for common interactions.
German 2
This course is an introduction to the German language and will give students some basic vocabulary and structures to work with as they begin their learning of another language and culture.
German 1
This course is an introduction to the German language and will give students some basic vocabulary and structures to work with as they begin their learning of another language and culture.
French 4
This course will continue from where you left off in French III, adding more vocabulary and usage and the present subjunctive mood. Cultural topics will include areas around the world where French is spoken, the environment, and technology. The activities will be varied, but even more challenging.
French 1
This class will put at your fingertips resources for learning the basics of the French language. The basic vocabulary you will be learning about yourself, your family, your free-time activities, and your community. In the process you will learn about the French people, about their culture, and about their language. We will do weekly activities, projects and/or quizzes and monthly web-cam checkups on pronunciation and speaking skills. The oral part can be learned from video and listening activities with the online text and is a basic to our class. The textbook will be an outline text called Allez, Viens, and there will be online activities as assessments.
Spanish 4
This fourth year of Spanish is a continuation of the first three years. The student will continue to sharpen listening, reading and writing skills through activities that are based on pedagogically proven methods of foreign language instruction. Throughout the five units of material, students learn to express themselves using an ever increasing vocabulary, present-tense verbs, past-tense verbs, articles, and adjectives. Grammar is introduced and practiced in innovative and interesting ways with a variety of learning styles in mind.
Culture is sprinkled throughout the course in an attempt to help the learner focus on the Spanish speaking world and their culture, people, geographical locations and histories.
The course is aligned to the national Foreign Language standards.
Spanish 3
This third year of Spanish is a continuation of the first two years. The student will continue to sharpen listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through activities that are based on pedagogically proven methods of foreign language instruction. Throughout the five units of material (Feelings, Transportation, Work, Countries and the Future), students learn to express themselves using an ever increasing vocabulary, present-tense verbs, past-tense verbs, articles, and adjectives. Grammar is introduced and practiced in innovative and interesting ways with a variety of learning styles in mind.
Culture is sprinkled throughout the course in an attempt to help the learner focus on the Spanish speaking world and their culture, people, geographical locations and histories.
The course is aligned to the national Foreign Language standards.
Spanish 2
Students receive additional grounding in grammar and vocabulary in this two-semester course. Instructional material encourages students to build conversational and reading skills to cover many common situations in daily life. Like Spanish 1, this follow-up course adheres to the standards of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL). Learning activities in each unit are focused on a specific theme. The units for both semesters cover a broad range of useful everyday subjects, including daily routine, animals, entertainment, body parts, rooms and furniture, shopping and clothing, meals, sports and recreation, and transportation. Students must successfully complete Spanish I in order to enroll in this course.
This course is a continuation of a beginning level course that will introduce the student to a variety of areas of language learning. In this course, the student will learn listening, speaking, reading and writing skills through activities that are based on pedagogically proven methods of foreign language instruction. Throughout the units students learn to express themselves using an ever increasing vocabulary, present-tense verbs, articles, and adjectives. Grammar is introduced and practiced in innovative and interesting ways with a variety of learning styles in mind.
Culture is sprinkled throughout the course in an attempt to help the learner focus on the Spanish-speaking world and their culture, people, geographical locations and histories. The course is aligned to the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Language standards.