Foreign Language Courses (4 ½ credits)
1. French 1 (1/2 credit, 9th grade)
Texts used- The Rosetta Stone: French Level 1, The Rosetta Stone: French Workbook
Supplementary Materials- The Rosetta Stone: Student Study Guide for French 1, Power-glide Language Courses: French, the Adventure Begins cassettes and corresponding text
A computer based program with focus on listening comprehension and speaking practice. At the end of the semester a short play in French was written and performed with a friend. Grade based on CD-Rom quizzes and completion of workbook exercises.
2. Spanish 1 [SPN 111 Beginning Spanish 1] (1 credit, 11th grade)
College level course taken at Community College. Course description from college literature:
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of the language. Included are brief readings in the everyday aspects of the contemporary Spanish-speaking world. Previous knowledge of Spanish is not necessary. By the end of the semester, the student should be able to speak using common conversation, tell time, make comparisons, discuss the weather, and be able to recognize and use the present, present progressive, and preterit tenses for both regular and common irregular verbs.
3. Spanish 2 [SPN 112 Beginning Spanish 2] (1 credit, 11th grade)
College level course taken at Community College. Course description from college literature:
The student will progress in the fundamentals of the language (understanding, speaking, reading writing) with the emphasis on the development of reading skills through the study of enjoyable, short, and timely articles on contemporary life and culture in the Spanish-speaking world. By the end of the semester, the student will use the preterit, imperfect, present perfect, and past perfect tenses, as well as direct, indirect, and reflexive object pronouns. In addition he/she will learn to form and use the present subjunctive mood.
4. Spanish 3 [SPN 211 Intermediate Spanish 1] (1 credit, 12th grade)
College level course being taken at Community College. Course description from college literature:
The student will complete and review the fundamentals of the language and study the culture of the Spanish-speaking world and current events through the use of newspaper and magazine articles edited for student use. The emphasis is on conversational Spanish. By the end of the semester, the student will form and use the future and conditional tenses as well as the present perfect and imperfect tenses of the subjunctive mood. Furthermore he/she must summarize a ten-minute talk given by the instructor, participate in a variety of situational conversations, answer questions about the new reading and write an in-class composition about a topic studied during the semester.
5. Spanish 4 [SPN 212 Intermediate Spanish 2] (1 credit, 12th grade)
College level course to be taken second semester of twelfth grade at Community College. Course description from college literature:
The student will engage in intensive oral practice through the reading and discussion of well-edited texts and contemporary plays in Spanish. The key points of the language will be reviewed. The emphasis is on conversational fluency. By the end of the semester the student will summarize a twenty minute talk given by a native speaker, read and answer questions on a magazine article, present a five minute talk on a topic of his/her choice, and write a summary of the talk in Spanish.