Edsel Ford High School
Arabic II 9-12 Course Outline 2013
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Instructor: Mrs. Maha Attalla
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Classroom #: D-03
Hour: 4
Department Mission:
The Foreign Language Department at Edsel Ford High School emphasizes quality and professionalism in all its programs, beginning with introductory and intermediate language courses and extending through the advanced courses in literature and culture.
The Foreign Language Department staff is committed to excellence in the areas of teaching and research of the various languages, literatures and cultures it offers following the ACTFL and the It integrates the study of foreign languages into the overall mission of the Edsel Ford High Schol and provides students with the means to access and analyze other cultures.
A. Department Vision:
The vision of the Foreign Language Department at Edsel Ford is to produce students who possess a fundamental understanding of foreign languages and societies from linguistic, literary, and cultural perspectives. The Foreign Language Department is committed to teaching students to:
1. Communicate effectively in a foreign language and interact in culturally
Appropriate ways with native speakers of that language.
2.Acquire insight into the heritage, cultural values and practices
of the foreign country or countries studied.
3.Develop disposition and cognitive strategies for lifelong studying of other
languages and cultures.
B. Course Description:
This two trimester course will focus on the Arabic spoken and written language by having students involved in discussions about different topics, sharing information, written composition skills, grammar and reading comprehension skills. The objectives are organized into three areas of communication (oral, verbal and written, and are further grouped into four communicative processes: Oral communication, visual interpretation. Reading comprehension and writing. These four objectives are skilled –based .The student’s knowledge and understanding will be developed through, learning language, learning through language and learning about language. This course will provide each and every student with learning experiences that will not only improve their academic skills but encourage lifelong learning, enhance cultural awareness, create empathetic global citizens, prepare them for Diploma Program standard program, and get them ready to lead in their communities and the world for a peaceful, successful future..
C. Arabic Assessment Criteria:
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Your grade in this course will be based on Foreign Language Standards and your demonstration of proficiency on those Standards through the Foreign Language Standards we have identified the most important concepts, knowledge and skills for to master in this course. Every single assignment we do in class will be directly tied to one of the Standards. All these smaller assignments (likes quizzes, homework, in-class work, short paragraph writing, etc.) are called formative assessments. The formative assignments are made to prepare you for the summative assessments. If you do poorly on the formative assessments and don’t take them seriously…guess what? You won’t do well on the Summative assessments. But if you take the formative assignments seriously, use them as feedback/advice, and learn from them, you will definitely do well on the big assessments.
Grading Scale is as follows:
A = 100 – 95
A- = 94 - 90
B+ = 89 – 85
B= 84 - 80
C+ = 79 -75
C= 74 -70
C- = 69 - 65
D+= 64 - 60
D= 59-55
D- 54-40
F= 40 and below
ARABIC 2/ S1 OBJECTIVES
· The ability of requesting and declining things politely and expressing likes and dislikes
· Describing activities in past , present, future and back ground , daily schedules
· Telling time formally and informally
· Numbers: reading hundreds and thousands.
· Describing people, objects, possessions, and activities
· A rule and Muslim calendars.
· Describing the four seasons and the weather
· Translating brief sentences from Arabic to English and vice versa
· Write an autobiography.
· Ability to recognize and understand various grammatical rules and their application in context such as:
1. Prepositions and attached pronouns plurals of nouns
2. adverbials
3. The initial sound of the article
4. The past and present tense, conjunction and negation
5. Culture: family, women, geography, history, headgear, converting temperature scales.
6. Verbal nouns
7. Expressing sequence.
8. Comparing and contrasting entities
9. Partitives nouns.
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