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NOTE:
All foreign language students must have a microphone
to record and submit speaking assignments.
Chinese
(Mandarin) 1A & 1B
This is a beginning level course that will introduce
the student to a variety of areas of Mandarin Chinese
(simplified). 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.
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 Chinese
speaking world and their culture, people, geographical
locations and histories. This course is aligned to
national Foreign Language standards. Students are introduced to the simplified
Chinese writing system in this class. No text
required.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
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Chinese 2A &
2B
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 five units of
material (Daily Routine, Animals, Hobbies, The Body and
Descriptions), 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 Chinese speaking world and their culture,
people, geographical locations and histories. The course
is aligned to the national Foreign Language standards.
No text required.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
(Adobe PDF file)
Prerequisite: Chinese I
Japanese 1A & 1B
(NEW!)
Japanese I is a two semester course has
been carefully designed to meet the standards of the
American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL).
These standards call for a method of teaching that
focuses on successful communication through speaking,
writing, reading, and listening, as well as a thorough
grounding in aspects of culture. Each unit embodies all
of these standards in accordance with the theories
described in this document. Unit activities blend
different forms of communication and culture to ensure
that the student meets all standards. Course strategies
include warm-up activities, vocabulary study, reading,
threaded discussions, multi-media presentations,
selfchecks, practice activities and games, oral and
written assignments, projects, quizzes, and exams.
Learning activities in each unit are focused upon a
specific theme. No text required.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
(Adobe PDF file)
Japanese 2A & 2B (NEW!)
Japanese II is a two semester course
that has been carefully designed to meet the standards
of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign
Languages (ACTFL). These standards call for a method of
teaching that focuses on successful communication
through speaking, writing, reading, and listening, as
well as a thorough grounding in aspects of culture. Each
unit embodies all of these standards in accordance with
the theories described in this document. Unit activities
blend different forms of communication and culture to
ensure that the student meets all standards. Course
strategies include warm-up activities, vocabulary study,
reading, threaded discussions, multi-media
presentations, selfchecks, practice activities and
games, oral and written assignments, projects, quizzes,
and exams. Learning activities in each unit are focused
upon a specific theme. No text required.
NCAA Approved-
Course
Outline
(Adobe PDF file)
Prerequisite: Japanese I
Spanish
1A & 1B
Spanish I has been carefully designed to meet the
standards of the American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages (ACTFL). These standards call for a
method of teaching that focuses on successful
communication through speaking, writing, reading, and
listening, as well as a thorough grounding in aspects
of culture. Each unit embodies all of these standards
in accordance with the theories described in this
document. Unit activities blend different forms of
communication and culture to ensure that the student
meets all standards. Course strategies include warm-up
activities, vocabulary study, reading, threaded
discussions, multi-media presentations, self-checks,
practice activities and games, oral and written
assignments, projects, quizzes, and exams. Learning
activities in each unit are focused upon a specific
theme. NO TEXT REQUIRED
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
(Adobe PDF file)
Spanish 2A & 2B
Spanish II has been carefully designed to meet the
standards of the American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages (ACTFL). These standards call for a
method of teaching that focuses on successful
communication through speaking, writing, reading, and
listening, as well as a thorough grounding in aspects
of culture. Each unit embodies all of these standards
in accordance with the theories described in this
document. Unit activities blend different forms of
communication and culture to ensure that the student
meets all standards. Course strategies include warm-up
activities, vocabulary study, reading, threaded
discussions, multi-media presentations, self-checks,
practice activities and games, oral and written
assignments, projects, quizzes, and exams. Learning
activities in each unit are focused upon a specific
theme.
NO TEXT REQUIRED
NCAA Approved-
Course
Outline
(Adobe PDF file)
Spanish 3A & 3B
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.
NO TEXT REQUIRED
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
(Adobe PDF file)
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Spanish 4A & 4B
This
fourth year of Spanish is a continuation of the first
three 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, 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. NO TEXT REQUIRED
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline (Adobe
PDF file)
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French
1A & 1B
Using
a variety of audio, reading, pictorial, and written
exercises, students quickly learn to recognize
targeted vocabulary and start incorporating basic
grammatical concepts: articles, plurals, and
noun/adjective gender agreement; vowel and consonant
pronunciation; sentence patterns; numbers and
counting; introductions and greetings, directional
symbols, body parts, geography, and other vocabulary.
In every lesson, students practice reading and
comprehending French text, and then use the vocabulary
from those readings to increase their speaking
fluency.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
French
2A & 2B
Building on what they learned during the first year,
students will increase their speaking confidence,
vocabulary, reading comprehension, sentence
construction skills, cultural knowledge, and their
grammar, including: object and reflexive pronouns,
natural vs. arbitrary gender, and past and present
verb tenses. By the end of the course, they should be
able to rewrite the ending to a story, use simple
phrases to expand conversations, and follow a story
line with full comprehension.
NCAA Approved-
Course
Outline
French 3A & 3B
This
third year French course is a continuation of the
first two years. The student will continue to improve
listening, speaking, reading and writing skills
through activities that are based on pedagogically
proven methods of foreign language instruction.
Throughout the five units - Feelings, Transportation,
Work, Countries and Future - students build on
previous knowledge with additional vocabulary, verb
tenses, and grammatical structures appropriate to
their level. Grammar is introduced and practiced in
innovative and interesting ways with a variety of
learning styles in mind.
Exposure
to the culture of
France
and French-speaking countries can be found throughout
the course in order to help students understand French
in its context, as a truly dynamic language used for
communication by millions of people throughout the
world.
The
course is aligned to the national Foreign Language
standards and provides a way to focus on the five
important aspects of foreign language instruction:
communication, culture, connections, comparisons and
community. These are the "Five C's of the Foreign
Language Education" as outlined in
Standards for Foreign
Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
French
4A & 4B
This course is a continuation of the
beginning level courses that will help the student
continue learning the French language. 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 five units of material
(People, Achievements, Desires, Activities,
Celebrations, Possibilities, The Past, The Arts, Now,
It’s over!), students learn to express themselves using
an ever increasing vocabulary, present, past, future and
conditional-tense verbs, articles, adjectives and
increasingly complex grammatical structures. 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 French speaking world and their
culture, people, geographical locations and histories.
The course is aligned to the national Foreign Language
standards. No text required.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
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German
1A & 1B
First
year German students start out by learning
introductions, greetings, and the days of the week,
words and phrases to find out information, vowel
pronunciation, and how to use articles, plurals, and
noun/adjective agreement with gender. From there, they
begin to incorporate their new vocabulary through
rhythm and cadence, recognize sentence patterns and
build comprehension skills, increase their fluency,
practice counting and simple math, learn to form
plurals with greater accuracy, use infinite verbs, and
form question statements.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
German
2A & 2B
The
second year of German expands students’ written and
spoken fluency, placing a continued emphasis on
reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Students
learn to understand and use small talk, and they
practice using new vocabulary in conversations and
stories. They master object pronouns with finite and
infinite verbs, learn geography vocabulary, study
pronouns and past and present tenses, identify and
describe objects, use genitive plural and singular
forms, expand their cultural knowledge, and build
fluency through repetition.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
German 3A & 3B
German III has been carefully designed to meet the
standards of the American Council on the Teaching of
Foreign Languages (ACTFL). These standards call for a
method of teaching that focuses on successful
communication through speaking, writing, reading, and
listening, as well as a thorough grounding in aspects
of culture. Each unit embodies all of these standards
in accordance with the theories described in this
document. Unit activities blend different forms of
communication and culture to ensure that the student
meets all standards. Course strategies include warm-up
activities, vocabulary study, reading, threaded
discussions, multi-media presentations, self-checks,
practice activities and games, oral and written
assignments, projects, quizzes, and exams. Learning
activities in each unit are focused upon a specific
theme.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
German 4A & 4B
This fourth year of German builds upon
the first three levels. Students will continue to
sharper their reading, writing, and listening skills as
well as learn skills to think critically and express
themselves on topics relevant to German culture. This
fourth level will include authentic texts, current
culture, and literature from Germany, Austria, and
Switzerland. Every two units will be a special focus on
a particular region or city from these areas; these will
include such things as culture, tourism, and current
events. Students will learn vocabulary, grammar skills,
and cultural competency to express themselves on a
variety of topics in German. Cultural topics include:
contemporary and classical music, expressing opinion,
German history, transportation, family, weekend travel,
free time activities, youth and technology,
multiculturalism, holidays, education, career, and
travel in a foreign country. This course is aligned to
the national ACTFL Foreign Language standards and
provides a way to focus on the five aspects of foreign
language instruction: communication, culture,
connections, comparisons, and community. These are the
“Five C’s of the Foreign Language Education” as outlined
in Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing
for the 21st Century. No text required.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
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Latin
1A & 1B
Latin 1 is an introduction to the basics
of Latin grammar. It is intended to help you develop the
skills necessary to translate basic sentences from Latin
to English and English to Latin, and for reading simple
connected passages of Latin prose and poetry. In the
first semester, we cover the first 10 chapters of
Wheelock's Latin grammar. In the process, you will learn
how verb conjugations and noun declensions work in a
highly inflected language, how to analyze the structure
of Latin sentences and translate English sentences into
well-formed Latin equivalents, and you will begin to
read connected excerpts from ancient authors.
In the second semester, we cover
chapters 11 though 20 of Wheelock's Latin grammar. In
the process, you will learn how verb conjugations and
noun declensions work in a highly inflected language,
how to analyze the structure of Latin sentences and
translate English sentences into well-formed Latin
equivalents, and you will begin to read connected
excerpts from ancient authors. No text required.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
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Latin 2A
& 2B
Latin 2 is the continuation of Latin
grammar and a deeper study of Roman Mythology and
history. The grammar in Latin 2 reviews topics from
Latin 1 with expanding use of declensions, adjectives,
adverbs, and cases. These skills will be used to
translate longer Latin texts to English that require
more knowledge of grammar rather than just vocabulary
recall. The culture part of the course is an in-depth
study of The Odyssey, the underworld, the rulers and
kings of Rome, and entertainment.
NCAA Approved-
Course Outline
Required Reading: The Odyssey (in
English)
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World Language Survey
(One semester course)
In this world language
course, students will be introduced to 6 different
languages within 18 weeks. The languages include
Spanish, French, German, Latin, Chinese and Japanese.
Each language will be taught in a period of 3 weeks.
This multilingual course is designed to give students an
opportunity to gain understanding of a language that
they might want to further study in the future. The
course takes a multi-perspective approach for teaching
the culture of the people that speak the language, along
with fundamental communication skills in the target
language. Activities that engage students and make
language learning exciting and fun will be incorporated
to build acquisition. The language will be taught using
the communicative method which combines listening,
speaking, reading and writing in the target language
with the use of multimedia resources.
Course
Outline
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