Middle School Curriculum

The Novice High level spans two years at Durham Academy Middle School. The goal of Novice High B Spanish is to demonstrate Novice High proficiency, as specified by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) proficiency guidelines. The classroom experience is grounded in the four communicative skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The three modes of communication- interpersonal, interpretive, and presentational- provide the organizing principle for the course content. 

Students develop the skills to identify the topic and isolate facts from texts, to request and provide information by asking and answering questions, to interact with others, and to express, react, and support preferences and opinions using a string of sentences. Students are exposed daily to authentic materials appropriate to their level. The class is taught almost exclusively in the target language and students are expected to use the target language at all times to the best of their ability.