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Upper School Curriculum

  • French
Cultural Themes in French 
Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Full-Year
PREREQ: French proficiency - Intermediate Mid

This new elective course provides students with the opportunity to continue to grow their language proficiency and broaden their cultural competency. Using authentic resources, class discussions, and investigative projects, students learn about traditions of the global Francophone world (e.g. France, the Caribbean, Canada, Louisiana, Maine, North and Sub-Saharan Africa, Vietnam, and Cambodia). Students will create with language, present, write on, read about, and discuss familiar topics such as current events, education, the arts, media, and global topics. The goal of this course is to raise students’ proficiency level from the Intermediate Mid to higher levels, as specified by ACTFL proficiency guidelines. The class is taught exclusively in French, and students are expected to use the target language at all times.

  • Grade 9
  • Grade 10
  • Grade 11
  • Grade 12