Upper School Curriculum

Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
Full-Year

PREREQ: Spanish proficiency - Novice High 

This course advances students from sentence-level communication to connected discourse, enabling them to participate in conversations, manage short social interactions, and communicate information on familiar topics with greater detail and confidence. Instruction focuses on developing speaking skills — supported by listening, reading, and writing activities using authentic texts that explore the cultural practices and perspectives of Spanish-speaking communities around the world. The course is taught primarily in the target language, and students are expected to use Spanish to the best of their ability.