Upper School Curriculum

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

PREREQ: Spanish proficiency - Novice Mid 

The goal of Novice High Spanish is to progress from the Novice Mid to Novice High level, as specified by 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 mostly in the target language, and students are expected to use Spanish to the best of their abilities.