RS LANGUAGE CHOICES Spanish I Honors
Homework: Approximately 60 minutes per class and 180 minutes per week, depending upon the student’s ability Requirements/Prerequisites: Successful completion of Spanish I is required or instructor’s permission to sign up. Additional book fee of $70 included in elective cost. Grading Scale and Credit: This Honors course is optional. A 1.04 grade multiplier is applied to all Honors courses at the end of the school year. Students must pass any AP or Honors course with a yearly average of 70 or better for a grade multiplier to be applied.
Grades: 9 This class is an introduction to the language and culture. In this course, students are able to acquire and discover the language through reading, listening, writing and speaking activities while gaining proficiency. Students collaborate and regularly present in the Spanish language. Students begin to make comparisons and connections between the cultures. The focus of this course is developing a novice-mid proficiency. The majority of this course is held in the target language. Homework: Approximately 60 minutes per class and 180 minutes per week, depending upon the student’s ability Requirements/Prerequisites: No prerequisites are required. Additional book fee of $70 included in elective cost. Grading Scale and Credit: This Honors course is optional. A 1.04 grade multiplier is applied to all Honors courses at the end of the school year. Students must pass any AP or Honors Spanish III/IV Honors course with a yearly average of 70 or better Grades: 11-12 for a grade multiplier to be applied. This class will put into practice what the students have learned in the previous years of Spanish and expand their ability to express Spanish II Honors themselves. Spanish III and IV will be taught Grades: 10 Spanish II continues to introduce the lan- in the same classroom. The students will pracguage and culture. In this course, students tice how to listen, speak and read in Spanish in are able to expand on their acquisition and a comfortable environment. While participatdiscovery of the language through reading, ing in conversations in Spanish, the students listening, writing and speaking activities will read stories that they have heard before while gaining proficiency. Students regularly in English and compare and contrast them collaborate and present in the Spanish lan- when spoken in Spanish. The students will be guage. Students make further comparisons immersed in the Spanish language and culand connections between the culture and ture while we work on projects. Spanish is an practices of the language. The focus of this exciting language and these students have course is developing novice-high proficiency. lots of fun in this participatory class. Spanish The majority of this course is held in the tar- IV will be useful preparation for taking the CLEP Spanish language exam for college. get language.
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