World Languages

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World Languages

Students begin studying a second language, either French or Spanish, in Kindergarten, and continue that study until graduation. Eighth graders take French I, Spanish I, or Latin I, earning high school credit. Students with aptitude and motivation may accelerate and take Spanish II in the eighth grade. French and Spanish instruction seeks to create oral proficiency first, followed by the ability to read and write the target language. Cross-curricular, cultural projects help students appreciate the diversity of world languages and the importance of learning about other cultures.

French and Spanish
Kindergarten	First Grade	Second Grade
Greetings Numbers 1-100 Colors School Foods Clothes Body Family Animals Transportation Alphabet	Greetings/BasicConversation Numbers 1-200 Colors School Food Clothes Body-Head Family Animals Community Transportation	Conversation and Yes/No Questions Titles of People Formal/Informal You School Food Clothes Telling Time Conversational Questions Adjectives with Agreement Animals Community House Infinitive Verbs
Third Grade	Fourth Grade	Fifth Grade
Days of Week Months of Year Numbers to 500 Gender of Nouns School Foods Singular and Plural Clothes Body Emotions Definite and Indefinite Articles Extended Family Animals Community More Infinitives Age Prepositions	Numbers to 1000 Weather Directions Prepositions Food and Table Setting Shopping Restaurant Body Telling Time Family Occupations Household Items and Pets Verbs: to be, to like Possessive Adjectives	Subject Pronouns Prepositions Irregular Verbs: to be, to do Regular Verbs Opposites Sports Occupations greetings/good-byes counting ordering food weeks/months/seasons weather/telling time classrooms clothing colors introductions nationalities school family home
Sixth Grade	Seventh Grade
subject pronouns prepositions regular verbs irregular verbs: to have & to go possessive adjectives adjective agreement community	all regular verbs descriptive adjectives adjective agreement school subjects culture: food, art/music community family & friends
Eighth Grade Spanish I	Eighth Grade French I	Eighth Grade Latin I
nouns & articles numbers time regular verbs: ar, er & ir questions ser/estar descriptive adjectives possessive adjectives irregular verbs stem-changing verbs estar w/ conditions & emotions present progressive direct object nouns & pronouns preterite tense of regular verbs indirect object pronouns demonstrative adjs. & pronouns reflexive verbs indefinite & negative words preterite: ser & ir gustar & verbs like gustar	greetings numbers classroom vocabulary irregular verbs: etre, avoir, aller, faire regular verbs: er, ir, re questions Il y a interrogative adjectives demonstrative adjectives interrogative pronouns quantitites imperative direct/indirect object complement reflexive verbs future proche passe compose l'imparfait negative expressions adverbs	Grammar First three declensions of nouns All four conjugations of verbs All six tenses of verbs in the active and passive voices Endings and the uses of the nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, ablative, and vocative cases of nouns and adjectives Adjective agreement with nouns Use of prepositions with the accusative and ablative cases. The imperative mood Roman numerals and the cardinal and ordinal numbers Basic vocabulary, including principal parts of verbs Extensive study of English derivatives Latin mottoes and expressions Survey of Roman history The monarchy The Roman Republic The Roman Empire Survey of Roman topography and geography Survey of classical mythology Structure of Roman government The Roman calendar