Is this what your high school's foreign language curriculum is like?

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<p>don’t forget to scroll down</p>

<p>levels/proficiency:
<a href=“http://www.archkckcs.org/curriculum/ForeignLanguage/forlanhs.htm#modone[/url]”>http://www.archkckcs.org/curriculum/ForeignLanguage/forlanhs.htm#modone&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>spanish curriculum:
<a href=“http://www.archkckcs.org/curriculum/ForeignLanguage/spanhssc.htm[/url]”>http://www.archkckcs.org/curriculum/ForeignLanguage/spanhssc.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>french curriculum:
<a href=“http://www.archkckcs.org/curriculum/ForeignLanguage/frenhssc.htm[/url]”>http://www.archkckcs.org/curriculum/ForeignLanguage/frenhssc.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>No. Mine’s not like that at all. (French)</p>

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<p>My school finishes grammar in Spanish 4, we have Spanish 1,2,3,4,5,AP Language, AP Literature and 6 for the kids not in AP. French is different.</p>

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<p>for French, we’re memorizing useless crap like capitals of African countries</p>

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<p>Yes, except it’s even further behind and for assessment, all we do is worksheets and tests. The class is composed almost entirely of busywork. It’s awful.</p>

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<p>Masterus, AP Language is the sixth level course for your school? At most schools it’s fourth.</p>

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<p>We’re basicly fluent by AP. The bad thing is that if I went to another school, I’d be doing AP Spanish Literature this year instead of Spanish 5H. I just moved into AP Spanish Language though.</p>

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<p>Oh, I see.</p>

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<p>the french curriculum is sort of similar to the one posted especially the grammar part. as for the others, we really don’t devote too much time on that. it’s either grammar revisions or french literature. </p>

<p>it may have something to do with being in a french immersion school (half of my classes are in french)…</p>

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<p>that curriculum is very similar to my school for french , a little less similar for spanish… althought i dont really know for certain since i skipped some levels of french and spanish</p>

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<p>At my school, the level 4 and five course, would be French III at my school. As far as Latin, Latin I and II would be Latin I at my school.</p>

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<p>for spanish it sorta is</p>

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<p>This thread is being resurrected from the abyss.</p>

<p>My regular non-AP non-honors Spanish curriculum is more advanced than that.</p>

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<p>At my school, AP Language is the fifth. It’s weird, we have a decelarated curriculum with no way to opt out besides test-outs.</p>

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<p>Spanish is.</p>

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<p>At our school, AP Spanish is usually taken after sixth year, though you have an option to take it after fifth. But our curriculum is different, we learned subjunctive etc. in third year and mastered it in fourth. We definitely don’t cover prayer as a topic, being a public school and all. :slight_smile: And we usually don’t look specifically at vocab, we just read a lot of books and stories and pick up vocab on our own.</p>

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<p>Usually, here, we take Lang. 1 and Lang. 2 in 7th and 8th grade, then work up to AP in senior year.</p>

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<p>Here, AP option is always senior year, unless you speak the language at home, then it’s likely junior year. Language I is stretched out through seventh and eighth grade. I take Italian, so my courses were: Italian IA - Grade 7, and Italian IB - grade 8. I feel that was a complete waste of a year, as we learned the same things in both IA and IB, and we didn’t improve our fluency at all from seventh to eighth grade. </p>

<p>Anyway, freshman year continues as Language II, then Language III (which I’ll be entering) in sophomore year, and Language IV in junior year. Then, depending on which language you take and how well you have scored on tests (assessments at the end of IB and III and NYS Regents exams at the end of IV), you can option for Language V or AP. Only Italian, French, and Spanish is offered at my school in general, and only Italian and Spanish offer AP’s. Italian offers AP Language and Culture, and Spanish offers AP Language, Geography, and some other things - I’m not familiar with the Spanish program. You’re fluent by AP depending on which teachers you have over the years. I’ve taken the liberty of teaching myself some further Italian, so I’m hoping to be fluent in spite of the techers. </p>

<p>Yeah, the curriculum pretty much sucks. ;)</p>

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<p>Well, I’m in German, so I’m not sure of the French or Spanish curriculum, but I can say that parts are similar to the German curriculum.</p>

<p>Basically, in German I, we learn survival vocabulary and very basic grammar (nominative case, accusative case, conversational past tense, and modals.)</p>

<p>Survival vocabulary would include colors, weather, health, education, food, fashion, etc, the basics. There’s also some random vocabulary such as fairy tale vocab which goes along with the book series we learn.</p>

<p>In German II, a good chunk of grammar is taught: dative case, genitive case, narrative past tense, future tense, adjective endings, and subordinate clauses). Vocabulary is expanded quite a bit to a little more specific vocabulary.</p>

<p>In German III, the final part of basic German grammar is taught: subjunctive sentences, relative clauses, da and wo compounds, zu infinitives, and passive voice. Vocabulary focuses on some specific areas, but mainly German history and culture is taught through the story of Sophie Scholl. In this level, we read a play, a short historical story, and watch two German films: Europa! Europa! and Sophie Scholl: die letzten Tage. </p>

<p>Next year, I’m taking German IV, and this is where unique vocab and more necessary vocab is emphasized: everything from specific foods to German culture to slang. Also, culture is taught through a novel and lots and lots of discussion. Basically, German IV is reading and speaking. </p>

<p>In German II, III, and IV, journals are written every 2-3 weeks.</p>

<p>So, yeah, similar-ish in a few areas, I guess.</p>

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<p>For French and Spanish at my school, you take the coresponding AP after 3 years of the language. My school doesn’t offer AP French, but it offers French 4. People in French 4 self-study for the AP test.</p>

<p>My school has AP Spanish.</p>

<p>I took 3 semesters of French at some colleges(com. cols. and CSUS). I’m starting my 4th semester this Fall. If my school had AP French, then I’d take AP French there, too.</p>