SIXTH GRADE

In each marking period of Sixth grade, your child will study a different foreign language:  French, German, Spanish, and Japanese.  All students will then select a language for full-time study for subsequent years. Your child will be expected to:

1. Understand and respond to conventional expressions and commands. .
2. Count from 0 to 39 in the target language
3. Recite, understand, and use the foreign alphabet in spelling activities.
4. Understand and pronounce vocabulary items in the topic areas of:  classroom objects, clothing, colors, days and months.
5. Produce and understand the meaning and use of foreign words used in English.
6. Understand and pronounce the foreign name for regions where the language studied are spoken and locate these areas on a map.
7. Perform songs and dances studied in the course.

    All students in the Seventh grade study French, German, Japanese, or Spanish for a full year. Emphasis is given to the development of listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills in the target language, to organizational and study skills, and to the acquistion of cultural knowledge.
   Our proficiency-oriented program emphasizes the development of practical skills in the foreign language being studied.
    Students will continue to pursue the study of the same foreign language in Eighth Grade.

EIGHTH GRADE

    Students in the Eighth grade Foreign Language Program continue to study French, German, Japanese, or Spanish for the full year.  Continued emphasis is given to the development of listening and speaking skills and cultural knowledge.  Increased emphasis is placed on the development of grammar skills.
    As a result of their experiences in eighth grade foreign language, the students may continue to pursue that language for an additional four year sequence at the high school level.  The study of Latin is also introduced at the high school level.
 

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