2026-2027 TSD Course Description Book - Flipbook - Page 64
Spanish 4 (100723/200723)
Grades 10-12
Full year 1.0 credit
Meets NCAA requirements
Students must complete Spanish 3 prior to enrolling in this course. This course is designed for students who have successfully
completed Spanish 3 per teacher recommendation. Building on what was learned in Spanish 3, students will continue creating
with the language and expanding their working vocabulary. Students will improve their proficiency across the three modes of
communication – Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. In conversational exchanges, students will be better able to
initiate, maintain, and bring a close to conversations involving more complex situations. By the end of the course, students will
be able to express their thoughts and opinions on a variety of relevant topics in a variety of tenses. Students will further explore
the practices, products and perspectives of the Spanish- speaking world through exposure to authentic multimedia.
AP Spanish (100733/200733)
Grades 10-12
Full year 1.0 credit
Meets NCAA requirements
Students must complete Spanish 4 prior to enrolling in this course. This course is designed for students who have successfully
completed Spanish 4 per teacher recommendation. It follows the guidelines of the College Board® AP Spanish Language and Culture
course and provides opportunities for students to demonstrate their proficiency in the 3 modes of communication - Interpretive,
Interpersonal, and Presentational. The Spanish AP course is divided into thematic units which are based on College Board
recommended contexts and guided by essential questions. Review of the mechanics of advanced language structures is done within the
contextual framework of each unit as needed. Corresponding cultural elements are integrated into the study of the units, and activities
are directed with the cultural connections in mind. By the end of the course, students will be able to interpret authentic materials,
interact with native Spanish speakers and express themselves with reasonable fluency both orally and in writing. Upon successful
completion of this course, students will reach the Intermediate-high to Advanced-low proficiency level on the ACTFL Proficiency
Guidelines. An Advanced Placement examination is given in May.
Japanese 1 (100823/200823)
Grades 9-12
Full year 1.0 credit
Meets NCAA requirements
In this introductory course, students will focus on pronunciation and basic vocabulary centered around themselves, their identity, and
familiar objects from their immediate environment. Students will develop basic proficiency across the three modes of communication:
Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. Conversational exchanges will be formulaic, using memorized phrases in familiar
contexts. By the end of the course, students will have emerging mastery of verb and adjective conjugations in the present, past,
negative, and negative-past tenses and an understanding of simple sentence structures. Students will also begin to acquire cultural
competence through exposure to a variety of practices, products, and perspectives of Japan, including authentic resources and multimedia. Students will also learn to read and write Hiragana and Katakana characters. Upon successful completion of this course,
students will reach Novice-mid to Novice-high proficiency level on the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines.
Japanese 2 (100833/200833)
Grades 9-12
Full year 1.0 credit
Meets NCAA requirements
Students must complete Japanese 1 prior to enrolling in this course. This course is designed for students who have successfully
completed Japanese 1 per teacher recommendation. Building on what was learned in Japanese 1, students will focus on further
expanding their vocabulary refining their use of various tenses to describe their surroundings. Students will continue to develop
their proficiency across the three modes of communication: Interpretive, Interpersonal, and Presentational. In conversational
exchanges, students will be able to respond to simple, direct questions or requests for information. By the end of the course,
students will advance their communication skills from using simple sentences to more complex structures and will read and
write 120 basic Kanji characters. Students will also deepen cultural competence through comparison of Japanese culture with
their native culture in a variety of contexts.
