4710 French Level 1
4720 German Level 1
4730 Spanish Level 1
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students are introduced to a vocabulary and structures. Activities include dialogs, novice readings, listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community.
**At PHS, emphasis placed on listening and speaking skills.
4750 French Level 2
4760 German Level 2
4770 Spanish Level 2
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 1 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students are introduced to vocabulary and structures. Activities include dialogs, novice readings, listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community!
**At PHS, this course continues the development of the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing proficiency. Continued emphasis on oral proficiency with grammar and verbs.
4790 French Level 3 or 4790CEFRCC French 3
4800 German Level 3 or 488CEFRCC German 3
4810 Spanish Level 3 or 4810CEFRCC Spanish 3
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 2 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Potential concurrent enrollment)
Students enhance vocabulary and expand structures. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, intermediate listening selection, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of world language prepares students to compete in a global community!
**At PHS, activities include simulated conversations, skits, written and oral exercises, and reading of short stories, articles and poems. Continued stress on development of higher-level proficiency in the four basic skills.
4820 French Level 4 or 4820CEFRCC French 4
4830 German Level 4 or 4830CEFRCC German 4
4840 Spanish Level 4 or 4840CEFRCC Spanish 4
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 3 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
Students expand vocabulary and refine structures. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, advanced listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community!
4793 IB French 4 SL
4803 IB German 4 SL
4813 IB Spanish 4 SL
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisite: None, Grade 11
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
This course stresses conversation, vocabulary building, grammar, reading, and writing. Class activities include simulated conversations, skits, written and oral exercises, and reading of short stories. There is continued stress of development of higher level proficiency in the four basic skills.
**At PHS, students expand vocabulary and refine structures. Activities include authentic readings and intermediate listening selections. Students experience language through study of cultures, making connections and comparisons to native language and developing communication skills in target language.
4841 IB Spanish Level 5 SL
4831 IB German Level 5 SL
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 4 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills are expanded through a study of literary readings, history, culture simulators, phonetics, and the writing of short compositions. A review of major verb tenses and basic grammar is done. The reading and writing skills become increasingly liberated. Students prepare for the SL Language B exam. The four-year IB sequence is equivalent to the five-year sequence.
4832 IB German Level 5 HL
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 4 SL and/or Level 5 SL & Instructor Approval.
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students solidify vocabulary and apply structures as independent learners in preparation for the HL exam. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, advanced listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community.
*This course is designed to continue on a more sophisticated level of fluency from the previous four years of language study. Authentic works of literature are examined, read, and discussed.
4842 IB Spanish HL 6
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: IB Program, completed 4-5 years Spanish courses. Instructor Approval.
Meets requirements: 1, 8
The study of modern language, in this case Spanish, entails acquiring a language system and applying it in four active and interrelated ways: through listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four skills involve exchanging ideas and effective communication. Effective communication, in turn, involves the intellectual process of understanding how ideas can best be expressed to the audience concerned. Understanding ideas, and expressing them clearly and convincingly, demands an awareness of the cultural characteristics of the audience. Class will provide the necessary environment for students to continue to practice and perfect these skills in a culturally rich context. Study of modern language, at any level, should enable students to use it spontaneously and appropriately in unfamiliar as well as in familiar circumstances. Class will reflect a progressively sophisticated domain of communicative proficiency expectation that the standards level IB Spanish course. Whereas the emphasis in Spanish SL is more practical and social, Spanish HL will include communicative experience in more expressive and intellectual domains.
4850 French Level 5 AP
4860 German Level 5 AP
4871 Spanish Level 5 AP
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 4 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students solidify vocabulary and apply structures as independent learners in preparation for the AP exam. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, advanced listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community.
**At PHS, this course is designed to continue on a more sophisticated level with the skills acquired in the previous four years of language study. Various works of literature are examined. Students give oral presentation, special project to internalize their language skills, and a complete review of grammar. Plays, short stories, novels, and poems in the language are read and discussed.
4913 Spanish Literacy 3
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Literacy 2 or pass entrance exam
Meets requirements: 1, 8
This high school course is intended for students with good academic skills in Spanish who wish to improve and enrich literacy skills of reading and writing proficiency. Students receive instruction in reading comprehension skills and strategies through Spanish literature selections. They also refine and improve skills that allow them to write for a wide range of purposes and a variety of audiences. This course addresses the World Language standards of communication, culture, connections and comparisons.
4914 Spanish Literacy 4
4840CEFRCC Spanish 4
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Literacy 3 or pass entrance exam
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
This high school course is intended for students with strong Spanish comprehension and literacy skills to communicate by applying a wide range of vocabulary and complex structures. Students interpret, analyze, synthesize, and apply information from a variety of sources and create comprehensible oral and written presentations. They analyze the perspectives and significance of cultural practices to expand and apply knowledge. This course addresses the World Language standards of communication, culture, connections, and comparisons.
4916 Spanish Literacy 5
4871S1CEFR Spanish 5
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Literacy 3 and 4
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
Students examine socially and culturally relevant themes through the lens of literacy.
4872 AP Spanish Literature
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Level 4 or Spanish Literacy 4 and/or teacher/instructor approval and demonstrated fluency.
Meets requirements: 1, 8
The AP Spanish Literature course is designed to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of a third-year college course in Peninsular and Latin American literature. The course is designed to introduce students to the formal study of a representative body of Peninsular and Latin American literary texts.
4720 German Level 1
4730 Spanish Level 1
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students are introduced to a vocabulary and structures. Activities include dialogs, novice readings, listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community.
**At PHS, emphasis placed on listening and speaking skills.
4750 French Level 2
4760 German Level 2
4770 Spanish Level 2
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 1 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students are introduced to vocabulary and structures. Activities include dialogs, novice readings, listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community!
**At PHS, this course continues the development of the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing proficiency. Continued emphasis on oral proficiency with grammar and verbs.
4790 French Level 3 or 4790CEFRCC French 3
4800 German Level 3 or 488CEFRCC German 3
4810 Spanish Level 3 or 4810CEFRCC Spanish 3
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 2 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Potential concurrent enrollment)
Students enhance vocabulary and expand structures. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, intermediate listening selection, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of world language prepares students to compete in a global community!
**At PHS, activities include simulated conversations, skits, written and oral exercises, and reading of short stories, articles and poems. Continued stress on development of higher-level proficiency in the four basic skills.
4820 French Level 4 or 4820CEFRCC French 4
4830 German Level 4 or 4830CEFRCC German 4
4840 Spanish Level 4 or 4840CEFRCC Spanish 4
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 3 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
Students expand vocabulary and refine structures. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, advanced listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community!
4793 IB French 4 SL
4803 IB German 4 SL
4813 IB Spanish 4 SL
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisite: None, Grade 11
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
This course stresses conversation, vocabulary building, grammar, reading, and writing. Class activities include simulated conversations, skits, written and oral exercises, and reading of short stories. There is continued stress of development of higher level proficiency in the four basic skills.
**At PHS, students expand vocabulary and refine structures. Activities include authentic readings and intermediate listening selections. Students experience language through study of cultures, making connections and comparisons to native language and developing communication skills in target language.
4841 IB Spanish Level 5 SL
4831 IB German Level 5 SL
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 4 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills are expanded through a study of literary readings, history, culture simulators, phonetics, and the writing of short compositions. A review of major verb tenses and basic grammar is done. The reading and writing skills become increasingly liberated. Students prepare for the SL Language B exam. The four-year IB sequence is equivalent to the five-year sequence.
4832 IB German Level 5 HL
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 4 SL and/or Level 5 SL & Instructor Approval.
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students solidify vocabulary and apply structures as independent learners in preparation for the HL exam. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, advanced listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community.
*This course is designed to continue on a more sophisticated level of fluency from the previous four years of language study. Authentic works of literature are examined, read, and discussed.
4842 IB Spanish HL 6
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: IB Program, completed 4-5 years Spanish courses. Instructor Approval.
Meets requirements: 1, 8
The study of modern language, in this case Spanish, entails acquiring a language system and applying it in four active and interrelated ways: through listening, speaking, reading and writing. These four skills involve exchanging ideas and effective communication. Effective communication, in turn, involves the intellectual process of understanding how ideas can best be expressed to the audience concerned. Understanding ideas, and expressing them clearly and convincingly, demands an awareness of the cultural characteristics of the audience. Class will provide the necessary environment for students to continue to practice and perfect these skills in a culturally rich context. Study of modern language, at any level, should enable students to use it spontaneously and appropriately in unfamiliar as well as in familiar circumstances. Class will reflect a progressively sophisticated domain of communicative proficiency expectation that the standards level IB Spanish course. Whereas the emphasis in Spanish SL is more practical and social, Spanish HL will include communicative experience in more expressive and intellectual domains.
4850 French Level 5 AP
4860 German Level 5 AP
4871 Spanish Level 5 AP
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Level 4 and Instructor Approval
Meets requirements: 1, 8
Students solidify vocabulary and apply structures as independent learners in preparation for the AP exam. Activities include conversations, authentic readings, advanced listening selections, and written communication. Students experience language through the study of cultures, while making connections and comparisons to their native language and developing communication skills in the target language. The study of a world language prepares students to compete in a global community.
**At PHS, this course is designed to continue on a more sophisticated level with the skills acquired in the previous four years of language study. Various works of literature are examined. Students give oral presentation, special project to internalize their language skills, and a complete review of grammar. Plays, short stories, novels, and poems in the language are read and discussed.
4913 Spanish Literacy 3
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Literacy 2 or pass entrance exam
Meets requirements: 1, 8
This high school course is intended for students with good academic skills in Spanish who wish to improve and enrich literacy skills of reading and writing proficiency. Students receive instruction in reading comprehension skills and strategies through Spanish literature selections. They also refine and improve skills that allow them to write for a wide range of purposes and a variety of audiences. This course addresses the World Language standards of communication, culture, connections and comparisons.
4914 Spanish Literacy 4
4840CEFRCC Spanish 4
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Literacy 3 or pass entrance exam
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
This high school course is intended for students with strong Spanish comprehension and literacy skills to communicate by applying a wide range of vocabulary and complex structures. Students interpret, analyze, synthesize, and apply information from a variety of sources and create comprehensible oral and written presentations. They analyze the perspectives and significance of cultural practices to expand and apply knowledge. This course addresses the World Language standards of communication, culture, connections, and comparisons.
4916 Spanish Literacy 5
4871S1CEFR Spanish 5
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Literacy 3 and 4
Meets requirements: 1, 8
(Concurrent Enrollment Offered)
Students examine socially and culturally relevant themes through the lens of literacy.
4872 AP Spanish Literature
Number of semesters: 2 (10 credits)
Prerequisites: Spanish Level 4 or Spanish Literacy 4 and/or teacher/instructor approval and demonstrated fluency.
Meets requirements: 1, 8
The AP Spanish Literature course is designed to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of a third-year college course in Peninsular and Latin American literature. The course is designed to introduce students to the formal study of a representative body of Peninsular and Latin American literary texts.