World Languages

Upper School World Languages Department Philosophy

The All Saints' Academy Middle and Upper School World Languages curriculum enriches our students' lives by preparing them to communicate in a multi-cultural world.  The communicative curriculum also strives to teach language as an integral part of our society.   The faculty of the World Languages Department encourages students to understand that, living in a globalized world, we need to look for understanding among the many people who make up the community of nations.  The recent addition of our digital language lab allows our students to integrate technology with cultural exploration to improve knowledge of languages and cultures.

Course List

French I CP

French I Honors builds upon the foundation set by Middle School French.  In this course, students learn everyday vocabulary, the present tense of regular, stem changing, and some irregular verbs.  They also learn the immediate future and preterit of regular verbs.  The students focus on basic sentence structure using patterns of negation and formation of questions.  Adjectives, subject and single object pronouns, and numbers are also introduced in this course.  Conversational speaking is emphasized throughout the year.
Full year, 1.0 credit

French I Lyceum

French I Lyceum is taught completely in French.  The curriculum of French I is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

French II CP

In French II, students build upon the vocabulary and grammar covered in the previous year as they learn to form and use the regular and reflexive verbs in the present, preterit, imperfect, future, and conditional tenses.  All object pronouns are presented in this course.  Conversational skills are stressed and more paragraph writing is required.
Full year, 1.0 credit

French II Lyceum

French II Lyceum is taught completely in French.  The curriculum of French II is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

French III CP

At this level the present, imperative, future, imperfect, and preterit tenses are reviewed.  New tenses presented will include all compound indicative verbs.  The subjunctive mood is taught as well as relative pronouns, possessive pronouns, and demonstrative pronouns.  Heavy stress is placed on speaking, writing, and reading skills.
Full year, 1.0 credit

French III Lyceum

French III Lyceum is taught completely in French.  The curriculum of French III is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

French IV Lyceum

Students complete an extensive review of grammar.  They will read excerpts from several French writers and familiarize themselves with French history and French current events by reading French newspapers and magazines.  Heavy emphasis is placed upon speaking, reading, and writing in French.  Partner and group activities are frequent.
Full Year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

AP French Language

Students will do extensive reading of French literature and news articles.  Students are trained to listen to long recorded texts, both formal and informal in nature.  They learn to develop their writing skills and attempt to demonstrate good written control of grammatical forms and general vocabulary which treats a variety of topics.  They further improve their oral skills by small group discussions of topics heard or read and by impromptu speaking, based on teacher-prepared topics.  They learn to express ideas, facts, and opinions about various topics with an acceptable level of fluency and accent.  They complete a thorough review of grammar taught in Levels I-IV. 
Full Year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

Latin I CP

Students are introduced to the language and the culture of the Romans through connected readings and through grammar and vocabulary instruction.  Attention is given to derivatives as well as Latin phrases, mottoes, and abbreviations commonly used in English.  The culture of Pompeii, Italy, Greece, Roman Britain, and Egypt is presented.
Full year, 1.0 credit

Latin I Lyceum

The curriculum of Latin I is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit

Latin II CP

Students continue to develop reading and writing skills through connected readings of Roman writers.  Students develop an understanding of the social and political history of the Romans. Study of derivative and Latin-English phrases also continues.    
Full year, 1.0 credit

Latin II Lyceum

The Curriculum of Latin II is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

Spanish I CP

Spanish I Honors builds upon the foundation set by Middle School Spanish.  Students will learn everyday vocabulary, the present tense of regular, stem-changing, and some irregular verbs.  They will also learn the immediate future and the preterit tense.  Students work with basic sentence structures using patterns of negation and formation of questions.  This course also provides an introduction to adjectives, subject and prepositional pronouns, and numbers.  Conversational speaking is emphasized.
Full year, 1.0 credit

Spanish I Lyceum

Spanish I Lyceum is taught completely in Spanish.  The curriculum of Spanish I is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

Spanish II CP

Sentence structure and vocabulary for a variety of scenarios and situations are emphasized regularly in this course.  The following tenses are introduced: the present progressive, the perfect tenses, and the simple past tenses (preterit and imperfect).  The subjunctive is introduced and reviewed.  Informal, formal and negative commands are introduced and
emphasized.  Additionally, Spanish II engages in the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, double object pronouns and develops composition and communication skills.  An effort is made to establish a strong foundation of basic vocabulary by means of constant review and practice.
Full year, 1.0 credit

Spanish II Lyceum

Spanish II Lyceum is taught completely in Spanish.  The curriculum of Spanish II is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

Spanish III CP

Grammatical structures introduced in this course are formal and familiar commands, imperfect, progressive, subjunctive, future tense, conditional tense, present perfect tense, and pluperfect tense.  In addition, previously learned tenses, such as present and preterit, are reviewed and expanded.  Speaking and writing exercises are provided within contextual situations.  Compositions are guided but are tied to realistic situations and vocabulary studies.  Most writing prompts are also open-ended to encourage freedom of expression.
Full year, 1.0 credit

Spanish III Lyceum

Spanish III Lyceum is taught completely in Spanish.  The curriculum of Spanish III is covered at an accelerated pace and students participate in additional enrichment activities.  Students should expect to spend a minimum of 30 minutes per night doing homework or reviewing for this class.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

Spanish IV Lyceum

This course begins with a general review of grammar, reintegrating and expanding known material, and introducing and extensively practicing newer concepts.  Students read works by several Spanish and Latin-American writers.  Heavy emphasis is placed upon speaking, reading, and writing in Spanish.  Students will also study the cultures of Spain and Latin American completely in the target language.  This course is taught completely in the target language.  Students will regularly participate in enrichment activities. 
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites

AP Spanish Language

Students are trained to listen to long recorded texts, both formal and informal in nature.  They develop their writing skills and demonstrate good written control of grammatical forms and general vocabulary on a variety of topics.  Students improve their oral skills in small group discussions on topics heard or read and by impromptu speaking opportunities, which are based on teacher-prepared topics.  They learn to express ideas, facts and opinions with an acceptable level of fluency and accent.  Students complete a thorough review of grammar taught in Levels I-IV. 
Full year, 1.0 credit Prerequisites

AP Spanish Literature

The AP Spanish literature course is designed to be comparable to a third-year college or university Introduction to Hispanic Literature course.  Students will complete a comprehensive reading list of works from the Medieval and Golden Age, Nineteenth Century, and Twentieth Century. 
After successful completion of this course student will be able to closely read modern Spanish and Latin American literature in all genres; to analyze critically, orally, and in writing, the form and content of literary works; to discuss in Spanish a variety of literary topics.
Full year, 1.0 credit  Prerequisites