ARABIC

Arabic A
This course is designed for students interested in Arabic with no prior experience. Learners are introduced to the language through various activities that develop basic communicative competence: oral practice, conversations, dialogues, and written activities. Students have opportunities to demonstrate creative use of new vocabulary and structures through songs, games, presentations, and texts. The course introduces students to Arabic culture and life using various resources. It stresses the four language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. The main objective is to develop students' basic communication skills in Arabic.

Materials and Texts: Multiple reading and listening materials. 
Requirements: None. 
Length of Course: One Year

Arabic B
This course is for students who have completed Arabic A. It continues the proficiency-oriented approach, focusing on basic communicative competence and performance. The use of acquired structures and vocabulary is intensified, and the creative process of the language is emphasized. As fluency and familiarity with the structures increase, students can further manipulate essential elements of the Arabic language foundation to expand their vocabulary, focusing on communication ability and capacity. Students' vocabulary is enriched through multimedia resources. Arabic B is the second part of a three-year basic program and prepares students for Middle School Arabic C.

Materials and Texts: Multiple reading and listening materials. 
Requirements: Arabic A or placement test/teacher recommendation. 
Length of Course: One Year

Arabic C
This course is for students who have completed Arabic A. It continues the proficiency-oriented approach, focusing on basic communicative competence and performance. The use of acquired structures and vocabulary is intensified, and the creative process of the language is emphasized. As fluency and familiarity with the structures increase, students can further manipulate essential elements of the Arabic language foundation to expand their vocabulary, focusing on communication ability and capacity. Students' vocabulary is enriched through multimedia resources. Arabic B is the second part of a three-year basic program and prepares students for Middle School Arabic C. 

Materials and Texts: Multiple reading and listening materials. 
Requirements: Arabic B or placement test/teacher recommendation. 
Length of Course: One Year

Arabic 6
Designed for Arabic-speaking students who have completed Modern Standard Arabic coursework in Elementary School or equivalent levels. The primary objective is to enable correct use of structures, lexicon, and composition found in level-appropriate texts. Another objective is to reinforce linguistic competence through studying selected, engaging, and cultural texts. This proficiency-oriented course develops students' creativity in using the four language skills, emphasizing literacy skills through authentic materials.

Materials and Texts: Multiple resources selected by the teacher. 
Length of course: One year

Arabic 7
This course is designed for students who have completed Arabic 6 or equivalent. This level intensifies the use of acquired structures and encourages the creative language process. It refines structural and lexical competence, composition, and communication skills, developing these through literary and cultural texts. The main objectives are to develop proficiency in Arabic and intensify the creative process of language expressions.

Materials and Texts: Multiple resources selected by the teacher.
Length of Course: One year

Arabic 8
Students will enrich their Standard Arabic language skills through work units and resources that develop communicative competence: everyday situations, conversations, creative dialogues, oral presentations, debates, discussions, role-playing, media, reading texts, and essay writing. This level refines structural and lexical competence, composition, and communication skills, developing these through literary and cultural texts. The main objectives are to develop proficiency in Arabic and intensify the creative process of language expression.

Materials and Texts: Multiple resources selected by the teacher. 
Length of Course: One year

SPANISH

SPANISH A

This course is designed for students interested in Spanish with NO prior experience. The learner is introduced to the language through a variety of activities that develop basic communicative competence: oral practice, conversations, dialogues, and written activities. The opportunity to demonstrate creative use of the new vocabulary and structures is given through, songs, movies, game, presentations, projects and text. The student is introduced to Spanish culture and life through a range of media presentations including videos, music, reading, an interactive software program as well as bilingual and grade-level appropriate texts. The four language skills are equally stressed: reading, writing, listening and speaking. The main objective of this proficiency-oriented course is to develop the students' basic communication skills in Spanish.

Materials and Texts: Reporteros Internacionales 1 - Difusión
Workbook: Reporteros Internacionales 1
Prerequisite: None.  Length of Course:  One Year

SPANISH B
This course is designed for students who have successfully completed Spanish A. It continues to reinforce the proficiency-oriented approach and focuses on basic communicative competence and performance. The use of the acquired structures and vocabulary is intensified and the creative process of the language is emphasized.  As fluency and familiarity with the structures increase, the student will be able to further manipulate the basic elements of Spanish grammar to expand his/her vocabulary with one objective in mind: basic communication.  The student's vocabulary is enriched through multi-media presentations. Spanish B is the second part of a three-year basic program in Spanish and prepares the students remaining in the Middle School for entry into Middle School Spanish C.This proficiency-oriented course will continue to develop the student's communicative competence and strengthen creativity in using the four language skills with a sound grammatical foundation and a broadened vocabulary.

Materials and Texts: Reporteros Internacionales 1 & 2 - Difusión
Workbook: Reporteros Internacionales 1 & 2
Prerequisites: Spanish A or placement test/teacher recommendation
Length of Course:  One Year

SPANISH C
This course is designed for students who have already successfully completed a previous middle school program in Spanish A and Spanish B. In this course, the student will continue to develop grammatical accuracy, and move from writing grammatically simple sentences, to more complex paragraphs. Composition will be reinforced, as well as speaking, reading, writing and listening skills, through dealing with everyday situations and understanding short written passages. 

Students who complete this course successfully in Grade 8 may be placed in High School Spanish 2 or 3 in Grade 9, based on a placement test and/or the current teacher’s recommendation.

Materials and Texts: Reporteros Internacionales 3 - Difusión
Workbook:  Reporteros Internacionales 3
Prerequisites: Spanish B or placement test/teacher recommendation
Length of Course:  One year