Credit: 1.00

Prerequisite: Spanish 1,2,3

Description: All successful students will perform speaking and writing tasks consistent with intermediate and mid expectations of the American Council of Foriegn Language Proficiency Guidelines. In varied assessment throughout the course students will likewise demonstate refined receptive abilities of listening and reading. They will respond ably to culturally authentic conversation, some modern prose and poetry, journalistic samples, folklore, recipes, art, music, and videos. Both individually and collaboratively, students will analyze, synthesize and create as effective problem solvers and critical thinkers, moving from autobiographical and biographical data which they now easily give and elicit to expanded communication concerning real life social, home, personal interests and history, school, travel, leisure, food, shopping, career, survival and hypothetical settings. Sometimes assisted by technology and enriched by multi-medial and individual research related instructional activities, Level 4 promisies to be an enjoyable learning experience. Some nationally related achievement and pro-achievement assessing may be offered in additional other routine class work and performance testing. For qualified students, study beyond Level 4 is sometimes available, including an AP option.

Level 4 Standards/Outcomes

1. All students use the target language to engage in social interactions in a wide variety of settings and contexts.

2. All students use the target language to obtain, process, and provide information in spoken and/or written form on a wide variety of topics of academic, vocational, personal, cultural and historic interest.

3. All students use the target language in leisure and personal enrichment situations.

4. All students demonstrate advanced knowledge of the components of the target culture and its communication patterns.

5. All students will use the target language to reinforce and further knowledge of other disciplines.

6. All students will use authentic materials of the target language, sharing differing world views when possible with representatives of the target language.