Middle School Foreign Language

Course: High School Spanish I
Grade Level: 9-11 (Well advanced 8th graders may apply)
Day/Time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:45am – 12:00pm OR Tuesday and Thursday 12:30 – 1:45pm
Instructor: Tammy Bacon
Cost: $84 per month + $40 application fee
Online Availability: Students can enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student, pending teacher approval.
Book: Materials will be provided by the instructor.
Description: This is an entry-level High School Spanish course intended to prepare students for further Spanish study, as well as to help them become comfortable with speaking another language. A variety of resources will be incorporated in order to encourage as much language acquisition as possible. Students will experience the language, vocabulary, grammar, and culture of Spanish speaking countries. Basic reading and writing will be mastered with a strong emphasis on communication. Students will receive daily written and online homework assignments to reinforce the oral concepts we are learning in class, with a test approximately every 4-5 weeks.

Course: High School American Sign Language I
Grade Level: 9-11 (Well advanced 8th graders may apply)
Day/Time: Tuesday and Thursday 10:45am – 12:00pm
Instructor: Sandra Coleman
Cost: $84 per month + $40 application fee
Online Availability: Students cannot enroll in this class as an Online Real Time student. All students must attend in person. If you are sick or traveling, you can join via Zoom for up to two consecutive weeks.
Books: The workbook must be purchased NEW from Dawn Sign. Please do not buy the workbook used as the new book will include a code to access videos needed for the course! This is an $89.95 curriculum set.

• The Deaf Community in America: History in the Making by Melvin Nomeland and Ronald E. Nomeland, ISBN: 978-0786463978

• Signing Naturally Student Workbook Units 1-6 by Smith, Lentz and Mikos, ISBN: 978-1581212105 

Description: American Sign Language (ASL) is growing in popularity.  Students in this course will begin to understand and interpret exchanges in ASL through a variety of simple everyday situations, common to hearing and deaf. They will learn how to examine the relevance of body language and facial expressiveness that individuals use to communicate in sign language. The main goal of this class is to provide ASL students with conversational confidence and competence. They will learn to sign the alphabet, how to count, and basic phrases, while building vocabulary and learning the structure of the language. The benefits of learning sign language are numerous.  Students will have a greater appreciation, better awareness of and sensitivity to the deaf and hard of hearing community. ASL is one of the most widely used languages in the United States, and the fourth-most studied second language at American universities. Join us on this unique journey as students learn how to communicate with a wide range of hearing, hard of hearing, and deaf individuals. Students will receive written and online homework assignments to reinforce the concepts we are learning in class, with a test approximately every 4-5 weeks.