World Language

Our World Language curriculum works with the four skills of language learning: listening, reading, writing, and speaking. We also emphasize the five goals of learning languages: communication, cultures, connections, comparisons, and communities. We use Comprehensible Input to help students acquire a language which means less focus on learning grammar rules and vocabulary lists and more focus on true communication, both oral and written.

During students’ 7th grade year, they will have the opportunity to take a semester-long introduction to world language class. While this class will focus on Spanish instruction, basic vocabulary in French will be introduced as well.  

During students’ 8th grade year, they will have the opportunity to enroll in a year-long Spanish or French course with the opportunity to earn 1.0 World Language credit towards high school graduation. This Year 1 French or Spanish for high school credit will be the same course that is offered at Bacon Academy with consistent pacing, opportunities, and expectations. Students will be assessed and graded in the same way as the course at Bacon Academy and will be exposed to the same thematic units, cultural topics, and language expectations as outlined in the curriculum. 

Using the interpersonal, presentational, and interpretive modes, 8th-grade students will be able to: meet and greet friends and adults, describe people and things, discuss what they do in school and in their free time, and be able to talk about clothing and its cultural relevance. They will add to this knowledge by learning about how they use technology in comparison to other students around the world, where they might like to travel, and the cultural traditions which appertain to countries that they have studied as well as their own.