Foreign Language Classes
2006 -2008 Academic Years
FRENCH I Credit 1.00
Students will develop the four foundational language acquisition skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the present tense and familiar with the past tense.
FRENCH II Credit 1.00
Students will continue to develop the four foundational acquisition language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the present, past and imperative tenses.
FRENCH III Credit 1.00
Students will continue to develop the four foundational acquisition language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the present, past, imperative, subjunctive, future and conditional tenses.
FRENCH IV Credit 1.00
Students will continue to develop the four foundational acquisition language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will review all learned verb tenses and develop greater active and passive comprehension skills. Students will read and analyze short written samples and will be able to give oral presentations in the target language.
GERMAN I Credit 1.00
German I is offered to acquaint students with the German language, enable them to carry on a simple conversation in German, and to familiarize them with the culture of the German speaking peoples.
GERMAN II Credit 1.00
German II is a continuation of the study of the German language, grammar and culture.
GERMAN III Credit 1.00
German III places greater emphasis on reading and researching the culture and history of Germany and the German speaking countries.
GERMAN IV Credit 1.00
German IV places emphasis on reading and researching the culture and history of Germany and the German speaking countries.
GREEK I Credit 1.00
Grade Level: 11-12
The first year of Attic Greek is designed to allow the student to read, speak and write in ancient Greek. It is general introduction to the syntax, vocabulary and translation of Homer, Sappho, Alcaeus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Xenophon, Demosthenes, Plato and Aristotle. This course serves and a proximate preparation for Xenophon’s Anabasis. It will explore Greek influence in art, science, literature, history, religion, politics, architecture. Greek I will also serve to build English vocabulary by an examination of cognates and derivatives.
GREEK II Credit 1.00
Grade Level: 11-12
Greek II is a continuation of the syntax and vocabulary and translation of Greek I. It primarily will serve as a reading course in Xenophon’s Anabasis and selections from Herodotus, and readings from the Koine New Testament.
LATIN I Credit 1.00
Latin I is the formal introduction into Classical Golden Age Latin. It stresses the syntax, vocabulary and reading skills needed to translate and comprehend the classical authors of antiquity.
LATIN II Credit 1.00
Latin II is a continuation of the first year and stresses the more formal and advanced grammar found in those same classical authors. It introduces the student to the readings of Caesar and Sallust.
LATIN III Credit 1.00
Latin III reviews the grammar of the first two years. It introduces the student into the reading of the works of Cicero and the poet Ovid and other classical authors. This course serves as a preparation for the AP Latin Literature Test, if the student desires to take this exam.
LATIN IV (AP) Credit 1.00
Latin IV is the final course in the students’ study of Latin. It is the proximate preparation for the Virgil AP Exam given in the spring of that academic year. The myths, history, meter and prosody of the Aeneid are studied in this course of Latin Poetry.
SPANISH I Credit 1.00
Students will develop the four foundational language acquisition skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the present tense and familiar with the past tense.
SPANISH II Credit 1.00
Students will continue to develop the four foundational acquisition language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the present, past, imperative and subjunctive tenses.
SPANISH III Credit 1.00
Students will continue to develop the four foundational acquisition language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the present, past, imperative, subjunctive, future and conditional tenses.
SPANISH IV Credit 1.00
Students will continue to develop the four foundational acquisition language skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will review all learned verb tense and develop greater active and passive comprehension skills. Students will read and analyze short written samples and will be able to give oral presentations in the target language.
INTRODUCTION TO RUSSIAN Credit 1.00
Grade Level: 11-12
Students will develop the four foundational language acquisition skills: listening, speaking, writing and reading. Students will be proficient in the use of the Cyrillic alphabet and the present tense. Cultural component will include exposure to Russian cinema, art, music, history and Orthodox Christianity.
RUSSIAN II Credit 1.00
Students will further develop their communication skills, focusing on the past tense and an intense review of all cases. Students will be engaged through their own presentations, performances and short literary analyses.
Contacts
School Phone - main number (216) 421-2080
Mr. Michael Brown, Department Chair; French, Spanish, Russian ext. 506
brownbenedictine@yahoo.com
Mr. Tom Boucher, German ext. 504 boucher@cbhs.net
Mr. Patrick Healy, Spanish ext. 502 healy@cbhs.net
Fr. Bede Kotlinski O.S.B., Latin, Greek ext. 276 bede@cbhs.net
Fr. Anselm Zupka O.S.B., German ext. 337
anselm@cbhs.net
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