Spanish
The Spanish course has two main goals:
- For students to acquire the necessary tools to have simple conversations in Spanish (especially on their trip to Mexico), and
- For the students to keep pace with expected curriculum of the sending school's Spanish class.
Each class will have a different theme, ranging from gardening to traveling to immigration politics. During the first part of the class, we will review an area of Spanish grammar and key vocabulary about the theme, and then go right into a discussion. The guiding principle is that the only way to learn how to speak Spanish is to speak Spanish! Because the class includes students of all levels, the second part will be individual work time with tutoring as needed. We hope that once they get to Mexico, even the beginners will have the skills and confidence to engage in simple yet substantive conversations with people they meet.