MHS World Languages Department

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    "The sum of human wisdom is not contained within any one language" - Ezra Pound
     

    HIGH SCHOOL

     SUPERVISOR OF WORLD LANGUAGES AND ESL, ALMA REYES    
    (609) 466 7602 ext. 6321
     
     
    OUR MISSION  is ... to foster life-long learners who have a positive impact on the world by exploring interculturality through discourse about different languages, cultures and real life experiences. Our world languages family promotes acceptance, compassion, respect, equity and social justice.  We envision a world of respectful and globally-minded citizens who think critically, embrace diversity and strive to build just societies that are free of fear and hatred of the unknown other.
     
    ESTABLISHED GOALS:  STATE AND NATIONAL STANDARDS
     
    CURRICULUM  
    The curriculum uses the Understanding by Design (UbD) approach and is organized in thematic units to provide meaningful context for academic and cultural content, address national and state standards and assure that students are 21st century college-, careers- and world-ready.  We offer English for non-English natives, French, German, Latin and Spanish classes at the High School. Classes meet every other day for 84 minutes.
     
    GRADING PROTOCOL
    No one grade shall be worth more than 15% of the marking period grade.
    Graded assignments are spaced throughout the semester.
    Students earning a grade below 50% on any assignment valued at 10% or more of the semester grade shall:
    • Have the opportunity to remediate the grade up to 50%
    • Coordinate a remediation opportunity with the course instructor, who has discretion regarding the remediation options for individual students 

    Grades should be returned and posted within the following time frame: 

    • Tests/Major assessments within 5 class periods of test date
    • Essays/Projects/Research Papers within 8 class periods of due date
    • Quizzes prior to the summative assessment
     
    PROGRESSION OF STUDY
    Sequence and common Course Progressions
    MTSD World Languages
     
     
    FACULTY
     
    NAME SUBJECT EMAIL
    Lea Apesa Spanish lapesa@mtsd.us
    Susanne Asral Spanish sasral@mtsd.us
    Brian Beyer Latin bbeyer@mtsd.us
    Nathalie Bogen French nbogen@mtsd.us
    Roberto Centeno Spanish recenteno@mtsd.us
    William Dominick German, Latin & Linguistics wdominick@mtsd.us
    Petra Hannig-Reisenberger German phannigeisenberg@mtsd.us
    Valeriya Kotok French vkotok@mtsd.us
    Elsa Licinski Spanish elicinski@mtsd.us
    Iryna Lupak English for Multilingual Learners ilupak@mtsd.us
    Kimberly Marshall French & Spanish kmarshall@mtsd.us
    Eliana Molano Spanish emolano@mtsd.us
     
     
     
Last Modified on August 26, 2024