Wappingers Central School District
Second Language Department
Course Syllabus
Course Name / Italian 4 (Honors)Course Code / L345
Duration / Full Year
Grade / 9-12
Credit / 1.0
Rank / 1.04
Prerequisite / Must have passed Italian 3 or the equivalent.
Assessment / A teacher-created final exam, term paper or culminating project will be included and counted as 20% of the final course average.
Textbook / Italian 2 & 3 Years (Amsco, 1997)
Basic Italian (Heinle & Heinle, 2002)
Areas of Study / This course is intended for the accelerated/honors student who is prepared to meet the rigorous academic demands of advanced placement work, as it is the first part of a two-year sequence that prepares students to meet the challenges of the College Board’s Advanced Placement exam at the end of Level 5. As an honors-level course, grades are weighted.
Students of Italian 4 also have the option of enrolling with SUNY Albany to receive four (4) credits for successful completion of the course (equivalent to SUNY Albany’s Intermediate Italian 1). There is a fee for students who wish to participate in this college program.
1. Self and others
· personality traits
· similarities & differences, friendships
2. Family and interpersonal relations
· the extended family
· roles and protocol in social interactions
3. The community
· fashion and shopping
· politics and the social stratification
4. Societal customs
· music
· foods and festivals
5. Education / the University
· the university system in Italy
· areas of study
6. Careers and Professions
7. Leisure
· Sports
· Entertainment
8. Italian culture in historical and contemporary contexts
Skill areas.
Within the various areas of study, students will be able to:
· expand their ease in listening comprehension, in order to more readily understand a variety of topics as presented by native speakers.
· refine and widen the use of the spoken language in interactions with others in order to communicate thoughts, needs, and wants.
· read, analyze, and discuss authentic texts in Italian.
· write factual and analytical reports as well as opinion based essays.
· continue to develop an appreciation for the customs and culture of Italy in its various manifestations.
· further develop their skills in verb tense and agreement, adjective and adverb use, pronouns, prepositions, etc. within the context of the themes and units studied.
Grammatical Structures:
Continual revision of grammar presented in levels two and three….. PLUS more in-depth work with the use of:
1. Pronouns (direct, indirect, reflexive, possessive, etc,)
2. Irregular verbs
3. Comparison of past tenses
4. Negative structures and expressions
5. The verb piacere
6. The future tense (simple and compound)
7. The conditional tense
For Information / For the complete Advanced Placement course outline/syllabus, click here.
For more information on the Advanced Placement program, see
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/descriptions/index.html
For a complete review of the NYS Learning Standards for Languages Other Than English (LOTE), see
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/lote/pub/lotelea.pdf
For a complete core curriculum for LOTE, see (especially pp. 12 – 19)
http://emsc32.nysed.gov/guides/lote/partI1.pdf
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