8th Grade

8th grade (Spanish I MS for HS Credit /year-long course) - Prerequisite: Spanish 7th grade.

This course continues the study of the Spanish language and culture, refining grammatical and vocabulary topics. Major topics include the rooms in a house, making comparisons, the superlative, stem-changing verbs, affirmative commands, the present progressive tense, clothing, demonstrative adjectives, and the preterit of verbs. Students who complete this course successfully and who pass the exit exam (worth 20% of the overall grade) may take Spanish II at the high school level.

For more details on the 8th grade curriculum and a sequence of topics and skills, please see the 8th grade syllabus.