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Friday, June 1, 2012

International Studies and Foreign Language Academy

UPDATE 8/8/12:
Language lunches occasionally - possibly try to have several places to have lunch so students can sort by language
1. English – all four years – light, mostly just getting through the classics and SAT and standardized test writing
2. Foreign language 1 – all four years
3. Foreign language 1 enrichment – all four years
4. Foreign language 2 – all four years
5. Foreign language 3 – at least 3 years
6. Social studies – all four years – international relations, history, geography
7. Experimental Sciences – at least three years - have to do one year each of biology, chemistry, and physics  – can we have the first year be AP?
8. Math – at least three years?
9. Culture – all four years
10. Arts/PE/Health/Further Studies – at least one year of each


UPDATE 7/17/12:
Language lunches occasionally
1. English – all four years – light, mostly just getting through the classics and SAT and standardized test writing
2. Foreign language 1 – all four years
3. Foreign language 1 enrichment – all four years
4. Foreign language 2 – all four years
5. Foreign language 3 – all four years
6. Social studies – all four years – international relations, history, geography
7. Experimental Sciences – at least three years - have to do one year each of biology, chemistry, and physics  – can we have the first year be AP?
8. Math – at least three years?
9. Culture – all four years
10. Arts/PE/Health/Further Studies – at least one year of each

Language lunches occasionally
1. English – all four years – light, mostly just getting through the classics and SAT and standardized test writing
2. Foreign language – all four years – vocab, grammar, etc.
3. Foreign language reading/writing – all four years – like English class without a lot of discussion
4. Foreign language speaking class – all four years
5. Social studies – all four years – international relations, history, geography
6. Experimental Sciences – have to do one year each of biology, chemistry, and physics and at least one of these has to get to the second year of it – can we have the first year be AP?
7. Math – all four years
8. Culture – all four years
9. Arts/PE – at least one year of each, three years total
10. Further Studies – at least three years total
OR
1. English – all four years – light, mostly just getting through the classics and SAT and standardized test writing
2. Foreign language 1 – all four years – vocab, grammar, etc.
3. Foreign language 1 reading/writing/speaking – all four years – like English class
4. Foreign language 2 – all four years – vocab, grammar, etc.
5. Foreign language 2 reading/writing/speaking – all four years – like English class
6. Social studies – all four years – international relations, history, geography
7. Experimental Sciences – have to do one year each of biology, chemistry, and physics and at least one of these has to get to the second year of it – can we have the first year be AP?
8. Math – all four years
9. Culture – all four years
10. Arts/PE/Further Studies – at least one year of each, four years total















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