East Rockaway High School

World Language Department

Department Chairperson: Angelica Rodriguez Alonzo

Department Overview

The East Rockaway Jr./Sr. High School World Language Department is dedicated to teaching students the languages of Italian and Spanish along with the cultural and historical contributions of the poeple who speak these languages. Our golas are fostering lanugage proficiency and echancing cultural competency. Above all, we aim to creat classroom Enviorments that encourage students to take risks in their language learning journey.

Course Selection
Grade 7	Grade 8	Grade 9	Grade 10	Grade 11	Grade 12
Spanish 1A	Spanish 1B	Spanish 2	Spanish 3	Spanish 4H**	Spanish 5**
			Spanish 3 Heritage
				Italian 4H***	Italian AP

***Dual Enrollment with Adelphi University
**Dual Enrollment with Nassau Community College

Additional Information:

Spanish 1B concludes with students taking the NYS FLACS Checkpoint A Proficiency Exam (a requirement for earning a NYS Regents Diploma). This is a high school credit bearing course.
Spanish 3 concludes with students taking the NYS FLACS Checkpoint B Proficiency Exam, which is a requirement for earning a NYS Advanced Regents Diploma.
Native Spanish and Italian speakers will be evaluated and placed in the appropriate course based on their academic maturity and content mastery.

Teacher	Courses 23-24	Curriculum Overview
Michael Bovino	Spanish 1A Spanish 1B	Spanish 1A Spanish 1B
Frank Cuttitta	Italian 3 Italian 4-H Italian-AP	Italian 1B Italian 4 - Honors Italian-AP
Lauren Lamonsoff	Spanish 1A Spanish 3	Spanish 1A Spanish 3
Fernando Gomez	Spanish 2 Spanish 2 (foundations) Spanish 5	Spanish 2 Spanish Foundations Spanish 5
Angelica Rodriguez Alonzo	Spanish 4-H Spanish 3 Heritage	Spanish 4H Spanish 3-Heritage

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World Language Resources for Students:

What’s my foreign language proficiency level?
Duolingo-a free App to practice language
Wordreference.com
Learnalanguage.com
Spanishdict.com
Studyspanish.com
Spanish Writing Help Sheet
Radio Ambulante: Podcast of Uniquely Latin American stories in Spanish
Practice your verb conjugations with helpful drills and quizzes

NYS Learning Standards for World Languages:

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