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Classical Studies Are Life Studies at Wahconah Regional High School in Dalton, Massachusetts

LATIN SYLLABI FOR ALL LEVELS AND THE MASSACHUSETTS FOREIGN LANGUAGE FRAMEWORKS

Wahconah Regional High School's Department of Modern and Classical Languages makes every effort to conform to the Massachusetts Frameworks for Foreign Language study. The most recent document was crafted in August, 1999, and can be viewed from the web site below. Latin is the classical language, and you will need to notice specific references to its place in the five "C's" of language learning for the Commonwealth. We feel strongly that we accommodate the five learning strands in each of our four Latin courses via numerous classroom and extracurricular activities which encourage our students to see classical studies as a meaningful and vibrant part of their overall education at Wahconah Regional High School and beyond.

When you hit the link below, you will see two opportunities to view the language frameworks under the Foreign Language label. You may hit the Adobe page, then you will need to magnify the text. You may also hit the Word Document, but be aware that this takes almost a minute to load.

Please feel free to contact us about any of the information you find in this Department of Education site, and how we apply it to the Latin curricula at Wahconah Regional High School.

                                                                 http://www.doe.mass.edu/frameworks/current.html  

ASSESSMENT PRACTICES

All Latin classes will have quizzes on a regular basis, at least once a week. Each test will have the value of four (4) quiz grades. An assigned essay will be worth the same value as a test. Projects will be given the value of a test. Exceptions to the value of a project will be announced well in advance. The annual spring Lucretius project for Latin IV Honors will be outlined on a separate page on my site.

Homework papers will not receive traditional A-F grades. They will be assigned a check for satisfactory or a 0 for unsatisfactory. Each student may miss TWO written homework assignments per term without penalty. The teacher will indicate any assignment which may not be included among the missing assignments. A student who misses no written assignments will receive an additional quiz grade of 100. If a student is missing more than two homework assignments in any one term, one point will be deducted from the term average for every additional missing assignment.

The term average will be a total of all classroom grades divided by the number of those grades, based on the unit of a quiz grade.