Upper School

Students further develop oral proficiency through oral reports that focus on cultural and historical topics.

AP Latin concentrates on the translation, analysis, and interpretation of Vergil’s epic poem, the Aeneid, and Caesar’s commentaries, De Bello Gallico.

This rigorous and challenging course emphasizes the use of authentic Spanish for active communication, allowing students to reach advanced levels in their oral, aural, reading, and writing skills. Students engage in conversation by using advanced grammatical structures, literary analysis, cultural studies, and in-depth discussions of current events around the world.

Students are introduced to the French language and culture.

Although this course expects students to have a solid first-year preparation in vocabulary and grammar, the class begins with an active review of previous material before leading the student into more challenging material.

In this course, students are expected to have a solid first-year foundation in vocabulary and grammar.

This course continues to review and reinforce communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

This course continues to review and reinforce communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

Students continue to develop and refine their language skills through increased exposure to more advanced grammar and vocabulary.

Students continue to develop and refine their language skills through increased exposure to more advanced grammar and vocabulary.

Open to students who have completed four years of French, this course is an alternative to AP French.

Students are introduced to the fundamentals of Latin grammar.

Students continue their exploration of the Latin language and ancient Roman culture.

Students continue their exploration of the Latin language and ancient Roman culture at an accelerated rate.

Students continue the study of Latin grammar and vocabulary, translate increasingly complex material, and further their exploration of Roman culture and society.

Students continue the vigorous study of Latin grammar and vocabulary to be able to translate increasingly complex material, including several classic heroes and begin to study original works by Roman authors, including Pliny, Martial, Catullus, and Ovid.

Roman literature is a diverse and exciting field, and in this course, students have the opportunity to read authors such as Catullus, Ovid, Virgil, Caesar, Suetonius, and others.

Roman literature is a diverse and exciting field, and in this course, students read diverse authors such as Ovid, Virgil, Caesar, Cicero, and others.

The Romans used literature not only to record and maintain information and ideas but to express their understanding of the world around them and to express their ideas and beliefs about their society.

This upper-level course focuses on communication skills and oral proficiency in Spanish.

This course stresses proficiency in all four skills—listening, speaking, reading, and writing—and provides an understanding of basic grammatical structures and patterns of communication.

This course reviews and reinforces communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

This course reviews and reinforces communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

This course reviews and reinforces Spanish communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

This course continues to reinforce Spanish communication skills through the integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

Students read and analyze contemporary and classic literature from Spain and Latin America.

In this course, students continue to expand and refine their knowledge and communication skills through the study of more complex vocabulary and advanced grammatical structures at a rigorous pace.

Students who wish to undertake or to continue the study of a language that GSB does not offer may contract with Language Education Resource Network (LEARN).