Upper School

Students work to master oral proficiency through oral reports that focus on cultural and historical topics.

AP Latin concentrates on the translation, analysis, and interpretation of Latin literature, both poetry and prose. Authors include Pliny, Vergil, Catullus, and Ovid.

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 are introduced to the French language and culture. They develop skills in the four language modalities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

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 students into more challenging material.

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

This course continues to review and reinforce fundamental 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.

This course challenges students to improve and refine their spoken and written language skills while exploring the history and culture of France.

Students begin to learn the basics of Latin vocabulary, grammar, and syntax by translating stories based on life and times in ancient Pompeii.

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

Students continue the study of Latin grammar and vocabulary, translate increasingly complex material, and further their exploration of ancient cultures and societies.

Students continue the vigorous study of Latin grammar and vocabulary in order to translate increasingly complex material, and they begin to study original works by ancient authors.

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.

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

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

This course is designed for students who grow up speaking or hearing Spanish being spoken and would like to enhance their language skills while deepening their cultural understanding and knowledge.

This course focuses on developing proficiency in the four essential language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

This course is designed to review and reinforce communication skills through a comprehensive integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

This advanced course focuses on reviewing and reinforcing communication skills through a dynamic integration of listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities.

In Spanish III, students deepen their ability to communicate meaningfully in Spanish across a variety of real-world contexts.

Spanish III Honors is an enriched course designed for motivated students seeking to deepen their linguistic and cultural competence in Spanish.

This course further develops students’ proficiency in Spanish across the four communicative modalities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing.

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.

This upper-level course focuses on enhancing students’ fluency, deepening cultural understanding, and strengthening literacy skills in Spanish.

Students who wish to undertake or to continue the study of a language that Gill St. Bernard’s does not offer may contract with Language Education and Resource Network (LEARN) in Liberty Corner,