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Welcome to the Ramapo Indian Hills High School World Languages Department.  The RIH District currently offers courses of study in Chinese, French, Italian, and Spanish at a variety of academic levels.  We pride ourselves on offering a program that focuses on interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes of communication while engaging our students in 21st century skills.  Our teachers utilize best practices in their content areas and create Integrated Performance Assessments.  We are encouraging our students to explore the language, the culture, and become global thinkers; by making cultural connections and comparisons, we become sensitive to diversity and learn more about ourselves as individuals and citizens in an ever-changing world.

❝If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.❞

‒Nelson Mandela

 

Subject Supervisor
Erika McGavin
emcgavin@rih.org, ext 3353









                              

Chinese

Wenjie Liu wliu@rih.org Voicemail extension: 6014

French

Pierre Barreau pbarreau@rih.org Voicemail extension: 5008

Stephen Tallis stallis@rih.org Voicemail extension: 5153
Natalie Deming  ndeming@rih.org Voicemail extension: 6043

Italian
Elisa Britnell ebritnell@rih.org Voicemail extension: 5015

Graziella Lazzara glazzara@rih.org Voicemail extension: 6183

Spanish

Priscilla Cintrón-Bashian pcintron-bashian@rih.org Voicemail extension: 6111

Erika McGavin emcgavin@rih.org Voicemail extension: 3353

Cherie McLaughlin cmclaughlin@rih.org Voicemail extension: 6059

Ana Swaminathan aswaminathan@rih.org Voicemail extension: 6249
Stephen Tallis stallis@rih.org Voicemail extension: 5153

Reina Viruet rviruet@rih.org Voicemail extension: 5154

Patricia Wehran pwehran@rih.org Voicemail extension:  6093

Clubs & Activities

French Club - Advisor: Pierre Barreau

Italian Club - Advisor: Graziella Lazzara

Spanish Club - Advisor: Cherie McLaughlin

 

World Languages National Honor Society

Advisor:  Cherie McLaughlin

Class of 2019 WLNHS Officers

Savannah Aboyoun

Caitlin Ficarra

Judilis Fernandez

Catherine Leshner

Emma Moorman

 

 

The purpose of the World Language National Honor Society is to recognize high achievement in the study of a foreign language.  It is for those who have shown and proven a deep interest while studying a foreign language. Indian Hills High School is proud to offer four National Honor Societies for our students:

• Chinese Honor Society:  中文荣誉学会, Indian Hills Chapter
• French Honor Society:  Société Honoraire de Français, Charter #3542
• Italian Honor Society:  Società Onoraria Italica, Dante Alghieri
• Spanish Honor Society:  Sociedad Honoraria Hispánica, Capítulo Antonio Maceo

 

The induction ceremony is held in the fall of the senior year.  Qualifications for membership induction are as follows:

 

HONORS TRACK

In order to qualify for induction,

• the student must be a senior.
• the senior must have completed three consecutive years of the same language at the high school level.
• the senior must have earned a final grade of B+ or better in all Honors level language courses (A- in all CPE courses).
• although it is preferred, it is not necessary for the senior to be enrolled in the 4th year of the language, provided that s/he has successfully taken at least 1 honors course; receiving a B+ or better in all H courses, and an A- or better in all CPE courses.

CPE TRACK

In order to qualify for induction,

• the student must be a senior.
• the senior must have completed 3 consecutive years of the same language at the high school level.
• the senior must have earned a final grade of A- or better in all CPE level courses
• the senior must be enrolled in the 4th year of the language.  

All students who become members of the WLNHS must maintain their membership status by:

• maintaining an average of A- or better in all CPE language courses and/or B+ or better in all Honors/AP language courses.
• participating in the WLNHS tutoring program:  a peer-tutoring schedule will be organized whereby the students are expected to offer academic assistance to fellow students enrolled in lower level language courses.
• participating in WLNHS service projects (to be determined yearly by the advisor.  Examples: Rotary club, Holiday Festival, Bingo, etc.)
• Attending monthly WLNHS meetings
  A member may be removed from any of the WLNHS Chapters at the discretion of the Chapter Sponsor, the WLNHS Advisor, and/or Administration, for failure to maintain grades as described above, failure to maintain membership status, misconduct, insubordination, or any other infraction deemed serious by the Administration.

*All incoming freshmen (class of 2022) will be held to these new requirements.  All other RIH students (class of 2019, 2020, 2021) will be allowed to follow the requirements that better benefit their ability to become members.  

This year’s induction ceremony will be held on Wednesday, November 14, 2018 at 7 pm in the Indian Hills High School Auditorium.  

(Snow date:  11/15/18 at 7 pm)