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The San Marin High School English department is committed to providing the highest quality education. Our teachers are committed to reading relevant, challenging texts; holding students accountable by assessing their knowledge regularly; by developing student skills at writing, including argumentative and analytical writing, skills highly sought after by colleges, and critical to student success in university.  We meet regularly to improve the quality of education we provide through collaboration around analyzing student data, creating meaningful challenging assignments, aligning our course curricula, developing relevant assessments that ensure students mastery over the core skills that will help them succeed in university and life.

The World Languages Department strives to bring our target languages, French and Spanish, to life in the classroom. Beginning students acquire language through meaning-based instruction in the context of stories, songs, personalized questions and answers, and physical response to language cues.  Grammar practice and real communication are bridged through the use of authentic listening and reading materials.  Communication is practiced in the context of daily adolescent life. Activities and projects allow students to express themselves more proficiently in the target language.  Students learn to access resources online and in the community to reinforce and expand their language acquisition. Courses include content designed to lead students to an appreciation of the depth and richness of the francophone and hispanic cultures.

Cultural understanding and language practice are enhanced by optional teacher-led trips to French and Spanish-speaking destinations. The department seeks to involve students in service-learning experiences on campus, in the community and abroad.

Department courses include French 1 through French 4 (Honors) and Spanish 1 through Spanish 5 (Advanced Placement).

The goal of the San Marin Physical Education department is to guide students in developing a lifelong commitment to health, fitness, and physical well-being through daily exercise, sports, and games. Students will demonstrate an appreciation of human movement by comparing, contrasting, and analyzing the movement elements contained in physical performance. Students will also understand the role exercise has on physiology and on the long-term benefits of an active lifestyle. Students will demonstrate the knowledge of movement patters, basic history, modified rules, and simple strategies of a variety of activities.

The social studies department gives students an understanding of history, the historical method, awareness and perspective, geography, American government, and economics. Students participate in projects  in geography, psychology, history and economics, and learn the responsibilities of citizenship.  AP offerings include AP US History, AP European History, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, and AP American Government.