Arcadia

Arcadia is a small town in Trempealeau County, located northwest of La Crosse. Arcadia is a town of quickly changing demographics, Latine residents making up 3% of the population in 2000, and over one-third today, with over 75% of students in the district identifying as Latine. Every Latine individual does not necessarily speak Spanish, but this is a significant shift that required quick adaptations on the part of the schools.

See the History of Spanish tab to learn more about growing language diversity in rural areas of the state.

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Foundations of Academic Spanish

“This class is taught using Spanish and is intended for Spanish-speaking students who have gaps in their Spanish language literacy skills (reading and writing). Students will use their listening and speaking skills to communicate in Spanish and to develop reading strategies in order to understand a variety of texts in Spanish. Students also will produce simple forms of writing in Spanish, apply increasing knowledge of grammatical structures, and expand their academic vocabulary.”

Spanish IV/Spanish for the Heritage Speaker

“This course is designed for the student who wishes to continue his or her study of Spanish at the university level, or anticipates the “on the job” usefulness of fluency in Spanish. Communication is expected to be completely in Spanish. This class focuses on examining literature from various Latin American countries. Each student will be expected to participate in literature analysis and academic debates in the target language. They will be asked to produce and defend opinions on various cross-disciplinary content. In this class, students will work to perfect and refine formal paragraph writing and move to writing a paper with academic level Spanish. At this level, students will master formal verb tenses and be able to correctly use Spanish in an academic setting.”

Heritage Spanish is also offered at the 8th grade level.

Latino Wisconsin, Chapter 2

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This incredible documentary by Georgia and Ralph Pabst has a segment devoted specifically to Arcadia. Take a watch to learn about the history of the community, and more specifically their schools.