HSCP 1 to 4

We offer 3.5+ hours of class instruction per week for all our high-school credit programs through a dedicated team of senior teachers. And custom-developed high school curriculum and textbooks, created by Kannada language experts to equip high school students with Kannada language proficiency, cultivating cultural literacy and global competencies that prepare them for an interconnected world

Global Readiness: Students develop cross-cultural communication skills and a nuanced understanding of Karnataka’s culture

21st-Century Skill Development:

Our HSCP program have inbuilt exercises to help students develop 21st century skills listed below through Project-based cultural immersion, Real-world scenario applications, Reflective metacognitive exercises

Critical thinking

- The ability to analyze, evaluate, and interpret information

- Thinking objectively and critically to make better decisions

Creativity

- The ability to generate new ideas, alternatives, or possibilities

- Thinking outside the box to see concepts in a different light

Collaboration

- Working together with others to achieve a shared goal

- Learning from and contributing to the learning of others

Communication

- Interacting with others to convey meaning and gain understanding

- Exchanging information between people through spoken words, written messages, and more

Technology literacy

- The ability to use, comprehend, manage, and analyze technology safely, effectively, and responsibly

- Using technology to create, evaluate, and integrate information

HSCP Level 1: Introductory Kannada

Framework Expectations

Students are expected to:

  • Acquire the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing in an interdisciplinary manner.
  • Develop interpersonal communication skills.
  • Make an effort to understand instructions and express.
  • Attain basic proficiency of speech by progressing from one word, two-words stage to production of multi-words and sentences with nouns, pronouns and verbs
  • Express and respond reasonably both orally and in writing.
  • Develop sensibility towards the Karnataka state culture and heritage.

Learning content:

  • Creating phonemic awareness of different sounds, emerging from words in rhymes and audio clips.
  • Tracing the curves as preliminary to writing phonemic and diacritic Kannada letters.
  • Listening to rhymes, stories, and audio clips with expression.
  • Framing simple words with two and more phonemic and diacritic Kannada letters.
  • Recitation of rhymes for numbers familiarization
  • Identification of objects of daily life and beyond by naming them through visual aids like charts.
  • Answering in one or two words in response to questions asked in Kannada.
  • Introduction to words representing nouns, pronouns and verbs.
  • Counting numbers in Kannada up to hundred.
  • Enhancement of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
  • Introduction to basic sentence structures.
  • Familiarization of Kannada festivals.
  • Familiarization of earliest Kannada kingdoms.

Learning Objectives:

The learner

  • Listens to the basic Kannada rhymes and audio clips
  • Recognizes the 49 phonemic Kannada letters (15 vowels and 34 consonants) and their sounds in 10 groupings with basic phonetics and pronunciation rules.
  • Identifies words and sentences with phonemic letters: learning simple words (2, 3, and 4 lettered), learning simple sentences (2, 3, and 4 worded)
  • Understands some ideas and familiar details presented in clear, uncomplicated speech by listening.
  • Uses greetings and introduces self in simple kannada words.
  • Develops Kannada-speaking habit through rhymes,stories, and songs.
  • Writes simple 480 diacritic Kannada letters with basic phonetics and pronunciation rules.
  • Identifies Diacritic letters-based words (2, 3, and 4 lettered), diacritic letters based sentences (2, 3, and 4 worded) with basic phonetics and pronunciation rules
  • Read phonemic and diacritic letters-based stories.
  • Starts formal practice of basic Kannada conversations.
  • Makes an effort to communicate with friends and family using simple vocabulary
  • Understands short texts that are enhanced by visual clues while reading.
  • Recognizes and reads simple words and sentences.
  • Identifies and uses sentences with appropriate nouns, pronouns and verbs.
  • Describes Karnataka cultural specific lesson content as in real life based short essays.
  • Demonstrates an understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of Karnataka culture studied versus the culture they practice.
  • Demonstrates culturally acceptable behavior with the knowledge of culture
  • Develops sensibilities towards their own culture and heritage as a result of introduction to Kannada literature.
  • Discusses cultural facets like festivals and events, and early kingdoms of the Karnataka region with peers in Kannada.

Skills

  • Identifying family members.
  • Recognising parts of the body.
  • Naming the colors.
  • Identifying Shapes
  • Recognizing Fruits, Vegetables, Flowers, Animals, Birds, Clothing,
  • Introducing self and family members
  • Counting 1-100 in Kannada
  • Habits development
  • Expresses Greetings and farewells
  • Exhibits Likes and dislikes
  • Expanding vocabulary related to daily life activities.
  • Ability to describe beyond the self like Automobiles, Furnitures, Appliances, and Buildings.
  • Describes landforms, weather and seasons.
  • Describes transportation, professions and work.
  • Identifies directions
  • Able to express Feelings
  • Able to read simple essays with phonemic and diacritic letters.
  • Understands Karnataka state’s food and customs.
  • Understands cultural and historical figures, places and events of Karnataka state.
  • Recalls days, dates, months, time.
  • Expands vocabulary related to everyday topics.

Activities

  • Curve tracing practice to help with writing phonemic and diacritic letters
  • Coloring activities with letter distinct colors for identification of letters.
  • Tracing of phonemic and diacritic letters and coloring activities.
  • Practicing writing words and fill in the blanks activities for recognizing simple words with the help of pictures
  • Use of simple rhyming words and practicing them.
  • Pronunciation practice with the help or action based pictures
  • Pronunciation practice, reciting rhymes and singing songs.
  • Visual learning through Vocabulary Charts
  • Drawing and labeling family members
  • Describing a given picture
  • Activities of fill in the blanks, rhyming words, and Crossword puzzles to enrich the vocabulary.
  • Describe daily activities with hours, minutes and seconds, Calendar activities with days of the week.
  • Reading weather charts and forecasts.
  • Group projects
  • Familiarizing the festivals and earliest Kingdoms of Karnataka in English
  • Role-playing in Kannada.

HSCP Level 2: Introductory Kannada

Framework Expectations

Students are expected to:

  • Read & interpret critically Kannada texts in different contexts
  • Develop Kannada usage skills in both print & electronic mode.
  • Acquire a wide range of vocabulary through multidisciplinary topics.
  • Understand increased complexity of sentence structures both in reading and writing.
  • Express an awareness of social and environmental matters.

Learning content:

  • Practicing double consonant Kannada letters.
  • Constructing simple words with two or more double consonant Kannada letters.
  • Advancement of pronunciation and listening comprehension.
  • Responding in sentences to questions asked in Kannada.
  • Counting numbers in Kannada beyond hundred.
  • Application of idiomatic expressions
  • Use of compound words and phrases
  • Vocabulary related to Science, environment, and cultural matters
  • Engaging in brief discussions and expressing opinions
  • Presenting short essays for reading and comprehension.
  • Introduction to advanced grammar details
  • Introducing Kannada authors
  • Counting numbers in Kannada beyond thousand
  • Use of compound words and phrases
  • Reading and comprehending short essays
  • Creative and descriptive writing
  • Field specific vocabulary (Science, Business, Arts)
  • Advanced dialogues and professional communication
  • Public performance and presentations
  • Introduction to limericks

Learning Objectives

The Student

  • Read aloud with appropriate pronunciation and pause.
  • Reads small texts in Kannada with comprehension i.e., identifies main idea, details and sequence and draws conclusions in Kannada.
  • Expresses orally their opinion/understanding about the story and characters in the story.
  • Understands and expresses feelings and emotions in Kannada
  • Writes dictations/words/ phrases/sentences.
  • Distinguishes past, present and future tenses.
  • Writes a few sentences on their own with the help of verbal or visual clues.
  • Identifies and uses punctuations appropriately.
  • Identifies and reads numbers in Kannada
  • Uses vocabulary related to subjects senses and sense organs in Kannada.
  • Constructs sentences with the use of higher Kannada grammar
  • Understands spoken Kannada in various contexts
  • Responds to simple instructions, announcements in Kannada made in class or outside of class.
  • Responds orally or in writing in Kannada to questions asked over an article, story or poem heard or read.
  • Describes orally or in writing about events, places or personal experiences in Kannada.
  • Reads aloud with intonations & pauses such as question mark, comma, and full stop.
  • Uses punctuation marks appropriately while writing.
  • Constructs compound sentences with proper structure.
  • Speaks briefly on any familiar issue.
  • Translates English texts to Kannada
  • Performs in different events with peer groups in Kannada

Skills

  • Understanding longer dialogues and narratives
  • Identifies, states, and understands feelings and emotions.
  • Understands spoken language when the message is deliberately and carefully conveyed by a speaker
  • Participating in discussions and public performances on various topics
  • Comprehend a given text and seek clarification where needed
  • Express and understand opinions
  • Use strings of related sentences during conversation
  • Reading short stories, articles, and essays
  • Able to understand and retain most key ideas and some supporting details while reading and listening.
  • Be able to read authentic texts from knowledge acquisition and gaining information perspectives
  • Be able to use paragraphs based writing format
  • Writing short essays, letters, and short stories
  • Understanding complex spoken Kannada in various contexts
  • Involving in conversations using a wide range of appropriate vocabulary.
  • Ability to initiate, and conclude a conversation.
  • Involving in discussion and support an opinion.
  • Reading story books, newspapers, and academic texts

Activities

  • Identification of words with consonants using visual charts
  • Word puzzle for completing the double consonant words.
  • Practicing the words with the help of visual aids.
  • Creating own sentences with jumbled words to learn sentence structuring.
  • Word completing activity by choosing appropriate double consonants.
  • Familiarizing with geographical areas of Karnataka state.
  • Familiarizing with seasons and months in Kannada.
  • Comprehending short essays in Kannada.
  • Exploring Kannada literature and poetry along with the introduction of Kannada authors.
  • Appreciates multiple facets of Karnataka
  • Fill in the blanks activities for choosing right consonants and double consonants.
  • Fill in the blanks and match the following activities for understanding grammar.
  • Identifying difficult words in a lesson to find out their meanings.
  • Completing the essay by filling up the appropriate words.
  • Constructing a story based on the given pictures
  • Gaining understanding of prehistoric Karnataka
  • Translation of English text to Kannada
  • Reading and understanding poems in Kannada
  • Interaction with native Kannada speakers (in person and virtual)
  • Practicing Kannada transliteration using Standard English keyboard.

HSCP Level 3: Intermediate Kannada

Framework Expectations

Students are expected to:

  • Speaks about self, simple experiences; report events to peers, accurately and appropriately make connections and draw inferences.
  • Understands the central idea and locates details in the text (familiar and unfamiliar).
  • Writes simple messages, invitations, short paragraphs, letter (formal and informal), applications, personal diary, dialogue from story and story from a dialogue / conversation in Kannada
  • Engages in creative writing e.g. composition of poems, jokes, short stories, etc.

Learning content:

  • Enhancement of reading and writing proficiency
  • Exposure to advanced grammar like compound words, parts of speech, and proverbs.
  • Introduction to evolution of Kannada literature
  • Introduction to Kannada poetic styles
  • Familiarization of heroic women of Karnataka
  • Knowing the Jnanpith awardees of Karnataka
  • Introduction to Kannada proverbs
  • Writing short essays
  • Writing letters and small paragraphs
  • Reporting about events
  • Introduction to light literature
  • Introduction to comparative reading
  • Lessons on multidisciplinary topics like Travel, Environment, and Mindfulness
  • Reading story books
  • Introduction to Kannada riddles (ogatu)
  • Introduction to different folk/traditional dance forms of Karnataka

Learning Objectives

The Student

  • Answers coherently in written or oral form in Kannada
  • Reads Kannada story books independently
  • Makes meaning out of given proverb in Kannada
  • Makes an effort to write a poem by self
  • Translates English text to Kannada
  • Writes letters to friends and relatives
  • Speaks and writes on a given topic
  • Appreciates verbally or in writing heroes and achievers of Karnataka.
  • Reads a variety of texts in Kannada and identifies main ideas, characters, sequence of ideas and events and relates with their personal experiences.
  • Writes words / phrases / simple sentences and short paragraphs as dictated by the teacher.
  • Uses meaningful sentences to describe / narrate factual / imaginary scenarios in speech and writing.
  • Reads a book in Kannada and gives oral and written feedbacks
  • Differentiates Kannada idioms, proverbs, and riddles (nudigattu, gadegalu and ogatugalu)
  • Appreciates the variety of dance forms of Karnataka

Skills

  • Participating in activities like role play, stage performances in Kannada language.
  • Delivering speech on a given topic
  • Learning to participate in debate
  • Writing synonyms
  • Talk about holiday travel, destinations and events.
  • Discussing healthy habits and nutrition.
  • Ability to present a narration in either of present, past, and/or future tenses

Activities

  • Finding out meaning to the difficult words extracted from dialogue based lesson
  • Make your own sentences using the words given
  • Writing short answers to questions
  • Making a powerpoint presentation on Jnanpith awardees of Karnataka.
  • Translating Kannada proverbs to English and writing their meanings
  • Poem writing.
  • Letter writing.
  • Writing a short essay with the help of pictures given
  • Associates different dance forms to their respective regions of Karnataka
  • Imagining themselves to be quiz-master and framing questions for expected answers.
  • Watching Kannada movies in grade level lessons.
  • Practicing yoga and asanas to excel in academic performance.

HSCP Level 4: Advanced Kannada

Framework Expectations

Students are expected to:

  • Recite poems, dialogues, speak and write language proficiently
  • Involve in public speaking fluently
  • Write reflective diary
  • Write a Book Review.
  • Engage in creative writing e.g. composition of poems, jokes, short stories, etc.
  • Analyze the given text critically and report.
  • Develop sensitivity towards their culture and heritage, aspects of contemporary life in Karnataka state.

Learning content:

Mastery of Grammar:

  • Nuances of Kannada grammar
  • Creative and descriptive writing

Specialized Vocabulary:

  • Technical and non technical vocabulary for various fields (science, business, finance, arts and others)

Complex Conversations:

  • Advanced dialogues and professional communication
  • Public speaking and presentations

Cultural Integration:

  • Study of contemporary Kannada society and issues
  • Advanced Kannada literature and cinema analysis
  • In-depth exploration of Karnataka’s contributions to various fields

Objectives:

  • Participates in different activities in Kannada such as role play, poetry recitation, skit, drama, debate, speech, elocution, quiz, etc.,
  • Seeks to engage in conversational Kannada with Kannada speaking family, friends, and people from different professions such as shopkeeper, salesperson etc. using appropriate vocabulary.
  • Responds to different kinds of instructions, requests, directions in varied contexts as a tourist.
  • Retell highlights of skits, movies, news and debate on TV, radio, and websites.
  • Responds to questions based on texts based on mastery (from books or other resources) out of curiosity.
  • Thinks critically, compares and contrasts cultures, about Kannada based ideas and themes
  • Able to conduct job interviews in Kannada
  • Interprets quotations, sayings and proverbs.
  • Write a Book Review.

Skills Development:

  • Understanding complex spoken Kannada in various contexts
  • Achieves mastery in conversations and public speaking
  • Reading novels, newspapers, and academic texts
  • Writing research papers, reports, and creative pieces
  • Interview people from various professions such as doctors, writers, actors, teachers, newspaper boy, Cleaners and so on.

Activities:

  • Participating in different activities like role play, poetry recitation, skit, drama, debate, speech, elocution, quiz, etc.,
  • Converse in Kannada with Kannada speaking families and friends to share opinion and experience about a subject,
  • Maintain a reflective diary in Kannada on ongoing work/assignment Prepare a set of questions for interviewing people from different professions such as shopkeeper, salesperson etc. and conduct an interview.
  • Choose from amongst Kannada content like short films, news, quiz or debate on TV or on suggested websites and write a report on it.
  • Select a Kannada book and write a review about it
  • Select an author in Kannada to analyze the writing style and writing a report.
  • Critically analyze any thesis in Kannada on a subject of interest and write opinion about associated reviews, data collection, and data analysis procedures.