Dover-Sherborn Middle School Curriculum Road Maps

 

Course Title:  French        Grade:  6

 

Unit:  1

 

Month Presented:  September/October            Unit Length:  8 weeks

 

Essential Question(s):

  1. What do the French and English languages have in common?

 

Learning Objectives:

  1. Say hello and goodbye.
  2. Greetings.
  3. Say where you’re from.
  4. Count from 0-60.
  5. Alphabet
  6. Tell time.
  7. Recognize cognates.

Skills: 

  1. Pronunciation.
  2. Use of accent marks.
  3. Spelling of numbers, days, greetings, time expressions.
  4. Using verbal and non-verbal cues in conversation.

Instructional Strategies and Activities:

  1. Choral repetition.
  2. Communication activities.
  3. Songs/Poems
  4. Language Lab activities.
  5. Games.
  6. Reading/Writing/Listening/Speaking Exercises

 

Materials Utilized:

  1. Textbook and ancillary materials.
  2. Teacher generated materials.
  3. Student generated dialogues.
  4. Teacher generated computer exercises.

 

Assessment Strategies:

  1. Reading comprehension:  multiple choice, true-false
  2. Writing:  spelling
  3. Listening:  multiple choice, true-false
  4. Speaking:  oral interviews

5.     In-class participation.

 

 

Colin M. Dailey

October 2005