Curriculum Road Maps
Course Title: French 8______________ Grade: _____8_________
Unit: _____4
Month Presented: May - June Unit Length (in weeks): 6
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Essential Question (s): What do French people do for entertainment? Movies? Theatre? Music? What role does the cinema play in France? How do people extend, accept and refuse invitations? How do people describe relationships with other people? |
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Learning Objectives: To learn to talk about going to the cinema and theatre To learn direct and indirect object pronouns To write a letter To use the correct form of the verb to know To read and write using the appropriate pronouns |
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Skills: To learn vocabulary regarding the cinema and theatre To learn placement of direct and indirect object pronouns in present, past, future and imperative tenses. To learn which verbs take a direct object and indirect objects To learn expressions of letter writing (greeting, closures) To learn the present and past tense of connaître and savoir To read and write using the appropriate object pronouns |
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Instructional Strategies & Activities: Choral repetition Communication activities Paired activities, skits, question and answer, teacher generated activities and publisher created activities, flashcards Language lab activities Audio tape activities Video tape activities Computer activities (quia.com) Recording and listening Flashcards for vocabulary Games: bingo Battleship matching Jeopardy Fleet of pen Performance of student created dialogues telephone conversations parent-child interviews of week end activities Text based exercises Workbook written exercises Teacher created written exercises |
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Materials Utilized: Text: Discovering French II Blanc Workbook –audio and written exercises Ancillary textbook materials Internet –French google to see current film listings, actors, and music
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Assessment Strategies: Written assessments Spelling tests Grammar evaluations Oral assessments Dialogs Daily class participation Oral project: Watch a French film. Describe how the director creates the film using the best actrice, actor for the part, and the music that accompanies the film. |