Dover-Sherborn Middle School

Curriculum Road Maps

 

 

Course Title:       French 8______________     Grade: _____8_________

 

Unit: _____4                                       

Month Presented:         May - June              Unit Length (in weeks):      6         

 

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?                

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

   

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.