Mrs. Guyor - French I

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Verb Mastery: Verb Review November

Monday, December 8th, 2025

Distribute review materials - work through practice areas:

All verb conjugations, sentence construction, negative construction, interrogatives

New Grammar: Chapter 14, Definite Article and Nouns pp 162-165

Absent students complete exercise A p 163

Tuesday, December 9th, 2025

Dialogue practice

Verb review

New Grammar: Chapter 14, Gender of Nouns pp 166-169

Wednesday, December 10, 2025

Verb review

New Grammar: Chapter 14, Plural of Nouns pp 169-173

Thursday:

Literature: focus on Cimourdin, Lantenac, Gauvin

Friday:

Quiz on new grammar

French 1 - Week 13

Week of November 17th - 21st

Mrs. Guyor

New Song: A Cappella, Christmas Song, French, Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris

Lyrics: entre le boeuf et l'ane gris

Verb Mastery: Verb Review November

Scanned Dialogue Pages: Ordering Food and Transportation.pdf

Items for review: ER verbs, IR Verbs, Numbers, Salutations et Gentillesses, Weather, Question words, Months, Days, Numbers, Vocabulary from dialogues

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Homework: You should know all the English translations of ER/IR/RE Verbs, begin practicing the irregular verbs and have MASTERY of the Aller, Avoir, Etre, and Faire conjugations!

Be prepared to participate in group dialogues on Wednesday. All relevant files are attached here.

Thursday: Brunch

Friday: Literature

French 1 - Week 10

Week of October 27th -31st

Mrs. Guyor

This week in French we will continue to review all vocabulary and conversation to date. We will practice verb conjugations: ER, IR, RE, and Aller, Avoir, Etre, and Faire

Incidental vocabulary: Incidental 1

Monday: We will review, work on study techniques, and practice dialogue 2, emprunter un livre

Tuesday:

Self-assessment: Aller, Avoir, Être, Faire, ER, IR, RE and QUESTION WORDS

Conversation practice: greetings, weather, age, months/days/seasons and dialogues 1-3

Dictee and practice

Wednesday:

Verb conjugation practice

Dictee practice

Dialogue creation activity - groups of 2-3 depending on attendance

Create a conversation:

Thursday:

NO PRE-READING REQUIRED

Novel discussion and read aloud: Ninety-Three

Begin on page 47

Friday: Quiz: Incidental Vocabulary. Words will be in a word bank. You will insert words into a paragraph using context for assistance. Question words will be part of this quiz.

Homework: Master irregular verb conjugations and all vocabulary to date

French 1 - Week 9

Daily Work and Assessments

Week of October 20th -24th

Mrs. Guyor

Monday:

Exercises 3 F/G/H/I pp 49-52

Tuesday:

Self-assessment: Aller, Avoir, Être, Faire

Exercises 5/J and 6/K pp 53-54

Wednesday:

Assessment: Verb conjugations: Aller, Avoir, Être, Faire, ER/IR/RE The verbs will be listed and you will need to write the full conjugation for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd person singular and plural.

Thursday:

Novel discussion and read aloud: Ninety-Three

Reading schedule TBA Tuesday

Friday: Quiz: Using Aller/Avoir/Être/Faire: You will be given the pronoun and you will need to provide the proper form of the verb for the sentence.

Homework: Master irregular verb conjugations and all vocabulary to date

French 1 - Week

Week of October 13th-14th (Fall Break)

Mrs. Guyor

Items for daily review: ER verbs, IR Verbs, Numbers, Salutations et Gentillesses, Weather, Question words

Folksong practiced daily:

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Monday:

French Culture: breakfast in the courtyard

Tuesday: Quiz and Vocabulary practice

French 1 - Week 7

Week of October 6th -10th

Mrs. Guyor

Items for daily review: ER verbs, IR Verbs, Numbers, Salutations et Gentillesses, Weather, Question words

Folksong practiced daily:

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Song of Roland Writing Assignment

Monday:

In class writing assignment: The Song of Roland

Tuesday:

Introduce: Aller, Avoir, Etre, Faire

IR/RE Verbs for Mastery

Wednesday: Exercises A, B, C pp 45-47

Thursday: Set up next novel, “Ninety-three” with French History pp 409-410

Friday: Quiz: ER/IR/RE Verbs, Weather, and question words

Homework: No reading this week. Quiz is moved to next week due to Homecoming.

French 1 - Week 6

Week of September 29th-October 3rd

Mrs. Guyor

Items for daily review: ER verbs, IR Verbs, Numbers, Salutations et Gentillesses

Friday Quiz: In-class writing assignment, The Song of Roland

Folksong practiced daily:

Lyrics Mon Père Avait Cinq Cent Moutons Modify lyrics for memorization

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Monday:

Bellwork: Exercise H p 21

Dialogue performance

Tuesday:

Bellwork: Exercise I p 22

Practice new material: RE verb conjugation, weather questions/vocabulary, question words: who, when, where, how, how much/how many

Exercises pp 24-25

Wednesday:

Bellwork: Exercise D

Practice new material: exercises E, F, G pp 27-28

Thursday: We will discuss The Song of Roland stanzas 229 - 291 (end)

Friday: In-class writing assignment: The Song of Roland

Homework: reading for Thursday literature discussion. Study all vocabulary and verbs. No quiz this week. Instead we will be doing an in-class

French 1 - Week 5

Week of September 22th-26th

Mrs. Guyor

Items for daily review: ER verbs, Salutations et Gentillesses, Interrogative Constructions

Friday Quiz: Interrogative Constructions, ER Verb conjugation, IR verb conjugation endings

Folksong practiced daily:

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Monday: Review and introduction of IR verbs pp 16-17, Introduce dialogue project.

Tuesday: IR verb conjugation practice, interrogative practice

Wednesday: Conversational practice - Create group dialogues and begin dialogue writing

Group 1: David, Camille, Judith, Apolline-Elise

Group 2: Remi, Elise, Marie

Group 3: Alice, Pierre, Sophie, Etienne

Thursday: Conversational practice; We will discuss The Song of Roland Please have stanzas 164-228 read

Friday: Grammar Quiz 3, Dialogue practice

Homework: reading for Thursday literature discussion. Study for quiz: ER verbs, Interrogative Constructions, IR verb conjugation endings

Looking forward to next week: The Song of Roland stanzas 229 - 291 (end) read by Thursday, October 2nd, 2025

French 1 - Week 4

Week of September 15th-18th

Mrs. Guyor

Need help? Please do not hesitate to email Jennifer Guyor

We will complete our study of interrogative techniques this week and add “Salutations et Gentillesses.”

There is NO quiz this week.

Folksong practiced daily:

Music found here: René Berthier, Groupe Folklorique Sabaudia de Thonon - Mon père avait cinq cents moutons

Monday: Interrogatives using inversion and negative construction pp 10-12, exercises L and M

Tuesday: Continue practicing interrogatives. Complete mastery exercise N. New vocabulary Salutations et Gentillesses

Wednesday: Conversational practice; Complete virtue/vice inventory. Short writing reflection on stanzas 81-86 from the Chanson de Roland.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue. (Horace)

Thursday: Conversational practice; We will discuss The Song of Roland Please have stanzas 110 - 163 read by Thursday

Friday: Staff Work Day

Homework: reading for Thursday’s literature discussion and nightly memorization for quiz readiness. Re-read any sections from class that might still be confusing to you.

Looking forward to next week: The Song of Roland stanzas 164-228 read by Thursday, September 25, 2025

French 1 - Week 3

Week of September 8-12th

Need help? Please do not hesitate to email Jennifer Guyor

We will complete our study of interrogative techniques this week and add “Salutations et Gentillesses.”

There is NO quiz this week.

Folksong practiced daily: