This year, we will incorporate the vocabulary learned in 6th & 7th grades with new vocabulary and new grammar formulas, including practice of the future and past tenses.  We will practice French in all four proficiency areas: speaking, reading, writing and listening.  More of the course will be conducted in French.  And of course, we will continue to learn about French culture and the francophone world.  Hopefully, we will have the opportunity to correspond with pen pals from France!  Students must pass BOTH the course AND the New York State Checkpoint A final exam in order to receive credit for one unit of world language study needed for a NYS high school diploma.  At the end of this year students may choose to continue in either Honors or Regents level French, and will have the opportunity to add a third world language – German, Latin or Spanish.

Our curriculum is guided by the VOCES Digital Library, Français 1.  We will cover the following chapters...

Chapitre 6  Les repas au café, au restaurant 

et dans une famille française (food)

Chapitre 7  Les vêtements, les magasins

 et le shopping (clothing)

Chapitre 8  En ville (around town)

Chapitre 9  Ma maison (my home)

Chapitre 10  Vive les vacances  (travel)

When in school, you will need:

• un ordinateur portable  (Chromebook)

• les écouteurs (earbuds)

• un classeur (one 3-ring binder, 2-inch, minimum)

•  quatre intercalaires (four dividers) labeled in French:

-vocabulaire (vocabulary)

-grammaire (grammar)

-examens (tests & quizzes)

-divers (miscellaneous)

• les feuilles de papier (looseleaf)

• les stylos & les crayons (pens & pencils)

Students are responsible for classwork and homework missed due to an absence. Assignments are posted on the homework calendar on the homepage of this website (also linked to team websites) and also on Google Classroom.  Hard copies of missed assignments will also be in the purple milk crate in the back of the French classroom.   Feel free to e-mail me with any questions about homework or upcoming tests – but don’t wait until 10pm the night before an exam to seek help!

Any assignment not turned in on time will receive at most half credit unless you were absent.  On time means at the moment the work is checked or collected in class, or the time posted on Google Classroom.  Late work may be turned in before the end of the quarter for, at most, half credit.  I reserve the right to set specific deadlines for particular assignments after which no credit will be given. 

Your class grade is calculated on weighted percentages as follows:

Tests/Quizzes/Projects 60%

Classwork 15%

Homework 15%

Engagement*                            10%     100%

Students’ work should always reflect their own skills and abilities.  Presenting French copied from Google Translate or from a classmate as one’s own work is a form of plagiarism.  In addition, while students might seek help from siblings or parents, it’s important any help or tutoring remain in the boundaries of what is learned in class.  Student work that is not strictly his/her own, that has been copied from Google Translate or copied from a classmate will receive a zero.  In addition, students who allow others to copy their work will receive a zero.  Students will be given an opportunity to re-do such work, but will only receive half credit.

Extra help is available during Study Hall or after school by appointment.  Do not wait until the very end of the marking period to seek extra help!