FRENCH 5 Honors
LA CLASSE DE FRANÇAIS 5H!
Introduction: technology tools - sign up Google Classroom, how to use pdf format and scan a document with a phone.
Review: La France et ses régions - Recall names of French regions and where they are located.
Quiz + Padlet project.
ALL LESSON PLANS AND ASSIGNMENTS ARE POSTED ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM
UNIT 1: LA MAISON
THEME: Contemporary Life (Housing and Shelter, Travel)
Essential questions:
How do French people live?
What do French houses look like?
What is the new trend in French habitat?
What are the «mini-houses»? Why are they popular?
What do French students do to find affordable housing?
What do houses look like in Senegal?
Students will:
Review of house vocabulary and furnishings
Review all basic tenses of verbs used in readings including reflexive verbs.
Review of past tense and agreement of past participle.
Introduction of: Gérondif, participe présent, and infinitif passé.
UNIT 2: LA SHOAH
Essential questions:
How do we understand the suffering of the French Jews during WWII?
How can we explain that some French citizens saved many Jewish children while others sent them away?
Why is De Gaulle's radio address still important today?
Objectives: To read authentic historical documents and watch testimonies in order to understand the events that took place in France during WWII. To focus on the children and their hardship and write about examples of survival.
Presentation of WWII events in France (Vichy)
Culture: France during WWII (text)
La France divisée (film) (testimonies of surviving children)
Au revoir les enfants (film)
La rafle (2010 film) + book excerpts
Le voyage de Fanny (film) + book excerpts
Interview of Joseph Weismann
La résistance en Auvergne (text)
Charles de Gaulle (l'appel du 18 juin 1940)
The subjonctif tense (used in context: to survive, it is necessary that....)
The si clause (Les phrases conditionnelles) with future, conditional, plus-perfect, and past conditional tenses.
Assessment: vocabulary/grammar quiz, listening exercises, essay, speaking test.
UNIT 3: L'AFRIQUE FRANCOPHONE et LES ANTILLES
Essential questions:
How was slavery abolished in the French Antilles (compare with the United States)?
How can we help fight poverty in the French Caribbean islands of Martinique and Guadeloupe?
What is the relevance of creole today?
What is the role of the movements "négritude" and "créolité" in French literature?
Objectives: To read authentic newspaper and magazine articles and watch video clips to understand historical evolution of French Caribbean islands. To discuss importance of sugarcane and to analyze reasons for poverty then and now. To present opinion on importance of education in French islands and African countries.
Le marché de Kenscoff (text)
Haïti
Toussaint Louverture (text and articles)
Video clip: Napoleon and slavery
Le créole (text + video)
La Guadeloupe (text)
Culture: la négritude (French African literary movement)
Léopold Sedar Senghor's legacy, Poème à mon frère blanc (poem)
Prière d'un petit enfant nègre (Guy Tirolien) (poem)
La Martinique (text) + article: “Antilles françaises: le problème haïtien”
Aimé Césaire - négritude et créolité
Rue Cases-Nègres (Joseph Zobel) (film)
Articles définis/indéfinis/partitifs.
Prépositions + noms géographiques.
Interrogative adjectives.
Interrogative adverbs, and pronouns.
Assessment: vocabulary/grammar quiz, listening exercises, essay, speaking test.
Aimé Césaire (1913 - 2008)
UNIT 4: LE QUÉBEC (Le grand dérangement) et LA LOUISIANE
Essential questions:
How did the French discovery of Canada and the founding of Quebec affect our American society?
Why is the French language still widely used in Quebec and in Louisiana?
How would Louisiana be different without the settlement of the French “Acadien” from Quebec?
Why is French music so important in Quebec and Louisiana? Who is Zachary Richard? Who is Robert Charlebois?
Objectives: To read authentic newspaper and magazine articles and watch video clips to understand historical evolution of French in Quebec and Louisiana. To discuss importance of the French language and culture in North America. To examine why music is a preferred media to disseminate French culture and language.
Discovery of Quebec
History of Quebec (text)
La deportation acadienne (video)
Visit of Quebec (video)
French music in Quebec (song)
French music in Louisiana (song)
Relative pronouns.
Introduction of: Gérondif, participe présent, and infinitif passé
Assessment: vocabulary/grammar quiz, listening exercises, essay, speaking test.
UNIT 5: LE 17ème SIECLE, LES FABLES ET LES CONTES
Essential questions:
How would the French culture be different without Louis XIV?
Why was art so important to the 17th century French society?
How did famous French authors of the 17th century transforme literature?
Why are 17th century masterpieces still important today?
Objectives:
To understand the diversity of 17th century art and the importance of playwright «Molière» in the French language. To discuss the lasting importance of 17th century artists' work in our societies.
Historical information on the 17th century in France (text and video)
Theatre: Molière (film)
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (excerpts and film)
La Fontaine (fables)
Le chat botté (Charles Perrault)
La Belle et la Bête (Madame De Beaumont)
Adjectives, forms and position
Si clause (conditional statements)
Indefinite and negative pronouns and adjectives
Assessment: vocabulary/grammar quiz, listening exercises, essay, speaking test.
PROJECT: "LA FONTAINE" - Write a fable following La Fontaine's technique: characters should be animals.