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Gr 9 - 12 | 6 credits | Year-long | 5x per cycle
Gr 9 - 12 | 6 credits | Year-long | 5x per cycle
French 1 develops language proficiency in three modes of communication, interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational. Performance Target: Novice-Mid to Novice-High on the ACTFL scale.
Students who successfully completed 8th grade French may not register for French 1 without prior approval from their WMS French teacher and the CML department head.
This course is offered at the combined ACP/Honors level. Students will be placed in the Honors section for scheduling purposes only. Students will be able to designate which level they would like to be assessed at in the fall once they learn about course expectations.
Essential Skills:
Essential Skills:
(From the Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for World Languages):
Interpretive Communication - Understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
Interpersonal Communication - Interact and negotiate meaning in spontaneous spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, ideas, feelings, opinions, and perspectives
Presentational Communication - Present information, concepts, ideas, feelings, opinions, and perspectives to inform, explain, persuade and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
Intercultural Communication - Interact appropriately with others in and from another culture.
Cultures - Gain cultural competence and understanding.
Comparisons - Develop insight into the nature of language and culture to interact with cultural competence.
Success Criteria:
I can independently create a a spoken or written message and participate in a conversation using Novice-High language.
ACP:
I can independently create a spoken or written message using novice-mid language.
I can mostly be understood by someone used to a language learner.
I use highly practiced words and expressions and can add simple details.
I use sentences, and simple questions. I begin to combine words and phrases to create original sentences.
I convey my knowledge of a few basic cultural products and practices.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication.
Honors:
I can independently create a spoken or written message using novice-high language.
I can mostly be understood by someone used to a language learner.
I use highly practiced words and expressions and can add simple details. I consistently use a variety of vocabulary from in-class resources and/or previous units.
I consistently use sentences, and simple questions. I consistently combine words and phrases to create original sentences.
I convey my knowledge of a few basic cultural products and practices.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication. I have strong control of word order and targeted structures.
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