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Gr 9 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
Gr 9 - 12 | 6 Credits | Year-Long | 5x per Cycle
This course explores France and the francophone world and how France deals with difference within its borders, a fairly recent and ongoing polemic... Students should be motivated to continue to develop their proficiency. Our goal is to travel together in the hope of understanding and learning to analyze the cultural logic of differences. There will be short writing assignments, but greater weight shall be directed towards participation in class discussions based on rigorous reading assignments.
Performance Target: Intermediate-High to Advanced-Low on the ACTFL scale.
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.
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.
Success Criteria:
Success Criteria:
ACP:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using intermediate-high language.
I can be easily understood by someone used to a language learner, and possibly by a native speaker who doesn’t know I’m a language learner.
I use a wide range of words and expressions. I expand and begin to elaborate, sometimes even in an unexpected context.
I use connected sentences to describe and explain. I can begin to communicate or tell a paragraph-length story.
I convey my knowledge of differences in familiar cultural products, practices and perspectives. I use culturally appropriate vocabulary and expressions.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication.
Honors:
I can independently create a spoken or written message or participate in a conversation using intermediate-high language.
I can be easily understood by someone used to a language learner, and possibly by a native speaker who doesn’t know I’m a language learner.
I use a wide range of words and expressions. I expand and begin to elaborate, sometimes even in an unexpected context. I consistently use vocabulary from in-class resources and/or previous units I rarely repeat vocabulary words.
I use a variety of sophisticated connecting words to explain, describe or elaborate.. I can begin to communicate or tell a paragraph-length story.
I convey my knowledge of differences in familiar cultural products, practices and perspectives. I use culturally appropriate vocabulary and expressions.
My errors with targeted structures and/or word order do not interfere with communication. I show ample evidence of strong control of previously learned structures
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