middle Block:
Post-Intensive French
CONTEXTS AND CONCEPTS
LITERACY EXPLORATION, LITERACY EXPERIMENTATION, LITERACY APPLICATION
DEMONSTRATING KNOWLEDGE
- Provide information in social and school settings with a range accuracy
- Describe persons, objects, places, events, experiences, hopes, impact of life choices
- Provide arguments for and against a topic with explanations for opinions
- Narrate a personal event
- Express feelings, thoughts, ambitions
SEEKING/SHARING INFORMATION
- Ask for information on a range of topics
- Converse with sensitivity and respect of individual, situation, audience
- Read/view and respond to a variety of texts and media
- Interpret a variety of texts on unfamiliar topics in guided situations
- Select information relating to personal interests
- Choose, read, view, and understand a range of fiction and non-fiction texts, including visual texts, presented via various media in order to meet a range of needs
- Provide personal and critical responses to various texts
Strand: Oral Communication
Big Idea: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact
Skill Descriptor: Ask for and provide information in social and school settings with some accuracy.
Global Competencies: SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Ask for, provide, and compare information on a number of topics
- Describe persons, objects, places, or events
- Provide arguments for and against a topic with explanations for opinions
- Narrate a personal event
Strand: Writing and Representing
Big Idea: Create Simple Texts
Skill Descriptor: Produce simple, connected texts on familiar topics of personal interest.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Provide and compare information on a number of topics
- Describe persons, objects, places, or events
- Present arguments for and against a topic in bullet form
- Write about a life event
Strand: Oral Communication
Big Idea: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact
Skill Descriptor: Ask for and provide information in social and school settings with accuracy.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Analyze and compare information on a number of topics
- Provide a judgment on a topic with reasons and explanations for opinions
- Describe the impact of life choices
- Discuss the effects of advertising
- Describe personal experiences, events, hopes, ambitions, etc.
- Provide autobiographical information
Strand: Reading and Viewing
Big Idea: Read, Comprehend, Respond, Interpret
Skill Descriptor: Read, comprehend, and interpret a variety of texts.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Assess an advertisement or other publicity message
- Compare and contrast the content and the format of articles written for a teen magazine and a magazine for adults
- Read age-appropriate texts of fiction in guided situations
- View and respond to a variety of texts and media in a community context
Strand: Writing and Representing
Big Idea: Create Simple Texts
Skill Descriptor: Produce simple, connected texts on familiar topics of personal interest.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Write information on a number of topics
- Produce an opinion piece
- Describe the impact of a choice they have made
- Create a publicity brochure or an advertisement
- Provide details about the negative aspects of a piece of advertising
Strand: Oral Communication
Big Idea: Speak, Listen, Communicate, Interact
Skill Descriptor: Ask for and provide information in social and school settings with accuracy.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Speak and listen to explore, deepen, and clarify thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences
- Communicate efficiently in French and converse adequately in a range of daily situations
- Converse with sensitivity and respect while taking into account the situation, the audience, and the intention of the conversation
- Compare former lifestyles with today’s lifestyle with explanations for opinions
- Discuss the aesthetic and practical characteristics of an object
- Summarize the essential points of an interview
- Express feelings with respect to music
Strand: Reading and Viewing
Big Idea: Read, Comprehend, Respond, Interpret
Skill Descriptor: Read, comprehend, and interpret a variety of texts.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM
Achievement Indicators:
- Read age-appropriate, fictional text in unguided situations
- View and respond to a variety of texts and media
- Interpret a variety of texts on unfamiliar topics in guided situations
- Select information found on the Internet relating to personal interests
- Choose, read, view, and understand a range of fiction and non-fiction texts, including visual texts, presented via various media to meet a range of needs
- Interpret, choose, and regroup information using a number of strategies and resources
- Provide personal and critical responses to various texts
Strand: Writing and Representing
Big Idea: Create Simple Texts
Skill Descriptor: Produce simple, connected texts on familiar topics of personal interest.
Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM, CL, CM
Achievement Indicators:
- Write and use other forms of representation to explore, clarify, and study thoughts, feelings, and experiences about learning
- Produce texts collectively and individually, applying different modes, for a range of audiences and for a variety of intentions
- Revise texts using a range of strategies for clarification, precision, and efficiency