10/2/15     
Lesson Goal: To listen, WWII history

1)    Youtube and storybook, WWII
2)    Thumper, contes de fées vocab. (make cards – two per person ?)
3)    HW due Mon.:  Look for and listen to African pop music.  In French, write a paragraph about which music you found, where, what it is about, and what you like or don’t like about it, to turn in.  We will listen to it in class in the coming weeks, and you will explain what you wrote about it to the class. 


10/5/15   
Lesson Goal: To practice vocabulary, prepare for the film

1. Turn-in hw- paragraphs on African music
2. Finish Friday’s story, or Thumper w/ contes de fées vocab.?
3. Pre-viewing activities for film, ‘Les Intouchables’ -  vocab., quel est le sujet du film, qu’est-ce que vous connaissez sur Paris? Emma- photos ?
4. HW : none

​10/6/15   
Lesson Goal: Practice grammar, and listen to the film

1. Warm-up:  Comment était ta classe favorite hier, et qu’est-ce que tu y as fait?- written practice, with a couple of paragraphs.  Keep for tomorrow.
2. Begin film, « Les Intouchables »
3. HW :  Due Wed., Amsco, pp 71-73 Act.’s D, E, F

 

​10/7/15   
Lesson Goal: To work with the past tenses, and comprehend the film

1. Check HW: Amsco pp 71-73 Act’s D, E, F, and revise your paragraph from yesterday. Keep.
2. Quick discussion of film so far
3. Finish film?
4. HW due Fri.: Amsco p. 70-71 Act. B

 

​10/9/15   
Lesson Goal: To finish up with the p.c vs. imp., and with the film

1. Devoirs-  Amsco pp 70-71, Ex. B
2. Finish film, Les Intouchables, and discussion (use photos- p. 22 packet)
3. If time, begin reading- ‘Ça Va’- article on Marrekech
4. HW:  Test on Monday- essays on the film (you can use the film vocab. sheet), on the passé compose/imparfait, contes de fées vocab.

 

10/12/15
Lesson Goal: To write

1. Test: Contes de fées vocab., passé compose vs. the imperfect, the film, ‘Les Intouchables’.
2. If time, begin reading- ‘Ça Va’- article on Marrekech
3. HW: None

10/13/15  Tues. and Thurs. (special schedule this week)
Lesson Goal: Le Maghreb, qu’est-ce que c’est?

1. Warm-up:  Music watch music video by Amina Annabi  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZt28So3MM
2. Intro Travel Agent Project
3. Begin study of Le Maghreb, read with a partner-- http://fis.ucalgary.ca/francophonie/4Intro.htm ,

• Show copyright: http://fis.ucalgary.ca/francophonie/Copyright.htm
• Read:Qu'est-ce que le Maghreb?  -- speaking French, tell a partner what you understood
• Read :Comment s'est passée la colonisation?
• Show photos https://www.google.com/search?q=photos+of+Morocco&safe
• Skim : Et la décolonisation?
• Read : Et le Maghreb et la France aujourd'hui?

1. If time, play Mancala— read about it, make game boards, learn the rules and play!
2. HW: Assign written project due, Wed. Oct. 21 – travel itinerary for Le Maghreb—See assignment sheet for details

10/16/15  Friday
Lesson Goal: What is Le Maghreb?  What’s it like?

1. Warm-up:  Quick quiz on Le Maghreb and discussion
2. Vocab. for Le Maghreb
3. Read ‘Les Trésors de Marrakech’ from Ça Va magazine, do the Act. on scratch paper
4. HW due Monday:  The subjunctive, Amsco, pp 159-163. Read, refresh, and do Exercises A- C 

10/19/15   Monday
Lesson Goal:To speak about plans, wishes

1. Check HW- subjunctive, Amsco pp 159-163
2. Sketches, groupes de trois.  Personnages p. 146.  A l’écoute- come up with your own conversations, and perform for the class.  Use the subjunctive 3 times.
3. HW due Tues.: poem- p. 163 Personnages (find on website).  Be ready to discuss w/ question #’s 1-5.

10/20/15  Tuesday
Lesson Goal:To continue to talk about immigrants from Africa to France

1. Pre-read and discuss poem to read for next class as hw: “Je suis venu chercher du travail”.
2. Le subjonctif—Read the list on p. 163, alternating students who make a sentence w/ each one, imagining a conversation between Ahmed and Latifa (from yesterday)
3. Pass back tests from last week and discuss errors
4. HW:  Projects are due on Friday!!

10/21/15
Lesson Goal: To continue to learn about Francophone Africa, and to use impersonal expressions with the subjunctive mood

1. Music video, Miriam Makeba ‘Click Song’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V3YOBUKN58  and ‘Pata Pata’ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2a6waS25TU
2. Read and discuss poem from hw: “Je suis venu chercher du travail”. Use Questions 1-5.
3. Wordleswipe w/ impersonal expressions which use the subjunctive
4. Verb wars w/ the present subjunctive
5. Intro. prepositions for geographical places.  Use with current vocab., and le Cameroun.  Look at chart, Amsco p.338.  Make sentences using the subjunctive and impersonal expressions, AND a geographical preposition and place.
6. Mancala- all in French
7.  HW:  BIG Travel Agent projects due Friday!

10/23/15
Lesson Goal: To expand our learning about francophone Africa

1. Share and turn-in Travel Agent projects
2. Prepositions- before geographical expressions—Distribute handout, do activity
3. French newspapers—anything on Africa? Read and share.
4. HW:  None

10/26/15  Monday
Lesson Goal: To practice using the verb ‘to miss’, prepositions, and the subjunctive

1. Manquer : Watch,  http://www.frenchspanishonline.com/magazine/the-verb-to-miss-in-french/ . Practice w/ https://www.lawlessfrench.com/quizzes-and-tests/manquer-quiz/ (do as a group, then check answers)
2. Listening: Yabla: Youssan N’Dour, —musician and philanthropist from Senegal 
3. HW:  none

10/27/15  Tues.
Lesson Goal:  Pratiquer des phrases compliquées!

1. Warm-up: With a partner, using a wh. board, make one sentence using each: manquer, manquer à, manquer de.  Write on board, discuss.
2. Assign election projects, due next week, on Election Day!
3. More practice w/ prepositions for geographical places.  Use with current vocab., and le Cameroun.    Make sentences using the subjunctive and impersonal expressions, AND a geographical preposition and place. Write 5 each, then share.
4. If time, Mancala—all in French
5. HW:  Election speeches due in a week! 

: 10/28/15  
Lesson Goal: To practice Maghreb vocab. and new verbs, discuss le Maghreb

1. Music- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ay3IzghFHpI  Maddy A.- French?--offer extra credit options
2. Centers- 15 min. ea.

• Discussion w/ Mme S.- Le Maghreb- qu’est-ce qui te plaît, t’interesse, t’inquiète, te déçoit?

Décevoir : au présent-                         p.p - déçu
je déçois,  tu  déçois,il/elle déçoit, nous décevons, vous décevez, ils/elles déçoivent 

• Prepare skit.  Use Maghreb vocab., 2 geographical prepositions, 2 impersonal expressions + subjunctive
• Grammar sheet w/ manquer and plaire. Turn-in.
• Game- Guess Who

1. Perform skits
2. HW:  Check hw: Amsco pp 163- 168 Act. D, G, I, J (Fr. 5- aussi K)

10/30/15  Friday
Lesson Goal: Culture of Halloween & All Saint’s Day

1. Check hw: Amsco pp 163- 168 Act. D, G, I, J (Fr. 5- aussi K)
2. Intro. Africa Project, due Mon. 11/9.  SIGN-UP for your country
3. Culture: La Toussaint, Halloween, Oct. 31 : Le St. Quentin.  Watch Yabla : Halloween, & Toussaint
4. HW due Mon.: Your election speeches- written. Due Tues.: your actual speeches, and final copy of the written speech.