French Culture

In class:

• Discussed current events and cultural artifacts.
• Worked on projects in class.

Homework:

• Begin to work on your poster or PowerPoint presentation.
  

French II

En classe:

• Daily review questions and conversations in French about weekend plans, etc.
• Discussed and corrected Thursday night's homework.
• Cultural discussion based on the French advertisements (ads searching for French-American pen pals).
  
• Discussion of French Club ideas. Merci!
  

Les devoirs:

• Bring in French articles and artifacts (act./etc.)
• Study Leçon 19 vocabulary in preparation for a quiz next week (probably Wednesday).
• Complete your own "ad" similar to the ones we read in class on Friday. Write an ad as if you were searching for a French-speaking pen pal.
  

French I

En classe:

• Daily review questions and conversations in French about weekend plans, etc.
• Discussed and corrected Thursday night's homework.
• Cultural discussion based on the French artifacts/advertisements. Excellent questions everyone!
• Discussion of French Club ideas. Merci!
  

Les devoirs:

• Bring in French articles and artifacts (act./etc.)
• Study Leçon 7 vocabulary in preparation for a quiz next week (probably Wednesday).
  

French Culture

In class:

• Discussed the francophone project rubric and expectations for final presentation.
  
• Completed the giant-sized map of Paris and placed all monuments in the correct location.
• Students "traveled" around Paris from one location to the next based on descriptions of each monument.
• Played "frappeur" or "flyswatter game" with the Parisian monuments.

Homework:

• Complete all francophone research and begin work on your final presentation: PowerPoint, poster board, etc.
  

French II

En classe:

• Daily review questions and conversations in French.
• Warm-up activity on the overhead in order to review the agreement of adjectives in French.
• Played Battleship with a partner using adjective agreement.
• Completed a cultural artifact worksheet using an excerpt from a youth magazine. Lead a cultural discussion based on this information.

Les devoirs:

• Complete a letter in which you describe yourself and two of your closest friends using as many of the adjectives from this Leçon as possible. (Directions provided on the worksheet passed out in class).
  

French I

En classe:

• Daily review questions and conversations in French.
• Warm-up activity to review Leçon 8 vocabulary (students translated 5 questions and answers) and then corrected it as a class.
• Reviewed and corrected Wednesday's homework (book page 47 activity 5).
• Worked with a partner to read and answer questions about three cultural artifacts (French advertisements). Excellent cultural conversation, 1st period!
  

Les devoirs:

• Complete book page 52 activity 3 on a separate sheet of paper. Write in complete sentences!
• 6th period: Since over half of the class did not finish Wednesday's homework, please make sure that it is completed by Friday as well as page 52 activity 3 AND the cultural artifacts worksheet, which we did not have time to do in class!
  

French Culture

In class:

• Discussed the francophone project rubric (9th period only).
• Reviewed the Parisian monuments, colored images of each monument and then placed them on a giant-sized, student-created map of Paris.

Homework:

• Finalize your francophone project research and begin to work on the final presentation.