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Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?
Posted by mark on 8/31/08

Is it just a regular 5 or an honors.

At my school we have 5AP, honors...we call it seminar...5 and a
conversation 5 class which is a college prep course.

the 5 AP uses various books. i teach the french 4 seminar classes
and we use Bravo, which i really like. this year i am going to use
reaading from selections...the french reader digest. i am not sure
it available where you live, but another magazine will work. i am
in new york city, so it is very easy to obtain. i also think their
is a blog, where i will have my students post. the one i just
bought has an article about how kids rate their parents.

the seminar 5 class use mostly the same books as the AP class.
there are different readers, une fois pour toutes, and a book on
the history of france.

the conversation 5 class uses various books, i want to say
interaction, but i am not sure. they also continue from their 4th
year class with their appartment building. the teacher who teaches
these classes is great. she has the students in fourth year create
an appartment building with different characters. each student is
responsible for creating and developing their character during the
year. they must write and present to the class diferent situations
to the class. the kids LOVE it. they learn a ton of vocabulary and
slang. i think last year, one student's character was a businessman
and he survived a plane crash where the rudder fell off. what
french student in high school uses the word rudder?

i would like to add this, with many schools having numbers decline
in french, we have been lucky to maintain a good number of kids.
we have two great middle school teachers and the teachers in the
french department are wonderful. i also teach spanish and i have
taught spanish 5 college prep many times. we do not call it a
conversation class. we do not create an appartmet building. my
department chair does not want to do that. she is a native spanish
speaker is more concered about other things.

On 8/31/08, andrew crosby wrote:
> I would encourage you to make full use of articles in the daily
> newspapers. Sometimes this is in a positive way, and sometimes
> you will have to point out the mistakes you will see there, and
> the lack of awareness that journalists often show regarding
> France, French, and the French people. For example, look at
> what the New York Times said on 8/29/08 about Julie Coin in the
> New York Open tennis match: they said her last name is French
> for "corner" and is pronounced "kweh" and that she was from
> Amiens, which is "outside of Paris." That's like saying
> Scranton is outside of New York City. Amiens is half-way to
> Calais, for crying out loud. And have you ever heard a French
> person say "kweh" for "coin?" Also, the Washington Post, on
> 8/31, repeated the "kweh" thing. Unless that's a weird
> coincidence, it's an example of sloppy journalism, just to copy
> the Times. And these papers are often referred to as "great"
> and "papers of record." Are we in trouble.
>
> On 8/31/08, James in Belgium wrote:
>>
>> Chère Sarah:
>>
>> A blank slate is quite intimidating. A fifth year class,
>> mostly seniors having started in grade 7, should have a class
>> taught on the university level as for reading, writing and
>> speaking.
>>
>> As you are very open to what to teach, one should not forget
>> to teach the grammar that has not yet been taught. A mistake
>> of many teachers is to spend too much time going over the
>> same FR. II, and III grammar points in the Fr. IV and V
>> classes.
>>
>> For part of you curriculum, I suggest that you aquire a set
>> of grammar books, either: En bonne forme or French for Oral
>> and Written Review. The advantage to these books is that
>> they offer the "hard to translate" verbs and phrases in each
>> lesson.
>>
>> Grammar is only a part of the curriculum and easier to
>> sequence than the rest. Added vocabulary is a must. The
>> advanced book from CLE International, Vocabulaire Prgressive
>> du Français is highly recommended. Do get the test book and
>> answer key that acommpanies it.
>>
>> A year 5 class is often an AP class, either Language or
>> Litterature. You can get a good idea of what AP teachers are
>> doing an APexchanges. There are many syllabi posted on the
>> site.
>>
>> Bon Courage
>>
>> James
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 8/17/08, Sarah wrote:
>>> Bonjour tout le monde!
>>> I'm hoping that someone will be able to help! I will be
>>> teaching French 5 (senior year French) for the first time,
>>> and there really isn't a curriculum for it, as we haven't
>>> had enough kids registered for it in a long time. I don't
>>> have a textbook, so my options are both open and limited.
>>> I'm planning on doing Le Petit Prince and probably a movie
>>> or series like Cafe des Reves. I'm wondering what other
>>> people use. Any suggestions would be helpful!
>>> Merci mille fois!
>>> ~Sarah


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• 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 8/17/08, by Sarah.
• Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 8/17/08, by FL French Teacher.
• Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 8/28/08, by French Teacher.
• Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 8/31/08, by James in Belgium.
• Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 8/31/08, by andrew crosby.
• Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 8/31/08, by mark.
• Re: 5th Year - High School French - What do you use?, 9/01/08, by Sarah.