Re: Pacing for Discovering French Bleu

We have been using DF for 4 years. We have a terrible schedule
where we see students 3 days/week. We have 2 80-minute blocks
and one 40 minute block per week. (Don't get me started!) I
dream of having 50 minute classes again....but I digress.

I find for Bleu I get through Lessons 1-15, and then skip ahead
to a couple others to add more food vocab, clothing/shopping,
and more that I can't think of right now. We NEVER get to do
anything with the passe compose in level one and haven't since
we swtiched to this schedule 5 years ago. So all in all I do
about 18 lessons and that is skipping some things!

We begin level 2/Blanc with a brief review and then dive into
the P.C. right away. I don't teach level 2, so I'm not sure how
far that teacher usually gets. Good luck.

On 5/14/09, James in Belgium wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I Started using DF in 1998. I did six years of DF Bleu 4 times
> a day (45 minute classes). I was always able to get to the
> Mrs. Dr. D. Vandertrampp verbs, and most years to finish that
> lesson.
>
> The first lesson with adjectives (introduction) is on our
> first semester exam.
>
> The first Units are short! The lessons in second semester take
> longer to cover.
>
> I suggest to move on in the beginning lessons, with frequent
> review / reteach and retest.
>
> To help out with supplemental materials, you should look at
> this web page http://www.quia.com/pages/jodonnell/page91, It
> has free samples.
>
> French II DF Blanc, Lessons 1-26 and L 31 taught in Oct.
> This year, I'll skip Unit 7 and teach Unit 8. I corresponded
> with an AP teacher who skips Unit 7 and teachers Unit 8 in
> February. This what I'll do next year.
>
> Cordialement,
> James O'
> French II, III, IV, V-AP Language
>
>
> On 5/13/09, Andrew wrote:
>> Bonjour tout le monde! My district is retiring
>> our "Bienvenue" series from 1998 (finally) and getting
>> Discovering French for I-V.
>>
>> In Bienvenue we covered 6 chapters, each chapter divided
>> into Mots 1 and Mots 2 (now Bienvenue is Bon Voyage). Has
>> anyone gone from this series to DF Bleu? How many Unites
>> do you complete?
>>
>> My issue is that we do cover a fair amount from September
>> to April and then May comes and there are so many
>> interruptions with team activities, field trips, HS
>> visits, concerts, field days etc.
>>
>> How many Unites do you cover in level 1? Our goal is to
>> finish 6 chapters and then start with Blanc in level II.
>> Our periods are 50 minutes in length. Does it vary how
>> long it takes to cover un lecon?
>>
>> Thank you for any feedback!