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Discovering French Question

by Isabelle

Dec 28, 2013

Bonjour!

I am taking over a class that uses Discovering French Nouveau. They cover 6 units a year in French 1 and then in French 2 use the Blanc book, so they skip the last 2 units in the bleu book. For French 2, the first semester they have covered the first two units in the blanc book. I am thinking of putting them back in the bleu book and finishing it up. It is much of the same material as the white book, but at a slower pace. Do you usually move onto the next book without finishing it? What would you do?

The same thing has happened with French 3. I am thinking of putting them back in the blanc book. The students have had a lot of transition and I am worried are just rushing through the material. Merci:-)

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spkmall On 1/02/14, James in Belgium wrote:
> Isabelle,
>
> The link at the bottom of this text will open a folder
> containing my lesson plans for Blanc for 2013-2014.
> Please, note that the page numbers on the lesson plans
> are for the "Euro" edition. The unit and lesson sequence
> has not changed ...See More

Jun 3, 2016

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spkmall Salut,

Let's try this again -

I've been looking for a concise summary so as not to reinvent the wheel - thank you for making this available. Though our school does not use Quia, I do pay for Quizlet (out of my own pocket) to provide for vocabulary. I also supplement with Carol Gaab's "Pirates" and tons of other material...See More

Jun 3, 2016

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James in Belgium Please contact me directly and we will be able to get more accomplished more easily.

James E-mail: [email removed]

On 6/03/16, spkmall wrote: > Salut, > > Let's try this again - > > I've been looking for a concise summary so as not to reinvent > the wheel - thank you for making this available. Though our > sc...See More

Jun 6, 2016

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Ryan What do you cover in a first year 9th grade class with zero exposure?

On 12/28/13, Rosemarie wrote: > In response to your Discovering French question, I used to > finish the French I book in Level II, but then I ended up > having to pass out the Level II books at the end of the 2nd > year to finish up the year. Then a few years...See More

Jul 27, 2016

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James in Belgium Your pacing should reflect your student population's abilities. Many teachers will erroneously teach at a pace that is too slow with the hopes that more students will achieve better. Every thing happens in time, at its own pace. Full mastery is very rare the first time around. So, my advice is to move along teaching new content, while reviewing an...See More Your pacing should reflect your student population's abilities. Many teachers will erroneously teach at a pace that is too slow with the hopes that more students will achieve better. Every thing happens in time, at its own pace. Full mastery is very rare the first time around. So, my advice is to move along teaching new content, while reviewing and reintegrating previous content. Note: the second and third year books re-teach content that is found in the last 1 or 2 units of the previous textbook. Consequently, plan on not teaching the last unit of from each book.

Regardless of the textbook, I have always taught through the French I chapter covering passé composé with être. That is a good goal.

I only spend one week on the review section in Fr. II or III. This is because, almost all the "review" content is actually re-taught in the subsequent lessons.

French II is my slow book. I am only able to teach through the unit on clothing. In Fr. III, I am able to teach through Unité 9-P1.

My students have homework every night on the block schedule. Otherwise, they have HW four nights a week on the traditional 5-day a week schedule.

The textbooks provide too few and under use quizzes. More small quizzes are better. Also, a real test is valid after each DF lesson, unless you combine the first two lessons of a unit, like I did. That provides three tests per unit and at least 3 to 4 quizzes per lesson.

For fifteen years, my classes were mixed MS and HS students.

The best advice I can give is to keep your classroom moving, use many short activities and keep your students busily engaged and the time will fly by for them and you.

Bien à vous, James

On 7/27/16, Ryan wrote: > What do you cover in a first year 9th grade class with zero > exposure? > > On 12/28/13, Rosemarie wrote: >> In response to your Discovering French question, I used to >> finish the French I book in Level II, but then I ended up >> having to pass out the Level II books at the end of the > 2nd >> year to finish up the year. Then a few years ago, I began >> using the French II Blanc book for the entire year in > French >> II. I usually spend all of the first marking period on the >> Reprise in the Level I book. For Level III, I do however >> finish the Blanc book as I found the Rouge book to be > better >> for the Level IV class. Hope that this helps you out. If > you >> have any other questions, feel free to email me.

Jul 28, 2016

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