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Français langue seconde - immersion 10
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Big Ideas
Grandes idées
Linguistic variations can serve as cultural reference points within the French-speaking world.
Analyzing texts leads to an understanding of how meaning is conveyed through language and text.
texts
oral, written, visual The exploration of texts reveals the depth and complexity of human life.
Poetic elements enrich writing, provoke a response and help create the desired effect.
Poetic elements
versification, stylistic devices (metaphor, symbolism, gradation, euphemism, understatement) Learning Standards
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Curricular Competencies
Students are expected to be able to do the following, using oral, written and visual media:
Exploring and Reflecting
Analyze the communication strategies used by the sender to evaluate their impact on the recipient.
Examine the roles of stories in Francophone and First Peoples cultures
roles of stories
- in Francophone cultures: transmitting language, traditions, history, perspective, information
- in First Peoples cultures: transmitting traditions, worldviews, teachings, history, attachment to the land
Grasp the linguistic and cultural variety found in the French-speaking world
Grasp
understand through the mind or through the senses linguistic and cultural variety
regional expressions, idiomatic impressions, accent Distinguish between abstract notions and concrete notions within a text
abstract notions
descriptions, ideas, or facts related to thought concrete notions
descriptions, ideas, or facts related to reality Identify and understand the social, historical, and cultural context of a work and its author
understand the social, historical, and cultural context
understand that the author wrote from a perspective that was influenced by social, historical, and cultural factors (family, education, community, religion, immigration, values, perspectives, political events, economic situation); understand the link between text and context Identify the themes and poetic elements of a text in order to understand the implicit message
text
oral, written, visual Analyze the plot and examine and understand the role and evolution of a character in a literary short story
evolution of a character
- external: their physical appearance, age, behaviour, relationships with others, social status, words
- internal: feelings, emotions, thoughts, presentations, attitude, motivations
Creating and Communicating
Communicate according to the context using a variety of expressions and the presentation formats best suited to the sender’s and recipients’ skills and abilities
presentation formats
digital, visual, oral (students might use aids such as graphics, illustrations, music clips, photographs, tables, and videos) Develop own writing style by exploring registers of language
registers of language
everyday language and formal language Adapt the register to the communication situation at hand
Use poetic elements to elicit a response from the recipient
Further refine the message by applying the strategies for enriching a text that are presented in the course
Content
Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts:
communication strategies:
- registers of languageregisters of languageeveryday language and formal language
- prosodyprosodyaccentuation, intonation, and rhythm
- verbaland non-verbalverbalintonation, voice, volume, flow, pauses, tonecomponentsnon-verbalgesture and facial expression
cultural and historical elements
- protocols related to the use of First Peoples stories
literary elements:
- characteristics of a literary short storycharacteristics of a literary short story
- short text
- few characters
- psychological and moral portrait of the protagonist
- unexpected ending
- poetic elementspoetic elementsversification, stylistic devices (metaphor, symbolism, gradation, euphemism, understatement)
- semantic fieldsemantic fieldset of words (verbs, nouns, adjectives, synonyms) pertaining to a given theme
- expressionsexpressionsidiomatic, regional, etc.
text organization
- structure of the literary short storystructure of the literary short storynarrative structure (exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution) and actantial model (power struggles that emerge between characters and push the action forward)
language elements:
- possessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronounspossessive and demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
- possessive adjectives: mon, ma, mes
- possessive pronouns: le mien, la mienne, les miens/miennes
- demonstrative adjectives: ce, cette, ces
- demonstrative pronouns: celui, celle, ceux, celles
- verb tenses and modesverb tenses and modeshypothetical sentences that use the past tense (e.g., “Si j’avais pris mon petit déjeuner, je n’aurais pas eu faim à midi.”), conditional past tense (e.g., “elle aurait pu nous le dire”)
- active voiceand passive voiceactive voicethe subject performs an actionpassive voicethe subject experiences an action
editing strategies
editing strategies
includes rereading, checking reference materials, using an editing checklist elements to enrich a text
- choice of wordschoice of wordssynonyms, antonyms
Note: Some of the learning standards in the PHE curriculum address topics that some students and their parents or guardians may feel more comfortable addressing at home. Refer to ministry policy regarding opting for alternative delivery.