Français langue seconde - immersion 10

Core Competencies

Communicating
 
Collaborating
Critical and Reflective Thinking
 
Creative Thinking
Personal Awareness and Responsibility
 
Positive Personal and Cultural Identity
 
Social Awareness and Responsibility

Students are expected to be able to know and understand the following in various contexts
Students are expected to be able to do the following, using oral, written and visual media:

Big Ideas

Big Ideas

Linguistic variations can serve as cultural reference points within the French-speaking world.
Analyzing texts
oral, written, visual
leads to an understanding of how meaning is conveyed through language and text.
The exploration of texts reveals the depth and complexity of human life.
Poetic elements
versification, stylistic devices (metaphor, symbolism, gradation, euphemism, understatement)
enrich writing, provoke a response and help create the desired effect.

Content

Learning Standards

Content

communication strategies:
cultural and historical elements
  • protocols related to the use of First Peoples stories
literary elements:
text organization
  • structure of the literary short story
    narrative 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 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 modes
    hypothetical 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 voice
    the subject performs an action
    and passive voice
    the subject experiences an action
editing strategies
includes rereading, checking reference materials, using an editing checklist
elements to enrich a text

Curricular Competency

Learning Standards

Curricular Competency

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 cultures: transmitting language, traditions, history, perspective, information
  • in First Peoples cultures: transmitting traditions, worldviews, teachings, history, attachment to the land
in Francophone and First Peoples cultures
Grasp
understand through the mind or through the senses
the linguistic and cultural variety
regional expressions, idiomatic impressions, accent
found in the French-speaking world
Distinguish between abstract notions
descriptions, ideas, or facts related to thought
and concrete notions
descriptions, ideas, or facts related to reality
within a text
Identify and 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
of a work and its author
Identify the themes and poetic elements of a text
oral, written, visual
in order to understand the implicit message
Analyze the plot and examine and understand the role and evolution of a character
  • external: their physical appearance, age, behaviour, relationships with others, social status, words
  • internal: feelings, emotions, thoughts, presentations, attitude, motivations
in a literary short story

Creating and Communicating

Communicate according to the context using a variety of expressions and the presentation formats
digital, visual, oral (students might use aids such as graphics, illustrations, music clips, photographs, tables, and videos)
best suited to the sender’s and recipients’ skills and abilities
Develop own writing style by exploring 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