Big Ideas
Big Ideas
Making connections between personal experiences and the experiences of others can help us to better understand and respond to a message.
Texts present cultural elements that allow us to experience or understand different viewpoints.
The structure and textual cues, as well as the words, all help to convey the message.
Fairy and folk tales illustrate universal aspects of human life.
Every language has a system of rules that distinguishes it from other languages.
Content
Learning Standards
Content
communication strategies:
- active listeningthe recipient is physically and intellectually engaged, and reacts to what is heard
- turn-taking in a conversationwaiting one’s turn to speak, raising one’s hand, etc.
- consideration of other people’s perspectives
cultural elements
literary elements:
- characteristics of the fairy or folk taletypical opening lines, characters, conflicts, fantasy, typical closing lines and moral
- characteristics of the youth novelcharacters, setting, events, short chapters, etc.
text organization:
- structure of narrative textssetting, inciting incident, rising action and falling action
- text elementstitle, sub-titles, chapters, paragraphs, images, diagrams, charts, etc.
- punctuationcomma and exclamation point
spelling conventions
plural nouns that end in the letter “x”, and gender and number agreement of adjectives
language elements:
- reflexive personal pronouns
- structure of complex sentencessentences with coordinating conjunctions and simple prepositions (et, mais, ou, avec, etc.)affirmative and negativene…pas
- verb moods and tensespresent indicative and near future (“futur proche”) tenses, concepts of past indicative tenses (imperfect or “imparfait”, and present perfect or “passé composé”) and subject-verb agreementassociated with the genres being studied
- the roots of words and affixesprefixes (e.g., “re”) and suffixes (e.g., “ette”, “eau”, etc.)
Curricular Competency
Learning Standards
Curricular Competency
Exploring and Reflecting
Recognize that there are similarities and differences between one’s own culture and those of others
Deconstruct a complex sentence into word groups to facilitate comprehension
Make predictions based on textual cues
revealing signs in a text (e.g., discourse markers, key words, themes, images)
Identify the values conveyed by a narrative and its characters
Organize information and one’s ideas to better convey a message
Use textual elements to enhance comprehension of a text
oral, written, visual
Creating and Communicating
Express opinions, ideas and feelings using complex sentences
Ask and respond to questions to hold a spontaneous conversation
Read a text
oral, written, visual
with fluency and intonation
Respond to a text
oral, written, visual
by drawing on prior knowledge
In expressing oneself, avoid transfers and literal translations
Write detailed texts
oral, written, visual
that follow the structures being studied