Mountain Range High School
12500 Huron Street  Westminster, CO 80234
Office: (720) 972-6300  Fax: (720) 972-6529
http://www.mountainrange.adams12.org
School Year
Course Name
Course
Description
2015 - 2016
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2015
Teacher
name
Web page
Email
address
Phone
Mme Jennifer Honka
https://sites.google.com/a/adams12.org/mrhsfrench-2015-16/
jennifer.honka@adams12.org
720-972-6370
French 2
This course will continue to build on the skills developed in Level I: speaking,
reading, writing, and listening comprehension. Class participation, individual work,
and group work remain the focus of the class. Exploration of foreign culture will be
developed through the use of audio-visual materials, selected readings, individual
and group projects and role-playing.
Units of Study and Content Standards
Family, Free time activities, and descriptions (review)
Allez viens! Book 1, Chapters 6 & 7
Cultural themes:
The French family
My family
Vocabulary sets:
 Describing oneself and describing family members
Asking descriptive questions
Places to go and things to do in free time
Grammatical structures:
 Present-tense irregular verbs: avoir, être, faire, aller
 Making adjectives agree
 Possessive adjectives
 Negation
Pronunciation
Prepositions + definite articles
Standards addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4
Approximate Time frame of
Assessment
August - September
Mountain Range High School
12500 Huron Street  Westminster, CO 80234
Office: (720) 972-6300  Fax: (720) 972-6529
http://www.mountainrange.adams12.org
Allez viens! Book 1, Chapter 8
Thematic Unit: A l l e r a u marché (Going to the market)
Cultural themes:
La Cuisine of Cote d’Ivoire and Belgium
Differences between “le marché”, “le supermarché”, “le
hypermarcheé”, le ” Marché en plein air”, and specialty markets
Slow moving lifestyle in France
Vocabulary Sets:
 Food vocabulary by categories
 Shopping for food
 Expressing need
 Requests and commands
 Offering, accepting and refusing food
 Expressions of quantity (with food)
 Metric system
 Table settings “le couvert”
Specialty shops
Grammatical structures:
 Partitive ariticles
Negation and “de”
 “avoir besoin de”
 The object pronoun “en”
 Verbs “manger”, “acheter”, “aller”, “boire”, “avoir” and “vendre”
and other regular “-re” verbs
Prepositions + definite articles
The subject pronoun “on”
Standards addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4
September - October
Mountain Range High School
12500 Huron Street  Westminster, CO 80234
Office: (720) 972-6300  Fax: (720) 972-6529
http://www.mountainrange.adams12.org
Allez viens! Book 2, Chapters 2 & 3
Thematic Unit: Un repas à la française
October - November
Cultural theme:
Les environs de Paris
La cuisine de France,
Martinique, and Canada
French family meals
At the house
Vocabulary Sets:
 French meals
 Quantities
 Shopping in French food stores
 Eating in courses
 Polite words to use at the table
 Giving gifts
 Deciding which gifts to give
 Gift shops and cards
Grammatical structures:
 Review the pronoun “en”
 Indirect object pronouns “lui and leur”
 Review the partitive
 Reflexive verbs in the present tense
Standards addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4
Allez viens! Book 1, Chapter 10
Thematic Unit: Dans un magasin de vêtements
Cultural themes:
Fashion of francophone countries
Haute Couture – Paris is the fashion capital of Europe.
le “Marché en plein air”
les Boutiques & le centre commercial
The rise and success of Coco Chanel
Vocabulary Sets:
 Clothing and accessories
 Colors (review) and descriptions of clothes
 Asking and giving advice
 Shopping, trying on clothes, purchasing and giving opinions
Grammatical structures:
 The object pronouns le/la/les
 Verbs: regular –ir verbs
 Verbs: mettre, porter (review), voir
 C’est versus il/elle est
Standards addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4
November - December
Mountain Range High School
12500 Huron Street  Westminster, CO 80234
Office: (720) 972-6300  Fax: (720) 972-6529
http://www.mountainrange.adams12.org
Allez viens! Book 1, Chapter 9, (supplemental T’es Branché, Unité 8)
La Terre est Ronde
Thematic Unit: F r i e n d s
January - February
Cultural themes:
 Embracing cultural differences and diversity
 Creating positive relationships
Vocabulary Sets:
 Ask about past activities
 Give opinions
 Review and expand sequencing vocabulary to talk about the
past
 What you did today vocabulary
 Telling what happened on a bad day
Grammatical structures:
 The past tense (passé composé) with “avoir”
 The passé composé with adverbs
 The passé composé in the negative
 Direct and indirect object pronouns
Pronunciation of vowel sounds
Standards addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4
Allez viens! Book 1, Chapter 12 & Book 2, Chapter 4
Thematic Unit: My trip to Paris
Cultural themes:
Paris and its surroundings
Martinique
Site seeing and tourist necessities while in Paris and Martinique
Vocabulary Sets:
 Descriptions
 Review of French cuisine
 Places/Tourist sites in Paris
 Forms of transportation (from book 1, chapter 12)
Grammatical structures:
 Object pronoun « y » for places and phrases beginning with à
Passé composé with auxiliary verbs « avoir » and « être”
 Asking for and giving directions
 Reflexive verbs in passé composé
Standards addressed: 1, 2, 3, 4
March - April
Mountain Range High School
12500 Huron Street  Westminster, CO 80234
Office: (720) 972-6300  Fax: (720) 972-6529
http://www.mountainrange.adams12.org
Mountain Range High School
12500 Huron Street  Westminster, CO 80234
Office: (720) 972-6300  Fax: (720) 972-6529
http://www.mountainrange.adams12.org
District Level In-common assessments
On-going in May
Speaking: Students will have a conversation with the teacher to demonstrate
ability to communicate verbally Standards: 1.1 and 1.3
Reading: Students will read four samples and answer questions (twenty in total)
to demonstrate ability to understand through reading Standard:
1.2
Writing: Students will write a short sample/essay to demonstrate ability to
express him/herself through writing Standard: 1.3
4
3.5
3
2.5
2
1.5
Proficiency Levels
Advanced Understanding of the Standard
Exceeds meeting the standard and shows exemplary advancement in the knowledge and application of
the standard.
Meets
the Standard
Partially proficient in the standard
Approaches the Standard
Shows growth toward meeting the standard
1
Does not Meet the Standard
S
U
Satisfactory (Practice Assignments)
Unsatisfactory (Practice Assignments)
GRC 1
GRC 2
GRC 3
GRC 4
GRC 5
GRC 6
Grade Reporting Criteria/Weights
Listening
Reading
Speaking
Writing
Grammar/Vocabulary Concepts
Practice
15%
15%
25%
25%
10%
10%
Grades are based on achievement of Content Standards and Grade Level Expectations.
*Weekly progress grades are posted at https://ic.adasm12.org/campus/portal/adams12.isp
General Expectations
 Grades are based upon the demonstration of proficiency on units associated with a standard/essential outcome.
 Assessment: 100% Assessments are a means to determine a student’s mastery and understanding of information, skills, concepts, or processes.
 Practice: 0% Practice includes opportunities for students to receive clear, specific, and timely feedback as they are developing knowledge and
skills, prior to Assessments.
 Assessments will be graded based on teacher/district/state rubrics.
Class Expectations
Missing or incomplete assignments/assessments for this course: Superintendent Policies 6280 Homework and 6281 Make‐Up Work will be followed
for this course. They state that it is the student’s responsibility to request and obtain missing work. When a student has an excused absence, the
student has the same number of days they were absent plus one day to make up assignments. Students who are unexcused may not be able to
receive feedback from Practice prior to required Assessments.