Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Topic: French -Family& Friends / Activities, Routines & Plans / Celebrations
(Quarter 1) – Level 2
1. Essential Understanding: Learners initiate and sustain meaningful spoken, written and signed
communication by providing and obtaining information, expressing feelings and emotions, and
exchanging opinions in culturally appropriate sources.
o Essential Question: How can I express myself in a second language?
 IC-B, 62D Standard: Share somewhat more detailed descriptions of people,
places, things, and events.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to make plans.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to describe themselves & others.
2. Essential Understanding: Learners present information, concepts, ideas and viewpoints on a
variety of topics to an audience of listeners, readers or viewers for varied purposes.
o Essential Question: How do I effectively communicate my viewpoint in a second
language?
 IC-B, 61E Standard: Use a limited variety of conversation strategies to steer
interactions.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to hold simple conversations
using correct verb conjugations.
 Learning Target: Student will be able to integrate direct and indirect
object pronouns into sentences to produce natural communication
patterns.
3. Essential Understanding: Learners demonstrate linguistic and cultural competence through
academic endeavors, creative undertakings and artistic expression.
o Essential Question: How can I demonstrate cultural competence?
 C, 62C Standard: Examine, describe, and create replicas of important object,
images and symbols.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to recognize important places in
the capital city of the target country.
4. Essential Understanding: Learners demonstrate linguistic and cultural competence through
academic endeavors, creative undertakings and artistic expression.
o Essential Question: How can I demonstrate cultural competence?
 C, 61E Standard: identify and describe institutions, contemporary and historical
figures, contributions and time periods of the target culture.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to compare and contrast the
customs and historical perspectives of French speaking countries.
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Topic: French – Celebrations & Party Preparations / Cuisine & Cooking
(Quarter 2) – Level 2
5. Essential Understanding: Learners present information, concepts, ideas and viewpoints on a
variety of topics to an audience of listeners, readers or viewers for varied purposes.
o Essential Question: How do I effectively communicate my viewpoint in a second
language?
 IC-B, 62E Standard: Initiate, carry on and conclude increasingly longer
conversations and interviews on a limited range of personal, general
knowledge, academic and interdisciplinary topics and issues.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to have a conversation that
effectively uses past tense and various pronouns.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to make requests and ask for help
in the target language.
6. Essential Understanding: Learners demonstrate linguistic and cultural competence through
academic endeavors, creative undertakings and artistic expression.
o Essential Question: How can I demonstrate cultural competence?
 Standard: C, 61G Compare variations in products, practices and perspectives
among and within target language communities.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to identify different types of
celebrations in the target culture.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to compare units of
measurement (ie; food packaging, measurement systems) in target
culture with their own.
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Topic: French –Cuisine & Food Shopping / School / Technology
(Quarter 3) – Level 2
7. Essential Understanding: Learners actively negotiate meaning across languages and cultures to
ensure that their messages are understood and that they can understand others.
o Essential Question: What makes communication meaningful?
 IC-B, 62D Standard: Share somewhat more detailed descriptions of people,
places, things and events.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to have a conversation about
things that have happened in their past.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to ask for information and
express frustration.
8. Essential Understanding: Learners demonstrate linguistic and cultural competence through
academic endeavors, creative undertakings, and artistic expressions.
o Essential Question: How can I show understanding of a second language?
 C, 61J Standard: Identify global competency skills and relate them to possible
career pathways.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to recognize cultural differences
in academic preparation.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to identify common technology
terms.
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Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Topic: French –A Typical Day / Childhood
(Quarter 4) – Level 2
9. Essential Understanding: Learners present information, concepts, ideas and viewpoints on a
variety of topics to audience of listeners, readers or viewers for varied purposes.
o Essential Question: How do I effectively communicate my viewpoint in the second
language?
 IC-A, 61E Standard: Use knowledge of the situation, the purpose of
communication or context clues to understand messages.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to express their daily routines at
home and at school.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to communicate in detail about
past events and experiences.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to make comparisons.
10. Essential Understanding: Learners demonstrate linguistic and cultural competence through
academic endeavors, creative undertakings and artistic expression.
o Essential Question: How can I demonstrate cultural competence?
 C, 61G Standard: Compare variations in products, practices and perspectives
among and within Target Language communities.
 Learning Target: Students will be able to compare and contrast their
upbringing with the target language culture.
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Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Language – French
Level 2
Culture
Learning Goals/ Targets:
Quarter 1: C, 61E; C, 62C
Quarter 2: C, 61G
Quarter 3: C, 62J
Quarter 4: C, 61G
Score 4
Students are able to demonstrate aspects of the target culture in authentic ways.
Score 3
Students are able to compare and contrast aspects of the target culture and their own.
Score 2
Students are able to identify various aspects of the target culture.
Score 1
Students are able to identify a few aspects of the target culture.
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Language – French
Level 2
Grammar
Learning Goals/ Targets:
Quarter 1: IC-B, 61D; IC-B, 61E
Quarter 2: IC-B, 62E
Quarter 3: IC-B, 62D
Quarter 4: IC-A, 61E
Score 4
Students are able to produce original work that correctly utilizes the grammar concept
(verb tense, part of speech, etc.)
Score 3
Students are able to create a sentence that correctly utilizes the grammar concept (verb
tense, part of speech, etc.).
Score 2
Students are able to recognize the grammar concept (verb tense, part of speech, etc.) in
a sentence.
Score 1
Students are able to explain the grammar concept (verb tense, part of speech, etc.).
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Northwest Local School District
Foreign Language
Language – French
Level 2
Vocabulary
Learning Goals/ Targets:
Quarter 1: IC-B, 62D
Quarter 2: IC-B, 62E; C, 61G
Quarter 3: IC-B, 62B; C, 61J
Quarter 4: IC-A, 61E
Score 4
Students are able to initiate and sustain the correct use of the vocabulary term.
Score 3
Students are able to create a sentence that correctly uses the vocabulary term.
Score 2
Students are able to choose the correct vocabulary term from a list of choices.
Score 1
Students are able to define the vocabulary term.