HAZELWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT
FRENCH 3B and HONORS FRENCH 3B SYLLABUS
Course Description
Students will expand their foreign language experience while reading and examining
authentic and modified literature and texts and producing in-depth written and oral
responses to those readings. Students will read at least one novel in French. They will
build on their existing skills using the French 3 text. This course offers extended
speaking opportunities, with higher expectations of length, grammatical complexity,
overall fluency, and speed. Students will spend an increased amount of class time
speaking only French.
To receive honors credit, students will be required to fulfill additional objectives and
activities, comply with more stringent criteria of core objectives, and complete quarterly
performance objectives. These activities and performance events will involve
independent research, involve self-reflection activities, demonstrate depth of knowledge
and understanding, utilize higher order thinking skills, and include more extensive uses
of technology than is required in the non-honors curriculum.
Approved Course Materials and Resources
Allez, Viens! 3– Holt, Rinehart and Winston $69.95
Video Program
Interactive CD-ROM program
Audio CDs and workbook
Transparencies
TPR Storytelling Book
Activity workbook
Grammar and Vocabulary workbook
Testing program
Videos
Chapter 7 "A Photo Safari La République Centrafricaine"
Using two of the following videos will support the unit and the Communication, Cultures,
and Connections strands:
West African Documentaries
Jumanji
Chapter 8 "Tunisie, a Country of Contrasts"
Using the following videos will support the unit and the Communications and Cultures
strands:
La Tunisie
Le Roi Lion
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Chapter 9 "It's Fun: Le Canada"
Using two of the following videos will support the unit and the Communication, Cultures,
and Comparisons strands:
Le Canada
French Connection
Le Carnival
French Canadian Journeys
Chapter 10 "Rendez-vous under the sun" La Guadeloupe
Using two of the following videos will support the unit and the Communication, Cultures,
and Comparisons strands:
DOM-TOM Documentaries
Cendrillon
La Belle et La Bête
Chapter 11 "Laissez les bons temps rouler" La Louianiane
Using two of the following videos will support the unit and the Communication and
Communities strands:
Le Carnival
La Louisiane
La Blanche Neige
New Orleans
Le Fantôme de L'Opéra
Carmen
La Bohème
Faust
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
La Belle et La Bête
Course Expectations
Chapters 7 - 12
Grammar
Verbs--subjunctive, conditional, past perfect
Comparative
Negative expressions
Relative pronouns
Superlative
Future after quand/des que
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Culture
Central African Republic
Stereotypes of Francophone regions
Tunisia
Carthage
Canada
Guadelope
La Fête des Cusinières
Louisiana
Celebrations in Francophone regions
Vocabulary
Rain forest
Safari/African animals
Traditional vs. city life vs. everyday life
Television programming
Types of movies
Sea life
Musical instruments/kinds of music
Cajun food
Sports and equipment
Places of origin
Sample Course Activities/Projects/Assessments
Students will investigate and create a graphic organizer on one of the following topics:
The changing roles of women, immigrants, technology, religion, or family units in the
French-speaking world and how they affect career opportunities in the French-speaking
cultures.
Honor students will present orally in French an accompanying summary.
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Course Outline
Chapitre 7 Un safari-photo (A Photo Safari)
The student will make suppositions, express doubt and certainty, ask for and give
advice, express astonishment, caution someone, express fear, reassure someone, and
express relief.
Chapitre 8 La Tunisie, pays de contrastes (Tunisie, a Country of Contrasts)
The student will ask someone to convey good wishes, close a letter, express hopes or
wishes, give advice, complain, express annoyance, and make comparisons.
Chapitre 9 C’est l’fun! (It’s Fun: Le Canada)
The student will learn to agree and disagree, express indifference, make requests, ask
for and make judgments, ask for and make recommendations, and ask about and
summarize a story.
Chapitre 10 Rencontres au soleil (Rendez-vous under the sun)
The student will learn to brag, flatter, tease, break some news, show interest, express
disbelief, and tell a joke.
Chapitre 11 Laissez les bons temps rouler
The student will review and practice how to ask for confirmation, ask for and give
opinions, agree and disagree, ask for explanations, make observations, and give
impressions.
Course Curriculum Map
Chapitre 7 Un safari-photo (A Photo Safari)
3 ½ weeks
Chapitre 8 La Tunisie, pays de contrastes (Tunisie, a Country of Contrasts)
3 ½ weeks
Chapitre 9 C’est l’fun! (It’s Fun: Le Canada)
3 ½ weeks
Chapitre 10 Rencontres au soleil (Rendez-vous under the sun)
3 ½ weeks
Chapitre 11 Laissez les bons temps rouler
3 ½ weeks
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Lesson Protocol
High School Foreign Language
Hazelwood Power Standard ___________________Grade: ________________
#1: Anticipatory Set—introduction of lesson and objective
5%
#2: Modeled Activity
25%
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#3: Vocabulary, Grammar, Culture
Cooperative Student work or Independent Practice
55%
#4: Sharing of product or new understandings
10%
#5: Summarization of Lessons Learned
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Power Vocabulary
The vocabulary and grammar terms for each foreign language course are outlined in the
chapters covered by the semester and are appropriate for the level of study.
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