Phase I
CURRICULUM MAP
Course/ Subject: French 3
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: September
Content
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Introductions – Info. Cards
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Rules
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Question words
Skills
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Ask/answer questions in French
Write answers in French
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Information card collection w/
student info.
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Use question words correctly.
Make up questions for student
information.
Use with like/love/hate/prefer
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Written paragraph about self
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Review: Definite articles
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Avoir/Etre
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Descriptions of others / self
Adjective agreement
Places in Paris
Assessment
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Use correctly with personal
information
Describe classmate using the
information on the cards provided.
Model: teacher
Name important places in Paris
Standard
1.1
5.1
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Oral description of famous person
Listening comprehension
1.2
1.3
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E-mail
4.1
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Completion quiz
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Matching quiz
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Quiz
2.2
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Day, Date, Time, Weather,
Numbers, Alphabet
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Regular verb conjugations
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Review and practice
Use correct verb forms to
communicate
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Verb packet
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Listening quiz – Put items in a room
in the correct place
4.1
2.1
Phase I
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Content
Prepositions
House vocabulary
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Skills
Pronounce verb forms correctly,
especially 3rd person plural
Review meanings, use of du, etc.
Describe floor plan, bedroom
Discuss differences between typical
French and American
shome/buildings
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Assessment
Oral quiz – describe lay-out of own
house/room
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Completion Quiz
Standard
1.1
5.1
4.2
2.2
2.1
5.2
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“Welcome to my home”
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Greet, ask about trip, offer
food/drink
Skit – Welcome visitor and show
him/her around the house
Phase I
CURRICULUM MAP
Course/ Subject: French 3
Grade: 10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: October
Content
Skills
Assessment
Standards
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Giving directions
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Review command forms
Reinforce differences between tu and
vous
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Written directions using a city map
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Town of Chartres
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“Visit” town and cathedral
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Completion Quiz
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Position of adjectives
Irregular adjectives
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Use and understand principle of BAGS
Use irregular adj. correctly
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Type 2 writing – describe 5
possessions
Completion Quiz
4.1
1.1
4.2
2.1
3.1, 3.2
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Foods
Stores
Products
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Object pronoun “en”
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Meals
Courses
Table manners
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Review and expand vocabulary
Compare French and American
shopping habits
Use metric quantities and “euros” to
shop
Review use of “en” to replace “de”
phrase
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Oral – Conversation between
customer and merchant
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Completion Quiz
Review and expand vocabulary
Compare French and American meals
and eating habits
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Oral – Order a meal in a restaurant
Quiz – True/False (eating habits)
Completion Quiz
1.1
5.1
2.1
3.2
4.2
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: November
Content
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Invitations and extending
good wishes
Skills
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Gifts and stores
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Indirect object pronouns lui
and leur
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Martinique
Use the vocabulary associated with
gift-giving
Review use of lui and leur with offrir
Practice asking for, accepting and
rejecting opinions
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Design a greeting card
5.1, 5.2
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Oral – Conversation about gifts for
own family
1.1
4.1
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Vocabulary quiz – stores and items
found there
Completion Quiz
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Standards
Read and understand an invitation
Offer good wishes
Irregular verb offrir
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Assessment
Review and expand knowledge of
Martinique
Use vocabulary associated with
giving and getting information about
a country
Ask and answer questions about
Martinique and other places of
interest
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Type 1 – What do you remember
about Mart.?
Type 2 – Information about
Martinique
Vocabulary quiz
“Mon île” – Draw and describe
own island
Completion Quiz
1.3
3.1
5.2
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: December
Content
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Vacation activities
Skills
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Traditional
activities/celebrations in
Martinique
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“Mon île”
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Reflexive verbs
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Assessment
Review and expand vocabulary
Use ce qui and ce que to discuss likes
and dislikes
Ask for ideas and make suggestions
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Oral – Use expressions from the
vocab list to plan a day’s itinerary
Read and discuss Notes and
Rencontres culturelles
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Completion Quiz
Ask and answer questions about
imaginary islands
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Learn as vocabulary
Conjugate with reflexive pronouns
Use with adverbs to relate a series of
events
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Standards
1.1, 5.1
4.2
Oral quiz – answer 3-4 questions
about own island
Type 1 – Typical morning
Type 2 – Ma routine
Quiz – Conjugation
Quiz – Vocabulary
Completion Quiz
3.1, 1.2
1.2, 4.1
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: January
Content
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Les châteaux
Skills
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What a day!
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Passé composé with avoir
Pronunciation
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French schools
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How was your day/weekend/vacation?
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Passé composé with être
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Assessment
Standards
Understand historical perspective
Differentiate between kinds of
châteaux
Learn characteristics of particular
châteaux
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Type 2 – Why visit the Loire valley
Quiz - Matching
1.3, 2.2, 4.2
Use new vocabulary to describe a bad
day
Be able to express concern for
another
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1.1, 4.1
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Oral – Conversation about good
and bad says
Translation exercise (vocab. quiz)
Use the past tense to talk about a bad
day
Practice the vowel “U”
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Completion Quiz
Discuss differences between French
and American schools (grading,
discipline, schedules)
Be able to ask and answer questions
about day/week-end/ vacation
Be able to respond to friend’s
information
Use first, next, last to relate a series
of events
Conjugate “être” verbs
Practice making agreement
3.2, 4.2
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Type 2 – How was your…?
1.1, 1.3
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Write conjugation of aller
Add passé composé to verb packet
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: February
Content
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Passé composé with être
Skills
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Add reflexive verbs
Assessment
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Quiz on verb forms, including
agreement
Conversation – Good day/bad day
Type 2 – How was your week-end?
Completion Quiz
1.2, 4.1
1.1, 2.1, 4.2
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Oral – Conversation between
parent and child concerning report
card
Vocabulary review
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Quiz
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French report card
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Les châteaux
Explain the grading system
Understand the report card comments
Use the expressions to comment on a
report card
Review information learned
previously using pictures to identify
castles
Standards
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2.2
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Reading – Henri II
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Week-end activities
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Identify cognates in reading
Read in “chunks”
Identify and list main ideas of
“chunks”
Compare notes among groups
Use new vocabulary
Ask for opinion
Express enthusiasm, indifference,
dissatisfaction
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Type 2 – 5 sentences about Henri
II, using verbs in passé compose
3.2, 1.3
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Completion Quiz
1.1
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: March
Content
Skills
Assessment
Standards
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All “être” verbs – DR. &
MRS VANDERTRAMP
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Complete list of “être” verbs
Include infinitives, past participles
and meanings
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Quizzes
4.1
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Train travel
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Discuss advantages and
disadvantages
Compare traveling by plane, train,
bus, car
Use vocabulary to ask for and give
information
Practice formation of formal/informal
questions
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Type 2 – Advantages of traveling
by train
1.2, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2
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Oral – Conversation between
customer and agent
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Communicative activity –
Complete missing information by
asking questions
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Completion Quiz
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Question words
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1.1
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Body parts
Illnesses
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Review and expand vocabulary
Express concern
Complain
Use être, avoir correctly
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Quiz - Vocabulary
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: April
Content
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Passé composé
Body parts, illnesses,
injuries
Getting/staying in shape
Skills
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Use reflexive verbs in passé composé
Understand when to make agreement
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Verb packet (all verbs done in
passé composé)
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Written – Using a picture from the
workbook, describe each patient’s
symptoms/injury
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Read brochure from fitness center
Use the schedule to design a fitness
program for several people with
specific goals
Use fitness vocabulary
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Completion Quiz
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Use adverbs to say how often
Use correct word order
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Written – Specific workout
suggestions for individuals
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Use verb to give, accept and reject
advice
Express discouragement, offer
encouragement
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Oral – Conversation between
reluctant athlete and trainer
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Completion Quiz
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Assessment
Standards
1.1, 4.1
3.1, 5.2
Adverbs of frequency
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Use vocabulary to discuss
healthy/unhealthy eating habits
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Use forms of se nourrir in past,
present, future
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Describe own good/bad habits
Devoir – to have to
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Healthy eating habits
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Se nourrir
1.1, 3.1, 5.1
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: May
Content
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Good and bad habits
Skills
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Use command forms to give advice
Justify recommendations
Assessment
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Côte d’Ivoire
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Village vs. city
Imparfait
Childhood
1.2, 4.2
1.1, 4.1
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Describe life in each
Review adjective forms
Tell what will/will not miss
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Quiz – correct forms of adjectives
(village / ville)
Translation exercise – I miss
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Use avoir and être to introduce tense
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Completion Quiz
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Use all verbs in imparfait to describe
how life “used to be”
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Complete verb packet (to be
collected after final exam)
Use adjectives to describe a child’s
personality
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Written – Petit ange / petit diable
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1.3, 3.1
Type 1 – What do you already
know about Côte d’Ivoire
Quiz – Côte d’Ivoire
Review previously learned material
Add geographical, topographical,
historical, cultural, political
information
Use French in sentences to give
information about country
Discuss differences in schools
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Poster – Make a poster for children
too young to read about what to do
and what to avoid doing
Oral – Explain poster in French
Completion Quiz
Standards
1.1, 1.2
Phase I
Course/ Subject:
French 3
Grade:
10-12
Teacher: WEAVER
Month: June
Content
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Côte d’Ivoire
Skills
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Exam review
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Be able to give facts about country in
French
Discuss main ideas from all Notes
culturelles in English
Be able to use all adjective forms
correctly
Be able to use all verbs studied in
present, past, imperfect and future
Emphasize what each tense sounds
like
Discuss main ideas from all Notes
culturelles (Chap. 1-8)
Review main vocabulary groups
Assessment
Standards
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Completion Quiz
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Adjective review exercise
Verb review exercise
Completed verb packet
Final exam
3.2, 4.2