Course Overview
Content Area: World Language
Grade/Course Title: French 4 CP
Course description:
For those students who have successfully completed levels I, II, and III, the fourth college prep level of
French continues students' development in the four skill areas. There is a more in-depth emphasis on
the progression oral proficiency, a sustained ability to create with the target language, and to ask more
elaborate questions, interpret and analyze multi-media materials from multiple sources, and compose
controlled and original pieces of writing. . Students will learn to recognize and appreciate the many
cultural contributions of the Francophone world.
School-wide Expectations:
Students will demonstrate:
- Effective communication skills for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Reading and comprehension skills
- Global awareness and historical perspective
Learning Goals:
-Participate in class exclusively in target language. (Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
-Expand use of vocabulary from level 3 to include hotel and extended stays in France, health and
medical services, city life, personal relationships, friendship, family life, university studies and careers.
(Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
-Expand past narration to incorporate use of plus-que-parfait, conditionnel passé, and past subjunctive.
(Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
-Extension of previously learned grammatical structures (e.g. lequel – auquel, duquel/ qui,que-dont, ce
qui, ce que, ce dont and proficient use of comparative and superlative to include not only adjectives
but also adverbs and nouns.) (Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
-Narrate present and past actions in sequence/agreement of tenses when speaking and writing.
(Standard 4.1, 1.2)
-Use of subjunctive after certain conjunctions of purpose or intent, condition and restriction, or time
limitation. (Standard 1.2, 4.1)
-Determine the main themes and significant details on primarily familiar topics from authentic multimedia and print sources, both informational texts and narratives with easily discerned storylines.
(Standard 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2)
-Identify and appreciate differences in cultural perspectives in a broader range of topics and begin to
appreciate such differences. (Standard 2.1, 2.2, 4.2)
-Produce written and spoken messages such as reports, articles, summaries, or original stories on topics
related to personal interest or study. (Standard 1.3, 3.1, 5.2)
-Show an increasing awareness of errors and the ability to self-edit. (Standard 3.1, 3.2, 4.1)
Course Content:
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Health and Medical Care
Cities and City Life
Personal Relationships, Friendships, and Family Life - Life phases
University Studies and Careers
History of France and the New World
History of the French Antilles
Study of Immigration in France
List/Names of Common Assessments:
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Quizzes and unit tests – ancillary materials to textbook
Speaking Tests
Performance / Authentic assessment
 Projects
 Dialogues
 Scenarios
Homework
Class Q and A
Formal and informal writing assessments: essays, creative writing
Student directed discussions
Debates
Major Resources:
Current anchor text / video material is Units 7-10 plus cultural reading materials from Discovering
French Rouge, MacDougall Littell.
Outdated. Recommend research and review for adoption of new updated textbook series more attuned
to today’s student for use in levels 1, 2, and 3.
Online resources: www.classzone.com, YouTube, online French radio, Google maps
Other learning resources:
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Field Trips
Films
Maps
Textbook supplementary material: CDs, videos, workbooks, testing program
Review worksheets
Audio Media
Art
Course Overview
Content Area: World Language
Grade/Course Title: French 4 &5
UConn ECE French Grammar and Culture 3267
UConn ECE French Composition 3268
AP French Language and Culture
Course description:
This course is taught in French. Students review French grammar, learn new vocabulary, and study
Francophone cultures through readings and film. Emphasis is on perfecting both oral and written
expression through discussion, presentations, projects, exercises, and composition. Students may
choose to apply for three (3) UConn credits for this full year course which runs as 3267 or 3268 in
alternating years. French 4 begins to prepare students for the French AP course and exam.
Concurrently running, French 5 intended for those students whose listening, speaking, reading, and
writing skills have reached an intermediate performance level based on national World Language
proficiency guidelines. These students in their senior year are strongly encouraged to take the AP
French Language and Culture examination in May.
School-wide Expectations:
Students will demonstrate:
- Effective communication skills for a variety of purposes and audiences
- Reading and comprehension skills
- Global awareness and historical perspective
Learning Goals:
All items from level 4 CP, additionally:
-Participate in class exclusively in target language. (Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
-Expand vocabulary knowledge to include analysis of mass media, politics and justice, science and
technology, and global challenges and increasingly large body of idiomatic expressions. (Standard 1.1,
1.2, 1.3)
-Review and expand language structures to include futur antérieur. (Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3)
-Read, study, analyze and discuss via student-led class discussions and debates at least one unabridged
novel, Albert Camusʼ Lʼétranger or alternate text. (Standard 1.2, 2.2, 3.2, 4.1)
-Interpret the principal elements of the narrative literary text on topics of current and historical
importance to the target culture in presentations in class on topics related to the novel on a
weekly basis. (Standard 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.2)
-Analyze and comprehend with increasing ease authentic reading materials (e.g. articles from Le Monde,
La Libération, Paris-Match, etc., both online and hard copies) as well as original audio and video
materials created by and intended for native French speakers including radio broadcasts from various
Francophone countries available online (RTL.fr , radiobleu.fr, etc.), video daily news broadcasts (TV5,
Radio Canada, etc.) and feature length films. (Standard 1.2, 4.2)
-Able to activate knowledge in real-life settings, i.e. field trips to museums, UConn ECE contests and
seminars, excursions to France. (Standard 5.1, 5.2)
-Use paragraph length discourse with cohesive devices and complex syntax to narrate and describe
across time frames to write analytical essays as well as original creative narratives. (Standard 1.3, 3.1,
5.2)
-For UConn ECE 3268, produce a final 5 page paper on a research or creative writing topic of the
student’s choice in consultation with the instructor. (Standard 1.3, 3.1)
-Demonstrate conscious and consistent efforts at self-editing. (Standard 3.1, 3.2, 4.1)
Course Content:
AP Themes
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Personal and Public Identities: gender roles, beliefs and values, national identity
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Beauty and Aesthetics: 20th century French aesthetics
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Contemporary Life: health, well-being, youth culture
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Families and Communities: development of city life, generational conflicts
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Science and Technology: communication technology, cloning, inventions
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Global Challenges: war, human rights, natural resources, global warming, poverty, globalization
List/Names of Common Assessments:
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Quizzes and unit tests
Presentations
Performance / Authentic assessment
 Projects
 Dialogues
 Scenarios
Homework
Class Q and A
Formal and informal writing assessments: essays, creative writing
Student directed discussions
Debates
Major Resources:
Students receiving UConn credit are required to purchase the anchor text which alternates on a yearly
basis between Bien vu, bien dit: Intermediate French McGraw-Hill, 2007 and Imaginez, 2nd ed., Vista
Higher Learning, 2012.
Recommendations: That French 4 and 5 be funded to run as independent and separate courses. The
current hybrid format shortchanges our senior AP students’ needs.
Online resources: Mcgraw-Hill and Vista Higher Learning support websites, YouTube, online French
radio, Google maps, etc.
Other learning resources:
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Field Trips to view art collections at the Met and MoMA
Films
Maps
Textbook supplementary material: CDs, videos, workbooks, testing program
Review worksheets
Audio Media
Art