FRANCAIS 5H/5-IB

SEMESTER 2 2006

Instructor
Madame Alushin     Email

THEME 1                     LE CONTE                     Weeks 1-5 (Q-3)

We will be reading several short stories written by francophone authors in this unit including Contre Remboursement (Félicien Marceau)and La Parure (Guy de Maupassant). We will also be reading an African folktale TBA.

Structures in this unit will be agreements of all kinds, adjective with nouns, past participles with subjects, etc., and transition words.

Group and solo oral presentations will be given with special emphasis on preparation for those IB students doing their internal assessment.

THEME 2                     LA POESIE                     Weeks 6-9 (Q-3)

The class will be studying Francophone poems from various countries in both Europe and Africa as well as poetry from Francophone Canada. Students will also learn various terms to be able to discuss the structure of a poem in French and will write their own poems.

Structures to be taught/reviewed include the formation of the passive construction, compound tenses and relative pronouns.

Oral presentations will be given by all IB students.

THEME 3                     LA JUSTICE                     Weeks 1-2 (Q-4)

We will study various aspects of justice including the death penalty and human rights in France and other francophone countries in addition to comparing these with our own country’s. Students will also write a persuasive letter regarding human rights.

Oral presentations by all students.

Final oral internal assessments for IB students will be recorded in the language lab mid March.

Structures to be included in this unit are possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns, and review of subjunctive with conjunctions.

THEME 4                     SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY                     Weeks 3-5 (Q-4)

We will be discussing some recent scientific and technological advancements as written up in French magazines and newspapers.

We will review vocabulary associated with computers.

Structures in this unit will include conditional sentences and the use of the verb DEVOIR.

THEME 5                     LES ARTS                     Weeks 6-9 (Q-4)

We will be looking at cinema, art and music created by French-speaking artists.

Structures in this unit will include conditional sentences, prepositions with infinitives and negation forms.

All students will give oral presentations on the arts.

NOTES

The materials used in this course include the workbook Reprise, dossiers and articles from Clés de l’Actualité which is a newspaper used in French lycées, videos and DVDs, CDs, excerpts from books on poetry and literature and exercises from various workbooks on grammar. **Students preparing for the IB exam this spring will be given extensive practice with materials from previous exams and other IB-type materials.

During each period of the syllabus, students will participate in activities, written, oral, and auditory, consistent with the Program of Studies and the IB syllabus. For example, they will write compositions and textual analyses as well as do interactive reading exercises. We will continue extensive vocabulary expansion work. In addition to the work listed above, students will be expected to write 250-word essays on assigned topics. ALL ESSAYS AND REWRITES ARE TO BE DONE IN THE CLASSROOM in a personal composition book without a dictionary.

v Evaluation will be based on oral presentations, class discussions, listening comprehension, homework, group activities, tests, debates, quizzes, essays, critical analyses, summaries, and personal reflections.

Grading policy

v  Grades will reflect individual achievement of course objectives.

v  A variety of assessments will determine the student’s grade.

v  The marking period grade will be based on classwork, tests, quizzes, oral presentations, and writing assignments. 90% of the grade will be based on graded work and 10% on completed work such as homework.

v  Each assignment will have a due date. This is the date by which the students is expected to submit the assignment. Grades will drop one letter grade if the assignment is not submitted by the due date.

v  The deadline is the last day that an assignment will be accepted for a grade. In some cases the due date and the deadline may be the same. Work not turned in by the deadline will be considered missing. Missing work will be recorded as an E.

Academic dishonesty

This applies to both written work and oral presentations. Examples of academic dishonesty include, but are not limited to, the following: the willful giving or receiving of an unauthorized text, unfair, dishonest, or unscrupulous advantage in academic work over other students using fraud, duress, deception, theft, trickery, talking, signs, gestures, copying, or any other method.

Plagiarism

- Submitting or presenting another person’s work as your own without proper documentation, including downloaded information from the Internet and lab data.

- Using another student’s material without prior approval

Cheating

- Giving or receiving information during a test, quiz, and/or class work assignment
without teacher authorization.
- Using hand signals, gestures, and the like during tests or quizzes to obtain/give
information.
- Using unauthorized material during a test or quiz.