Voici mon histoire - Je suis qui?

Unit Profile
Student Level 
High (9-12)
Target Language 
French
Teaching Context 
Traditional
Target Proficiency Level 
Intermediate
Unit Themes 
Social relationships
Performance Descriptors 
  • Simple exchange of information on familiar matters
  • Speak and write in sentences in present time
  • Ask simple questions to obtain information
  • Handle a straightforward survival situation
  • Express simple opinions and explanations
  • Write simple letters or notes on familiar matters
  • Understand straightforward, familiar information
Unit Objectives and Standards
Objective 1 
1.3 Students present information, concepts, and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Objective 2 
1.1 Students engage in conversations, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions, and exchange opinions.
Objective 3 
1.2 Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
Objective 4 
4.2 Students demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
Objective 5 
2.1 Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
World-Readiness Standards
Communication 
1.1 Interpersonal: Learners interact and negotiate meaning in spoken, signed, or written conversations to share information, reactions, feelings, and opinions.
1.2 Interpretive: Learners understand, interpret, and analyze what is heard, read, or viewed on a variety of topics.
1.3 Presentational: Learners present information, concepts, and ideas to inform, explain, persuade, and narrate on a variety of topics using appropriate media and adapting to various audiences of listeners, readers, or viewers.
Cultures 
2.1 Practices: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the cultures studied.
Comparisons 
4.2 Cultures: Learners use the language to investigate, explain, and reflect on the concept of culture through comparisons of the cultures studied and their own.
California Standards
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Common Core Standards
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Performance Assessment (Final Project/Assessment)
Performance Task 1 - Interpretive 

- read short narratives
- listen to short readings

Performance Task 2 - Presentational 

- tell their story to an audience
- write a story about themselves or someone else

Performance Task 3 - Interpersonal 

- ask questions to find out information about someone else
- answer questions about themselves
- engage in conversation about teenagers from French cultures

Functions, Structures, Vocabulary and Culture
Functions 

- engage in conversation and discussion about themselves and someone else

Structures 

- subject/verb agreement in past, present, future
- noun/adjective agreement
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Vocabulary 

- adjectives
- family
- activities: sports, pastimes
- community

Rubrics
Task 1 - Interpretive
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Task 2 - Presentational
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Task 3 - Interpersonal
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