Hull High School
Student Course Expectation
2009-2010
Course Title: 544 Honors French 4
Teacher: Mrs. Galluzzo
Credits: 6
Text: A bord, chapters 7-16 (1998,Glencoe-McGraw Hill), $49.50
Course Overview: This course is designed to interest and challenge students who wish to develop further fluency in the French language. Lectures and class discussions are in French with the student playing a much more central role than in earlier levels. Through a variety of original texts and media presentations, a broad working vocabulary necessary for comprehension and effective communication will be developed and practiced. Compositions and oral reports will be assigned to develop mastery of the grammar and vocabulary studied. Prerequisite: demonstrated proficiency on the Level 2 foreign language assessment test.
Course Objectives:
* Students will use the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing
* Students will gain knowledge and understanding of other cultures
* Students will develop insight into the nature of language and culture by comparing their own language and culture with another
* Students will make connections with other subject areas and acquire information
* Students will participate in communities at home and around the world in other languages
Course Content:
Vocabulary: airport terms, driving, laundry, metro, bus travel, holidays, high school, savoir-vivre, emotions, the Maghreb, the farm, professions and the workplace.
Grammar: future tense, double object pronouns, conditional tense, subjunctive in the present and in the past
Culture: l'Universite de Paris, Mont St-Michel, the drycleaners, French holidays, manners, French Africa, farming in France
Required Reading: The Little Prince, Contes du monde francophone, Premiers Poemes
All students in World Languages are required to write compositions on a regular basis. Compositions are beased on the grammar and the vocabulary that they are studying in each chapter. French 4 students write weekly compositions, and in addition, write a couple of long papers a year. All compositions are scored by the Hull High School Writing Rubric.
Course Evaluation Criteria: tests = 40%, quizzes = 20%, homework = 20%, classroom participation (oral work) = 20%
Course Policies:
*Attendance, tardiness, behavioral consequences, academic honesty, and make-up of work- as outlined in the Hull High Student Notebook
*Class preparation: bring your textbook, workbook, notebook, pen or pencil, and agenda book each day
* Homework: It will be given nightly. Homework is given as an aid in understanding the concepts and skills presented in class. Homework will be checked at the beginning of each class.
*Classroom rules: Be on time, respectful to all, use appropriate language, and be responsible.
* Extra help: after school
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