Course Title: French 2

Teacher’s Name: Kelly LutzRoom: 131E-mail:

Course Emphasis: French 2 is a one- or two-year course (depending on individual students), designed to help them acquire high-novice level understanding, speaking, reading and writing of French, as well as broaden students’ understanding of French-speaking cultures.

Acquisition begins with telling and creating stories using structures in French. In keeping with the principle of Comprehensible Input (CI), each lesson is designed according to what the class is already familiar with plus a bit of new material. Students are primarily responsible for listening but may participate in ways additional according to their comfort level. The story is retold repeatedly multiple times. Questions about details in the story are asked multiple times. Plus, the lesson may also involve voluntary audience participation through the addition of details to the story and even acting the story out. Reading of short selections in French is also used including as component for reinforcement of the same structures studied in a different context. Thus, students will be acquiring the French language by hearing it spoken (by various speakers, live and recorded*) and reading it in writing, used in contexts that they understand.

*French 2students will watch films in French, possibly including PG-13. If you do not want your student to view these films, please contact me and I will make other arrangements for your student during that class time.

World Language Content Standards:

Standard 1: Communication in Languages Other Than English

  1. Participate in exchanges (written or oral) in a variety of familiar topics using familiar vocabulary and learned grammatical structures
  2. Comprehend exchanges (written or oral) on a variety of familiar topics using high-frequency vocabulary, new vocabulary and learned grammatical structures
  3. Present (written or oral) on a variety of familiar topics using high-frequency vocabulary, new vocabulary and learned grammatical structures

Standard 2: Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures**

  1. Identify common practices within the target cultures studied
  2. Identify common products of the target cultures studied

**As a part of Knowledge and Understanding of Other Cultures, French students will be studying and engaging in activities related to holidays such Mardi Gras and Noël (Christmas). These studies will be objective in nature and directly related to the broader content standard.

Standard 3: Connections with Other Disciplines and Information Acquisition

  1. Identify information that can be gathered from target language resources connected to other content areas
  2. Locate and evaluate information and viewpoints present in authentic resources

Standard 4: Comparisons to Develop Insight into the Nature of Language & Culture

  1. Describe similarities and differences between the structural patterns of the target language through comparisons of the student’s own language and the language studied
  2. Describe the nature of culture through comparisons of the target culture(s) and the student’s own culture, and how the cultures interact

Course Objectives: After a continuous year or two years in French 2, students will be able to: write basic conversations on a variety of familiar topics using familiar vocabulary and learned grammatical structures; speak about a variety of familiar topics using familiar vocabulary and learned grammatical structures; read to understand short passages on a variety of familiar topics using high-frequency vocabulary, new vocabulary and learned grammatical structures; listen to understand short oral passages on a variety of familiar topics using high-frequency vocabulary, new vocabulary and learned grammatical structures.

Course Expectations: French students should be prepared for class: bring their supplies, homework and a positive attitude; take responsibility for their learning, using my Fusion Page as a resource; and do their part to create a fun and respectful learning environment. All ACS students are expected to conform to all policies and standards found within the ACS student handbook. I will contact the parents/guardians of students not following instruction and requests, and follow through with conferences with parents/guardians, the Dean of Students, and/or administrators, if necessary.

Office Hours: I have office hours on Mondays 3-3:30. Students need to come by room 131 or schedule time with me to ask questions, retake quizzes or catch up on work.

Madame Lutz follows ACS guidelines for grading, homework, make-up work and test retakes.