Park View High School
French 5 /AP
Syllabus
Instructor Information
Name: Fatiha Benyounes
Email Address:
1. / Course DescriptionThe AP® French Language and Culture course is designed to prepare students for the AP® French Language exam. This course consolidates and expands previously acquired content and skills, offering students an opportunity to acquire and enhance their communicative listening, reading, speaking and writing skills in French while developing an awareness and appreciation of French, Francophone and international cultures and improve their critical thinking skills – all in the target language.
The AP® French Language and, Culture course is structured according to the primary textbook Imaginezdivided in 10 chapters. Some chapters will combine to address the essential guiding questions of the 6 themes (College Board, AP® French Language and Culture Curriculum Framework 2011-2012, p. 26-30).
2. / Curriculum objectives to be covered.
The purpose of this course is to “emphasize the use of language for active communication” (College Board AP® French Course Description, Goals for students are as follow:
proficiency in listening, speaking, reading and writing the French language in accordance with the National Standards for Foreign Language in the 21st century (
enriched cultural knowledge and experience with the francophone world.
Therefore, students will be expected to read critically, think analytically, and communicate clearly both in writing and speech. In preparation for the AP® French Language Examination in May 2017, students are provided with frequent opportunities to integrate the four language skills and the 3 modes of communication (interpretive, interpersonal and presentational) through the use of authentic materials and situations.
Listening and reading objectives (interpretation of meaning without negotiation):
- Understand the French of native speakers in different contexts (such as lectures, everyday life conversations, news and commercials), means (such as CD recordings, radio, vidéos/DVD’s, the Internet and guest speakers) and with different accents.
- Understand written texts from a variety of sources (such as short stories, plays, history summaries, magazines and newspaper articles, comic books and poetry). Literary texts are read in their original form.
-Draw inferences, discriminate between registers of languages (e.g., formal/informal, literary/familiar, colloquial and idiomatic, written/conversational), recognize their cultural implications and appreciate figurative devices and humor.
-Synthesize and deal strategically with oral and written texts, separate main ideas form subordinates ones; recognize viewpoint, hypothesis, supported opinions, objectives facts and bias.
-Develop listening and reading strategies to be a better listener/reader (such as anticipation, inference and, deduction from English cognates prefixes and suffixes analysis ...). Students will monitor comprehension and use other sources to enhance understanding.
-Enrich vocabulary and gain a solid knowledge of grammatical forms and structures
-Gain a cultural knowledge and experience with the francophone world and French history across disciplines (including the visual arts, social, political issues and literature)
-Compare and reflect on products, practices and perspectives (evaluate similarities and differences in the perspectives of the target culture(s) and his or her own (critical viewing/listenning).
Speaking and writing objectives (interpersonal with negotiation of meaning and presentational to facilitate interpretation when no negotiation of meaning exists)
-Communicate successfully ideas, personal opinions, facts and feelings as well as discuss topics using a good command of grammatical forms, an easy recall of vocabulary and idiomatic expressions that would be comprehensible to native listeners and appropriate to the audience, orally and in writing.
- Express themselves in a clear and logical manner and in a variety of styles, registers and purposes (such as descriptive, narrative, informative and persuasive), orally and in writing
-Initiate and sustain interaction through the use of various verbal (clarification of meaning, questioning, paraphrases, summary...) or non-verbal strategies
-self monitor, adjust language production (self-correction is an asset) and develop speaking and writing strategies to be a better speaker/writer
- Demonstrate an understanding and control of the language structures, the verbs system and writing conventions.
-demonstrate knowledge and understanding of target culture communities (e.g., political, historical, artistic, social or political) and contents across disciplines.
-Summarize, analyze, express comparisons and critical thinking about products, practices and perspectives of the target culture.
-Use reference tools, acknowledge sources and cite them appropriately.
3. / Semester1
Themes
THEME I: CONTEMPORARY LIFE
Essential questions
- How do societies and individuals define quality of life
- How is contemporary life influenced by cultural products, practices, and perspectives
- What are the challenges of contemporary lives
- Day Care High School
(2)Le baccalauréat
- University System
Les universités
- Grammaire / Structure en Contexte:
- Regular –er/ir/re verbs
- Regular –er verbs with spelling changes
- Irregular verbs
- Reflexive verbs
- Interrogative forms (est-ce que; inversion; intonation; n’est-ce pas?)
- En train de / sur le point de / venir de
- Depuis/ ça fait…que / il y a …que / voilà …que
- Avoir/ faire / être/ prendre/ mettre / aller [+ idiomatic expressions idioms]
- Time expressions with le presentDefinite v. Indefinite Article / Gender / Plural of Nouns
Modes of Transportation
- (1) Urban vs. Rural Transportation
- (2) Air Travel
- (3) Land Travel
- (4) Water Travel
- Trip Planning via TravelAgencies
Le passé composé -Passé composé avec avoir / être / Reflexive verbs- Verbs which use both avoir / être in passé composéaccording to context(monter/descendre/sortir/rentrer/retourner/passer)
Time expressions with Le passé composé
Direct and Indirect Object Pronouns / y / en
L’imparfait -Time expressions with L’imparfait –depuis- venir de
Prepositions / Prepositionswith Geographic Nouns
THEME 2: CONTEMPORARY LIFE /GLOBAL CHALLENGES
Essential questions
- What environnemental, political, and social issues proses challenges throughout the world?
- What are the origins of those issues?
-Peace and War
-Nutrition and foodsafety
THEME 3:PERSONAL AND PUBLIC IDENTITIES; SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Essential questions
- How do developments in science in technology affects ourlives?
- Whatfactors have driveninovation and discovery in the fields of schence and technology?
- Whatroledoesethicsplay in scientificadvancemnet?
-Discoveries and inventions/Intellectualproperty
-Alienation and assimilation
-Gender and sexuality
THEME 4: FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES; BEAUTY AND AESTHETICS
Essential questions
- What constitues a family in differentsocieties
- How do individualscontribute to the well-being of communities?
- How do the rolesthatfamilies and communities assume differ in societiesaround the world?
-Childhood and adolescence
-Contemporary France: Visual and performing art/ music
4. / Common WLC department Grading Policy that supports student learning
Grades will be based on formative and summative assessments on the four skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking including the following items:
- Homework/Class work/Class participation
- Tests
- Quizzes
- Projects
- Grading Policy: all assignments will be on a point system accumulating towards the final grade
- Retake policy: must be consulted and preapproved by the teacher
- No one assignment shall count for more than 15% of a student’s final grade.
5. / LCPS Grading scale: GRADING SCALE
A+ 98-100 C+ 77-79
A 93-97 C 73-76
A- 90-92 C- 70-72
B+ 87-89 D+ 67-69
B 83-86 D 63-66
B- 80-82D- 60-62
F 59 and below
6. / Classroom Procedures and Expectations: RESPECT
- Be on time
- Be dressed abiding by the dress code
- Be ready and prepared for the class
7. / Materials needed for class (for the year)
- Writing utensil
- 3 ring binder with dividers
- 1 subject spiral notebook
8. / How/when parents can contact you
- Madame Benyounes –
- Madame Meneau –
9. / Before school tutorials available from 8:15-8:45 am every morning Monday through Friday.
After school tutorials available by appointments only.
Late activity buses available on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday.
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10. / Extra credit policy
Extra credit will not be offered as part of this course.
11. / Late Work Policy
- Half a grade will be deducted for every day the assignment is late.
- All work turned in late will be graded at full value if preapproved by teacher.
12. / 8-17 C. Make-up work missed because of absence. (Taken from LCPS)
Make-up Work Policy
Whenever a student is absent, whether an excused or unexcused absence or a suspension absence, if the principal requires make-up work, a reasonable amount of time, consistent with the length of the absence, will be given the student to make up the work missed. Upon return from absence, the student is responsible to initiate immediate action to make up the work. Upon such request of the student, the teacher is responsible to provide assignments, tests, and other work that must be made up and to inform the student clearly when make-up work for which grades will be given is due. Failure to complete such make-up work within the time allowed will result in a failing grade for those assignments, tests, or other work. Make-up work turned in within the time allowed will be graded on the same basis as other work.
13. / ACADEMIC HONOR CODE
Park View’s goal is to promote a community of trust that will enhance student achievement and learning. Students who accept responsibility for their own academic integrity learn and take pride in genuine achievement. As members of the Park View community, we are dedicated to honesty, integrity, and doing the right thing, even when no one is watching. The Park View Honor Code represents expectations of behavior that are aligned with effectively preparing community members for success in a global society.
The Park View Honor Council oversees all Honor Code violations. Students have the right to appeal any violations, as long as their appeal is submitted to the Honor Council within seven calendar days of violation notification.
The entirety of the Honor Code can be found on the PVHS homepage under Site Shortcuts and/or Our School at: