La Révolution

Les Eléments

Rapid review of French history up to the revolution

Reading: Cyrano de Bergerac (Le Tirade du Nez/La Scène au Balcon) et Les Trois Mousquetaires extraits

Grammar:  Present Tense.  (Schaum’s Chapter 5 pp 95-128)

Listening:  video sample from Cyrano de Bergerac

Speaking:  Select a key historical period discussed this week and discuss key points (2 min.)

Assessment:  You are one of the characters from the literature discussed this week living in today’s world.  Who are you? (100 words)

Marie-Antoinette et la bourgeoisie

Reading:  La Parure (Guy de Maupassant) ; Trésor du Temp (pp 267-269)

Grammar:  Reflexive & Imperative verbs (Schaum’s Ch. 5 pp 128-135)

Listening:  video sample from Marie-Antoinette

Speaking:  standing at the guillotine

Assessment:  Reflexive and Imperative

Reign of Terror (web search)

Reading:  Victor Hugo Les Misérables extrait ; Trésor du Temp (pp 264-266)

Grammar:  Near future/immediate past  (Schaum’s pp. 168, 288)

Listening:  video sample from Danton

Speaking:  Marat Assassiné oral response to painting by David

Assessment:  On the hour from 7:00am to 9:00 pm (20 entries). Stop and write down what you just did and what you are about to do next

Napoléon

Reading:  Trésor du Temp (pp 264-266)

Grammar:  Le Passé Composé (Schaum’s pp. 143-159)

Listening:  audio sample from AP

Speaking:  AP sample speaking practice

Napoléonic Code

Reading: Mémoires d’Outre Tombe, François-René de Chateaubriand (TdT pp 300-303)

Grammar:  Imperfect Tense  (Schaum’s pp 138-143)

Listening:  video sample from Napoléon

Speaking:  Class discussion/oral review of theme work

Assessment:  Unit Exam

La Belle Époque

Les Eléments

Overview of 19th century France

Reading: TdT (pp. 319-325)

Grammar:  Future and conditional (Schaum’s pp 168-181

Listening:  video sample from Camille Claudel

Speaking:  AP practice

Web Search on theme:  Les Inventions du 19eme siècle (webquest: http://members.shaw.ca/teacher_lib/index.html)

Reading:  Marie Curie

Grammar:  Pluperfect Tense (Schaum’s pp 182-183)

Listening:  PodCast

Speaking:  Class Discussion – Most Important Discovery of the 19^th Century 

Assessment:  Your previous life as… Imagine your life in the 19^th century France.  Where you an artist, performer, politician, inventor, industrialist? (100 words)

Web Search on theme:  Les Artistes Impressionistes

Reading:  “Le Dormeur du Val” Rimbaud (TdT pp 323-333) ; L’Art (TdT pp 344-345) 

Grammar:  Future perfect (Schaum’s pp 183-184)

Listening:  Podcast “Le Musée d’Orsay”

Speaking:  Response to Impressionist Artwork

Assessment:  Grammar quiz from AP grammar samples

Architecture

Reading:  Eiffel Tower review articles at its opening

Grammar:  Past Conditional (Schaum’s pp 185-186)

Listening:  Podcast “Le Musée d’Orsay”

Speaking:  Débat - "Pour" ou "Contre" La Tour Eiffel en 1900?

Lithographie et L’Affiche

Reading:  L'Affaire_Dreyfus  et “J’accuse” Emile Zola

Grammar:  Si clauses (Schaum’s pp 188-189)

Listening:  Peer presentations

Speaking:  Artist Presentation - Toulouse Lautrec

Assessment:  Unit Project “A” comme Artiste,  write an artist biography with 26 talking points related to the alphabet