| Curricular Competency |
Explore connections between language and culture |
Core French 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: language and culture |
Elaboration: as expressed through, for example, regional dialects, historical origins of words, idiomatic expressions, and creative works (e.g., architecture, dance, filmmaking, musical composition, painting, poetry and prose, sculpture, theatre) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore Francophone cultural expression |
Core French 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore regional variations in French |
Core French 11 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: regional variations |
Elaboration: for example, accents, idiomatic expressions, slang, other vocabulary |
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| Curricular Competency |
Narrate stories, bothorally and in writing |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Narrate |
Elaboration: using a variety of expressions of time and transitional words to show logical progression using past, present, and future time frames |
| Keyword: stories |
Elaboration: Stories are narrative texts that can be oral, written, or visual. Stories can be simple or complex and may be derived from real or imagined experiences. They can be used to seek and impart knowledge, entertain, share history, and strengthen a sense of identity. Examples are indigenous oral histories, personal stories, skits, series of pictures, songs, student-created stories. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Express themselves with increasing fluency, both orally and in writing |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in meaningful conversations on a variety of topics of interest |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: conversations |
Elaboration: virtual, online, and/or face-to-face; with peers, teachers, and members of the wider community |
| Keyword: topics of interest |
Elaboration: personal, local, regional, national, or global topics of interest, such as current events, matters of public debate, political issues, social trends, and diverse ranges of lifestyles and relationships |
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| Curricular Competency |
Adjust speech and writing to reflect different purposes |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: purposes |
Elaboration: for example, to convince, inform, entertain |
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| Curricular Competency |
Make word choices and adjust register to express intended meaning |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: word choices |
Elaboration: for example, nuances of different verb forms (e.g., J’avais peur versus J’ai eu peur), pronouns (on versus nous), word placement within a sentence (e.g., ma propre chambre versus ma chambre propre), words with close but not identical meanings (e.g., les chaussures versus les souliers; retourner versus revenir; sortir versus partir) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Respond personally to a variety of texts |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Respond personally |
Elaboration: for example, provide personal reactions, interpretations, opinions |
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| Curricular Competency |
Derive and negotiate meaning in a wide variety of contexts |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: contexts |
Elaboration: for example, contexts differing in terms of audience, purpose, setting, formal versus informal |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use a range of strategies to support communication |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: strategies to support communication |
Elaboration: include strategies to comprehend and express meaningwill vary depending on the context and the individual studentfor example, interpreting body language; listening to intonation and expression; paraphrasing, reformulating, reiterating, and repeating; substituting words; using cognates, context, images, parts of speech, prior knowledge, reference tools, similar words in first language, and text features |
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| Curricular Competency |
Identify perspectives in texts |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: perspectives |
Elaboration: A text can reflect the author’s personal point of view, which may include bias. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore and interpret a wide variety of texts |
Core French 11 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: texts |
Elaboration: “Text” refers to all forms of oral, written, visual, and digital communication, including authentic or adapted texts (e.g., advertisements, articles, biographies, blogs, brochures, cartoons, charts, conversations, diagrams, emails, essays, films, forms, graphs, indigenous oral histories, instructions, interviews, invitations, letters, narratives, news reports, novels, nursery rhymes, online profiles, paintings, photographs, picture books, poems, presentations, songs, speeches, stories, surveys, text messages). |
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| Big Ideas |
Tools and technologies can be adapted for specific purposes. |
Mechatronics 12 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: technologies |
Elaboration: tools that extend human capabilities |
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| Big Ideas |
Personal design interests require the evaluation and refinement of skills. |
Mechatronics 12 |
No CCG |
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