| Curricular Competency |
Explore the importance of story in personal, family, and community identity |
Core French 10 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: importance of story |
Elaboration: Stories are an important way to seek and impart knowledge, beliefs, customs, perspectives, traditions, values, and worldviews. In doing so, they can share history and strengthen a sense of identity. |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore the lives and contributions of Francophone Canadians |
Core French 10 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize that language and culture have been influenced by the interactions of First Peoples and Francophone communities in Canada |
Core French 10 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: interactions of First Peoples and Francophone communities |
Elaboration: for example:the Michif language, which includes First Nations and French vocabulary and structures and expresses a distinctive Métis cultureChinook Jargon, which was used for trading along the West Coastthe fact that First Peoples writers in Quebec, such as those from the Innu Nation, have used the French language through prose and poetry to bring attention to the negative effects of colonization on their families and communities |
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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize connections between language and culture |
Core French 10 |
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, and theatre) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore Francophone cultural expression |
Core French 10 |
Personal and social awareness |
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| Curricular Competency |
Explore regional variations in French |
Core French 10 |
Personal and social awareness |
| Keyword: regional variations |
Elaboration: for example, accents, idiomatic expressions, slang, other vocabulary |
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| Curricular Competency |
Narrate stories, both orally and in writing |
Core French 10 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Narrate |
Elaboration: using common 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 10 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in conversations about familiar topics |
Core French 10 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: conversations |
Elaboration: virtual, online, and/or face-to-face; with peers, teachers, and members of the wider community |
| Keyword: familiar topics |
Elaboration: can include personal, local, regional, national, and global topics of interest |
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| Curricular Competency |
Make word choices to convey meaning |
Core French 10 |
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 |
Seek clarification of meaning |
Core French 10 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Seek clarification |
Elaboration: using a variety of statements and questions (e.g., Je ne comprends pas; Répétez, s’il vous plaît; Répète, s’il te plaît; Peux-tu répéter?; Que veut dire…?; Comment dit-on…?; Comment écrit-on…?) |
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| Curricular Competency |
Use a range of strategies to support communication |
Core French 10 |
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 |
Explore and derive meaning from a variety of texts |
Core French 10 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: derive meaning |
Elaboration: comprehend key elements, supporting details, time, place |
| 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 |
Deepening our knowledge of Francophone communities helps us develop cultural awareness. |
Core French 7 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Stories help us to acquire language and understand the world around us. |
Core French 7 |
No CCG |
| 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. |
| Keyword: understand the world |
Elaboration: exploring, for example, thoughts, feelings, knowledge, culture, and identity |
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