| Curricular Competency |
Exchange ideas and information using complete sentences, both orally and in writing |
Core French 9 |
Thinking and communicating |
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| Curricular Competency |
Engage in conversations about familiar topics |
Core French 9 |
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 |
Seek clarification of meaning |
Core French 9 |
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 9 |
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 |
Derive meaning from a variety of texts |
Core French 9 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: Derive meaning |
Elaboration: understand 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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| Curricular Competency |
Recognize the relationships between French letter patterns and pronunciation |
Core French 9 |
Thinking and communicating |
| Keyword: letter patterns and pronunciation |
Elaboration: Identify, predict, and pronounce groupings of letters that make the same sound (e.g., au, aux, eau, ô, os), rhyming words, letter patterns that have consistent pronunciations (e.g., ai, gn, -ille, -ment, oi, th, -tion, ui), silent letters, les liaisons and les élisions. |
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| Big Ideas |
Our understanding of culture is influenced by the languages we speak and the communities with which we engage. |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
We can experience authentic Francophone cultures through creative works. |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: creative works |
Elaboration: works of artistic expression that represent the experience of the people from whose culture they are drawn (e.g., architecture, dance, filmmaking, musical composition, painting, poetry and prose, sculpture, theatre). |
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| Big Ideas |
We can share our experiences and perspective through stories. |
Core French 8 |
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. |
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| Big Ideas |
With increasing fluency in French, we can participate more actively in reciprocal interactions. |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: reciprocal |
Elaboration: involving back-and-forth participation |
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| Big Ideas |
We can express ourselves and talk about the world around us in French. |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
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| Big Ideas |
Listening and viewing with intent supports our acquisition and understanding of French. |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
ethics of cultural appropriation and plagiarism |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: cultural appropriation |
Elaboration: use of a cultural motif, theme, “voice,” image, knowledge, story, song, or drama, shared without permission or without appropriate context or in a way that may misrepresent the real experience of the people from whose culture it is drawn |
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| Content |
cultural aspects of Francophone communities |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
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| Content |
Francophone communities around the world |
Core French 8 |
No CCG |
| Keyword: around the world |
Elaboration: for example, Belgium, France, Haiti, Morocco, Republic of Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Switzerland, Vietnamcould include information about celebrations, festivals, food, geography, history, population, territory, traditions |
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