Temperatures are changing and so are dynamics.. After almost a whole quarter together, I feel like we are clicking as teams, finally. Even with the current French 4 group that I had last year already, it took a while to warm up again.
French 4 group is moving through Petit Prince fairly steadily. We are now visiting the various planets that were stops along the way to Earth for the Little Prince. We have met the king, the vain man, the drinker and the businessman. We have waxed philosophical about some key sentences in each chapter.
French 4 is also diving deeper and deeper into grammatical concepts - this past week or two, we have been focusing on the subjunctive in much more detail than last year. Our heads hurt!
French 3 group is now wrapping up the second unit, that focused on chores, lending a helping hand, and like level 4, the subjunctive, but only looking at how to form it, figure out some stems, and learn how to express obligation and wish through the subjunctive. This next week, we will also embark on the start of a writing adventure - each student will have a freelance writing project for the rest of the year, and they will be writing in French, hopefully in a style that appeals to them (poetry, play, novel, to-do lists on down days, short stories, etc). They will also be creating some dialogs individually then pick partners, and they will perform them next week and we will film them! These dialogs will cover the materials from the first two units, as a review and to keep building knowledge.
End of quarter 1 is just around the corner - October 13th! Let's keep going strong!
French 4 group is moving through Petit Prince fairly steadily. We are now visiting the various planets that were stops along the way to Earth for the Little Prince. We have met the king, the vain man, the drinker and the businessman. We have waxed philosophical about some key sentences in each chapter.
French 4 is also diving deeper and deeper into grammatical concepts - this past week or two, we have been focusing on the subjunctive in much more detail than last year. Our heads hurt!
French 3 group is now wrapping up the second unit, that focused on chores, lending a helping hand, and like level 4, the subjunctive, but only looking at how to form it, figure out some stems, and learn how to express obligation and wish through the subjunctive. This next week, we will also embark on the start of a writing adventure - each student will have a freelance writing project for the rest of the year, and they will be writing in French, hopefully in a style that appeals to them (poetry, play, novel, to-do lists on down days, short stories, etc). They will also be creating some dialogs individually then pick partners, and they will perform them next week and we will film them! These dialogs will cover the materials from the first two units, as a review and to keep building knowledge.
End of quarter 1 is just around the corner - October 13th! Let's keep going strong!