French 3
FRENCH 3 ONLINE HIGH SCHOOL COURSE
COURSE LENGTH:
Full Year (30 Sessions)
Course Overview:
French 3 is a full year, regular level course. Students continue to build on their French skills by practicing speaking, reading, writing, and understanding Level 3 French. French 3 learners will hone their skills while discussing important topics, including: the world of fine arts, what art says about a culture, and how artists use their art to change perspectives; how immigrants are treated across francophone cultures; how geography and climate change impact our lives; how food fits into cultural identity; how access to education varies across cultures; and how to integrate into a new culture while maintaining the roots of one’s home culture. Students will practice conversations between friends, family members, students, teachers, artists and museum curators, immigrants, politicians, and journalists. They will write answers to reading comprehension questions, compose emails, social media posts, journal entries, and write creative original stories.They will continue to develop their ability to analyze authentic source materials and present or compare their opinions.
Students will be assessed on their listening, speaking, reading and writing assignments both in class and through their homework. They will also take a multi-part cumulative assessment at the end of each unit that allows them to use the grammatical structures and vocabulary words from each unit in a series of reading, writing, listening, and speaking prompts. Each unit also includes a cultural exploration of several francophone countries and there is a cultural component to the unit test. At this level, students will continue to write using complex multi-clause sentences and begin to compose longer written work that contains multiple paragraphs. Students will work to finesse their writing so that they can more easily use a wide array of verbs and verb tenses to express themselves.
Learning Objectives:
Students will:
Continue to gain confidence in various verb tenses such as the present, future proche, passé composé and imparfait
Learn and further practice the futur simple, conditionnel, impératif, gérondif, and plus-que-parfait
Study direct and indirect object pronouns as well as adverbs and some relative pronouns
Identify similarities and differences between communities in order to better understand one’s own society and its relationship to the world
The course aims to improve reading and listening comprehension, speaking and writing ability, and cultural competency. Upon completion, students should be able to communicate at an Intermediate Low to Intermediate Mid level proficiency (working towards Intermediate High).