SL+technology+lesson+plan

**__ Technology Lesson Plan __**
**Level of Learners:** ** French 1, high school **

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 Brief Description: ** Students will explore of topic of interest from a selected list of concentrated French culture leisure topics. Students will be free to research using some given resources and create a blog for other students to look at. Students will read other students’ blogs and respond to two of them. **  ======

 ** Rationale: **

 * ====== ** Students will learn about how culture is displayed in daily life for a more authentic view of French culture. This research will show students why and how leisure is so important to French people. **  ======
 * ====== ** This project allows students to research a specific topic about French leisure. **  ======
 * ====== ** We are giving students a variety of choices, so students can research a topic that they are interested in. Also, we predict that students will find this interesting because of the strong cultural differences between French and American lifestyles. **  ======
 * ====== ** This project will help build reading and writing proficiency **  ======

 ** Objective: **
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">** Standards: ** 1.1.N.RW.k: Share opinions and preferences in the target language with their classmates in writing using email messages, notes, letters 1.2.N.R.b: Understand main idea of simple accessible written materials in the target language such as, textbook passages, age-appropriate magazine and newspaper articles/ads, websites/internet, poetry or stories 2.1.N.F.d: Describe typical leisure activities commonly practiced within a community or culture in which the language is spoken. 4.2.N.a: Identify basic target culture practices and compare them to one's own.<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">
 * ======<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> ** Students will improve their reading skills (i.e. scanning, synthesizing, etc.) with authentic French texts. Students will increase their knowledge of a specific topic about French leisure. Students will also improve their writing skills (i.e. summarizing texts, editing, writing for a purpose, etc.). **  ======
 * ======<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> ** We will know that the objectives were accomplished by the quality and content of the students’ blog entries, and responses to other students’ blogs. ** ======

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> ** Materials needed: ** computer lab/laptop cart, internet access, handout with instructions   ======

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">** 1. **** Explain to students that we will be exploring the connection between French culture and leisure activities. Ask students why they think this is important. (10 minutes) ** ======

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">** 2. **** Distribute handout with specific instructions for research. (5 minutes) ** ======

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">** 3. **** Tell students that they can choose which topic they would like to research, but they have to use the websites that are listed for each topic. They will have 20-30 minutes to research and 20-30 minutes to write rough draft of blog (which must be approved by the teacher) and then post blog. ** ======

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<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">** 5. **** Students will read through all of the blogs and post a comment on 2 blogs of student’s choice. (20-30 minutes at home) ** ======

<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**__Technology Leisure Research Project__**
<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> Directions: choose one of these topics to research on [|www.wikipedia.fr]. Write 3-4 sentences on: what you find interesting or surprising and something new that you didn’t know about before. You will post this paragraph as a blog on the classroom wiki at www.wikispaces.frenchisfun.com. You will need to have your rough draft looked over by the teacher before posting your blog. Then at home, read over the blogs written by your classmates and be sure to respond to two. Topics:
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Soccer/World Cup
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Tour de France
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Boules
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Fencing
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Les Alpes/les sports d’hiver
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Les Galleries Lafayette/shopping
 * <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">La cote d’Azur