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Youth Life Class: French 2, any hour. Textbook: Allez, viens! Chapters 9 and 10 Essential Questions: What does it mean to be a teenager?

The theme of this unit is relationships between teenagers. How do young friends and romantic aquaintances interact in francophone countries? How would students describe that to someone else?

Rationale: Students enjoy learning about things that are closest to them. They may find it easier to discuss topics in which they are the "experts." I also think that this unit will give students the opportunity to examine their own lives and compare them to one another and other cultures. In this unit, will be covering the lives of young people in America, in Canada, in France, and in Africa and discussing the idea what "teenage" means in different cultures.

Goals: Students will refine their use of the imperfect and the past composed tense. Students will understand and use object pronouns. Students will learn and use a wide variety of vocabulary that French-speaking people of their own age use in daily life. Students will try to answer the essential questions by presenting to the class what they learned through their interview, exerpts from French newspapers, blogs, and their own experiences.

Communication: Students will interpret both written and spoken communication in French and then discuss it both in writing and orally to their class and on their own blogs. Cultures: Students will explore concepts and perspectives familiar to them in the context of other countries. They will be able to point out similarities and differences between American "teenager-ism" and the idea of youth in francophone countries. Connections: Students can connect this section to a global issues or social studies class. Communities: Students can use the language not only with their own class, but also with other French classes in the school and to look at French teenagers' blogs. Students can connect the language with things happening in their own lives. Comparisons: Students will discover the similarities between cultures with respect to their young lives. They will match their own experiences to experiences of French speaking teenagers.

Assumed prior knowledge: Students have just finished learning how to form the imperfect past tense. They will practice using it in a context outside of describing things that happened repeatedly when they were very young. Instead, they will refine their usage of the two past tenses they already know. Students have encountered object pronouns but have never practiced with them. (The object pronouns "to him" and "to her" trouble many students.)

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