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French II

Paris Unit Plan Introduction

Essential Question:** How does where you live affect you?

I chose the topic of Paris because I think it is such a culturally rich city that everyone, no matter what interests you, can find something they enjoy in Paris. Since Paris is so large and encompasses countless activities and places, I thought that it would be possible to incorporate many different grammatical and cultural contexts within the city itself. The essential question ties into the topic because where we live has a enormous impact on who we are and what kind of life we lead. I think it would be interesting to view lives in a city vs. lives in the country side as well as lives in some countries compared to others.


 * Students will be able to demonstrate the national standards as follows:**

//Comparisons:// through language use, students will compare and make connections to people who live in all different areas and regions throughout the world to see how where you live affects who you are

//Culture:// students will learn about cultures other than their own and will become aware of traditions and lifestyles that they were not accustomed to; this can teach appreciation and tolerance for others

//Communication:// students will be speaking to one another, to the class, to the teacher, and interpreting multiple texts on numerous occasions to better understand how where you live affects your life

//Communities:// students will learn to accept other cultures and traditions other than their own which will carry over to several other aspects of life; they will learn to appreciate people who are different from them

//Connections:// students will see a relationship between location and various aspects of their everyday life; students will make connects with things that they have just learned to something they previously knew; students will see that learning a foreign language has connections to their already existent life inside and outside of school


 * Content and Learning Objectives:**

History of Paris Significance of Paris throughout history Culture of Paris City vocabularly Past tenses in French Prepositions Giving and recieving directions to navigate around the city Politness and cultural rules for speaking to others City life including night life Tourism in a big city Parisian city life vs small town life Comaprisan vocabularly Francophone cultures-making connects and realizing differences


 * Students will be expected to perform the following activities:

Navigate their way around the city- giving and recieving directions, working with prepositions Create a fairytale of their childhood as a Parisian infant Give the history of a certain Paris monument or place Perform a skit regarding politness in various contexts Research a Francophone country and present finding to the class