French 3 · Week 5 · Raconter sa vie
L'odeur du café
Students read a childhood memory inspired by "Dany Laferrière's L'odeur du café", set with his grandmother in Haïti, and write a sensory memory of their own.
- Students will
- Students read a childhood memory inspired by "Dany Laferrière's L'odeur du café", set in Haïti, notice the "imparfait" and "passé composé", and write a sensory memory of their own.
- SEL skill
- Listen to a classmate's memory and describe what it might mean to that person
- What it looks like
- Students appreciate how a memory from another life connects to their own.
- Content focus
- Reading a memory inspired by "Dany Laferrière's L'odeur du café" in the past tenses
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how other people see things and feel, including people whose lives differ from yours. More social awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- WL.CM1.I: Communication Standard 1, Interpretive Communication (Intermediate range)
- WL.CL2.I: Cultures Standard 2, Cultural Products, Practices, and Perspectives (Intermediate range)
- WL.CL3.I: Cultures Standard 3, Cultural Comparisons (Intermediate range)
- National (ACTFL World Readiness): Cultural Comparisons, Interpretive Communication, Relating Cultural Products and Practices to Perspectives
- Proficiency range: Intermediate
More social awareness activities for French 3
- Il était une fois Social awarenessStudents retell a Leuk le lièvre tale from Sénégal with the right past tenses and discuss how the clever hare's choices affect others.
- À ta place Social awarenessStudents read advice column letters from Francophone teens and respond with "à ta" place, imagining the writer's feelings first.
- Les mots qui blessent Social awarenessStudents analyze online comments with "ce qui" and "ce que", "ce qui me blesse", "ce que je voudrais entendre", and rewrite them with respect.
- Les droits des jeunes Social awarenessStudents read articles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and discuss what young people everywhere need "pour que" they can thrive.
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