French 4 and AP · Week 16 · Identités, beauté et esthétique
Le patrimoine qui parle
Students study Gorée and Old Québec as heritage sites that hold painful and proud memories and reflect on which memories a real or imagined family chooses to preserve.
- Students will
- Students use the passive voice and the "plus-que-parfait" to describe heritage sites and to explain what a real or imagined family keeps and passes on.
- SEL skill
- Identify a personal value connected to a family or cultural memory
- What it looks like
- Students notice what they value in their own heritage and how memories of places can carry both pride and loss.
- Content focus
- Passive voice and "plus-que-parfait" to describe heritage sites ("l'île de Gorée, le Vieux-Québec")
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is knowing your own feelings, values, and strengths, and noticing how they shape the choices you make. More self-awareness activities
What you get
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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
- AP French Language and Culture theme: Beauty and Aesthetics
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More self-awareness activities for French 4 and AP
- Mes communautés, mon identité Self-awarenessStudents map the communities they belong to and present which ones shape who they are, opening the year by naming their roots.
- Ce qu'ils avaient vécu Self-awarenessStudents use the "plus-que-parfait" to recount what an older person they know or imagine had done or learned before they were born and reflect on what it reveals about themselves.
- Plurilingue et fier Self-awarenessStudents read testimonies of multilingual young people in Montréal, Bruxelles, and Abidjan and express how speaking several languages shapes their identity.
- Bilan du semestre Self-awarenessStudents write an AP style reflection on the semester, using "si" clauses to name what they would have done differently and what they will keep.
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