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FRENCH - Eighth
Grade
Mrs.
Swanson
Textbook
Nouveaux
Copains Harcourt
Brace Jovanovich
Objective To enable the student to work toward a proficiency in the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Overview
Oral
communication continues to be stressed and at this point entire class periods
are often conducted entirely in French. The units are topics near and dear to
the students‚ hearts: get-togethers with friends, parties, movies, and
shopping. Enrichment is provided through audio cassettes, video tapes and movies
to improve the students‚ listening skills, and supplemental books to improve
reading skills. In addition to writing more compositions, the students show
their creative talents in the poems and little books they write and then share
with the lower school. In the spring they plan and enjoy a French meal they have
prepared.
Expectations
and Grading
Learning
a second language is a building process that requires being an active listener
and a willing participant. Vocabulary and grammar learned from previous chapters
continues to resurface. Students are expected to participate in all class
activities and should come to class prepared with textbooks, binders, and
workbooks. While new vocabulary is reviewed in many different ways in class,
students are expected to review again at home every night. Weekly quizzes are to
be carefully corrected and signed.
Homework
should take no more than 20 to 30 minutes.
There
will be a quiz e very, alternating a vocabulary quiz and a sentence quiz
applying the grammar learned in that section. Quizzes and class work will
account for 70% of the overall grade. While homework is usually not graded,
unless otherwise specified, it often serves a practice and preparation for
upcoming quizzes. Oral participation in class will account for the remaining 30%
of the overall grade.
Contact:
Pswanson@saintjamesacademy.org
or
leave a message with the office and I will return your call as soon as possible.