Final+Project

__**Final Project**__

__Title__: //Le Français : Une Langue Répandue// // : Saying 'Bonjour' to the Francophone World // __Instructor__: //Paul Degenkolb // ﻿__Wikispace__: http://cdfdegenkolb.wikispaces.com

__Essential Questions__: Why should you learn French? Why is it useful? Where is it spoken, and why is it so widespread? What makes French a global language? (This lesson, while geared toward introductory French students, could be adapted for higher-level courses. Where appropriate, I have included resources that could be implemented in different ways according to the level of the course.)

__State Frameworks__: [|Commonwealth of Massachusetts Frameworks - Foreign Languages] __Communication__: 1.1, 1.2; __Cultures__: 4.5, 4.6, 4.7; __Comparisons__: 5.2, 5.3; __Connections__: 7.1; __Communities__: 8.1.

__Content Objectives__: Students will be able to name and locate French-speaking countries around the world, discuss uses and importance of language learning to their academic, personal, professional and social life, and review of introductory conversational skills.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Literacy Objectives__: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿Reading for information, researching and using raw information in creating original work.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Technology Objectives__: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿Learning basics of various online tools, including Wikispaces. Promoting internet appropriateness / etiquette for students when posting responses to their classmates online.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Assessment of Student Outcomes__: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Measured through check-ins (informal and formal using "cruising clipboard" methodology), small and large group discussions, checking homework and classwork assignments, reading student postings online, final projects.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Planned Activities__: Think-Pair-Share, KWL on French-speaking world geography / identifications, video viewing and responses in small groups, brainstorming of ideas why students in Malden should learn French, discussion of applications to other areas of study (see accompanying list), study of songs and sounds, etc.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Strategies, including those promoting 21st Century skills__: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Collaboration with teacher and classmates (see strategies used in assessment section above), using Wikispaces, My Google Maps, Wordle* and Mindomo, Prezi or Glogster. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">* Wordle could be used by higher-level French students in a more in-depth look at the French speaking world in conjunction with [|TV5 Monde] articles and resources.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__When will space for inquiry be made?__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will be allowed to explore interests and compare thoughts and perceptions in class. Ultimately, they will be expected to choose a country of interest and pursue research in order to learn more about it.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"><span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__When this lesson will be taught__: In mid-September.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Mini-Unit Breakdown**__:

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Day One**__ __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿Tout de suite __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">: Completion of Student Survey, including biographical information, hobbies, linguistic background, questions about technology availability and access at home and in the community and reasons for taking the course. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Lesson Objectives__: Students will be able to articulate multiple reasons for taking French and have a basic idea of the prevalence of the French language throughout the world. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Activities__: 1) Teacher will present the following mind map, highlighting its features and different sections and throwing discussion back to students for each section: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">media type="custom" key="10524016" <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2) Students will be prompted with several questions: //Do you think learning a language is important? Why or why not? How could learning a foreign language enhance your career? What about your intellectual and personal life? Why do you think the French language is so widely spoken? Can you think of historical reasons for its prevalence throughout the world?// <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3) Students will continue with a video presentation from the textbook series introducing the French-speaking world and its citizens. They will have a chance to continue practice of greetings, introductions and sharing basic biographical information while also learning strategies to listen for information while completing written and speaking exercises connected to the video. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4) Devoirs (Homework): Students will be asked to study the map of the French-speaking world in their textbook and locate three facts about five of the countries where French is spoken.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Day Two**__ __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tout de suite __: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Students will share their findings with their //camarade de classe// using their homework. <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Lesson Objectives__: Students will be able to locate and identify countries, provinces, regions and territories where French is used. They will also gain an understanding of the concept of //Francophonie// and its connection to the once vast French Empire. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Activities__: 1) Introduction of //Francophonie//: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; line-height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden;">﻿media type="youtube" key="c1vuo1TgqkY" height="315" width="560" <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[|Organisation internationale de la Francophonie]

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2) Class discussions and map identification activity using My Google Maps: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=213422264204702428078.0004a9f4a60bba4ff9a9d&hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=m&vpsrc=0&ll=28.635944,-30.366211&spn=43.419033,84.638672&output=embed" width="425" height="350" <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3) Explanation of My Google Maps. Student creation of their own maps using countries researched in previous night's homework assignment. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4) Choose a French-speaking country and find out five key facts about its history. Create a map on My Google Maps labeling three key features of the country found in research. Identify three basic sources.

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__**Day Three**__ __<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tout de suite __: <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How could learning about a new country open doors? <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Lesson Objectives__: Learning how to use Prezi, Glogster or Mindomo to create an interactive virtual project about a French-speaking country. They will then post these to their own individual Wikispaces (this year, I am only phasing in Wikispaces at my upper-level courses, but I plan to gradually implement it at lower levels so that my students are //mostly// working virtually rather than in traditional paper notebooks over the next year or two). <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">﻿<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">__Activities__ : Students will work in pairs to research and create an interactive project about a French-speaking country, region or territory. Projects will be shared pair-to-pair, where students will essentially be teaching and later assessing one another on knowledge relating to their country or region of interest. Here is a sample Glogster with very basic tourist info on Martinique: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">http://projetapm.wikispaces.com/Introduction