Course Type :University Preparation
Credit Value :1.0
Prerequisite :Grade 11, Core French, (FSF3U)

Course Description

Core French Grade 12: This course provides extensive opportunities for students to speak and interact in French independently. Students will develop their listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills, apply language learning strategies in a wide variety of real-life situations, and develop their creative and critical thinking skills through responding to and interacting with a variety of oral and written texts. They will also enrich their understanding and appreciation of diverse French-speaking communities, and will develop skills necessary for lifelong language learning.

Outline of Course Content

Unit

Titles and Descriptions

Time and Sequence

Unit 1

La Francophonie

In this introductory unit, students will review prepositions of place, and vocabulary related to “La Francophonie”, the French-speaking world. Students will practice listening skills, and will research and present on a Francophone country.

27 hours

Unit 2

Vivre ensemble

Students will explore and reflect upon controversial societal issues, and partake in various activities throughout this unit. Students will read journal articles and the novel Une bouteille dans la mer de Gaza, listen to news reports, share opinions, and write a critical summary of the novel.

27 hours

Unit 3

Les rapports sociaux dans la communauté

This unit focuses on community issues. It integrates poetry and calls to social action. Students will express their opinions in a poem at the end of the unit, and they will also create a persuasive campaign to inspire others to help those less fortunate.

27 hours

Unit 4

Les arts et la culture

With the help of discussion, a song, a visit into the cave of Lascaux, and a reading, students will reflect on the different ways humanity expresses culture through art. Students will give an oral presentation on a work of art, and express their interpretations.

27 hours

Total

110 hours

Core French Grade 12: When students are engaged in active and experiential learning, they tend to retain knowledge for longer periods and to develop, acquire, and integrate key skills more completely. Some of the teaching and learning strategies that are suitable to material taught in nutrition and health studies include:

Food Labs

Guided internet research

Direct Instructions

Presentations

Discussion Groups

Movies and videos

Interactive activities

Research projects

Model making

Visuals

Multimedia presentations

Reflections

Problem solving

Discussion groups

Interviews

Our theory of assessment and evaluation follows the Ministry of Education’s Growing Success document, and it is our firm belief that doing so is in the best interests of students. We seek to design assessment in such a way as to make it possible to gather and show evidence of learning in a variety of ways to gradually release responsibility to the students, and to give multiple and varied opportunities to reflect on learning and receive detailed feedback.

Assessment is a systematic process of collecting information or evidence about a student’s progress towards meeting the learning expectations. Assessment is embedded in the instructional activities throughout a unit. The expectations for the assessment tasks are clearly articulated and the learning activity is planned to make that demonstration possible. This process of beginning with the end in mind helps to keep focus on the expectations of the course. The purpose of assessment is to gather the data or evidence and to provide meaningful feedback to the student about how to improve or sustain the performance in the course. Scaled criteria designed as rubrics are often used to help the student to recognize their level of achievement and to provide guidance on how to achieve the next level. Although assessment information can be gathered from a number of sources (the student himself, the student’s course mates, the teacher), evaluation is the responsibility of only the teacher. For evaluation is the process of making a judgment about the assessment information and determining the percentage grade or level.

Assessment is embedded within the instructional process throughout each unit rather than being an isolated event at the end. Often, the learning and assessment tasks are the same, with formative assessment provided throughout the unit. In every case, the desired demonstration of learning is articulated clearly and the learning activity is planned to make that demonstration possible. This process of beginning with the end in mind helps to keep focus on the expectations of the course as stated in the course guideline. The evaluations are expressed as a percentage based upon the levels of achievement.

A variety of strategies are used to allow students opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and at the post-secondary level of study. To facilitate learning, the teacher uses a variety of activities engaging the whole class, small groups, and individual students.

The assessment will be based on the following processes that take place in the classroom:

 Assessment FOR Learning Assessment AS Learning Assessment OF Learning
During this process the teacher seeks information from the students in order to decide where the learners are and where they need to go.During this process the teacher fosters the capacity of the students and establishes individual goals for success with each one of them.During this process the teacher reports student’s results in accordance to established criteria to inform how well students are learning.
ConversationConversationConversation
Classroom discussionSelf-evaluationPeer assessmentClassroom discussionSmall group discussionPost-lab conferencesPresentations of research Debates
ObservationObservationObservation
Drama workshops (taking direction) Steps in problem solvingGroup discussionsPresentationsGroup Presentations
Student ProductsStudent ProductsStudent Products
Reflection journals (to be kept throughout the duration of the course)Check ListsSuccess CriteriaPractice sheetsSocrative quizzesProjectsPoster presentations TestsIn Class Presentations

Some of the approaches to teaching/learning include 

StrategyWhoAssessment Tool
Assignmentsteacherrubric or marking scheme
Oral Presentationsself/peer or teacherrubric
Work & Task Sheetsself /peer or teacherchecklist or rubric or marking scheme
Textbook Useself or teacherchecklist
Teacher Led Reviewself/peer or teacherchecklist
Performance Taskself/peer or teacherrubric
Written Quizteachermarking scheme
Written Testteachermarking scheme
Performance Taskteacherrubric or marking scheme
Final Projectteachermarking scheme

Core French Grade 12: Assessment is a systematic process of collecting information or evidence about a student’s progress towards meeting the learning expectations. Assessment is embedded in the instructional activities throughout a unit. The expectations for the assessment tasks are clearly articulated and the learning activity is planned to make that demonstration possible. This process of beginning with the end in mind helps to keep focus on the expectations of the course. The purpose of assessment is to gather the data or evidence and to provide meaningful feedback to the student about how to improve or sustain the performance in the course. Scaled criteria designed as rubrics are often used to help the student to recognize their level of achievement and to provide guidance on how to achieve the next level. Although assessment information can be gathered from a number of sources (the student himself, the student’s course mates, the teacher), evaluation is the responsibility of only the teacher. For evaluation is the process of making a judgment about the assessment information and determining the percentage grade or level.

The assessment will be based on the following processes that take place in the classroom:

Assessment FOR LearningAssessment AS LearningAssessment OF Learning

During this process the teacher seeks information from the students in order to decide where the learners are and where they need to go.

During this process the teacher fosters the capacity of the students and establishes individual goals for success with each one of them.

During this process the teacher reports student’s results in accordance to established criteria to inform how well students are learning.

ConversationConversationConversation

Classroom discussion Self-evaluation Peer assessment

Classroom discussion Small group discussion Post-lab conferencesPresentations of research Debates
ObservationObservationObservation
Drama workshops (taking direction) Steps in problem solvingGroup discussionsPresentations Group Presentations
Student ProductsStudent ProductsStudent Products
Reflection journals (to be kept throughout the duration of the course)
Check Lists
Success Criteria
Practice sheets
Socrative quizzes
Projects
Poster presentations Tests
In Class Presentations

Core French Grade 12: Assessment is embedded within the instructional process throughout each unit rather than being an isolated event at the end. Often, the learning and assessment tasks are the same, with formative assessment provided throughout the unit. In every case, the desired demonstration of learning is articulated clearly and the learning activity is planned to make that demonstration possible. This process of beginning with the end in mind helps to keep focus on the expectations of the course as stated in the course guideline. The evaluations are expressed as a percentage based upon the levels of achievement.

A variety of strategies are used to allow students opportunities to attain the necessary skills for success in this course and at the post-secondary level of study. To facilitate learning, the teacher uses a variety of activities engaging the whole class, small groups, and individual students.

Some of the approaches to teaching/learning include

Strategy

Purpose

Who

Assessment Tool

Class discussion

Formative

Teacher/student

Observation Checklist

Class Debates

Formative

Teacher

Rubric or marking scheme

Daily class work

Formative

Teacher/student

Observation Checklist

Assignments

Summative

Teacher

Rubric or marking scheme

Written test

Summative

Student

Marking scheme

Project

Formative

Teacher/student

Marking scheme

Final written exam

Summative

Teacher/student

Marking scheme