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French Curriculum at Palmer
Grade 8
In French 8, students will practice French verbally and non-verbally, cultural and communicative events that has shaped France culture, vocabulary, literary elements (such as oral practice), reading French text (stories, plays, assignments), and other language elements like subjects and verbs, grammar, gender identification, past and present tense, and more. French 8 is the first year of French that students will take at Palmer, so it is critical that this class is taken seriously if a student wants to keep learning French in the future. French 8 is the building block of learning this language, because it teachers students the basic information needed.
Grade 10
In French 10, students will focus on learning everyday usage-style French and formal French, identifying story elements, vocabulary (adjectives, possessive adjectives, demonstrative adjectives, pronouns), past and present tense, and synonyms and antonyms. French 10 is much harder than French 9, because the class expectations include knowing most French vocabulary and genders of objects. French 10 is a big step forward from previous classes, as it requires students to already have the basic knowledge and communication skills in French. Students are suggested to take French 8 and 9 before this course.
Grade 9
In French 9, students will focus on the French vocabulary and history. French classes will start off by building the student's bases of French such as French letter patterns, which are words in the language that sound alike (au, aux, euo, ô, os, etc.). Then, the students will focus on building sentences with past, present, and future tenses, time frames, noun descriptions (places, people, interests, etc.), basic needs, and share their personal opinions on French topics. Then, moving onto analyzing text, French 9 will learn the types of text and common elements found within text, such as breaking down elements in a French story. French 9 will also teach about the history and traditional practices of France as well as basic cultural appropriation (cultural appropriation is learning about respecting the French culture and their traditions).
Grade 11
In French 11, students learn about debating elements such as convincing / persuasive writing, formal French elements (courtesy, politeness, vocabulary), language devices like French expressions to make writing more enthusiastic or powerful, past and present, and how to achieve clarity. French 11 is beginning to become fairly advanced for students, as the class is one of the final years of highschool. French 11 is basically one of the last courses a student will take for their language skills. By this stage, students should be able to communicate somewhat efficiently.
Grade 12
French 12 is the class for French at Palmer. Students are expected to already know most French learning expectations and be able to hold a everyday and formal conversation with little to no mistakes. Since it is the last year of highschool, the curriculum has advanced to focusing on communication devices like strategies, literary elements, text organization (how to write emails, letters, essays, blogs, script, etc), and manipulation within French (which is playing with words to create another tone or effect in the writing). French 12 is one of the most important classes for somebody who is willing to keep learning the language, as it prepares students for modern-world communication and writing skills. Palmer provides students with extremely effective classes with multiple different courses in French 12 such as:
- Communication orale 12 (Oral Communication)
- Langue et culture de la francophonie 12 (Language and Culture of the Francophonie)
- Médias et communication numérique 12 (Media and Digital Communication)
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