Artifact 1: A Grade 7 French lesson that I performed later in the year is another one of my knowledge centered artifacts. This was my favorite lesson taught and I found it to be very effective.
Artifact 2: Lesson
The following is a 30 minute lesson that was done for Grade 7 French immersion that concerned the following strands in the French Immersion curriculum.
A1. Listening to Understand: determine meaning in a variety of oral French texts, using appropriate listening strategies;
A2. Listening to Interact: interpret messages accurately while interacting in French for a variety of purposes and with diverse audiences;
B1. Speaking to Communicate: communicate information and ideas orally in French, using a variety of speaking strategies and age- and grade-appropriate language suited to the purpose and audience;
B2. Speaking to Interact: participate in spoken interactions in French for a variety of purposes with diverse audiences;
Students will be played the following radio emission from Radio Canada and will have to answer the following questions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SgOh6PlVoRw
Sur La Lune
1)
Complétez la phrase
« C'est un petit pas pour l'homme. Mais un ____________________________ »
2)
Qui était le premier humain sur la Lune
?______________________________
3)
L’ordinateur de bord était « aussi gros que _______________________________
»
4)
Comment s’appelait la mission qui a placé le
premier homme sur la Lune
5)
Combien d’humains ont marché sur la Lune ?
_______________________________________________
6)
C’était quand la dernière fois qu’un humain
a marché sur la Lune ?
____________________________________________________________
7)
Pourquoi est-ce que les humains ne sont pas
allés sur la Lune récemment ?
___________________________________________________________________
8)
C’est quoi la date la plus proche à laquelle
les humains retourneront sur la Lune?
______________________________________________________________________
9) En
concernant Mars, la Lune va servir comme quoi ?
Voyage
dans l’espace
1.
Quand est-ce que les jeunes d’aujourd’hui
pourraient aller sur Mars, selon le texte ?
2.
Qui sont les deux astronautes canadiens
mentionnés dans le texte ?
3.
Qu’est-ce que l’exposition « Voyage dans
l’espace » permet aux visiteurs de faire ?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
4.
Comment les visiteurs se sentent-ils lorsqu’ils
entrent dans le laboratoire Destiny ? Pourquoi ?
__________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
5.
Quels défis les humains doivent-ils surmonter
dans l’espace ? Nommez-en au moins deux.
___________________________________________________________________________
Finally students engaged in an open debate concerning the following question
Devrait-on passer plus de temps et d'argent à explorer l'espace ou se concentrer d'abord sur la résolution des problèmes sur Terre?
Should we spend more time and money exploring space or focus first on solving problems on Earth?
This allowed for students to develop their critical thinking skills and was a great hit! I came to see debates as an excelent tool to be used in the intermediate grades. Furthemore it also meet curriculum expectations for French Immersion in
A1. Listening to Understand: determine meaning in a variety of oral French texts, using appropriate listening strategies;
A2. Listening to Interact: interpret messages accurately while interacting in French for a variety of purposes and with diverse audiences;
B1. Speaking to Communicate: communicate information and ideas orally in French, using a variety of speaking strategies and age- and grade-appropriate language suited to the purpose and audience;
B2. Speaking to Interact: participate in spoken interactions in French for a variety of purposes with diverse audiences;
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