Becky's+lessons

French 4H lesson on the Victor Hugo poem "Le Retour de Russie"--historical connection, guessing meaning/category of new vocab words. I was proud of this lesson so I posted it...enjoy!
 * Week of February 22-26, 2010:** This week I modified and used the French 5AP social welfare lessons I wrote this summer. They went well. I also worked on building advanced vocabulary and having the freshmen use it in their writing.
 * Week of February 8-12, 2010:** A Jigsaw lesson I used with my freshmen. It was the first time I used a Jigsaw with this group. It worked well and they liked it.
 * Week of February 1-5, 2010:** A French 4 lesson on building vocabulary and then using advanced vocabulary to improve writing and a lesson on using reading strategies to address Regents passages.
 * Week of January 11-15, 2010:** A French 2 lesson introducing indirect object pronouns having them organize cards to make simple sentences and then reorganize them with the indirect object pronouns to make them more complex/interesting.
 * Week of January 4-8, 2010:** Two French 4H lessons. One reviews the connection between 19th century history and art and asks them to write an art critique as an art critic of that time period. The other is a writing in rounds activity having them rewrite simples sentences to make them more complex.
 * Week of December 14-18, 2009:** French 2 lesson using pronouns to change syntax and make sentences more complex/interesting.
 * Week of December 7-11, 2009:** French 4 lesson using poems to teach relative pronouns and writing poems with relative pronouns.
 * Week of November 30-December 4, 2009:** French 2 lessons using cognates to "discover" new vocabulary, and linguistic correspondances
 * Week of November 16-20, 2009:** This is a lesson using rounds of re-writing a paragraph to improve it. I don't remember if the technique has a real name but the students loved it and I think their subsequent essays were better because of it.
 * Week of November 9-13, 2009:** Attached are 2 lessons: 1. French 4H lesson using the paraphrasing techniques to work on writing and use of pronouns and 2. French 2R/H lesson developing and expanding picture stories with advanced vocabulary and transition words.[[file:November 9-13 Fr4, 2 lessons.docx]]


 * For the week of November 2-6, 2009** I used the French 4H lessons I prepared over the summer on fables (see below). I did this with the fable "La Poule aux oeufs d'or". The students liked it. It was a fun and different way to approach the fables, the vocab and the grammar as well as the application/analysis of the fables.

Literacy lessons from October 26-30, 2009. French 2R/H, sports vocabulary Literacy lessons from October 26-30, 2009. French 5AP, proverbs Literacy lessons from October 19-23, 2009. French 2R/H, freshmen, food and irregular verbs Literacy lessons from October 5-9, 2009. French 5AP vocab and cultural comparison of house/home and dining pratices Below are two lessons from September-October 2009 using literacy strategies in my freshman and AP classes. Enjoy! Below are the files for my first lesson plan. This lesson is introducing Le Petit Prince to my level 4 class. Below are the files for my second lesson. This is an AP lesson comparing and contrasting social welfare systems in France and the US and drawing cultural conclusions. Below are the files for my third lesson. This a French 2 lesson (freshmen) working on technology vocabulary and reading strategies. Specifically, the students are working on the long Regents passage for which the questions and answers are in French. Below are the files for my fourth lesson. This is a French 4H lesson teaching French fables. I read multiple fables at this level so I wrote this lesson so that it could be used for any fable. Below is the lesson plan for my fifth lesson. This is a French 2 lesson working on travel vocabulary, the past tenses and reading strategies. Specifically, the students are working on a long Regents reading passage for which the questions and answers are in French. It also practices with the Regents graphic story. All the "text" sources can be found in the June 2006 and June 1999 French Regents exams.