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GRADE 10
FSF2D
– Core French, Grade 10, Academic
1 CREDIT
The Grade 10 French course invites you to explore the many faces of the Francophone world. through
such themes childhood memories as what people eat, the stories they tell, food and the music they
create and the way they celebrate. Basically, you will find out what it means to be a Francophone. You
will spend a lot of time telling, listening, reading and watching stories since it’s the best way to gain
a better appreciation of other people. As the French novelist Marcel Proust said: “The real voyage of
discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” And so, you will see things
differently through conversations about your discoveries and through improvisations where thinking on
your feet and putting yourself into someone else’s shoes are the name of the game. This course also
deepens the skills you learned in Grade 9 French so that you can speak and write more like a native
speaker. By the end of the course, you will be able to describe your own childhood stories, navigate
your way through Francophone menus, cuisines, and traditional festivals, imagine and describe your
dream home, use French teens’ lingo in conversation and, like Dr. Phil, help other people solve their
problems. Along the way, you will read short stories, magazine articles and two novels meeting such
interesting characters as Nicolas and his gang of endearingly mischievous friends, the timeless and
heart wrenching characters of Victor Hugo’s
Les misérables
, enigmatic Petit Prince and a teenaged
psychologist named Ariane who has a few issues of her own to solve.
Prerequisite: FSF1D – Core French, Grade 9, Academic or FSF1P – Core French, Grade 9, Applied
GRADE 11
FSF3U
– Core French, Grade 11, University Preparation
1 CREDIT
Learning a language is learning to function with different worldviews. Grade 11 French invites you to
develop your skills with analysis and empathy. This goal is met best when classmates, who feel at ease
with one another, learn from each other through discussions. As a class, we will determine together
how best to build the learning community the class wants. Along the way, you will play word games
and explore things you love in French; write in a variety of forms from letters to essays; and read
poems, stories, two novels, a play, multiple news articles and historical documents. You will prepare a
speech or memorize a poem, keep a listening journal, read a novel independently and play the role of
a character in a play in a few different contexts. To help you in all of these tasks, you will learn to use
more sophisticated language tools as you refine your ideas on the themes of language play, imagining
a different reality, knowing the other and moving toward freedom. You will review all simple verb forms
before adding the compound forms, and you will master the 50 most frequently used verbs in all their
forms. Similarly, you will review pronoun forms from previous grades before adding new pronouns,
which will allow you to express ideas with a wider range of nuance.
Prerequisite: FSF2D – Core French, Grade 10, Academic