| AP French Language
COURSE TITLE: Advanced Placement French Language
LENGTH OF COURSE: One Year
TYPE OF CREDIT: Foreign Language (10 credits, weighted grade)
PREREQUISITES:
A Grade of "C" or better in Advance French or
teacher recommendation
TEXTBOOK:
REPRISE: Essential Grammar Review, National Textbook Company, 1998, ISBN 0844214515
Moments littèraires: Anthology for Intermediate Courses, Bette G. Hirsch & Chantal P. Thompson, ISBN 0-669-21521-X
Graded French Reader, Deuxième Etape, Fourth Edition,
Camille Bauer, Houghton-Mifflin, 1992, ISBN 0-669-20463-3
SUPPLEMANTAL MATERIAL LIST:
How to Prepare for the AP Examination: French, Barron's Educational Series
Journal Français d'Amérique
Grammare du français contemporain, Larousse
Le Monde
SUPPLEMENTAL READING LIST:
Novels:
Une si longue lettre, Bâ
Pierre et Jean, Maupassant
Candide , Voltaire
Plays:
Le Mariage de Figaro, Beaumarchais
La Guerre de Troie
n'aura pas lieu, Giraudoux
L'Ecole des femmes, Molière
Poetry:
"Le Pont Mirabeau"
"Les Colchiques"
"Mai"
"Automne," Apollinaire
"Correspondances"
"Hymne à la Beauté"
"L'Invitation au voyage"
"Chant d'automne"
"Spleen," Baudelaire
"On voit mourir toute chose animée,"
"Je vis, je meurs: je me brule et me noye,"
"Oh si j'estois en ce beau sein ravie,"
"Las! que me sert, que si parfaitement," Labé
"Les Animaux malades de la peste,"
"Le Chêne et le Roseau,"
"La Mort et le Bûcheron,"
"Le Loup et l'Agneau," La Fontaine
"A Marie"
"Ode à Cassandre"
"A Hé1ène," Ronsard
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course is designed to further develop student's communicative abilities in French. The course will emphasize the use of French for active communication including listening, reading, speaking, and writing activities in preparation for the AP French Language exam. Teachers will use a variety of techniques to further develop the students' abilities in the knowledge of the target language. The primary course emphases will include, but not be limited to: 1) Reinforcement of students' comprehension of formal and informal spoken French; 2) Acquisition of vocabulary and linguistic structures to facilitate the easy, accurate reading of newspaper and magazine articles as well as modem literature; 3) Composition of expository passages; 4) Oral expression of ideas; and, 5) increased study of the target culture.
BOARD ADOPTION DATE: August 1, 2001.
Interpersonal Communication
Standard 1.1: Students engage in conversation, provide and obtain information, express feelings and emotions and exchange opinions.
Interpretive Communication
Standard 1.2: Students understand and interpret written and spoken language on a variety of topics.
Presentational Communication
Standard 1.3: Students present information, concepts and ideas to an audience of listeners or readers on a variety of topics.
Practices of Culture
Standard 2.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the practices and perspectives of the culture studied.
Products of Culture
Standard 2.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between the products and perspectives of the culture studied.
Connecting with other Disciplines
Standard 3.1: Students reinforce and further their knowledge of other disciplines through the foreign language.
Accessing Information in the Target Lang
Standard 3.2: Students acquire information and recognize the distinctive viewpoints that only are available through the foreign language and its cultures.
Language Comparisons
Standard 4.1: Students demonstrate an understanding of the language through comparisons of the language studied and their own.
Cultural Comparisons
Standard 4.2: Students demonstrate an understanding of the concept of culture through comparison of the cultures studied and their own.
School and Community
Standard 5.1: Students use the language both within and beyond the school setting.
Personal Enrichment
Standard 5.2: Students show evidence of becoming lifelong learners by using the language for personal enjoyment and enrichment.
Career Applications
Standard 5.3: Students engage in activities, which prepare them to use the target language to attain career goals
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