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French I Honors
French Current Events
- You will choose one news/current event article per week on France or the French-speaking world.
- Paste these into a notebook and write a one paragraph summary in your own words about the article.
- You will turn these notebooks in the first week of class. (minimum 10 entries/articles)
- The assignment will count towards your term I grade.
French II Honors
Journals
You will keep a weekly journal in French in a notebook.
(20 entry minimum) 6-8 sentences per entry
Use a variety of verbs and topics. Notebooks will be collected and graded the first week of school as part of your Term I grade.
Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- What is something you dislike about yourself?
- What is something you do well?
- What is your favourite room in your home and why?
- What is your favourite time of day?
- What is your idea of a boring evening? (boring=ennuyeux)
- What is something you are optimistic about?
- What is something you are pessimistic about?
- What is your most indispensable possession and why?
- What is your favourite song and why?
- What is the best birthday present you ever received?
- What is something that makes you feel sad?
- What is your favourite book and why?
- What is something that really bugs you?
- What is something that really makes you angry?
- What is your favourite holiday? What makes this holiday special?
- What is your favourite day of the week?
- What is your favourite month? Why?
French III Honors
Journals
You will keep a journal in French during the summer (in a notebook).
Minimum of 25 entries (8-10 sentence minimum per entry)
Use a variety of verbs, tenses and topics.
Notebooks will be collected and graded the first week of school as part of your Term I grade.
Here are some suggestions to get you started:
- Write about a disappointment.
- Write about a time you had to communicate with someone you couldn't understand.
- Did you ever win or lose a contest?
- Write about something you desperately wanted as a kid.
- Did you ever run away from home? How far did you get?
- Write about the best attic or basement you've ever been in. Describe it.
- Did you ever know someone who had "everything"?
- Write about a time as a child when you played in one of the following: a treehouse, a cornfield, a construction site, a junkyard, an abandoned house or barn, a stream, a cemetery, a pasture, railroad tracks.
- What did you do to amuse yourself as a child when you had to wait for a long time? (for instance, at the doctor's or dentist's office)
- Did your mom or dad ever make you wear something you hated?
- What was the earliest you ever got up in the morning? the latest you ever stayed up?
- Write about a time you were talked into something and regretted it.
- Were you ever in a helicopter, limousine, race car, hot-air balloon, submarine, or horse-drawn carriage?
- Did you ever forget something extremely important?
- Were you ever accused of something you didn't do?
- Write about a disastrous trip or vacation.
- Were you ever give a responsibility you couldn't handle?
- Write about becoming disillusioned with someone you admired or respected.
- Describe the best concert you ever attended.
- Did you ever make friends with a wild animal?
- Did you ever save someone from getting hurt?
- Did anyone ever save you from getting hurt?
French IV Honors
Le Petit Prince
Read The Little Prince (get text from Ms. O), take notes on the reading and answer the attached questions in your notebook. (To be handed in the first week of class and will count as part of your term I grade.)
Le Petit Prince.doc
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