Grade 9 French Immersion
9 units matched to the BC Curriculum.
Big Ideas
- Improving communication skills in a language helps us define ourselves and affirm our ideas.
- Language is a cultural tool, the common thread of knowledge and values.
- Studying a text on different levels allows the various meanings to be brought to light.
- Literature reflects the reality of society at the time and its questions and preoccupations.
Units
Unit 1
Registres et exposés oraux
Registers of language (colloquial, standard, formal) and speaking to an audience: intention, organization, clarification and explanation.
Learning standard: Communication strategies: registers of language; speaking to an audience (intention, organization, clarification, explanation)
Unit 2
La fable
Characteristics of the fable (moral, literal and figurative meaning, manners and customs), using an original fable.
Learning standard: Literary elements: characteristics of the fable (moral, literal meaning, figurative meaning, manners and customs)
Unit 3
Le roman et ses personnages
Characteristics of the novel (modes of narration, function of characters, point of view, setting) and character portrayal (physical and psychological).
Learning standard: Literary elements: characteristics of the novel; text organization: character portrayal (psychological and physical)
Unit 4
Les figures de style
Stylistic elements: personification, metaphor, alliteration, comparison and hyperbole.
Learning standard: Literary elements: stylistic elements (personification, metaphor, alliteration, comparison, hyperbole)
Unit 5
La séquence descriptive
Descriptive sequences: introduction, central subject with aspects and sub-aspects, conclusion; enriching a text with varied vocabulary and types of sentences.
Learning standard: Text organization: descriptive sequences; elements to enrich a text (varied vocabulary, types of sentences)
Unit 6
Les temps du passé
Choosing among the passé composé, imparfait and plus-que-parfait, and making past participles agree.
Learning standard: Language elements: agreement of past tenses: passé composé, imparfait and plus-que-parfait
Unit 7
Les pronoms compléments
Direct pronouns (me, te, se, le, la, les) and indirect pronouns (me, te, nous, vous, lui, leur, y, en).
Learning standard: Language elements: pronouns used as direct and indirect object complements
Unit 8
Les phrases hypothétiques
Hypothetical sentences with si: matching the tense after si with the tense of the result.
Learning standard: Language elements: hypothetical sentences
Unit 9
Passé simple et plus-que-parfait
Using the pluperfect (plus-que-parfait) tense and recognizing the simple past (passé simple) in stories.
Learning standard: Language elements: using the plus-que-parfait tense and recognizing the passé simple
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