🥐 Grade 9 French Immersion

Units

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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