Grade 12 - French-Language Film and Literary Studies

Big Ideas

Curricular Competencies

Content Learning Standards

Linguistic variations offer cultural reference points within the Frenchspeaking world.

The life experience, culture, and current context of the audience influence the interpretation of a text.

The exploration of texts reveals the depth and complexity of human life.

The cinematographic and literary works of a society reflect its principles and values.

Linguistic and cultural identities are shaped by what we hear, see, read, and write.

Use language and cultural knowledge to reveal their identity within the French-speaking world

Analyze the influence and importance of social, historical, and cultural contexts as well as diversity in approaching texts

Interact with Francophones and have life experiences in the French-speaking world

Compare the roles that stories and the oral tradition play in Francophone and First Peoples cultures

Examine a problem statement from the perspective of Francophone and First Peoples cultures in order to understand the issues

Interpret the sound effects, music, and images in cinematographic works to identify implicit and explicit messages

Compare their personal values and points of view with those expressed in a text in order to call into question their opinion

Identify the type and intention of a text

Exercise critical thinking, clarity, and coherence in responding to texts

Apply appropriate strategies in a variety of contexts in order to understand a text

Interpret the role of characters in a text

Communicate using a variety of expressions and presentation formats according to the context

Synthesize ideas and information gleaned from a text

Support their message using techniques from various sources

Modify their communication by applying enrichment strategies in order to polish their text

Correct themselves spontaneously by applying their linguistic knowledge

Select writing processes and design methods to plan, develop, and create interactions and texts for a variety of purposes and audiences

Select various styles of elocution in their oral communications in order to create the desired effect

communication strategies<ul><li>language registers</li><li>taking the floor</li><li>courtesy formulas</li><li>verbal and non-verbal</li></ul>

social, historical, and cultural elements<ul><li>protocols for using First Peoples stories</li></ul>

literary elements<ul><li>stylistic devices</li><li>semantic field</li><li>expressions</li><li>cinematographic techniques</li></ul>

text organization<ul><li>structure of texts</li></ul>

language tools<ul><li>structure of relative subordinate</li><li>verb tenses and modes</li></ul>

editing strategies

elements to enrich a text<ul><li>clarity</li></ul>