Grade 11 - Langue et Culture de la Francophonie

Langue et culture de la francophonie 11

Curricular Competency

Content

Big Ideas

Exploring and Reflecting

Creating and Communicating

Communicating and living in French fosters a sense of belonging to the Francophone community.

Linguistic variations offer cultural reference points within the French-speaking world.

Learning French helps students establish their place in the world and forge their identity by opening doors in their personal, social, and work life.

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

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

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

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

Understand the role bilingualism plays in their life in order to facilitate decision-making in their personal and working life

Interpret a text to identify explicit and implicit messages

Grasp the importance of social, historical, and cultural contexts in approaching various texts

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

Examine diverse points of view in Francophone and First Peoples cultures

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

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

Recognize the type and intention of texts

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

Develop a critical mind, clarity, and coherence in responding to texts

Evaluate the acquisition of new knowledge concerning a text

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

Sustain a spontaneous discussion by sharing relevant ideas

Persuade or convince their audience by using appropriate strategies

Paraphrase ideas and information obtained from a text

Substantiate their message using techniques from diverse sources

Use various writing styles in their work in order to enrich the text to create the desired effect

communication strategies

language registers

taking the floor

courtesy formulas

social, historical, and cultural elements

traditions and customs

protocols for using First Peoples stories

literary elements

stylistic devices

semantic field

expressions

text organization

structure of texts

language elements

structure of impersonal sentences

verb tenses and modes

dialects

idiomatic expressions

editing strategies

elements to enrich a text

clarity

persuasion