Grade 12 - Langue et Culture de la Francophonie

Langue et culture de la francophonie 12

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 discover their identity within the French-speaking world

Evaluate the role that bilingualism plays in their personal and work life

Interpret a text to identify explicit and implicit messages

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

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

Identify the type and intention of a text

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

Exercise critical thinking, 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 discussion by sharing relevant ideas

Persuade or convince their audience by using appropriate strategies

Synthesize ideas and information gleaned from a text

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

Correct themselves spontaneously by applying their linguistic knowledge

Select writing processes and design methods to plan, develop, and create 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

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