117 Pour commencer • C’est où, cette photo? Dans une ville ou dans un village? • Que font ces personnes? Elles préparent à manger ou elles font du sport? Essential Question How do culture, geography, and history affect housing and family roles? Can-Do Goals By the end of this unit you will be able to: •Describe homes and their features • Describe habitual past actions and situations •Discuss chores and appliances • Investigate homes in francophone communities Culture You will learn about: •Housing in France •Housing in West Africa Strategies •Listening: Using visual cues •Reading: Guessing meaning from context •Project: Telling what happened in the past Unité 3 Chez nous Elles préparent à manger. C’est dans un village. Essential Question Go over the Essential Question as a class. Ask guiding questions to facilitate the discussion: How do culture, geography, and history influence housing? What does a home reveal about its owner? How do household chores reflect values and family roles within a culture? Can-Do Goals Review the list of communicative goals with your students. Point out that this lesson will provide them with the tools necessary to achieve these goals. Tell your students that they will learn about housing in Frenchspeaking countries and talk about homes, rooms, and furnishings in Roman-photo, Culture, and Le Zapping. Throughout the unit, they will also learn more about the geography and the culture of West Africa. Pour commencer This photo shows two Senegalese women pounding grain (typically sorghum, millet, or maize) using a mortar and pestle. Ask these additional questions based on the photo: C’est où, ce village? (en Afrique de l’Ouest) Que voyez-vous d’autre sur cette photo? (Answers will vary.) Initiative and Self-Direction Students can monitor their progress online using the activities and assessments on vhlcentral.com. 21st Century Skills SUPPORT FOR BACKWARD DESIGN Forums on vhlcentral.com allow you and your students to record and share text and audio messages. Use Forums for presentations, oral assessments, class discussions, exit tickets, etc. Encourage students to reflect weekly on what they’ve learned about the different cultural elements or dig deeper and investigate on a particular notion. This will facilitate the redaction of their Culture Diary. Unité 3 Integrated Performance Assessment Before teaching the unit, review and share with your students the Integrated Performance Assessment (IPA) and its accompanying scoring rubric provided in the Testing Program. IPA Context: Students discuss houses and write a comparison between a home in the francophone world and their own home. Dossier culturel Throughout the unit, your students will identify and compare cultural realities from the francophone world. These important observations can be added to their Dossier culturel.
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