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VACCINATON HISTORY AND ISSUES
Jan. 24, 2022—In this lesson plan about vaccination, students will discuss vaccination practices in France, and more broadly in francophone countries. They will understand and be able to hold a conversation about the history and the necessity of vaccines. Students will create and film a vaccination awareness campaign message for social media, as their capstone project. Reading, writing,...
UTELLSTORY: 17 UNITED NATIONS SUSTAINABLE GOALS
Oct. 14, 2020—Students will analyze and discuss the information related to the United Nations 17 Sustainability Development Goals on the “Les Objectifs de développement durable” website. In small groups, they will choose one francophone country and 5 of the 17 United Nations goals. After doing some research, students will use Utellstory.com to illustrate how they would implement...
GIVING ADVICE TO A FRIEND USING PADLET
Sep. 24, 2020—In the first part of the project, students will actively listen to “Eu sei de cor,” embedded in the Padlet link. By actively listening, I mean that students will be prompted to answer 10 short questions while the video is playing to ensure their comprehension of the language used in the song. They can replay...
HISTORY OF THE NIÑOS DE MORELIA WITH PEAR DECK
Sep. 24, 2020—This project uses the interactive slide deck program Pear Deck to teach students about the children of Morelia. The lesson includes interactive maps, embedded YouTube videos, and chronology exercises to teach cultural content, geography, art, and history and check comprehension. It engages the ACTFL world readiness standards of culture, comparison, connections, and communication. Project Overview:...
READING SPANISH LITERATURE WITH VOYANT TOOLS
Apr. 7, 2018—This pre-reading activity uses the platform Voyant Tools to orient students to the vocabulary, tone, and style of literary text. Students generate data with the online program and then make informed inferences based on the most frequent words and the places in which the words appear in the text. With the attached worksheet, students define...