Instructional Session 11
Objective: By the end of class you will be able to… Beginner: write sentences in French to describe a character that the class makes and write longer sentences using transition words to say more Intermediate: write two or more sentences in French to describe a character that the class makes, using transition between sentences to say more Advanced: write a paragraph in French to to describe a character that the class makes, using transition words to say more and organize your paragraph
Preparation You will most likely want to assign students the task, either for homework or at the end of class during one of the lessons in this session (Session 11), of submitting a picture of one of their heroes to the class slideshow, to use in Session 12, Heroes Picture Talk.
Today, you will create a One Word Image. This is a process in which you create a character with the class, starting with one word, in the stronger shared language, to give the “species” of the character, e.g. a burrito, or a cookie, or a flower, or a pig. Most students and teachers really enjoy making these characters, and so you will most likely want to make at least two or three before moving on to the next session. There are a couple of options (and probably more that I don’t know about yet) for creating these adorable One Word Images ma
de in a slideshow
characters.
You can make a One Word Image “from scratch,” simply imagining that it is there in the classroom with you and your class, and asking questions to establish its size, color, emotional state, personality, etc. When making the character “from scratch,” most teachers have their class artist(s) draw the character as the class decides on its details.
One Word Image made “from scratch” in class
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