Instructional Session 17
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to… Beginner: say phrases or sentences in French to retell the story of a good or bad trip someone in class has taken, and add the characters’ thinking and dialogue Intermediate: say sentences in French to retell the story of a good or bad trip someone in class has taken, and add the characters’ thinking and dialogue, details to describe the characters’ internal AND external traits, and sensory details of the setting Advanced: say a series of connected sentences in French to retell the story of a good or bad trip someone in class has taken, and add the characters’ thinking and dialogue, details to describe the characters’ internal AND external traits, and sensory details of the setting, and using transition words to say more
Preparation: You will use students’ slides with pictures and perhaps additional information they added to the slide (for the Slide Talk variation) or cards with sketches (for the original Card Talk strategy) that illustrate personal stories from their lives. In this example, students submit stories of good and/or bad trips they have taken. This slideshow is available to download from our Teachers Pay Teachers store (CI Liftoff), or of course you could easily make your own slideshow. If you want to focus on certain themes or topics (school, careers, travel, activities, coming of age, beauty and aesthetics, etc.) you can “angle” the topic of the stories you ask students to submit, to elicit stories that focus on an aspect of the topic. For example, if you want to address the theme of beauty and aesthetics, you might ask for stories about good and bad experiences with personal beautifcation (e.g. a great haircut, a very unfortunate fashion disaster, or The Worst Hair Day Ever). Now, on to the lesson procedures:
Continue to greet the students in English review expectations, etc., and share the lesson objective. If you have not yet set up your Videographer, I urge you to do so now, as the lessons will begin using the Scaffolded Oral Review strategy of Video Retells in Session 18, the next session in the instructional sequence. See the HR Manual in the Appendices for more information on setting up this and other student jobs. You might make your own Reading Workshop text, use the ones in our Teachers Pay Teachers store, such as the example below, or work with a Shared Writing text from a previous lesson. Distribute or project the text. Then, share the lesson objective if you have not already done so, check in with your Class Starter (and perhaps Videographer), and begin the lesson. Page 313
