Instructional Session 19
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to… Beginner: say words or phrases in French to retell a story about a character that the class made Intermediate: say sentence in French to retell a story about a character that the class made Advanced: say a series of connected sentences in French to retell a story about a character that the class made, giving details to describe the characters’ internal AND external traits and sensory details about the setting, and using transition words to say more
Preparation: The Guided Oral Input strategy you will be using today is a Class Story, using a One Word Image character that the class created as the main character. During Cycle One Phase Three, if you followed the suggested instructional sequence, you built up a bank of two or three One Word Images. You will want to select one of the class’s characters prior to class as the “star” of the story you will create in this lesson. If your artists created a drawing on paper, you can use the artwork as a “costume” for your actors during the class story and the Video Retell today. a collection of One Word
Building up a bank of One Word Images and selecting the “star” of today’s story If you have not already developed two to four characters and artwork in the lesson(s) you taught using Session 11, you might want to cycle back to that session and spend a day or three making some additional One Word Images, so that you have a few from which you can formally select one that is well-loved and fun for the class as the star of your first class story. Waiting until the class has several characters before starting your first story is an important point here. You want the first story to go swimmingly, and since characters and artwork are the foundation of the story’s success, you will want to have several characters to choose from, to maximize your chances of telling a whizbang story that captivates student interest and sets them up for engaging, creative fun. A very important consideration is to choose the character for the first story with great care. You want a character that the class likes, one whose artwork is visually appealing, and who also (very importantly) lends itself to the creation of a strong problem to solve.
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