Instructional Session 20
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to… Beginner: say words or phrases in French to retell a story from a French-speaking culture (in this example lesson, medieval France) using. the characters’ own voices to say what they would have thought or said Intermediate: say sentences in French to retell a story from a French-speaking culture, using the characters’ own voices to say what they would have thought or said Advanced: say a series of connected sentences in French to retell a story from a French-speaking culture, using the characters’ own voices to say what they would have thought or said, and using transition words to say more
Preparation: In this session, we return to the Guided Oral Input strategy of Visual Stories. This versatile strategy can be used to narrate any story, with visual support for comprehension. You can either draw the information as you teach, or you can use a prepared series of images, such as a slideshow, to present information to students step by step as the story unfolds. Both options are described at great length in Session 18, where this strategy was first introduced. For a refresher on how to prepare various formats of Visual Stories, please refer to Session 18. If you choose to draw in front of your class to tell the story, then, in order to prepare for Session 21, in which you will use the Thought Bubble Review strategy for Guided Oral Input to review and extend on this story, you might want to take pictures or screenshots of the finished story on the board or paper. You will then be able to use the images from the stories you tell in this session, to retell them in the lessons in the next session, adding the thought and speech bubbles to the screenshots (explained in the next session). The example lesson in this session uses the Visual Story from Cycle Two Phase Three of our curriculum materials, a medieval tale from the French text Le Roman de Renart (The Novel of Renart), a collection of trickster tales about a wily fox named Renart. This episode is “Renart and Ysengrin’s Hams”. You can find this and other Visual Stories from a variety of cultures, in various languages, in our Teachers Pay Teachers store (CI Liftoff), or refer to Session 18 for guidance on how to prepare your own Visual Story using any culturally-significant tale. Now, on to the lesson procedures:
Continue to greet the students in English review expectations, etc., and share the lesson objective. Distribute or project the text. Then, check in with your Class Starter (and perhaps Videographer), and begin the lesson. Page 370
