Instructional Session 30
Objective: By the end of class, you will be able to… Beginner: say sentences in French to give information in French about the Grand Est region of France, using contentspecific vocabulary Intermediate: say a series of connected sentences in French to give information in French about the Grand Est region of France, using content-specific vocabulary, and using transition words to say more Advanced: say well-organized paragraphs in French to give information in French about the Grand Est region of France, using content-specific vocabulary, and using transition words to say more
Preparation: The Guided Oral Input strategy you will be using today is a Mind Map. This strategy is used to process the information from the Expert Group Pages. You will first process the class’s shared Expert Group Pages on the first subtopic (the Grand Est region, in the example lesson), and then, when students are finished working with their Expert Group to read, highlight, and sketch/copy (as modeled in Session 29), they will complete a group Mind Map to record and reinforce their learning on their group’s subtopic (Normandy, Corsica, or Nouvelle-Aquitaine, in the example materials). The class mind map is like a Vulcan mind-meld of everyone in class, except you do not have to have Vulcan Powers. You will us the information based on what we have all just learned. You might want to make the mind map ahead of time, or you could talk your class through the process while making it on an overhead, on chart paper, or on the board, as students replicate the Mind Map on their own paper. You could also just have students watch as you create and fill in the Mind Map, as you lead the class discussion. The subtopic that you learned and read about as a class will go in the middle of the Mind Map. Draw a shape in the middle - whatever shape and color you assigned to the subtopic when you set up the Process Grid, and then draw lines off the central topic and draw the shapes that you chose for each of the Shape and Concept Categories on “sticks” or lines radiating out from the subtopic. Each one of the categories correspond to one of the paragraphs in the Expert Group Pages you read as a class.
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