French Advanced: Completion of French Intermediate 4.
AP French Language & Culture: B+ or higher in French Advanced and department recommendation.
In French Advanced and AP French Language & Culture courses, students will explore the French and Francophone world through the following units: of relationships and choices, new technologies and social media, the influence of fashion, voluntary work, French heritage, contemporary life, and environmental issues. The students will continue to develop their interpretive interpersonal and presentational skills through authentic texts. They will apply new vocabulary and language functions gained from various authentic materials to further develop their language proficiency by asking and answering follow-up questions, exchanging information, making conversations, dealing with unfamiliar situations, and discussing and collaborating in group settings. Students will demonstrate what they can do through a variety of real-life related tasks. Students in AP French Language & Culture course must sit for the AP exam in May of the year in which they receive AP designation on their transcripts.
Students will:
- Discuss families in different societies.
- Understand the influence of language on culture and identity.
- Comprehend the influences of beauty and art.
- Analyze how science and technology affect our lives.
- Contrast the factors that impact the quality of life.
- Describe environmental, political and societal challenges.
- Write well-constructed grammatically correct emails and persuasive essays based on sources.
- Review grammar to improve accuracy in written and oral assessments.
- Express ideas in both the oral and written mode with accuracy and fluency.
- Have a simulated conversation in French.
- Compare cultural or social artifacts in the student’s own community with artifacts in France or in a Francophone country.