Jacqueline Carnes   Course Title: AP French Language Section: 548-1 Objectives: This course is designed so that at it’s successful completion, a student will be able to take the Advanced Placement French Language examination and score at least a 3. All activities are geared toward this goal. Along the way students will be polishing their abilities to speak, read, write and understand French as well as expand their knowledge of French culture and literature. Methods: This curriculum has been approved via the Advanced Placement audit conducted in 2006 -2007 by AP headquarters. Students will be required to do significant work outside of class as they will use on-line resources and self-correcting grammar exercises as they keep up with daily reading and writing activities. Class time will be devoted to discussions, in-class timed writings, oral/ aural activities and taking practice AP exams. The class will end the day before the AP exam is given. There will be a mid-term exam but no final exam. Assessment Procedures: I will follow the absence and make-up policy as found in the Students Handbook. Detention will be given to any student coming to class without his/her own textbook and other necessary items. Late homework will not be accepted but will earn a “0”. Late compositions, presentations etc. will be penalized 10% per day for a maximum of five days and then will earn a “0”. The use of any on-line or mechanical translation device, except dictionaries, will be considered a violation of the honor code. Extra credit will be extended to the entire class from time to time but never to an individual. Extra credit can also be earned by scoring very high (over 50%) on the Grand Concours (National French Exam) that is given early in March. I am available for extra help any day during lunch or activity period. Tests (worth over 50 points) will be announced a week in advance and will be posted on the on-line Test Calendar. Quizzes (20 - 40 points) will be announced ahead of time but will not be put on the test calendar. Pop-quizzes (less than 20 points) may be given at anytime. Compositions, both the original and the rewritten forms, will be graded according to the AP grading system which will be more carefully explained during the first week of school. Grades will be determined by the percentage earned out of the total points possible. I will follow the Shorecrest grading scale as outlined in the Student Handbook. All AP students must take the AP exam in May. Resources Used: Textes: Une fois pour toutes, AP French: Preparing for the Language Examination, Larousse dictionnaire and two novels to be determined. On-line activities will be assigned as extra practice and as enrichment. Content and Pacing: During the first semester we will review French grammar by completing all chapters in the book Une Fois pour Toutes. We will also read various short stories and literary excepts that highlight related grammar structures and enrich students' vocabulary. Students will write several in-class essaies and will work on on-line activities. Duing the second semester we will focus on making recordings as will be required on the AP test, as well as taking portions of released AP tests. Reading, writing and discussion activities will continue. Notes: Voyage en France: Once again this year we will offer our French exchange program with our sister school in Châlons-en-Champagne, France. We are actively recruiting families who wish to host a French teenager in February, then go live with that same student in March. More information about this opportunity will be available at “back to school night” in September and at the first French Club meeting. Although students at this level of study are very independent, if you wish to contact me concerning your child, please do not hesitate to do so via e-mail or by making an appointment with the UD office.