Devoirs pour la semaine du 30 janvier au 3 février 2012

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• Devoirs pour vendredi 3 février: 
CC: Cultural Festival : Continue your research and composition of your project. Make sure to read aloud your writing to evaluate its impact. The English version is due on Monday.

Grammaire: Finish your story - Remember you need about 15 verbs. Proofread your story to make sure your choice of tense (imparfait vs. passé composé) is accurate AND that your verbs are well conjugated. If you had class with Anou review your verb conjugation (Petit Contrôle).

• Devoirs pour jeudi 2 février: 
CC: Cultural Festival : Continue your research and composition of your project.
Grammaire: Do ex. page 7 (passé composé vs. imparfait)

• CC: Cultural Festival : Start composing your paragraphs and/or gather more information. It is important to collect information you need for this project early on to take advantage of our class time for composition.
Grammaire: Passé-composé vs. Imparfait - Do ex. 7 p. 5 of the "Imparfait" packet.

• Parlons! : Go over your lines if your group still needs to be filmed (unfortunately, many of students left their scripts in the classrooms).

• CC: Work on your research for Cultural Festival - Write topic sentences for each of your "chunk" (meaning sections), and start filling out information you have. If you need to interview someone for your project, this week-end might be a good one. Remember to gather anecdotes (particular stories) to illustrate a situation (how difficult / scary / dangerous something was). Start collecting your visuals (photos / newspaper clips / medals / insignia / ....).

• Parlons! : Go over your lines if your group was not able to be filmed on Friday (unfortunately, many of students left their scripts in the classrooms). 

Ecrit: Edit your paragraph of solutions. Make sure to apply what we went over on Friday: at least 4 sentences (topic - how/why/examples - conclusion) - Click here to review our examples.

Devoirs pour la semaine du 23 au 26 janvier 2012

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Festival Culturel: By Monday, you should have enough information about your project to know what will be the different parts (chucks) of your presentation. Knowing this will help you know where more research is needed, and how to focus your questions. Keep all your information well organized (in your binder).

Skits: Learn your lines, bring props and clothes that are needed for your skit. We will film some Thursday and other Monday. Practice, practice, practice....
 
 • Devoirs pour mardi 24 janvier:
CC: Attention, contrôle sur Rosa Parks et les droits civiques - 

Parlons! Read your script + learn your lines - We will start filming the scenes on Thursday.


• Devoirs pour lundi 23 janvier:
CC: Finish the crossword puzzle + make sure the booklet is complete, I will collect it on Tuesday.
Grammaire: Ex. 5 and 6 p. 4 - Attention, contrôle sur Rosa Parks et les droits civiques mardi 24.

Parlons! Read your script + learn your lines - We will start filming the scenes on Thursday.

Devoirs pour la semaine du 17 au 20 janvier 2012

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Devoirs pour vendredi 20 janvier:
CC:  Answer question 4 in the worksheet you glued in your notebook today.  Cultural Festival: complete p. 1 and 2 (not 3 and 4!!).

Parlons!: Read the script of your skit, come with questions regarding the vocabulary and possible idea about the "mise en scène" (stagging).


Devoirs pour jeudi 19 janvier:
CC: Finish La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre - Do activities 18 and 19 - Study the vocabulary p. 14 and start the crossword puzzle p. 15.

Ecrit: Study - study the "imparfait" - Do activities 3 and 4 p. 3 and 4.
 
Devoirs pour mercredi 18 janvier:
CC: Read ch. 8 of La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre well (understand the implications) - Do activities 16 et 17 p. 11 et 12.  Learn the spelling of the words p.14 2nd column. 


Ecrit: Finish your essay and/or yellow page (YOU NEED TO TURN THIS IN TOMORROW) - Caleb, Sean, Kirill, you need to submit your work using Google Docs). 
Read the instructions for the Cultural Festival and Fill in pages 1 and 2 for Friday the 20th.


Devoirs pour mardi 17 janvier:
CC: Read ch. 7 of La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre - Do activities 13, 14, 15 p. 8 to 10
Grammaire: Livret "imparfait" - Study how to form "l'imparfait" on the front page, correct ex. 1, 2, 3 p. 2. if necessary and do ex. 1 and 2 p. 3 - Please, do not guess on the forms, check your work using p. 1 as a reference.

Ecrit: Finish your essay and make sure it corresponds to the assignment (4 paragraphs / problem-solution / each solution needs to be elaborate = 3 to 4 sentences, and related to the problem(s) stated). 

Devoirs pour la semaine du 9 au 13 janvier 2012!!!

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Devoirs pour vendredi 13 janvier:
CC: Read ch. 6 of La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre - Answer questions ex. 12. 
Grammaire: Livret "imparfait" - Study how to form "l'imparfait" on the front page and do ex. 1, 2, 3 p. 2.

Ecrit: Work on your essay - Make sure to read well enough to understand your topic. 
 
Devoirs pour jeudi 12 janvier:
CC: Reread first part of La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre (intro to ch. 5) in view of a samll comprehension test (V/F - Multiple choice questions) - Finish the vocab test you did in class if necessary - Re view the vocab p, 14 (first column only).

Ecrit: Start your essay, but make sure your outline is adequate. Makes sure you understand what problem you are presenting and what are the consequences of this problem before suggesting solutions. Also make sure your solution are relevant to the problem you are presenting and that each solution stands on its own.

Devoirs pour mercredi 11 janvier:
CC: Read chapter 5 and do activity 11 p. 7 - Learn vocabulary p. 14 (first column only) - Learn means you can come up with the word, spell it and use it. 


Ecrit: Read the articles again making sure you understand what you have to use. Write your outline using p. 8. Remember that you can use the same sentence Maryse used to conclude her Introduction "La pollution de l'environnement est un grave problème pour lequel il y a plusieurs solutions." 


Devoirs pour mardi 10 janvier:
CC: Read chapters 3 and 4 of La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre - Do activities 8, 9, 10. Start learning the vocab p. 14.

Ecrit: Read the articles you received, underline info useful for your topic and list key works in the tag of the new form you received today. Key words will help you see the relevance of the information for your paper.

Devoirs pour lundi 9 janvier:
CC: Read chapters 1 and 2 of La femme qui ne voulait pas se soumettre - Do activities 4, 5, 6, 7 - (if you didn't complete activities 1, 2, 3 in class, make sure to do so - These questions relate to the introductory chapter).
Vocabulary given at the beginning of each section in the packet is to help you understand the text better. Vocabulary to learn and memorize is listed on page 14. Make sure to learn a few words as you read each chapter. Learning vocabulary words means you can come up with the word, use it in your own sentences and write it correctly. For instance if one asks you what was the profession of Rosa Parks' father, you need to say "Il était charpentier" - You also need to be able to write something like "Un charpentier construit des maisons en bois. Il construit la charpente des maisons" to show you understand the word.

Ecrit: Reread the topic you have chosen (pollution de l'eau ou pollution de l'environnement) to make sure you understand what you task is. Read some of the articles you received in class, and start highlighting / underlining information that might be useful to write your paper. You will have more time to do this task in class. You are not expected to read ALL the articles by Monday.

IMPORTANT: If you haven't submitted your work from the audio book, make sure to bring it on Monday. The list of students (9) who have yet to turn in their work is on the board.