For me this summer was a time to travel, reflect and attend some excellent PD. The two pieces I have been thinking about are how to work movement more into my teaching and how to address topics that honor the different parts of the world where French is spoken.
I would love to share with you a lesson for starting the year with continuing French students on music in the RDC, while making progress on my two goals. Here they are:
To understand all of my ideas, find some hints in the “speaker notes” section of the slides. Please let me know if this lesson works for you in your classroom. I would love to learn from your experiences and exchange thoughts on teaching!
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3 responses to “Summer learning: Movement and Francophone countries”
Génial !! Merci!
This looks excellent. I love the cultural comparisons and the video of Katie seems quite comprehensible even for novice learners. Merci bien!
I’m just getting to this, but wow! What a thoughtful and beautiful lesson you have created and shared. I am going to use this with my FR II students this year. Last year when they were level I I did a superficial “Musique mercredi” of my own design. They have been asking for more music, and this is so rich and much more global than I have done in the past. Thank you so much. It is greatly appreciated. I simply could not create anything like this by myself. After visiting Senegal this summer, I am looking at everything I do in the classroom though a different lens. This absolutely fits the bill.