Learning Experience Plan

Learning Experience Plan
Subject: French
Grade level: Checkpoint A
Unit: Poetry
Day/periods: Day 2 of 5 day plan
Topic: Love letter by Victor Hugo
Content Standards:
Standard 1: Students will be able to use a language other than English for communication.
Key Idea: LISTENING & SPEAKING are primary communicative goals in modern language learning. These
skills are used for the purposes of socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal
feelings and opinions, and getting others to adopt a course of action.
Performance Indicators--Students will:
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Checkpoint A
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comprehend language consisting of simple vocabulary and structures in face-to-face
conversation with peers and familiar adults
Key Idea: READING & WRITING are used in languages other than English for the purposes of
socializing, providing and acquiring information, expressing personal feelings and opinions, and getting
others to adopt a course of action.
Performance Indicators--Students will:

Checkpoint A
o
understand the main idea and some details of simple informative materials written for
native speakers
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compose short, informal notes and messages to exchange information with members
of the target culture
Standard 2: Students will develop cross-cultural skills and understandings.
Key Idea: EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION involves meanings that go beyond words and require an
understanding of perceptions, gestures, folklore, and family and community dynamics. All of these
elements can affect whether and how well a message is received.
Performance Indicators--Students will:

Checkpoint A
o
use some key cultural traits of the societies in which the target language is spoken
Literacy Standards:
4. Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate
to task, purpose, and audience.
5. With some guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by
planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and
audience have been addressed.
9. Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Learning Experience Outcomes
Students will:
- Learn how to summarize a letter.
- Practice reading in French for
comprehension.
- Learn a piece of culture by becoming
familiar with Victor Hugo.
Learning Experience Assessments
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Introduce the outline to summarize a letter.
Read the letter from Victor Hugo and
translate what they need to.
Summarize what they have read using the
outline stated above.
Differentiation
Approaching
On-level
- Allow use of dictionary
- Allow use of dictionary
and textbook.
only
- Ask peers and teacher
- And some help from
for help.
peers and teacher.
Curriculum Integration - English Language Arts
Materials/
Resources
Procedures/Strategies
Beyond
- No use of a dictionary and
mild help from the teacher.
Day 1
Blackboard
Sponge Activity (activity that will be done as students enter the room to get them into the mindset of the concept to be
learned)
Write a summary of the poem “Demain dés l’aube” by Victor Hugo that we discussed
yesterday in class.
Dictionary
Anticipatory Set (focus question/s that will be used to get students thinking about the day’s lesson)
How do we summarize a Letter?
Textbook
Activating Prior Knowledge (what information will be shared with/among students to connect to prior
knowledge/experience)
What do we know about Victor Hugo and his take on love according to our experience with
his poetry? Can you make any predictions of what a love letter from him might deal with?
Direct Instruction (input, modeling, check for understanding)
Love Letter
by Hugo
--Write on the board and explain the outline to construct a summary of a letter:
Summarizing a Love Letter:
1. Who is writing the letter and to whom?
2. How did the letter open?
3. How did the letter progress?
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Did he state facts?
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Did he make a request of the person he is writing to?
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What feelings were expressed?
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Were any plans made?
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Where any decisions made?
4. How did the letter conclude?
--Hand out the love letter by Victor Hugo:
Lettre d’amour de Victor Hugo à Léonie Briard
» Samedi – trois heures du matin.
Je rentre. J’ai ta lettre. Cette douce lettre, je l’avais lue aujourd’hui dans tes yeux. Que tu
étais belle tantôt aux Tuileries sous ce ciel de printemps, sous ces arbres verts, avec ces lilas
en fleurs au-dessus de ta tête. Toute cette nature semblait faire une fête autour de toi. Voistu, mon ange, les arbres et les fleurs te connaissent et te saluent. Tu es reine dans ce monde
charmant des choses qui embaument et qui s’épanouissent comme tu es reine dans mon
coeur.
Oui, j’avais lu dans tes yeux ravissants cette lettre exquise, délicate et tendre que je relis ce
soir avec tant de bonheur, ce que ta plume écrit si bien, ton regard adorable le dit avec un
charme qui m’enivre. Comme j’étais fier en te voyant si belle! Comme j’étais heureux en te
voyant si tendre!
Voici une fleur que j’ai cueillie pour toi. Elle t’arrivera fanée, mais parfumée encore; doux
emblème de l’amour dans la vieillesse. Garde-la; tu me la montreras dans trente ans.
Dans trente ans tu seras belle encore, dans trente ans je serai encore amoureux. Nous nous
aimerons, n’est-ce pas, mon ange, comme aujourd’hui, et nous remercierons Dieu à genoux.
Hélas! Toute la journée de demain dimanche sans te voir ! Tu ne me seras rendue que lundi.
Que vais-je faire d’ici là ? Penser à toi, t’aimer, t’envoyer mon coeur et mon âme. Oh! de ton
côté sois à moi! à lundi! — à toujours ! »
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TRANSLATION:
Love letter from Victor Hugo to Leonie Briard
"Saturday - three in the morning.
I go. I have your letter. This sweet letter, I had read in your eyes today. Sometimes you were
beautiful Tuileries under the spring sky, in the green trees, with those lilac flowers above your
head. All nature seemed to have a party around you. You see, my angel, trees and flowers
you know and greet you. You are queen in this charming world of things fragrant and bloom
as you are queen in my heart.
Yeah, I read in your eyes this lovely letter exquisite, delicate and tender that I read tonight so
happily, that your pen writes so well, your eyes with a lovely charm tells me drunk. How
proud I was when I saw you so beautiful! Because I was happy when I saw you so tender
Here is a flower I picked for you. It will happen faded but still fragrant, sweet emblem of love
in old age. Keep it, you'll show me in thirty years.
Thirty years you'll still beautiful, in thirty years I'll still love. We love him, do not you, my
angel, as today, and we thank God on their knees.
Alas! All day Sunday without seeing you tomorrow! You do not wilt be made on Monday.
What will I do in the meantime? Thinking of you, love you, send you my heart and soul.
Oh! On your side be mine! On Monday! - Always! '
--Read it once aloud to the class and have the students listen. Then, read it a second time and
allow them to start answering the questions from the board.
Guided Practice (how students will demonstrate their grasp of new learning)
--Using the answered questions from the board, summarize the letter written by Victor Hugo
in 5 to 6 sentences.
Closure (action/statement by teacher designed to bring lesson presentation to an appropriate close)
Now we can understand more fully the style of Victor Hugo as well as how to summarize a
text in a different language, specifically a letter.
Independent Practice (what students will do to reinforce learning of the lesson)
For Homework, try to write your own love letter in the style of Victor Hugo.
STUDENT SAMPLE:
Summarizing a Love Letter:
1. Who is writing the letter and to whom? – Victor Hugo is writing it to Léonie Briard.
2. How did the letter open? – He says that he has received Leonie’s letter.
3. How did the letter progress? –He says how much he loves her.
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Did he state facts? –He says how she is the queen of his heart.
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Did he make a request of the person he is writing to? –Keep the flower he gave to her as
an emblem of love.
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What feelings were expressed? –Pride in her beauty and happiness to be with her.
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Where any decisions made? –He will see her again on Monday.
4. How did the letter conclude? –He is thinking of her and tells her that he sends her his heart and
soul.
Summary:
In this letter Victor Hugo is writing a letter to Léonie Briard. He is writing this letter in response to a
letter he received from her. He goes on to say how much he loves her and that she is the queen of
his heart. He asks her to keep the flower he has given her as a symbol of their love. In the letter,
Hugo expresses his feeling of pride in her beauty and his happiness to be with her. The letter
concludes when he says that he sends her his heart and soul and he will see her again on Monday.