Grade 5 French Immersion
7 units matched to the Yukon Curriculum.
Big Ideas
- Interactions with other people reveal their varied perspectives and thus expose human diversity.
- Fiction presents sociocultural and historical elements that have been adapted and shaped by the author.
- Looking for information in multiple sources provides different points of view and enriches knowledge and vocabulary.
- The interpretation of a text depends as much on its structure and visual presentation as on its content.
Units
Unit 1
Qui, que, où, dont
Using the simple relative pronouns qui, que, où and dont to join two ideas in one sentence.
Learning standard: Language elements: simple relative pronouns (qui, que, quoi, dont, où)
Unit 2
Ne… plus, jamais, rien
Negative forms ne… plus, ne… jamais and ne… rien, and where each word goes in the sentence.
Learning standard: Language elements: negation (ne… plus, ne… jamais, ne… rien)
Unit 3
Les adverbes
Adverbs of time, place, manner and quantity, and what each one tells us about the action.
Learning standard: Language elements: adverbs of time, place, manner and quantity
Unit 4
La ponctuation
Quotation marks, the colon and parentheses used correctly in French.
Learning standard: Text organization: punctuation (quotation marks, colon and parentheses)
Unit 5
La bande dessinée
The features of a comic book: panels, speech and thought bubbles, sound words and how pictures and text work together.
Learning standard: Literary elements: characteristics of the comic book (panels, dialogue, text/image relationship, onomatopoeia, personification)
Unit 6
La biographie
Features of a biography: point of view, dates, quotations, sources and chronological order.
Learning standard: Literary elements: characteristics of the biography; chronological organization; bibliographies
Unit 7
Fait ou opinion?
Telling an objective statement (a fact) from a subjective one (an opinion), an early critical-thinking skill.
Learning standard: Distinguish objectivity from subjectivity in a text
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