French
The French program at Madonna is a core program which means that
students have a French class for a 75 minute period the same as all
their other courses. French is offered at both the “applied” and
“academic” levels and students are required to successfully complete 1
Grade 9 French credit in order to graduate. The program provides
students with opportunities to speak, read, write and listen to French.
In addition to the curriculum, students will be reading stories in a
Literature Circle format as well as reading stories on their own to
encourage them to read French outside of the classroom. At the end of
each unit students are required to complete a Rich Performance Task as
well as write and present a French dialogue based on the grammar,
vocabulary and expressions learned for that unit. Our students are
encouraged to use French when they are in their French class, as our
goal is to make them comfortable communicating basic French with each
other.