The lesson plan
I had intially posted an assignment I plan to do a bit later with my French III class, but later decided to improve a blog assignement I had previously done with my French I class. Since I will be using the lesson this week with French I , thought it would be better if I could provide actual feedback by my students. I'll be adding a new post to update this lesson later in the week.
The actual lesson plan is on my blog I use with my students. When I first started blogging I made a category for teachers, but I find it more beneficial to keep the student and teacher posts in a separate place.
Embedded below is the lesson plan I updated for the Blog Based assignment. I found that the process of lesson writing was very recursive. I had to edit the lesson plan several times while I was creating the post for my student blog. I'll update it again when I actually use it with my students.
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The student instruction page
Here is the link to the post the students will use:
http://mmehenderson.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/02/french-i-je-voudrais-rencontrer.html
I ran into some formatting problems when I was creating the post, so there may be some difference in the fonts and sizes of fonts. I also tried to highlight everything that was a direction with the color red to make it easier for the students to see exactly what the directions were.
My other blogs
When I started my blog a year ago, I started with one general blog. I quickly learned I needed different blogs for different projects/classes. As I became more familiar with embedding and creating posts, I had my students to become student authors and they could do their own embedding. Here are my student blogs:
Mon Enfance - My French II class was working on narrating in the past with the preterite and imperfect and their created a collage of childhood memories and a comic book of what life what like when they were younger. They presented both the collage and the comic book in French using the Smart Board to aid the presentation.
Bon Voyage-My French III class had traditionally done a travel project with a scrapbook and last year I migrated the scrapbook to blog posts. This was not an easy task... In an ideal situation I would have had all of the posts created before I got started, but it was not possible to do so. Now that I have student samples I know what to modify for this year.
Chevaliers 3 Projets- My French III class has a separate blog for their assignemnts. I create a link from the main blog to the French III blog whenever they have an assignment. This week I started a wiki with both French III and French AP to facilitate collaborative writing.
Les Meilleurs AP- My French AP class reads the play, "Au Revoir Les Enfants." This blog is for their projects relating to the novel, World War II, and France Under Occupation.
Nos Projets 4 My French AP class members had to create a French identity and find an appartment in France. This is the blog for their assignements and projects. As mentioned earlier, I have recently started a wiki with French AP to facilitate collaborative writing.
