L2+Unit+3

French
Contrast of Simple agreement of past participle with être and common pronominals

Spanish
[|http://www.miscositas.com]. It has stories and lesson plans in French, English, Spanish, and other languages, along with options for either reading a story as an electronic book (page by page) or watching the story and hearing it narrated. One great story to use is media type="youtube" key="AtkeNM1B1Ko" height="187" width="252"


 * "Gringuito" a Chilean film about a boy who moves back to Chile with his family after growing up in New York--works well as part of Unit 2 or Unit 3 because students can compare elements of his life and that of the fruit vendor he befriends, along with narrating his rather colorful adventures in Santiago.
 * "Road to El Dorado" animated Pixar film about conquistadors looking for gold in the New World. Great springboard for exploring how legends begin and how they connect to real-life events.

__Instructional Strategies__

 * Examine and discuss different types of narration: myths and legends, folk tales and fables, & personal anecdotes or stories. Identify elements of each in terms of the types of characters, whether they serve to entertain, to explain how something came to be, or to teach a lesson.
 * Read-aloud of "Ana's Story", the true story of a girl in the Caribbean who deals with the challenges of poverty, education, family instability, and the fact that she was born HIV-positive. After I read one section aloud (in English) each day, the students write a one-sentence summary of what happened in that section of the story. Gradually, they create a full summary of the entire novel.