Hopewell Middle school

French Beginners, Continuing and Connections

Parent Information

Dear Parents:

                 I am so privileged to be part of your child’s experience at Hopewell Middle School. I’ll be teaching 6th grade connections, 7th Grade beginning and 7th grade continuing French. If there is something that will help every student in every class, I’d say it would be participate in class and practice, practice, practice.

                 Once again, we will be using the Discovering French, Nouveau!-Bleu program. Of course, each program will be using different parts of the book and be proceeding at different pace considering the level of experience.

                 As the students learn the basics of French pronunciation, he or she will also learn to greet people introduce themselves, say where they are from, introduce family, relatives, and friends. In addition, your student will learn to count to one hundred, give his or her age and find out someone else’s age. For those that will be continuing from 6th grade, we’ll review some of the basics and then delve deeper into the material to increase their fluency. Middle School French is designed such that one year of high school French will be completed by the end of eighth grade.

                 The Bleu program will focus on authentic culture and real-life communications in French.  We will practice reading, writing, listening and speaking. By comparing French language and culture to their own culture and community, students will gain a deeper understanding of the similarities and differences that exist between the them.

Welcome!