Foreign+Language

==Subject: Foreign Language  - Grade 8 == 

Curriculum Standards:
Students initiate and sustain spoken, written or signed communication by providing and obtainin g information, expressin g feeling s an d emotions , an d exchangin g opinion s i n culturally appropriate ways in the target language. Students comprehend the main ideas and significant details in a variety of age-appropriate live, written or recorded messages in the target language. Students understand and interpret authentic texts ranging from children’s literature to classical literary texts to articles in contemporary magazines, newspapers and Internet sources. Students present information and ideas on familiar topics to general audiences or readers. 1. Interview others to obtain information about cultural and content related concepts (e.g., school, traditions, the arts). 4. Give and follow a series of oral, signed and/or written requests. 6. Respond appropriately to complex directions (e.g., accessing Internet Web sites, solving multistep mathematical problems). 9. Use information from authentic sources (e.g., primary, secondary) to summarize, make generalizations and draw conclusions. Benchmark I: **Narrate an event, a personal experience or an original story. 10.Report on a past or present event (e.g., Caesar ’ s assassination, major school activity). 13. Apply age-appropriate writing process strategies (prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, publishing). 
 * __Communication: Communicate in languages other than English. __**
 * Benchmark A: **Engage in oral, written or signed conversation on familiar topics.
 * Benchmark D: **Give and follow multistep directions.
 * Benchmark F: **Follow multistep directions.
 * Benchmark H: **Identify a speaker <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msoasciifontfamily: Georgia; msohansifontfamily: Georgia;">’ <span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">s or author <span style="font-family: Times New Roman; msobidifontsize: 11.0pt; msoasciifontfamily: Georgia; msohansifontfamily: Georgia;">’ <span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">s purpose and discuss the main idea, characters and supporting details in a variety of media.
 * Benchmark K: **<span style="font-family: Georgia; mso-fareast-font-family: PalatinoLinotype-Roman; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Apply age-appropriate writing process strategies to publish a document for a range of audiences.

Technology:

 * 25 computers
 * Smartboard in classroom
 * Overhead projector
 * Scanner
 * Word Processing Software
 * Desktop/Multimedia Publishing Software
 * <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.5pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">Drawing/Paint Software

Instructional Technology Skills and Competencies:
<span style="font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-family: Georgia; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.5pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontsize: 12.5pt; msoansilanguage: EN-US; msofareastlanguage: EN-US; msobidilanguage: AR-SA;">
 * Word Processing
 * Copies, cuts, pastes, and moves text, searches and replaces text.
 * Imports and exports data and graphics, merges word processing documents with other applications
 * Drawing/Paint Program
 * Modifies graphics (e.g. resizes, moves, reshapes, recolors, rotates, fills, line widths, stacks, groups objects, smooths, flips, etc.)
 * Imports and exports graphic elements (e.g. clipart - ready made art, digitized images).
 * Desktop/Multimedia Publishing
 * Inputs text and graphics.
 * Designs and modifies layouts.
 * Imports and exports data, video, and audio.
 * Creates multimedia presentations

Description:<span style="color: #76923c; font-family: 'Georgia','serif'; mso-themecolor: accent3; mso-themeshade: 191;">
As part of the content standard, students must fill out a form on vital information about self. They also reflect on one’s own personality traits – what they like and what they need to improve.

The time for the tasks to be completed as below: Before students begin the steps of the project to be completed. Make sure that students have a brief refresher of using Power Point. Also using Microsoft Paint to be able to draw images and paste them in the presentation. ** Steps for the task: ** "Your task is to create an illustrated autobiography. This project will be completed over several months, and each chapter will illustrate and summarize the different topic you are learning about as they relate to your life.  Your first chapter will be called "Moi," and will include the following information, written in complete sentences: (1) your name; (2) your birthday and how old you are; (3) a physical description of yourself, including hair color and length, eye color, and three other adjectives; (4) your top three personality characteristics; (5) two activities you like to do; and (6) two activities you don’t like. Each section should be accompanied by an illustration, and all of this information must fit on one page." [|Click here for a sample presentation]
 * 1 day in class to write text
 * 1 day in class to proofread with peers, make additions and corrections.
 * 2-3 days on the computer to enter text and illustrate it
 * 1 day on the computer to edit, revise, and print out a final copy.

The students’ objective goals should be:
 * Students will understand how to write simple sentences in French using topical, proficiency-based vocabulary.
 * Students will understand how to use technology to create visual representations that accompany their written text.

Supporting Resource:
Using the latest computer software for educational classroom, there are studies that students are using Power Point for their presentation and Teachers are using as their reference to present visual information related to the foreign language. Microsoft has created a updated new PowerPoint software for anyone to use and their website can be found in [] A Foreign Language teacher in Madera High School in Madera, California believed that PowerPoint Presentation breaks a regular routine of listening and reading the materials. He loves the PowerPoint presentation that he was able to create games for students to play to prepare for their tests or doing practice and drilling for exercises. It is easily shown on the board for all students to view and files are easy to create and can be emailed as attachments. Also doing the test presentation, teachers can set their own timer to display pictures of items on the slides to be shown so students can write down the name of each item. Students have different techniques of how to learn vocabulary through same old routine in the past.

** Tried & True or New & Innovative: **
The new and innovative educational teaching tools of using PowerPoint presentation that can easily run on both Macintosh and Windows platforms in classrooms. Even teachers can create files that are small unless many pictures and sounds are added. Teachers may able to create games, quizzes, and other interactive activities even for a large group of students or a small classroom in other countries. However, for years, teachers have being doing the speaking and listening skills with students in any foreign language. The use of PowerPoint in any languages would be a “tried and true” where teachers may need to have knowledge of technology of how to add sounds to the files that students can listen, or making a video that is viewable on the presentation, or compiling with their lesson plans of vocabulary and concept of grammar structures. In conclusion, any good presentations can be used over and over again in the later years and may use in any size of classrooms to be view where every student can be participated. The presentation are easy to obtain, modify, and easy to create into flexible saving techniques into computer technology.