QUIA Class Practice Website

College Credit

Students enrolled in Français 3, Français 4 or Français 5 have the opportunity to earn transferable UMSL college credit for these PHS classes. Please see the UMSL links to the left.  

Scholarship For Attending UMSL Post-High School 

Students who complete   Français 3, Français 4 or Français 5 for college credit through UMSL are eligible to apply for a scholarship to attend UMSL after high school (see link to the left).

Reviewing For French Class

At the link to the left called QUIA and More , there are three helpful QUIA practice websites. The Français 3 and Français 4 QUIA links are review pages which are tailored to review the current unit in each class, while the Passé Composé page is available all year for extensive review of every aspect of this tense.  Additonally, the links on that page for Tex's French Grammar lead to a fabulous website from the University of Texas/Austin, which provides review for every aspect of French grammar: tenses, adjectives, nouns, articles, prepositions, etc. 

Language and Culture Resources for Class

Students will find numerous language-related resources and culture-related resources using the links on the pages I have created for those purposes.

Summer Packet and Review

Students planning to enter Français 4 each year have a required summer packet to prepare them with new vocabulary which will be needed as we begin our first unit.  A few extra copies will be available over the summer in my mailbox in the main office.  There will be a test over this vocabulary in the first two weeks of school.

Students entering Français 3 each school year are expected to have a very comfortable working knowledge of the passé composé with both avoir and être.  Review before the beginning of the school year is strongly urged, using both the QUIA website for Passé Composé and the Tex's French Grammar (U of Texas) review website (see links to the left). An assessment test will be given in the first two weeks of school. 

French 3 Curriculum & Class Policy

We use several units of McDougal Littel's Discovering French (Nouveau)! • Blanc 2 book, starting with Unit 6, supplemented by teacher-made units on the Passé Simple, Harry Potter, Plantagenet and Capet Historic era and related vocabulary, and Computer/Internet/Email vocabulary.  A more detailed description of course topics is available below for download.  You can also download the class policy, with my contact information and class expectations.

French 4 Curriculum & Class Policy

We use several chapters of McDougal Littel's Discovering French (Nouveau)! • Rouge book, supplemented by teacher-made units on cuisine vocabulary, reading French recipes, Auguste Rodin & Camille Claudel, Romanesque & Gothic Cathedrals, medieval and Renaissance châteaux, tourism, and readings from French online news and blogs. New verb structures include: Subjunctive, subjunctive past, conditional, conditional past, pluperfect, present participles, and past participles as adjectives. A more detailed description of the course is available below for download. You can also download the class policy, with my contact information and class expectations.

French 5 Curriculum & Class Policy

We use several chapters of both McDougal Littel's Discovering French (Nouveau)! • Rouge   and Glencoe's Trésors du Temps   books, supplemented by teacher-made units on a variety of cultural and grammatical topics and readings from French online news and blogs.  Below, you can download the class policy, with my contact information and class expectations, as well as a more detailed description of course topics .

French 4 & 5 Enjoy French Immersion Day and an Art Scavenger Hunt at the St. Louis Art Museum • March 2010 (click the photo for more images)