French+Food+-Culture+(Level+1+&+2)

Contributing Teacher(s): Meryl Crowe
Resources: Class notes (from lecture), Hand outs on food culture, Chapter 8 in French 1 book.

Content: Standard 4.2-Students demonstrate understanding of concept of culture through comparison of cultures studied and their own.
===ISTE Technology:2c. develop cultural understanding and global awareness by engaging with learners of other cultures.===

===Introduction/Problem: In this unit, students will learn about, research, and demonstrate their knowledge in the area of study in French on food. Teacher will provide introduction in the form of presenting the topic, giving valuable introductory material and explaining what students should be able to demonstrate as a result of their knowledge. Teacher should develop a substantial list of food words in French on a variety of food categories. These should be given to students to use as a basis for expanding their own work. Teacher should create the dialogue to be used as the performance activity in which the important cultural aspects of restaurant ordering are included. Student research on the topic of French food and French restaurants will be an important part of what they include in their work. In addition, students will be introduced to French cooking and authentic French recipes.===

===Procedures: Introduction of Vocabulary, student research on French food, student input on dialogue when culture is researched, student research on authentic french recipes.Students will use as part of research the google of French cuisine, taking them to wikipedia site where the different provinces are highlighted each giving an explanation of the regional food with a map of regions and colorful pictures. The information found here is valuable for a reinforcement of what the teacher has already introduced. Students will be responsible for taking all of the notes that are important for success. Students will work on any exercises from the book (chapter 8) that relate to what they are doing, what they have researched, as well as to enhance their ability to complete their projects.===

===Student Product/Work:Students will research for their recipes as well as additional cultural information on food and customs with food that are typically French. In the end the students will share their recipes with the class and present their prepared restaurant dialogue that they have researched and prepared.Students will go One Note program in their student machines and use screen clipping under the insert tab to capture the pictures of the food items and clip to add any additional notes from the web into their One Note web book.===

===Assessment/Rubric: Recipe and dialogue success according to the criteria would act as assessment. Students should be demonstrating cultural knowledge as well as functional ability in the language. This will demonstrate several required foreign language skills that allow students to learn to function in the language and how the use of technology enabled them to enhance what they have learned in the unit.===

===Enrichment/Reteaching: As a hands on activity and for the purpose of enrichment, students will prepare the food recipes that they researched and share them with the class. As the food is served, discussion of the various items presented in the unit will be pointed out by the product of their work.===