Orientation Assignment –French 11

• Please read each portion of the orientation assignment carefully. This

assignment must be completed in full before you are placed in the
regular class.

Part 1- Your Personal Information

*This portion of the assignment must be completed in full!

Your Name
Phone Number
Your Address

Your Email Address

Your Parent/Guardians Email
Address
Your PEN Number (your Personal
Education Number from your report
card)
What school are you currently
attending? * If you are not
attending a school you must meet
with a counselor before beginning
this course!
Have you completed French 10?
What was your French 10
Grade?
Do you have any special needs?
If so, do you have an IEP?
Are you of Aboriginal ancestry? If
so, please provide band name.
First Language
Country of Birth * If you are an
international student, you must
meet with a counselor before
beginning this course!

Is all the information that you

provided above correct and
truthful? Please answer Yes or
No.

Part 2: Course Information: Please read the following information

with regards to your course.

Prescribed Learning Outcomes

 Welcome to French 11 Orientation! Please review the Ministry of
Education’s Prescribed Learning Outcomes for French 11:
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/irp/cfrench512/apa11lo.htm

Resources
All resources for this course will be on-line.
Assessment
There are 3 face-to-face tests in this course that include a written,
spoken, reading and listening component .Please note that tests are
worth 55% and assignments 45% of your final mark. 10% of the
assignment mark will be based on a portfolio of your work to be
submitted at the end of the course. You must pass the Exams in order
to pass the course. There is no Provincial Exam for this course. If there
is an unusual discrepancy between the assignment marks and test
marks, VLN reserves the right to use only the test scores as a final
evaluation for the course. There may be the option of writing an exam
called DELF, which is a test of French that is internationally recognized.
Successful completion of this test will allow you to have a diploma.

More information on the portfolio assignment and the DELF will be

given to you.

Part 3: Course Outline and Timeline

To help you formulate your timeline, it is important for you to look at the
VLN school calendar for important dates such as term deadlines, holidays
etc. You can view the calendar by clicking on the following link:

• http://vln.vsb.bc.ca/studentServices/calendar/calendar.htm

In this course, you will be completing at least 7 units. As the course is

still under construction, the topics for each unit will be announced as
we proceed. Using 120 hours as a guideline, devise a schedule which
outlines how you intend to cover the course material (please note that
all online courses must be completed by June 7, 2010 at the latest):

Course Topics/Modules Approximate Date You Intend to

complete the
assignment/midterm/quiz.

Start Date- The Day You Enrolled

Unit I
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Exam I – When do you plan to
write this exam?
Exam II-When do you plan to
write this exam?
Exam III-When do you plan to
write this exam?

Part 4: The Orientation Assignment

A. Questions personnelles 10 marks (for complete answers to the

questions below- 2 marks each)

You may answer these questions in French or English.

1. Explain why you are taking French 11 on-line. What mark did you
receive in French 10? When did you begin your study of French?
Where did you study French? Which French textbooks have you used in
the past?

2. What do you know about your language learning style? How do you
study for a language course? Do you learn best by writing things
down, listening?

3. What did you like most in your past French classes? What did you like
the least? What were you best at? What was the most challenging
aspect of learning French?

4. When taking an on-line course, you must be organized and motivated.

You must also be willing to ask questions when you don’t understand
something. How will you organize yourself and motivate yourself to
complete the assignments?

5. Describe what you know about countries in the Francophone (French-

speaking) world.

Expression écrite

Answer the following questions in French.

1. Qu’est-ce que vous avez fait pendant les vacances? (au moins 50
mots) (12 marks)
Assignment Expectations
You will be expected to:
• Introduce yourself honestly – your teacher wants to get to know you!
• Use your creativity and imagination. Remember to put as much effort
into this assignment as possible.
• Write to the best of your ability. You should write clearly and in full
sentences. Remember to proofread your work.

How Your Assignment Will Be Marked

• This rubric shows how your assignment will be marked. This rubric is
taken from the Performance Standards, as provided by the BC Ministry
of Education. Don’t panic if you don’t remember all of your French.
You will have a chance to correct any mistakes in this paragraph once
you are in the course.

Rating Criteria
Outstanding Goes beyond the requirements of the task to demonstrate
extended learning or new applications. Takes risks with
language, sometimes making errors when attempting to
express complexities or subtleties. Information is clear,
6 relevant, accurate, and logically organized. Includes credible
reasons and explanations. Wide range of vocabulary and
idiom supports message and enriches expression. Errors in
language do not detract from meaning.
Strong Information is clear, relevant, accurate, and detailed. Includes
credible reasons and explanations to support views. Uses a
range of useful vocabulary, idiom, and structures, with some
repetition. May include some structural and tense errors, but
5 these do not obscure meaning.
Competent Information is clear, relevant, and accurate. Presents some
detail to support views, but links between ideas may be weak
in places. Structures tend to be repetitive, and there are few
transition words, resulting in a lack of flow. Vocabulary and
4 idiom tend to be basic and concrete. May include errors in
tense or structure, but meaning is clear.
Developing Information is relevant and accurate, but may be unclear in
places. Presents some detail to support views, but links
between ideas may be weak or confusing. May misuse or omit
transition words. Vocabulary and structures tend to be basic
3 and repetitive. May include errors in tense, structure, and
occasionally, in spelling (indicating the student did not use a
dictionary or other resources to check his or her work), but
these do not seriously affect meaning.
Underdevelope Attempts to address the topic. Presents some accurate
d information, but some of the supporting detail may be
 confusing, irrelevant, or inappropriate. Vocabulary tends to be
basic and repetitive with little appropriate use of French
idiom. Errors in tense, structure and spelling may make it
2 difficult for the reader to understand meaning in places.
Transition words may be omitted or misused. The writing
tends to be choppy, repetitive, and lacks a sense of logical
organization.
Requirements Information or message is unclear, incomplete, or
Not Met inappropriate. May be very short. A large number of errors
may make it impossible for the reader to understand the
writer's view.

Ok, I am done the assignment, what do I do now?

• First step is to SAVE AS and name the file
YourName_Orientation.doc
• Next step is to upload to the DROPBOX in your Orientation Classroom.
• The teacher will then mark your assignment, provide you with
feedback and then add you into the regular course. Note: The
classroom you will be added to is not the same classroom as
the Orientation Classroom.