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Maria Tobar

Period: 5

Date: 05/19/2022

French 3H End-Of-Year Reflection

It is crazy to think that three years ago, I only knew how to say hello and my name is in French. Junior year has flown by so quickly and it is sad to think that I am almost a Senior in high school. However, I am very happy with the progress I have made this year and I am looking forward to improving my skills next year and pushing myself even further.

At the beginning of the school year, I struggled having conversations with my group mates. I was very shy because I knew no one in class so I held myself back a lot of the time. As the year has progressed, I have become a lot better at working in groups and having conversations with my classmates. I am able to listen to what they are saying, ask follow up questions, and respond back to them. Looking back at my padlet, I was able to see how much my writing has improved and how much more comfortable I have become writing in French. At the beginning of the school year, I was writing basic sentences with not a lot of detail. Now I am able to write longer sentences with more details and include the vocabulary we have been learning. Although I make some mistakes in my writing, I feel more comfortable with making a mistake, looking back at the comments, and then seeing what I did wrong so I can correct it for the next time.

My goals at the beginning of the school year  were to not give up, become more comfortable asking for help if I didn’t understand something, and to work on adding details to my answers. For this semester my goal was to practice my writing skills because I started to notice that I was struggling on spelling certain words and would have a hard time starting the sentences off. As time has passed, I do think that I have met my year goals.  I believe that I have met them because everytime we have conversations with our classmates in the beginning of class I can respond to the check in questions, add details, and answer the follow up question my partner is asking me. In addition, taking two honor language courses was a struggle but I did not give up and I was able to balance my time in order to complete all my work. I have also been more comfortable using academic collaboration or going up to Madame during and after class if I need some clarification. One goal that I didn't meet was my semester goal, which was practicing my writing skills. Although we did some practice in class I felt like I should have been doing more practice outside of class to become more confident in my ability to write in French. My goal has changed because now I want to make it a priority to do some writing practice each week in addition to class time so that I can feel prepared for class and the AP exam.

Taking French this year has taught me that I appreciate having a good challenge. Taking an honors French class was a scary feeling because I didn't know if I would be able to understand anything and I feared that the class would be going too fast. However, that was not the case. The class pushed me to work harder and study even more in order to understand the material and tests. Something I have most enjoyed this year was check ins before class and when learning new vocabulary doing quizlet live. I enjoyed these two things because it was a lot of fun coming together as a class and helping each other get better at French. Personally, I felt like check ins and quizlet live helped me the most when we had to practice the learning skills. Also they were both so much fun because we could talk to each other and the whole class would get super competitive. A project that I am most proud of was a project I did with Mari for National French Week. I was really proud of what we came up with for our hypothetical trip to Montreal because it was one of the first times where we had to do research and put our organization skills to the test. In addition, we also had to make sure it looked professional and that our classmates could understand our video. The strong points of this project was adding details to the video to explain why we wanted to visit each place. We practiced our speaking skills and we made sure that we included visuals to match up with what we were saying.

A couple of things that I have learned about France and other French speaking countries that I will remember and use in other parts of my life are to keep in mind food waste and ways I can help reduce food waste, to always keep an open mind when it comes to other’s cultures and traditions, and that there are always similarities between people even if you don't live in the same country. By taking French I have learned that I love learning about different cultures. I hope to someday travel and learn more about the francophone world and other parts of the world. I have also learned that I love learning a new language because it has been amazing learning how to connect with others through a language. As a student, I have learned that I enjoy taking risks and having a good challenge in front of me. Learning French is not easy but once I let the fear of making a mistake go I was able to enjoy French so much more. I like being tested on my speaking, writing, and comprehension skills because I am able to see how much progress I have made and what are some things I have to go back to.

Since I have been taking both Spanish and French this year, one of the challenges I faced was getting the two languages confused. In addition, sometimes I had a hard time when it came to using vocabulary because it would be hard to prioritize reviewing the words constantly. However, I was able to overcome both these challenges. After the first unit of French, I found it easier to separate Spanish from French and I was even able to use some of the skills we used in French to help me in Spanish. In addition, I learned how to use my time correctly in order to review vocabulary so that I could feel confident in class. I was also able to overcome my shyness and break out of my shell. I started to talk to more of my classmates and even became an officer for the French Honors Society. Learning another language such as French will help me in the future if I want to become an immigration lawyer. I will use my French skills if I ever need to translate or have a conversation with someone who does not speak English. Due to French, I have learned more about other people's culture and have gained the skills of using context clues to figure out something if I don't understand, how to have conversations and hold them, and practice active listening. Next year I am looking forward to preparing myself for the AP exam. I am also looking forward to our National French Week project and planning activities for Mardi Gras. Lastly, I am excited to see the growth I have made since French 1. I know that it is going to be a lot of hard work but I am ready for next year and learning more skills and learning more about the francophone world.

Padlet Link: https://padlet.com/mtobar23/410pvpzwf2rjcdpk

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1. Le art impressionniste, il y a la composition asymétrique et leurs traits de pinceau visibles.

2. Gauguin aime la vie primarité et les couleurs brillantes.

3. My favorite artist was Van Gogh because of the bright colors he uses and how he uses light in his artwork.

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1. Je vais au centre commercial avec mes amis.

2. J'ai appris la mélodie et le rythme de la chanson parce que c'est intéressant.

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Roxanne goes to visit Cyrano and tells him that she likes Christian’s and wants Cyrano to protect Christian. Cyrano talks to Christian and Christian starts writing letters to Roxane.

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Au début du film, il y avait carácters sont à théâtre pour regarder une pièce.

Ensuite, nous avons rencontré les personnages (characters) suivants: Cyrano, Roxane, Christian, et Monfluery.

Enfin, cyrano avoir offense parce qu’il nez.

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I think that our group felt a lot more confident for the listening and reading. The conversation was fun but we had a hard time coming up with things to say for 2 minutes. Overall I am happy with how everything came out.

Next time I will definitely spend more time studying the quizlet for the speaking portion because incorporating the vocab into the script was really helpful.

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1. Je veux faire un liste quand je alle a la supermarche.

2. When Iw as working with my group something that worked well was dividing up the reading so that each person could understand and then explain it to the group. Next time we could improve on all pitching in for answers because I feel like we all felt nervous to answer wrong.

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1. From the orange video I understood that even though fruit or vegetables may not be perfect on the outside what matters is if it good on the inside.

2.  Non, nous n'achetons pas de fruits ou de légumes imparfaits parce que nous voulons que nos légumes durent plus long temps.

3. Suggestions:

1. Tu devrais nettoyer le frigo alors a voir la date limite de consommation.

2. Vous devriez planifier une liste en amont  pour économiser au supermarché.

3. Ta famille devrait manger les restes pour non gaspiller la nourriture.

4. Vous devriez composter la nourriture qui est périmée.

5. Tes parents devraient acheter des aliments biologiques.

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Les Objectifs:

1. I can understand basic information in ads, announcements, and other simple texts and recordings related to food preparation and food waste.

2. I can ask and answer questions about food waste.

3. I can give my suggestions for reducing food waste.

Question:
1. What did you understand from the cabbage video and from the infographics? What strategies did you use to understand what was going on?

From the cabbage video I understood that most of the time when people see something wrong such as a small piece of mold on produce or food they usually throw it away instead of taking the bad part off. The strategies I used to understand what was going on was trying to see the tone of voice they would use and how the cabbages were being portrayed.

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Objectifs:
1. I can talk about an experience in passé composé and imparfait.

Overall writing a paragraph wasn’t bad. I struggled the most when it came to writing the details in imparfait but other than that I tried adding the most detail and vocab words I could. My strengths of writing I think are adding detail and including transitions words. My areas of improvement would be getting better at using imparfait.

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1. I did not take the the passé compose since I missed last class.

2. We use passé compose to say what happens in the past and we use imparfait when we use details and talk about things that happened in the past multiple times.

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After doing the activity I feel a lot more comfortable about using passé compose. I will still need to study them but I am feeling better.

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Objectifs
1. I can talk about a past experience using passé composé and details.

2. I can identify elements of nature.

Ex:
1. Le flamant rose et belle parce que et rose et les jambes sont unique.

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Objectives:

1. I can talk about a past experience using passé composé and details.

2. I can identify elements of nature.

Ex:

1. Hier ma famille et moi nous sommes allés à la mer pour regarder le coucher du soleil.

2. Je préfère le ciel pendant la nuit parce que la lune et l'étoile sont belles.

I definitely need to practice some of the new vocab words that were introduced to us today, but other than that I feel confident.

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I was able to talk about past experience wising passé composé and details pretty easily. I didn’t have a hard time completing the activity or starting off the email.

I am starting to get used to writing a formal email in French, but I am still trying to correct myself to use all the right tenses.

- ex: Pour répondre à votre première question, ma famille et moi, nous avons déjà fait un repas spécial qui s'appelle la dinde froide avec du pain. Nous avons mangé de la dinde froide avec du pain durant le soir de Noël.

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Objectives:
- I can talk about a past experience using passé composé and details.

- I can say 3 things I learned about winter dishes in the Francophone world.

1. I feel confident being able to use passé composé when talking about pat experiences in detail. Sometimes I do mess up but its silly mistakes because I overthink it. Overall, some practice is always good.

2. 3 things that I learned about the dishes we studied today was that the potatoes with cheese was eaten during wintertime and originated in France/Switzerland, in the Kings Day Bread they hide a small object and who ever finds it is considered the King, and the soup dish represents freedom.

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1. The “frigo” activity was good but a little frustrating because the words were being difficult to move on the google slides. It was  also a little hard because I didn’t recognize all the words.

2. Describing the dishes in French were not that hard especially when it came to writing out the ingredients.

3. The 3 things I learned today about the soupe joumou was that you can’t throw it away, it represents independence, and it was made the first day of January.

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1. J'ai regardé Gillmore Girls avec ma mère. J'ai passé du temps en famille à Noël. Je allé au centre commercial pour acheter des cadeaux de Noël.

2. Over break both Mari and I slept a lot but once we started school yesterday we started feeling really tiered again because we weren’t used to being on zoom for so long.

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I feel I am Intermediate Low because I can generally speak in complete sentences when we are asked to answer questions, I alos work hard to correct myself when I missspeak so that I make sure I get it right, and I am able to ask pointed questions to follow up an answer. To be more comfortable in this level and to start to move to the next one, 2 goals I have are to be able to answer open minded questions and work on describing people and things in more detail by expanding my descriptions with because.

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1) Hier j’ai fini mes devoirs a 18 hueres.
2) Pour Thanksgiving j’ai mangé le dinde avec ma famille.
3) Hier soir ma famille et moi nous avons mangé la gâteau.

4) Hier mes amis et moi, nous avons allé a le parc.

5) Je suis arrivé á l’école a 8 huere 25.
6) Je suis parti de la maison a 8 heure.
7) Je suis entré a class a 8 huere 27.

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1) The petite interro was a lot harder than I anticipated. there were multiple times I was having trouble understanding what the questions were asking me but I am glad that it is over with.

2) I dont feel 100% confident on being able to conjugate the imparfait but I i feel more comfortable saying what i used to do when I was younger

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1. I know how to conjugate the imparfait

-  Je parlais espagnol et français

2. In French I can say one thing my friends and I used to do when we were younger.

- Quand ils étaient jeunes mes amis et moi aimaient jouer au ballon.

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1) I can present my National French Week Project

For my project with Mari we came up with a 3 day plan to visit Montréal, Canada. The part I am most proud of was the activities we found and researched because we wanted to give the class more details.

2) I can learn from other projects

2 things I learned from other projects was: How to create a pink eyeshadow look in French (Rebeca) and that not all french cheese can be good but Camenbert is good with crackers (Connie, Elise, and Sophia).

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Today I learned that the Mona Lisa in French is La Joconde and that the glass pyramid is the entrance to Louvre.

I am most excited for the crêpe sale and dressing up as a tourist because I am excited to see what type of outfits people will come up with.

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Quand j'étais plus jeune, j'adorais faire des châteaux de sable parce qu'ils étaient amusants et intéressants à construire.

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Today was my first day back from Boston so I was a little confused on the new vocab others had learned last class. After reviewing it for a bit I understand the basics but will still need to practice on my own. The activity of 4 corners helped me understand more of the vocab terms.

Example:
Quand j’avais cinq ans j’aime jouer á la poupée.

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Today’s activity with the story went well, but it was still a little hard to understand. With the help of classmates I was able to understand that the friends ended up getting into a fight which caused them to not have the greatest camping experience. The strategies I used to help me understand was paying attention to the vocab and using context clues to figure out what was being said. Next time I can read the passage once and then re-read it to make sure that understand the text and to identify any details that I need extra time trying to figure out what it means.

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I think that I did not do that well on my petit interror because I forgot how to conjugate som of the verbs on the last page. I also had a hard time with the speaking because I tried to do a much detail as possible, but I had no idea what to say.

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During this time I did the kahoots to study for our test coming up next class. I feel a little more confident after studying but I think that just to be safe I will go back to our old Quizlet to make sure I can feel confident with the irregular verbs. Out of 10 I am 6/10 prepared for the test.

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I feel like I am getting more comfortable suing qui, que, and dont. I am still confused on it but hopefully with more practice I can get better at it. The pear deck helped me a lot more to practice.

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I am still confused on que, qui, and dont. I understand that que is followed by a subject or noun and qui is followed by a verb, but I don’t understand how to use dont.

Example of que: Frozen est un film que est marrant parce que Olaf est amusant.

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Today’s activity was fun but a little challenging. When we did the conversation in 2 lines I felt like I didn’t understand some of the words in the questions we had to ask our partners. In addition, when we got back to the class I feel like I had a brain fart because I was having a hard time coming up with something to complete the sentence. The connect 4 was a lot of fun and Bella helped me when I got some of the irregular verbs wrong. I do have to go back to the table and review before next class.

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Today’s activity was a lot harder than I thought it would be. It was fun trying to find out which word went with what phrase during quizlet live and the whiteboard activity. My partner and I helped each other during the white board activity many times and it helped me learn which word went with camping and hiking. Overall, I feel like with practice I can become more confident with the vocab, so the quizlet learn activity tonight for homework will be very helpful.

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I feel like I am ready to take the test but I still need to practice in conjugating verbs. I definitely need to work on not doubting myself because I feel like when I doubt myself I don’t get the answer right. Tomorrow I need to look at quizlet flash cards.

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So far the vocabulary has been good. I understand it, if someone is asking me it and I am able to incorporate it into sentences. I think that I can write basic sentences with the vocab, but I still need help on elaborating them. The activity we did today in the workbook helped me practice and I though it was a lot of fun because i was able to fully understand it, although I did make some mistakes.

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1) Je joue au foot aged mes amis.
2) Mon mère regarde la télé.

I q, able to do this activity well, but I still need to practice a little bit more so that I can become confident.

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Today’s class went very well. I was able to talk to my partner about going to a party this weekend and i was also able to answer the question she asked me about when I went. the quizlet live definely helped me practice the new and old vocab to talk about high school.

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I am able to introduce myself to my partner but I did have some trouble remembering some basic words in French. I know that I need to go back to old vocabulary to re learn some words so that I can come into class confident.