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French · Grade 9

Investigate Francophone Cultural Contexts

Learners investigate a cultural practice the way a careful researcher would. Their case is l'attaya, the tea ritual shared in Senegal: they analyze it through products, practices and perspectives, notice diversity and change instead of stereotypes, weigh four different sources (a reference article, a young Dakar resident's interview, a tourist brochure and a small survey), synthesize them with clear attributions, and write a short investigation report with a respectful comparison. The quiz transfers the method to the Québec cabane à sucre.

  • 4 lessons
  • About 125 minutes
  • Investigate a practice: 10 questions
  • Ways to answer: fill in the blanks, choose an answer, highlight a text, match pairs, type a number and put in order
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What learners will discover

  • Analyze a cultural practice through its products, practices and perspectives, recognizing diversity within a country and change over time instead of stereotypes (certains, souvent, dans beaucoup de familles rather than tous, toujours).
  • Evaluate sources for perspective (insider or outsider), purpose, date, evidence and bias, and corroborate a claim across sources.
  • Synthesize information from several sources (text, interview, data) into a coherent explanation with attribution (selon la source 1…, les deux sources s'accordent sur…, la source 3 nuance…).
  • Write a short cultural investigation report that answers a question with evidence from sources, states its limits and includes a respectful comparison with one's own community.

Lessons

  1. Beyond stereotypes 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  2. Weighing sources 6 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  3. Synthesize with citations 5 steps3 practiceabout 30 min
  4. Write the investigation report 5 steps3 practiceabout 35 min
  5. Investigate a practice 10 questions at the end

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