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FOREIGN LANGUAGES
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THE LITERARY IN THE EVERYDAY
open lessons for
L2 literacy

Lessons > Literary Production about the Everyday (e.g. realism)

Literary texts and genres that represent everyday life. This can include more realist and naturalist works, literary testimonies, and even more avant garde writings with a claim to capturing quotidien life, speech, and practices, as well as more poetic forms, which play with these aspects of the everyday.

What’s in a Name?

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Lesson Title: What’s in a Name?
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: C’est tout un poème
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: C’est tout un poème
Text Language: French
Text Author: Luks, Joanna
Genre: Poetry
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: What’s in a Name?
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Interpreting a writer’s mental images from grammatical metaphors and context. (An introduction to semiosis).
Writing: Expressing mental imagery in word play.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Detecting nouns used as adjectives.
Listening: Noticing rhyme schemes for sound-spelling relationships.
Writing: Using nouns as adjectives to characterize someone. / Creating a rhyme scheme.
FLLITE Form: Grammar Play, LLDQ

Comment?!

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Lesson Title: Comment?! [ What?! ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: L’accent grave
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Sound Play, Word Play

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Text

Text Title: L’accent grave
Text Language: French
Text Author: Prévert, Jacques
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Comment?! [ What?! ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Recognizing Platonic Forms. / Understanding the French notion of individualisme. / Evaluating worldview based on mental imagery of words.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Using decoding strategies for word forms.
Listening: Hesitation techniques.
Writing: Using play script conventions. / Generating a faux pas; clarifying a misunderstanding using negotiating language. / Controlling register.
Speaking: Performing playscripts.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Sound Play, Word Play

Un peu de hareng fumé

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Lesson Title: Un peu de hareng fumé [ A Little Smoked Herring ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Petite lettre à la dérive / Le Hareng saur and accompanying monolgue fumiste / Recipe for marinated smoked herring
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Pragmatic Play

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Text

Text Title: Petite lettre à la dérive / Le Hareng saur and accompanying monolgue fumiste / Recipe for marinated smoked herring
Text Language: French
Text Author: Cocteau, Jean / Cros, Charles / Coquelin cadet
Genre: Poetry / Recipes
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Un peu de hareng fumé [ A Little Smoked Herring ]
Instructional Language: English
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Expanding comprehension of a text through visual and oral readings. / Learning food-based idioms.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Identifying genre conventions for prescriptive texts. / Noun countability and noun phrase structures with invariable de.
Writing: Following recipe conventions. / Writing a prescriptive text for a chosen audience on when and how to appreciate the resulting dish.
FLLITE Form: LLDQ, Pragmatic Play

Sur le chemin du retour

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Lesson Title: Sur le chemin du retour [ Homeward Bound ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Text Title: Excerpts from Chronique de la dérive douce
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Excerpts from Chronique de la dérive douce
Text Language: French
Text Author: Laferrière, Dany
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Sur le chemin du retour [ Homeward Bound ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Being a political refugee from Haiti in Canada in 1976.
Listening: Watching a 1988 Canadian television show, Êtes-vous raciste? and listening to Canadian French pronunciation.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Noticing the structuring of prose poems.
Writing: Employing genre conventions for writing a chronicle in prose poetry.
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

Il était une fois

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Lesson Title: Il était une fois [ Once Upon a Time ]
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Instructional Language: English / French
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Text Title: Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Text Language: French
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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Text

Text Title: Le Petit Chaperon rouge
Text Language: French
Text Author: Perrault, Charles
Genre: Narratives
Topic: n/a

Lesson

Lesson Title: Il était une fois [ Once Upon a Time ]
Instructional Language: English / French
Lesson Author: Joanna Luks
Level of Activities: College / 1. year, 2. year
Pedagogical Practices: n/a
Grammar Focus: n/a
Main Objectives:
Cultural Knowledge & Mindset
Reading: Using historical facts to decode the values of an earlier period; comparing a contemporary filmed version to the text to improve comprehension. / Thinking about significant events in your life and comparing your answers to those of French students.
Language Use & Strategies
Reading: Recognizing verbs in passé simple. / Identifying language and conventions used in fairy tales.
Writing: A fractured fairy tale by subverting fairy tale conventions. / Using impersonal expressions with “il”.
FLLITE Form: Genre Play, LLDQ

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