Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze how colonial histories, independence movements, migration, and economic forces have reshaped the global use of French by tracing relationships among power, language, and cultural identity.
Students will be able to compare products, practices, and perspectives from multiple francophone communities by explaining how unequal linguistic and cultural power can contribute to identity, access, harmony, and conflict.
Students will be able to evaluate French- and English-language maps, population data, oral histories, interviews, and media for credibility, perspective, and bias when investigating global language change.
Students will be able to construct a bilingual evidence-based argument about how independence movements, migration, and economics have reshaped the use of French by connecting claims, evidence, reasoning, counterarguments, and warranted conclusions.
Students will be able to engage francophone community partners and audiences in culturally responsive bilingual inquiry by adapting questions, vocabulary, explanations, and advocacy to purpose and context.
Students will be able to revise individual and collective interpretations of francophone language change by processing feedback, recognizing others’ perspectives and feelings, and resolving disagreements through evidence-based dialogue.
Products
Bilingual Evidence-Based Research Argument
Each student will independently develop a French-English research argument answering the project question, supported by an annotated evidence log, source-credibility analysis, explicit warrants, regional comparisons, and a fair counterargument with rebuttal. The argument will also include a reflection on partner or peer feedback and the student’s growth as a multilingual communicator.
Traveling Francophone Voices Showcase and Public Defense
Teams will transform members’ individual research into a bilingual traveling showcase featuring a visual story map, accessible exhibit panels, responsibly collected interview or partner contributions, and a synthesis of competing perspectives. At a community exhibition, teams will defend their conclusions in French and English, respond to audience challenges with evidence, and explain revisions made after stakeholder feedback.
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