Course outline The fundamental goal of this document is to provide teachers with a curriculum that reflects an example of how to integrate subjects such as social studies and French while respecting and applying the learning outcomes associated with them. Integrated French 7 program is designed to lead students to achieve the learning outcomes for French Language Arts and Social Studies simultaneously through learning experiences, teachings, and meaningful performance assessments. Integrating these two subjects into one single program highlights the important link between them and allows the student to discern its global meaning. Integrated French Language Arts has four components: Attributing value to French language and cultural diversity Listening and oral expression Reading and watching Writing and representation The first component of the program is intended to deal with attitudes towards French language and culture as well as cultural diversity. The other three components target modes of communication. The organizing concept for Social Studies 7 is “Empowerment.” Empowerment involves having the means, opportunity, power, or authority to be self-assertive, and independent, and to take action. Empowerment was chosen to help students develop a better understanding of the significant impact that authority and power have in our lives. Students will analyze sources of authority in the lives of Canadian citizens, both today and in the past, and consider how power and privilege are, and have been, distributed in our society. Students will be called on to ask questions, investigate problems, analyze information and draw generalizations and conclusions about the role of empowerment in our history. They will consider questions such as, who had official authority? Who had the power? How did they use this power and authority? Was it used fairly? How did their decisions impact on all Canadians? At the same time students will be challenged to examine the role of power and authority in their own lives. A fundamental aspect of the Integrated French curriculum, especially at the beginning, is the neurolinguistic approach, which is an efficient way to learn how to communicate spontaneously in French. This approach recommends learning in sequence, starting with listening and speaking, followed by reading and writing. Grammar is naturally learned by using oral language rather than by memorizing rules. The students speak, listen and write in French about their experiences. They are actively engaged in class while exploring in an integrated manner the skills and concepts related to French language arts classes and other subjects Updated August 24, 2021