French 4 Honors Summer Work
Projet d’été: Le Petit Prince
Over the summer, you will read the French story Le Petit Prince.
You can find and print the story on http://lepetitprinceexupery.free.fr/
*For full credit, all work submitted must be double-spaced in font size12.
Pre-Reading Exercise
As a pre-reading exercise, create a typed chart for the following activity:
Categorize the vocabulary words under one of the words underlined on the bottom.
Categories:
- L'Art
- Les Animaux
- Les métiers/loisirs des grandes
- Les Avions
- Les Chiffres
Vocabulary Words:
un serpent boa un éléphant dessiner l'image la jungle la politique
l'astéroide un peintre un mouton piloter un numéro 6 ans voler
un crayon de couleur griffoner le calcule un astronome l'océan la terre la géographie
l'histoire un chef-d'oeuvre tracer un portrait les cornes un moteur combien gagner
une panne le ciel une feuille de papier l'herbe le sable le désert du Sahara un fauve
francs le ciel tracer un bélier la Forêt Vierge les étoiles un stylographe
bridge le golf une planète peser un mécanicien acheter la foudre
le calcul un dessin un passager l'age la grammaire une réparation.
Reading exercises
Read chapters one to four. Use www.wordreference.com and your knowledge of cognates to clarify meaning. Please note you do not need to know every word to understand meaning, as you can often make contextualized guesses from the text. As you read, look for main ideas and supporting details. Keep these questions in mind: What does the pilot reveal about adults? How does he look at the world? What is his philosophy? What does the little Prince reveal about himself? What is the Little Prince trying to teach the pilot with the sheep drawing?
During the reading, complete the following exercise: finding Main ideas and details.
Directions:
Read for supporting details and ideas. On this sheet, you are provided with quotes from the chapters. The quotes may not carry a lot of meaning on their own; as you group them with similar quotes and details, however, you will start to create meaning. Please find details and quotes supporting the following sentences:
Une: "Les grandes personnes ne comprennent jamais rien toutes seules, et c'est fatigant, pour les enfants, de toujours et toujours leur donner des explications" (page 2). (*Find quotes, in which the pilot gives examples of this.)
Deux: "J'avais été découragé dans ma carrière de peintre par les grandes personnes, à l'age de six ans, et je n'avais rien appris à dessiner, sauf les boas fermés et les boas ouverts." (page 4) (*Find quotes, in which the pilot gives examples of this. In what direction in life is the pilot encouraged?)
Trois: "Ce sont des mots prononcés par hasard qui, peu à peu, m'ont tout révélé." (page 7) (*Through the Prince’s words, what does he reveal about himself and his home?)
Quatre: "Mais personne ne l'avait cru à cause de son costume. Les grandes personnes sont comme ça." (Page 11) (*Find quotes, which show examples of this)
For each quote and supporting details, type in French the main idea you believe summarizes the details. Type the details you found under the main idea.
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