[Mz.Morra13]

French 2z06 is a continuation of 1Z06, with the same professor and a very similar format. There is a CD component in this course too, and a 'dossier' of 2 page articles is introduced.

The Course:

- is conducted mostly in french, though she does go at a good pace and uses vocabulary that, for the most part, is easy to understand
- still two days a week in a smaller classroom setting, emphasis on participation
- in this course she expects you to read the lesson being taught ahead of time, and as she reads through it she'll ask questions
- for the dossiers, she'll ask someone to read a paragraph, then ask people for definitions of words that most people haven't seen. When we've finished reading an article, we'd make a summary of it in groups.
- we also had a few discussions after reading an article, but not many.
- maybe slightly more challenging than 1z06, but still a good elective.

Mark Breakdown:

3 NONcumulative Midterms - 35% (1 was first term & 2 were second term)
3 Presentations/Essays - 30% (You have the choice of doing an essay, which she gives a due date for, or a presentation, which u can do any time throughout the course. Both are 500 words. You can do any combination of essay/presentation)
Participation - 10% (Basically, if she knows your name by the end of the term, you will probably get 10%)
Final Exam - 25% (cumulative)
& NO CHRISTMAS EXAM! Yay.

Format of the Midterms:

- basically all of the midterms contain a grammar component, and like in 1Z06 she takes these questions directly from the CD.
- Midterms 2, 3 and the exam had a composition component. On midterm 2 we had to summarize a text she selected from the dossiers that we did not read in class. It was about 120 words long. Midterm 3 we had to write about our earliest childhood memory in l'imparfait. And the final we had to write another summary, as well as 2 60 word compositions that we were not able to prepare for ahead of time (they were really easy though, one asked what we used to do as a child, and the other was what we did last summer).

How to get an 11/12:

- technically going to class isn't really necessary, but if you're looking to improve your french, i'd say class is great for oral practice (that's what she said..?).
- I'd do the cd questions assigned at least a few times before each midterm. This course has...quite a bit more vocabulary to memorize compared to 1z06 so doing the questions over n over just helps to memorize the ones that will come up on the test.
- I'd recommend doing essays vs presentations, simply because you get them done and out of the way..its so easy to forget about doing the presentations and let them pile but. But the way the course is formated, in the event that you have a big midterm before an essay is due, you can always just do a presentation. I guess it's ultimately what you prefer doing.

If you took 1Z06 and you want another nice 6 unit elective, I'd definitely consider this course.

Do we complete the CD questions on our own time ie are labs mandatory (they are 3 hours?)

on your own time. aka the week before the test lol. it says you have a 'mandatory' lab but you never actually do sign up for one.