Curriculum and objectives in secondary
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Cinquième - 5ème (year 8 / 7th grade)
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Reading literature from different genres, historical periods and cultures -
Reading non-fiction and media texts -
Writing for different audiences and purposes -
Spelling, punctuation and grammar -
Speaking and listening -
ICT skills
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To develop history / geography skills: understanding maps; selecting appropriate evidence from texts and using evidence to support a point of view; collecting, identifying and analysing data; adapting writing to suit different purposes and audiences; debating, presentation and public speaking skills.
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To encourage students to become independent learners through active and cooperative participation in individual and group work such as creative writing, using drama / film and indpendent research projects.
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To promote inquiry-based projects, ICT and research skills, and critical thinking.
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To foster an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human experience across time and place.
Quatrième - 4ème (year 9 / 8th grade)
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Reading literature from different genres, historical periods and cultures -
Reading non-fiction and media texts -
Writing for different audiences and purposes -
Spelling, punctuation and grammar -
Speaking and listening -
ICT skills
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To develop history / geography skills: understanding maps; selecting appropriate evidence from texts and using evidence to support a point of view; collecting, identifying and analysing data; adapting writing to suit different purposes and audiences; debating, presentation and public-speaking skills.
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To encourage students to become independent learners through active and cooperative participation in individual and group work such as creative writing, using drama / film and indpendent research projects.
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To promote inquiry-based projects, ICT and research skills, and critical thinking.
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To foster an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human experience across time and place.
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American Colonies, the American Revolution, Slavery & the Slave Trade; the Industrial Revolution
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Globalisation and the US as a Global Power, Development, Migration.
Troisième - 3ème (year 10 / 9th grade)
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
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To develop history / geography skills: understanding maps; selecting appropriate evidence from texts and using evidence to support a point of view; collecting, identifying and analysing data; adapting writing to suit different purposes and audiences; debating, presentation and public-speaking skills.
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To encourage students to become independent learners through active and cooperative participation in individual and group work such as creative writing, using drama / film and indpendent research projects.
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To promote inquiry-based projects, ICT and research skills, and critical thinking.
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To foster an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human experience across time and place.
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USA 1920's and 1930's, Germany - The Interwar Years, Aspects of WWII, International Politics post-1945, Cold War 1945-1989, Decolonisation
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The European Union: Construction, Diversity, Migration, Energy.
Seconde - 2nde (year 11 / 10th grade)
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
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To develop history / geography skills: understanding maps; selecting appropriate evidence from texts and using evidence to support a point of view; collecting, identifying and analysing data; adapting writing to suit different purposes and audiences; debating, presentation and public-speaking skills.
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To encourage students to become independent learners through active and cooperative participation in group work and during indpendent research projects.
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To promote inquiry-based projects, ICT and research skills, and critical thinking.
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To foster an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human experience across time and place.
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The Medieval Period: Religion, Humanism, Age of Discovery, Conquest and Colonisation -
The Renaissance, Reformation and European Colonialism -
Historical change and the impact on society
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The concept of place and region (uniqueness, specificity, similarlity -
Human activities and the natural environment -
Environmental problems and sustainable development -
Geographical enquiry / problem-solving / decision-making -
Geographical processes: cause and consequence
Première & Terminale - 1ère & Tle (years 12 & 13 / 11th & 12th grades)
LANGUAGE & LITERATURE
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1ère students spend five hours per week with their literature teacher.
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Terminale students spend four hours per week with their literature teacher and take the written and oral exams of the OIB.
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American Option – Students read thirteen texts over two years, which include literature and nonfiction from both American and international writers and a range of literary genres. The approach is comparative and in both the final written examination and the oral, students are encouraged to make links between the texts that they have read.
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British Option – Students read six works over the two years and study them in depth. The works reflect a range of literary genres from different historical periods and culture, and were all written originally in English. The final written exam focuses on the individual texts while the oral exam is based on the discussion of a thematic topic.
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1ère students spend three hours each week with their Anglophone Section History / Geography teachers (two hours of History, one hour of Geography). -
Terminale students spend four hours each week with their Anglophone Section History / Geography teachers (two hours each in History and Geography).
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To develop history / geography skills: understanding maps; selecting appropriate evidence from texts and using evidence to support a point of view; collecting, identifying and analysing data; adapting writing to suit different purposes and audiences; debating, presentation and public-speaking skills.
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To encourage students to become independent learners through active and cooperative participation in group work and during indpendent research projects.
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To promote inquiry-based projects, ICT and research skills, and critical thinking.
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To foster an understanding and appreciation of the diversity of human experience across time and place.
Seconde - 2nde - Drama option
Sixième - 6ème (year 7 / 6th grade)
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Reading literature from different genres, historical periods and cultures
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Reading non-fiction and media texts
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Writing for different audiences and purposes
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Spelling, punctuation and grammar
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Speaking and listening
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ICT skills
The Language & Literature curriculum from 6ème to 4ème is based on the learning objectives of English programmes in a range of anglophone countries and is designed to help students make progress in their reading, writing and speaking skills. Students are introduced to a variety of challenging and engaging texts, both fiction and nonfiction, as the main focus of the teaching. Not only are reading skills developed through these texts but they are also used to inspire different types of writing and to build the basic skills of grammar, punctuation and spelling.
The History / Geography curriculum is a joint programme based on the content of the French national curriculum but with an approach characteristic of the learning and teaching styles in English-speaking countries. While the programme in History is roughly chronological, from the civilisations of the Ancient world up to the contemporary era, emphasis is placed on the comparison of historical themes in different periods. The Geography curriculum focuses on an exploration of the interactions between human activity and the physical environment.
SECONDARY
The Anglophone Section of the CSI Lyon welcomes students all through secondary.
In France, secondary education comprises two distinct phases: collège and lycée.
The secondary school day generally runs between 08h00 and 17h25, divided into ten 50-minute sequences.
The Anglophone Section teaching programmes are organised around two subject areas: English Language & Literature and History/Geography. Students will spend between six and eight sequences each week with their Anglophone Section teachers, depending on their level in the school.