Les animaux du bayou kit *2021 Edition

This story is set in Louisiana. A group of animals decide to play a trick on their friend on her birthday. She believes that they don't care about her when, in fact, they are planning a surprise party.

This kit is designed to help students consolidate the vocabulary and structures that they have learned in the first two steps through ever more extensive use of partner/group activities such as story retelling, story extension, rap writing and performing, etc. At the end of this unit almost all students are able to produce 10-page original documents entirely in French.

Enhance your kit with the following extras:

In this touching story a family is required by financial circumstances to give up their home and live in a tent city.  A boy has to grapple with the decision on whether to live with his now-homeless immediate family, or to live far away with relatives.

Story: Jacqueline Kelly
Illustrations: Tom Nesbitt
Appropriate for ages: 7-12

This is the story of a family separated by an ocean: one family lives in France and the other in Quebec. The children of the French family visit their two Quebecois cousins and discover several differences, both in their language and their culture. They also find that they are jealous of each other. However something happens to them that shows them that family bonds overcome all obstacles. 

Story: Sylvia Duckworth
Illustrations: Andrew Lucas
Appropriate for ages: 7-12