French Language Tutoring. beginning and novice level

This is a highly interactive communication oriented class teaching students the French language. We read, write, and speak in French as much as possible. For novices over age ten, we use English to explain, but the goal is always to use more and more French every day; after about a hundred hours of lessons *and* practice the student should be able to manage an immersion class with no English.
Students need to be open minded and ready to learn different ways of doing things. Every language has its own character and its own quirks; students have to leave their comfort zone in English and try out new ways of approaching things. This course is supportive and students will always be helped through, but they do need to be brave and dive in. 
I have a large collection of high quality French language materials and we will work from copies from several books and workbooks. These multiple viewpoints give the extensive practice needed without going over one book to death. Many of the stories are funny and silly.  It's always better to learn by reading something interesting and fun. Since our goal is to speak the language, we read all the stories and dialogues and exercises aloud, and we speak the answers before we write them. The pairing of reading and writing is very useful in getting ideas into memory.
In this class I am going to introduce the International Phonetic Alphabet. This is a system of symbols which is an exact match of one symbol to one sound, unlike French and even words English.  The small amount of time needed to learn the IPA pays itself back many times over when you can just read off the vocabulary list or dictionary and know you have the exact pronunciation.
A syllabus has been provided with an outline of the material we want to cover. The speed or pacing on that syllabus assumes the students have had an introductory oral French course and probably know a number of words and phrases. Students who know more can move ahead faster, while those who are total novices may move much more slowly. The speed is totally flexible. The course can be taken two or three times as needed to master novice level French.
Links to Google Docs will be provided so parents can copy the materials. As we are only using selected sections from each, at this point we don't need to but the whole book. It helps if you can copy ten or a dozen pages at a time so we can move through the material as rapidly as possible, thank you.
Since this is an oral communication class, students need to have a microphone and camera and keep them turned on during lessons. They will need a reasonably quiet work area where they can listen and speak with few interruptions. The class is relaxed and friendly and paced according to student needs, but we are trying to get to a functional level of French where we can enjoy stories as soon as possible so we need to stay on task.