Students coming from my previous Read in French classes will already have "Ratus Decouvre les Livres" (red book) and the related workbook. 
As we will be doing only a few selected exercises from the workbook, new students can check with me about printing a few pages. I will send a link.

If possible students should obtain the Ratus red textbook. It is widely available from Amazon,  Renaud-Bray, and many others; used copies my be found on eBay. Either edition will work as the differences are minor.

The reader we are using in English is long out of print.  We use it *for educational purposes only*, not to be copied for publication, further copies, or resale.
I will send a link to workbook pages to copy as needed.

The grammar book is Spectrum Language Arts Grade 4. It is widely available commercially. In this course we are only using a small section so you may copy from my links *for educational purposes only*, not to share or publish.

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Students need a comfortable place to work, a chair with foot support, and a good light. They need both a keyboard and a writing space for notebooks.

Please get a simple notebook for students to take notes and to practice written exercises. We are moving away from workbooks and into more writing.
Pens are much preferred as writing tools; they waste less time than pencils, they are less fatiguing on hands, and the writing is visible.

This is a highly interactive class in which students speak more than the teacher. Students need a camera and a microphone and need to leave them turned on during class so they can interact fully.

Since students need to talk, please finish snacks before we start, thank you.

Stories chosen are appropriate for the age/grade level, assuming an average of about Grade 4-5 age 10-11. At this age sometimes violence and inappropriate behaviour are described, in order to have action and plot. Gratuitous violence is avoided. Questions about sexuality -- normal at this age -- will be referred back to parents.
We will be using the web as a resource for language, vocabulary, facts, music, and images. The teacher will model searching in a directed way for educational purposes. However, trolls lurk everywhere and on rare occasions inappropriate vocabulary and very rarely images may show up. These sites will be closed immediately and the teacher will give a short message about appropriate and useful web use.