Middle schoolers dive into reading, writing, and speaking, culminating in the exciting challenge of designing their own hair style, poster and scrapbook. Watch language skills soar in this engaging, hands-on experience!

This MEGA 60-page document contains everything you could possibly need to comfortably, confidently (and with as little effort as humanely possible) lead a long-term unit with your low-vocabulary middle-schoolers needing a high interest BOOST.

Tired of finding documents that are too advanced for your Core French/FSL kids or babyish and full of cartoon-y, childish clipart? This frustration is what gave me an epiphany 3 short years ago and what gave life to my store! Are you, too, losing the buy-in before you even JUMP in? Created with middle school in mind, this unit of activities, games, vocabulary and content, communication prompts, lesson plans, worksheets and templates will get your kids saying "Je me fais couper les cheveux tous les six semaines!" "Mes cheveux sont bouclés et châtains" and "À quelle fréquence laves-tu les cheveux?" in two shakes of a lamb's tail!

My Core French products are high engagement, low-level. This 60-page document has everything you need to effectively engage your students to build the vocabulary needed to become confident enough to create something that will WOW you!

In this document, you'll find:

• A 24-page Slide Deck with:

  • Messages du jour

  • Games (Qui suis-je?, 4 Coins, etc.)

  • Recaps of vocabulary they should know (but likely forgot, who are we kidding?)

  • Oodles of oral prompts, reading and writing activities.

    
    

• A 40-page teaching guide & worksheet document

  • Your lesson plans for 5 formal days before projects!

  • "Mes cheveux sont..." An interactive translation dictionary activity on textures, styles, colors, and cuts.

  • "Mes cheveux maintenant..." A creative, writing activity.

  • Printable wall numbers for 4 Corners (4 Coins)

  • "Que préfères-tu?" An oral partner activity on asking and stating preferences about hair.

  • "À quelle fréquence coupes-tu les cheveux?" An oral surveying activity which requires asking and answering questions and filling out a table.

  • "Est-ce que tes cheveux sont..." An oral surveying activity which requires asking and answering questions and filling out a table.

  • "Quel est mon type de cheveux?" A writing activity on descriptive language and using learned vocabulary to write full sentences.

  • "Comment sont tes cheveux?" A printable vocabulary list for students.

  • "Qui suis-je?" (Version 1) Teacher copy with prompts + additional clues.

  • "Qui suis-je?" (Version 2) Teacher copy with prompts + additional clues.

  • Word search with answer key.

  • Printable matching game on beauty services (Vocabulary + Images)

  • Printable matching game on salon accessories (Vocabulary + Images)

  • Your gradebook/roster with all outcomes explored.

  • Final projects section

    • "Coiffures à travers le temps" (a scrapbooking project featuring baby pictures and hair cuts through time, with a focus on descriptive language and preferences)

    • "Ma coupe de cheveux préférée" (an additional activity that goes with the scrapbooking project.

    • "Une coiffe à la mode" (a group project on inventing a hot new hair trend and creating a poster for it!) + Rubric

  • 2 scripts on asking for services in a hair salon.

  • 2 fake "services menus" for hair salons.

For goodness sakes, don't forget to have fun!

Mme Kaitlyn