Felipe Alou: l’histoire d’un grand champion – Teacher’s Guide CD

Felipe Alou: l’histoire d’un grand champion – Teacher’s Guide CD

141 total pages, 11 chapters, Answer keys included

Table of Contents:

In Every Chapter:

• Nouveau vocabulaire
• Conversations
• Pensez-y

Features and Highlights:

• Avant de lire- prepare to read with these discussion questions
• Slideshows
  • Transportation
  • The time of Trujillo
  • Baseball
  • Houses and streets
  • MLK Jr.
  • Rosa Parks
  • Street Signs
  • What do you want to buy?
  • School Segregation
  • The supermarket
  • Saint Domingue
• Beyond the Text reading
  • The Rojas-Alou family
  • Scouts
  • Discrimination
  • Rosa Parks
  • Batting average
• What did you learn? Comprehension questions to show what you know!
• Reader’s Theater
• Quizzes
• Batter Up baseball game
• Final Assessment

Felipe Alou: l’histoire d’un grand champion – Reader

Under ordinary circumstances, the odds of being struck by lightning are greater than the odds of becoming a Major League Baseball player, but Felipe Alou’s circumstances in 1955 were anything but ‘ordinary’… He was a black athlete living in the Dominican Republic, and he spoke no English- not exactly a recipe for success in the U.S., especially during the height of the civil rights movement. This is Felipe’s amazing (true) story of perseverance and determination to beat overwhelming odds and insurmountable obstacles to become one of baseball’s greatest players and managers.

The low unique word count and high frequency factor (the number of times core structures are embedded in the text) make this an ideal read for beginning French students. Each page is loaded with cognates (words that are similar in English and Spanish), recycled vocabulary, and illustrations, which makes this read highly comprehensible. Enjoy the story! The more you enjoy it, the more you will acquire French without even realizing it! Happy reading!

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