Litérature Française: Guy de Maupassant- La Parure (histoire)

This package is a perfect introduction for junior and intermediate immersion students (grades 5 to 8) to French classical literature.

The story highlighted in this package is an adapted version of Guy de Maupassant’s story “La Parure”. The adaptation is faithful to the storyline of the short story, but it is written in passé composé and imparfait, and the vocabulary has been simplified. The original story has also been included for extension/enrichment purposes.

In this package, students have the opportunity to write a brief biography of Maupassant, they also have comprehension/reflection questions at the end of each part of the story (there are 6 parts in total). In order to render this package more cross-curricular, there is a Visual Arts task and a drama task for students to do. There are also 3 rubrics included: 1) for the comprehension questions, 2) for the Visual Arts component, and 3) for the Drama component.

Students will enjoy this story because the end has an interesting twist to it.