La Saint-Valentin et d'autre festivals de l'amour

This package is primarily intended for French Immersion. It can also work for Core French for the more advanced French learners, especially in the higher grades.

This package is more than just a regular Saint-Valentine package. In this package I have not only created a set of reading activities with comprehension questions, but I have also made this as educational and multicultural as possible.

I have included a history of Valentine’s Day, Valentine’s Day in Canada, different love days in Japan and South Korea, India, Russia and some former states of the Soviet Union, spring festivals in Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia, and love festivals and celebrations in Brazil and parts of the African continent.

My comprehension/reflection section is made up of simple recall questions from the text, that build up onto opinion and critical thinking questions, and that include research questions so that students can further refine their research skills and deepen their knowledge.

This package can be used as photocopies for shared-reading activities. It can be used in centres, as homework, or when teaching about different cultures that have helped shape Canada. The section on India and Romania, Bulgaria and Macedonia can even be turned into an art activity in which students can create their own bracelets or amulets for friends and family.

Lastly, the overall message of this package is that love can take a variety of different forms and that there are different types of love and different cultures have different (and similar) ways of expressing love.