World Neighbor 5 - France (everyday life + the 5-country world-neighbors comparison takes shape)

Greeting + Calendar Circle + 'Bonjour!' (cheek-kiss optional, handshake or wave alternatives). Each child greets a partner. Teacher: 'Today we visit France - on the European continent.'

• Play bonjour audio
• Demonstrate greeting options
• Point France on MG-7

France is in WESTERN EUROPE, on the European continent. The capital is Paris. The official language is FRENCH. Today we look at one French child's everyday day. AND - this is the FIFTH world neighbor - we'll look at the COMPLETED MG-9 grid and notice patterns: what is SAME across all 5 countries? What is DIFFERENT?

• Major writes from her French experience. School in France has different rhythms - and same rhythms - as ours.

  model Read aloud; pause at scenes (the school courtyard, the cantine for lunch, the goûter afternoon snack, the homework). Connect: 'Notice the goûter - the afternoon snack. That's an everyday French rhythm.'

  prompt Read 'A School Day in France' (Major/Placin 2018) - bilingual book showing an everyday school day.
• Léa is 6 years old. She is real.

  model Teacher: 'This is Léa's day in the Paris banlieue. Notice the apartment with shutters. School starts at 8:30. There's a 2-hour lunch break (cantine) and an afternoon snack (goûter) at 4pm.'

  prompt Examine everyday-life photo set from Paris suburb (banlieue) - HOME (apartment with shutters), SCHOOL (école with courtyard), PLAY (jump rope or football), FOOD (baguette + cheese + yogurt for goûter), LANGUAGE (French greeting card).
• Look at the WHOLE grid. NOW - what is SAME across all 6 countries? What is DIFFERENT?

  model Teacher and class jointly add 5 France tiles + 5 home-country tiles. Then pause to look at the WHOLE grid.

  prompt Fill in FRANCE row + HOME COUNTRY row on MG-9 grid. ALL 5+1 rows now complete.
• Children everywhere SHARE the same RHYTHMS. The SPECIFICS differ. THAT is the lesson.

  model Teacher charts on side anchor: SAME (all children go to school, all children eat breakfast, all children play, all children have a home language, all children sleep at home); DIFFERENT (what food, what language, what game, what kind of home, what time school starts).

  prompt Banks Level-3 transformation reflection: name 2 things SAME across all 6, name 2 things DIFFERENT.

• Tell me ONE everyday detail from Léa's day.
• Name ONE thing SAME across all 6 countries on our grid.

M-1-S-CUL-16-A Chart Physical / non-image

MG-9 grid all 6 rows complete: HOME (apartment/house with shutters and home-country variant); SCHOOL (école/uniform + 8:30); PLAY (jump rope/football); FOOD (baguette + cheese + goûter); LANGUAGE (bonjour / merci). Five study-country rows + home country row. Each cell has source citation. The grid becomes the unit's flagship visual.

MG-9 Chart

Mounted on classroom wall at child-eye-height; bilingual picture-card overlays available for Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Vietnamese, Tagalog, Russian, Haitian Creole, French, Korean, and Urdu.

M-1-S-CUL-16-B Photograph

5 photographs (5x7) from a real French family in Paris suburb with consent: (1) apartment with shutters; (2) école courtyard with children playing; (3) jump-rope game; (4) baguette + cheese goûter on table; (5) French greeting card. Source line: 'Family in Paris suburb, FR, 2025, with consent.'

M-1-S-CUL-16-D Chart

36x24 inch side-by-side chart titled 'WORLD NEIGHBORS - SAME AND DIFFERENT.' LEFT column 'SAME ACROSS ALL 6 COUNTRIES' (5 child-generated examples). RIGHT column 'DIFFERENT ACROSS COUNTRIES' (5 child-generated examples). Banks Level-3 transformation tool.

M-1-S-CUL-16-E Illustration

3 photographed spreads from Major/Placin 2018 'A School Day in France.' Bilingual French-English. Scenes from école courtyard, cantine lunch, goûter snack. Mounted as 3-panel poster.

• In pairs, examine the completed MG-9 grid. Each pair identifies 1 SAME and 1 DIFFERENT detail across all 6 countries.

  scaffold Sentence frame: 'In all 6 countries, ___. Different: ___.'
• Children draft their own 1-page world-neighbor profile for Capstone (lesson 18).

  scaffold 4-zone template: country flag + 5-domain entries

• Tell me ONE same-across-all-6 detail AND ONE different detail.

• Mount completed MG-9 grid
• Begin Capstone world-neighbor profile drafts
• Preview: tomorrow we map our place in the world

• Tonight, ask a family member: 'If you could visit ONE of our 5 world-neighbor countries (Mexico, Japan, Ghana, India, France), which? Why?' Bring one sentence.