Description

Your students built their monster.

They described it. They presented it to the class.

Now the adventure begins.

Mon Monstre et Moi transforms your original monster project into a long-term narrative storytelling experience using passé composé, imparfait, reflexive verbs, presentational speaking, and authentic photo-driven storytelling.

Students take their monsters into the real world, document adventures with photos, souvenirs, and experiences, then narrate what happened entirely in French through a Google Slides presentation, video component, and spontaneous oral presentation.

This is not a fill-in-the-blank grammar packet.

It’s a classroom-tested narrative assessment framework that helps students develop meaningful past-tense communication by giving them something they actually care about talking about.

Students Practice:

• Passé composé
• Imparfait
• Reflexive verbs
• Narrative sequencing
• Presentational speaking
• Oral fluency
• Storytelling
• Photo-based narration
• Vocabulary retrieval
• Sustained target-language production

What Makes This Different?

Students already know their monster.

They built it.
Named it.
Described it.
Presented it.

That emotional investment becomes the engine for authentic language production.

Instead of:

“Write about a random trip…”

students get:

“Tell the story of what happened when your monster…”

The story is already there. Now they just need the verbs.

What’s Included:

✔ Full project overview and implementation guide
✔ Student instructions
✔ Narrative requirements checklist
✔ Final video instructions
✔ In-class spontaneous speaking assessment format
✔ Academic integrity guidelines
✔ Detailed scoring rubric
✔ Teacher notes and pacing recommendations
✔ Classroom-tested presentation structure
✔ Bonus extension ideas

Best For:

• French 2
• French 3
• Past tense units
• Passé composé vs imparfait practice
• Reflexive verbs
• IPA-style assessments
• Presentational communication
• Narrative storytelling
• ACTFL-aligned classrooms
• Grades 7–12

Teacher Notes:

This project has been classroom-tested for over twenty years and consistently produces:

• stronger student engagement
• richer storytelling
• improved oral fluency
• more authentic narrative production
• memorable classroom moments

Students are telling funny stories about their monster at the grocery store, on vacation, hiking up Mt. Baden-Powell, or at a theme park.

You’re actually assessing:

• tense selection
• verb conjugation
• oral communication
• narrative cohesion
• sustained language production
• spontaneous speaking ability

And they have fun doing it!

Companion Product:

This project is designed as the sequel to Mon Monstre: A Two-Part Creative French IPA Project, where students first create and describe their monster before taking it on real-world adventures.

*Perfect for assigning before Spring Break, giving students a chance to share authentic experiences and real-world adventures to narrate in French with their Monstre.

French passé composé project, French imparfait activity, French narrative writing, French storytelling project, French IPA assessment, French speaking activity, French 2 project, reflexive verbs French, French oral presentation, communicative language teaching, French Google Slides project, French adventure project, French photo storytelling, French performance assessment, ACTFL French, French past tense practice, novice high French, intermediate French, world language assessment, French creative project, French video speaking assignment, French fluency practice, French classroom project, French authentic assessment