Description

From monster creation to full narrative storytelling, this classroom-tested French project sequence helps students build confidence, creativity, and communicative fluency through connected, memorable experiences.

This bundle includes:
✔ Mon Monstre

Students physically create, describe, and present their own monster in French using descriptive vocabulary, adjective agreement, colors, body parts, and presentational speaking.

✔ Mon Monstre et Moi

Students take their monster on real-world adventures and narrate those experiences using passé composé, imparfait, reflexive verbs, storytelling, Google Slides, video, and spontaneous oral presentation.

Together, these projects form a complete narrative progression:

• description → storytelling
• present tense → past narration
• supported output → sustained communication
• creative engagement → authentic assessment

Students don’t just complete a project. They build a character they continue using throughout the year.

What’s Included Mon Monstre:

✔ Creative monster-building project
✔ Descriptive writing and speaking activities
✔ English + French support pages
✔ Rubrics in both languages
✔ Vocabulary supports
✔ Teacher pacing notes
✔ Classroom family album extension

Mon Monstre et Moi:

✔ Past-tense narrative project
✔ Passé composé & imparfait storytelling
✔ Reflexive verb integration
✔ Photo-driven Google Slides project
✔ Final video component
✔ Spontaneous oral presentation assessment
✔ Detailed scoring rubric
✔ Teacher implementation guide

Best For:

• French 1
• French 2
• Novice to Intermediate learners
• ACTFL-aligned classrooms
• IPA-style assessments
• Creative communicative instruction
• Presentational speaking and writing
• Narrative storytelling units
• Spring Break projects
• End-of-unit assessments

Why Teachers Love This Sequence:

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

• strong student engagement
• memorable presentations
• authentic storytelling
• improved oral fluency
• richer target-language output
• genuine student ownership

Students think they’re building monsters and telling funny stories.

You’re actually assessing:

• descriptive language
• adjective agreement
• tense selection
• narrative sequencing
• vocabulary retrieval
• oral fluency
• sustained language production
• spontaneous communication

And they have fun doing it!

Teaching Duration:

Approximately 5 weeks total implementation
(Typically 2 weeks for Mon Monstre + 3 weeks for Mon Monstre et Moi)

The timing is flexible. You know your classes better than anyone.

Generally, I keep the monsters in the classroom unless students ask to take them home temporarily. They usually promise to bring them back once they realize we’ll be using them again later in the year.

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