French 4 (with a Difference)

French 4 (with a Difference)

Teacher: Marji McIlvaine

Tuesday 3:00PM – 4:30PM (ET)

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Description

French 4 Course Overview

This class is approved by the NCAA.

French 4 is the culmination of the Comprehensible Input journey begun in French 1. At this advanced level, students move toward true language proficiency — thinking, analyzing, and expressing themselves in French with increasing depth and precision.

A central text for the year is Le Petit Prince, which we read carefully and thoughtfully, filtering its themes through the lens of Scripture. This rich literary work allows us to engage complex grammar, nuanced comprehension, and analytical essay writing.

Additional readings, Francophone cultural studies, discussion, and structured speaking activities strengthen fluency and deepen confidence in all areas of language: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

What Class Looks Like

What Your Student Will Learn in French 4

Parents often ask how French 4 prepares students for college placement exams, advanced study, or even study abroad. Below is a general overview of the advanced skills and proficiency goals emphasized in this class.

This summary outlines how students refine advanced grammar, expand vocabulary depth, analyze authentic literature, write structured essays, and move toward confident, independent language use.

Download the French 4 Learning Summary (PDF)

Course Structure & Expectations

Students should plan on 30–40 minutes of work each day, four days per week, in addition to the live class session. At this level, students are expected to take increasing ownership of their language growth.

Class time focuses on advanced comprehension, structured discussion, literary analysis, essay writing, and real-time language interaction. Students continue strengthening subjunctive usage, advanced verb structures, and stylistic precision.

Scripture, music, culture, and Francophone world studies remain integrated throughout the year, grounding language in meaning and worldview.

Class Materials

What Families Are Saying

I just took the university placement test and tested out of their college requirement! I’m planning on continuing and studying abroad in a country that speaks the language.
Anna – Student

You provide AWESOME foreign language options for our girls. There are not many good foreign language options out there — thank you!
Parent

Prerequisites

High School Credit

  • 1 credit

Grade Level

  • 9–12

Société Honoraire de Français

French Honor Society

At the completion of French 4, high-achieving students may be eligible for induction into the Société Honoraire de Français, the national French Honor Society. We are one of the few homeschool-based chapters in the country and are honored to offer this recognition to our students. Each year of membership is documented with a certificate.

Marji McIlvaine

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Marji McIlvaine (and her husband Rick) homeschooled their six children from K-12, even though she was just going to “try it for one year” with her first five-year-old. The children are all graduated and several are college graduates (2 Magna Cum Laude, 1 Summa Cum Laude). Some of the children are in college now, and some are in the work force, each one walking a God-directed pathway.

Marji has a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Florida, with graduate hours in linguistics and testing and assessment (ECU). Marji began her college career as a pre-veterinary major and garnered many college hours enjoying science.

Growing up in south Florida, she went to SeaCamp in the FL Keys where her passion for marine science was ignited through snorkeling, scuba diving and the hands-on study of ocean life.

Marji McIlvaine been teaching other homeschooled students in a variety of subjects for almost her whole homeschooling life. Marji has studied seven languages (Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Russian, and Arabic) and worked at UF as a bilingual secretary to a professor in the Animal Science department, thereby fusing her interests in science and language. She teaches Spanish 1-4, French 1-3, elementary Spanish classes, a unique language survey class, and middle school chemistry and marine science classes to homeschoolers of all ages in the mountains of western NC.

She also teaches high school marine biology classes, Spanish, French, German, and a broad spectrum of history classes to all ages as well. You might say that she is living proof that God will use whatever interest we give him to advance His purposes, and that nothing we give to him is in vain.

Marji is an advisor to the Board for the Henderson County Homeschool Association, administers the Woodcock-Johnson IV test to area homeschoolers, and is honored to have been included as a workshop speaker at the NCHE Homeschool Conference for several years.

One of her joys is helping her children and other students see the fingerprints of God in every discipline we study – science, foreign language, communication, and history, and helping them learn to use their God-given gifts and interests for His purposes in their lives. There is always more to learn and more to explore – every subject we study is an adventure into some facet of the world and of God!

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