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🇫🇷AP French Unit 6 Review

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Unit 6 Overview: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges

🇫🇷AP French
Unit 6 Review

Unit 6 Overview: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges

Written by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated September 2025
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Verified for the 2026 examWritten by the Fiveable Content Team • Last updated September 2025
🇫🇷AP French
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Unit 6 - Challenges Humans Face

Unit 6 explores how scientific, governmental, political, social, and other complex challenges affect residents of Francophone countries and communities. Students can:

  • investigate how economic developments and environmental challenges can impact society, as well as politics on a larger scale, which in turn affect individual families and communities.
  • explore how individuals can positively or negatively influence the world around them.
  • suggest possible solutions that address contemporary global challenges.
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Essential Questions

How do environmental, political, and societal challenges positively and negatively impact communities?  En quoi les défis environnementaux, politiques et sociaux ont-ils un impact positif et négatif sur les communautés?

What role do individuals play in identifying and potentially solving complex societal issues?  Quel rôle l'individu joue-t-il en identifiant et éventuellement en résolvant des problèmes complexes de société?

How do challenging issues affect a society's culture?  En quoi les enjeux difficiles affectent-ils la culture d'une société? 

Strive for Five Vocabulary

  • Défis - challenges
  • L'environnement - the environment
  • La politique - politics
  • La société - society

Possible Prompts on the Exam

How can individuals influence the world around them in positive ways? 

How do economic challenges impact immigration and politics in the Francophone world? 

How are individuals, families, and communities affected by environmental challenges across the Francophone world? 

What are some of the most prevalent issues that contribute to issues in Francophone communities? How does this compare to your community?