French 3 class just wrapped up a fun project - reviewing last semester's materials and putting that knowledge into childrens' style books, with illustrations, and audio-recordings of their stories. We will be sharing them with a teacher at Stratton who is working with young children in the new dual-language French program there. We hope to also share them with the dual-language program at Yankee Ridge Elementary School in Urbana. And now that the stories are done, we have moved on to the second half of our textbook.
French 4 class has dived into the quarter-long unit on German Occupation and French Resistance during WWII. Some of the information is not new to them, thanks to their history classes or personal interest; some will be. For a few of the students in the class who were on our trip to France last summer, we will be touching on things they might have seen or experienced during our travels. This unit will include excerpts of reading materials, a short period of research with an oral presentation, a few movies to watch, some discussions and written reflections with each movie, and an end-project of two newspapers, each representing one of the sides of the conflict.
Each class will be participating in the National French Contest, administered in class over two days in late February.
Each class will also participate in an international Poetry competition before April - original pieces, in French, judged by a French committee. Three of our students in the last few years have had their work recognized and awarded, as well as published in the annual anthology!
And finally, outside of class, but still exposing our students to French language and culture, we will be welcoming Justine and Hugo for 3 weeks (February 8 to March 3) in our school. They will attend classes with their hosts, with peers; they will come to our French classes every now and then to participate, help, chat.
It is a pleasure to come to class each day, to catch a smile, to get a question, to see lightbulbs go off when something goes click finally.
French 4 class has dived into the quarter-long unit on German Occupation and French Resistance during WWII. Some of the information is not new to them, thanks to their history classes or personal interest; some will be. For a few of the students in the class who were on our trip to France last summer, we will be touching on things they might have seen or experienced during our travels. This unit will include excerpts of reading materials, a short period of research with an oral presentation, a few movies to watch, some discussions and written reflections with each movie, and an end-project of two newspapers, each representing one of the sides of the conflict.
Each class will be participating in the National French Contest, administered in class over two days in late February.
Each class will also participate in an international Poetry competition before April - original pieces, in French, judged by a French committee. Three of our students in the last few years have had their work recognized and awarded, as well as published in the annual anthology!
And finally, outside of class, but still exposing our students to French language and culture, we will be welcoming Justine and Hugo for 3 weeks (February 8 to March 3) in our school. They will attend classes with their hosts, with peers; they will come to our French classes every now and then to participate, help, chat.
It is a pleasure to come to class each day, to catch a smile, to get a question, to see lightbulbs go off when something goes click finally.