12 Feb 2016 No Comments
Honors French C has been working on reflexive verbs along with the vocabulary for household chores. We created presentations retelling the story of Cinderella/Cendrillon on the PhotoPeach Website.
23 Nov 2014 No Comments
My French C Honors class (8th grade) has been learning a bit about French art and the museums of Paris. We’ve learned vocabulary for describing paintings and our wonderful art teacher, Mrs. Sibley came to talk to us about Impressionism so that we would be prepared for our field trip to the High Museum to view an exhibit of Cézanne and other French artists. A link to the photos taken by Mrs. Inman (francophile herself) is below. Special thanks as well to Mrs. Pottorff and Mrs. Eichenlaub who organized lunch at Café Lapin and drove the group!
http://pacemiddleschool.dphoto.com/#/album/5408fw/photo/27938796
23 Oct 2014 No Comments
We watch a feuilleton that goes with our text (T’es Branché) in class. Here are some short memorized conversations from the show.
16 Sep 2014 No Comments
French B and Honors French C played the Shark Game to review material last week. Here are some pictures of the classes.
14 May 2014 No Comments
In connection with the 8th grade Civil Rights Trip and a small unit I do in conjunction with the 8th grade Spanish classes, French C Honors has been studying Immigration and Multiculturalism in France and the Francophone world for several weeks (along with reviewing for our final exam!). We have looked briefly at Immigration to New England and Louisiania from France and Québec. We have considered issues faced by Haïtians in the Dominican Republic (complete with a Skype interview via the DR with a Haïtian teacher and an American who works with the Haïtian community). We have looked at issues that are of concern in France and Europe as a whole as they define what it means to be French. Mostly, we have had fun hearing a wide variety of songs that address these topics. Students were asked to select one of the songs we studied in this unit (and could also choose from a few others we have learned over the year) and learn at least 10 lines to recite to the class. There was an option to sing the lines as well. As you will see in the videos below, many took this task to heart and presented a very fine performance in class today. Merci beaucoup tout le monde! You have made me proud and made me laugh, today and all year!
Les Chansons de l’année: “Aïcha” by Khaled, “Métis” by Yannick Noah, “Au Bal Masqué”by La Compagnie Créole, “Ma philosophie” by Amel Bent, “Inch’Allah” by Grand Corps Malade and Reda Taliani, “Mezanmi” by Luck Mervil and Corneille together, “Seul au Monde” by Corneille, “French in America” by Josée Vachon, “J’aime la vie” by Zachary Richard and his grandson Emile, and a lot of Wanito in Créole and other musicians in French as background music!
A special BRAVO to those who were very BRAVE and decided to sing even if they “can’t sing”! 🙂
A sampling (sorry if you aren’t here…some videos had a technical problem!):
Jacques
Elizabeth
Julien
François
Véronique
Marie
Daniel
Jean
CC
Megan
Claude
Guy
Annie
Sabine
Jeanne
Marguerite
Brigitte
Noëlle
Alexandre
10 Feb 2014 No Comments
French C Honors students reviewed vocabulary about travel with two games: “Sur la tête” and “Noodle”. In the first game, students compete to circle a specific vocab word. They have to keep their marker on their head before that word is called.
Noodle
A great game for the gym or a few minutes outside! Each student is provided with a large flashcard picture of a vocabulary word. They then form a circle, holding their cards in front of them so all can see. One player is given a pool noodle and goes in the middle of the circle. They call out one of the vocabulary words being held by the other students. They then must count to 3…1 Mississippi…2… before trying to tap the student holding that particular card with their pool noodle (you have to make rules about how hard you can hit and where, of course). Meanwhile, the student whose vocab word was just called cannot move their feet and must call out someone else’s vocab word before being hit with the pool noodle. If they are successful, the student in the center has to change course and look for the person holding this new vocab word (and now this player must yell out yet another vocab word before begin hit by the noodle). When hit by the noodle, you are “it”. Students should exchange vocab words from time to time.
27 Jan 2014 No Comments
French C Honors students did a reading and saw a video about Morocco last week. We also studied a song by Algerian Raï artist, Khaled. The students were then assigned a topic to research and present about. Topics included things like traditions, holidays, food, clothing, geography, sports, and cool places to visit. Two students brought in their version of fruit Briouats and I made Ghoriba (sesame cookies) for all to taste. Wouldn’t it be lovely if we could all escape to Morocco for the rest of this cold winter?
21 Jan 2014 No Comments
French C Honors students have been working in small groups over the past few days to imagine a product that doesn’t exist and then create the commercial that markets their new product. They were given a rubric with certain requirements, like using direct and indirect object pronouns, reflexive verbs, and commands. Here are the results of their work. I think they did a great job, particularly because I did not help them edit their scripts or plan their performance.
26 Nov 2013 No Comments
Spanish C and French C Honors braved the cold for a friendly game of pétanque, the French version of bocci ball. In a previous lesson, French students learned the rules of the game and Spanish students did an activity comparing pétanque with the Colombian game of tejo. Despite the weather, the day was a success!
