mercredi le PREMIER avril!

Salut,

I'm just writing a little note to let you know I uploaded a few photos from the Faculty-Student basketball game. I didn't get to take many because the lighting was weird and I couldn't figure out how to work my new camera...
Anyway, I said to Mrs. Riccio after the game how it made my heart feel so warm that our school and community all came together to raise money for such a great cause..in memory of someone I know I will never forget.
Also, if you have never clicked on the link for French Class photos on the right - below is the address where you can find my photostream. I wanted to upload the Variety show photos as well...but I forgot they are on my computer at home. Hopefully I'll have them up by tonight.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bonjour-bonheur/

Much love!
Mademoiselle B <3

Oh...possessive QUIZ for 8th grade today.
Finish aliens (judging to come) and movie for 7th grade.

lundi le trente mars

Il faut que le monde soit clair. Si les coeurs étaient clairs, le monde serait clair.
Jacques AUDIBERTI, Le Mal court, acte III

The world has to be clear. If hearts were clear, the world would be clear.

Déjeuner: 'Nuggets' de Poulet

7th Grade:

• Continuez avec les extra-terrestres!
• You have until the end of class MARDI.
• One group quiz grade/judging by my lovely 8th grade <3

8th grade:

• Petite feuille (review of grammar so far in Unité 5)
• UGH...Practiquez encore le futur proche.
• Grammar Relay...Unité 5.
• DEMAIN : POSSESSIVES. LAST THING THIS UNIT!!!!!

vendredi le vingt sept mars

Les choses, que la passion fait faire, paraissent ridicules à ceux qui n'en ont jamais senti.
Hortense MANCINI, Mémoires
Things which happen due to passion seem ridiculous to those who have never felt it.

Hier: What region has a law making it illegal for UFOs to fly over vinyards?

Déjeuner: TURKEY CUBES AND GRAVY!!!!

7th grade:

• Commencez les extra-terrestres!
• Groups of no more than 4 people...

EACH ALIEN MUST HAVE:

• EVERY body part on the list used and LABELED. (I would first define the list received.)
• Be very COLORFUL.
• A name...

EACH ALIEN SHOULD HAVE

• A 'theme'... like the example I show.

YOU HAVE 2 - 3 DAYS.

8th grade judges...Winning team receives - something?

8th grade:

• Continuez avec le futur proche...
• 3 Steps: 1.) 'Lock and Drop' the subject...

2.) Squeeze in the form of ALLER that fits.

3.) Bring back the verbie to 'the beginning.'

• In pairs...or no more than 3 - Completez la feuille sur le futur proche.

TICKET TRADE IN - BOTH LEVELS. PASSEZ UN BON WEEEKEND!:)

jeudi le vingt six mars

Je ne me fais pas entendre si personne ne me répond.
Elsa TRIOLET, Les Fantômes armés

I'm not making myself heard if no one responds to me.

Trivia: In this region of France, it is illegal for UFOs to fly over vinyards. This region, located on the South Eastern was named after a river that runs throught it and a mountain range that borders it. Its capital is Lyon.

Hier: What name person is it illegal to name a pig after?

Déjeuner: Hot ham and cheese. ew.

7th grade:

• Second little unscrambling activity.
• Check Vocabulary Sheet.
• Janine dit / Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds...
• Les parties du corps...riddles (and extra body parts since you're starting your aliens tomorrow.)

8th grade:

• Allons-y à commencer la FUTUR PROCHE!

YOU NEED TO KNOW ALLER!

Je vais Nous allons

Tu vas Vous allez

Il/Elle va Ils/Elles vont

Use Warp Whistles..,whatever, I'm old.

EXAMPLES

a.) Erin joue au tennis.

b.) Nous dansons à la fête.

c.) Dillon et Patrick sont des hamsters.

d.) J'aime beaucoup le 'RW-RR Challenge!'

e.) Tu vas au stade pour le match de Tigres.

f.) Dominick a un singe à la maison.

g.) Vous n'allez pas au lycée.

mercredi le vingt cinq mars

La vérité est le soleil des intelligences.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de VAUVENARGUES, Pensées diverses

Truth is the sun of intelligence.

Trivia: Weird French law: In France, it’s illegal to name a pig after this military and political leader who was born in Corsica in 1769 and was eventually defeated at the infamous battle of Waterloo.

Hier: The famous monastary/strong hold in the middle of the sea?

Déjeuner: le pizza

7th grade:

• Little body parts 'do now'
• Check les devoirs Page 138-139 A-C
• Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds!!!!
• Janine dit...
• Vocabulary Sheet!

8th grade:

• Think about how you did yesterday/the mistakes you made
• ...another quiz.
• BOTH COUNT - but maybe it will bring your average up.
• LOOK CAREFULLY.

Demain: NOUS ALLONS COMMENCER le 'futur proche <3'

mardi le vingt quatre mars.

Les enfants n'ont ni passé ni avenir, et, ce qui ne nous arrive guère, ils jouissent du présent.
Jean de LA BRUYÈRE, Les Caractères, De l'hommme, 51

Children have neither a past nor a future and, hardly ever true of us, enjoy the present.

Trivia: This rocky tidal island and commune is located in Normandy, France. This one time monastary was used in the sixth and seventh centuries as an Armorican stronghold of Romano-Breton culture and power, until it was ransacked by the Franks, thus ending the trans-channel culture that had stood since the departure of the Romans in AD 460.

Déjeuner: Hamburger/Cheeseburger

7th grade:

• Commencez LES PARTIES DU CORPS!!!
• Tête, épaules, genoux, pieds....Genoux, pieds - Les yeux, les oreilles, la bouche et le nez!
• From the top down...do you remember the parts...let's see!
• Feuille de vocabulaire.

Devoirs: Completez le Vocabulaire

8th grade:

• Finissez l'activité! (Contractions)
• Prennez le grand quiz...
• Corrigez en classe :)

mercredi le dix-huit mars

Comme la vie est lente

Et comme l'Espérance est violente.
Guillaume APOLLINAIRE, Alcools, Le pont Mirabeau

How slow life is

And how violent Hope is.

Trivia: This king (1824-1830) was the brother of both King Louis XVI and King Louis XVIII, as well as uncle to Louis XVII and reigned for a period of time known as The Restoration after Napolean when the "Bourbons" regained the throne of France. This period was characterized as a return of 'the Arts....'

Déjeuner: Le pizza

8th grade:

• Petit quiz...avec les autres, aussi.
• Review the paragraph that uses all three...
• CONTRACTIONS...God help you :)

to the/at the/ in the... from the/of the...

à + la = à la de +la = de la

à + le = au de + le = du

à + l' = à l' de + l' = de l'

à + les = aux de + les = des

7th grade:

• Continuez avec vos projets...
• don't forget - a.) effort

b.) Art

c.) Critique!!!!

jeudi le douze mars

Aucun possible n'est beau ; le réel seul est beau.
Émile Chartier dit ALAIN, Système des beaux-arts I, VINo
possibility is beautiful; reality alone is beautiful.


Trivia: This artist, famous for sculpting The Thinker, died of frostbite in 1917 when the French government refused him financial aid for a flat, yet they kept his statues warmly housed in museums.
Hier: The (small) artist famous for depicting the "Can Can" dancers at the Moulin Rouge? (click favorites)

Déjeuner: Jambon et fromage "chaud"

7th grade:

• Commencez "Projet l'Art"
• Begin with discussing a 'critique'...your thoughts, ideas, a good name for this painting?
• Give out rubric for project.
• Show examples from years past/discuss possibilities...
• What the 'real' story is...the life of the artist.

8th grade:

• Prennez le quiz sure le vocabulaire.
• Marquez en classe...
• Present 'Aller' - little quiz tomorrow? I THINK SO.

mercredi le onze mars

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
- anonymous artist below




Trivia :This artist is known along with Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin as one of the greatest painters of the Post-Impressionist period. In a 2005 auction at Christie's auction house a new record was set when "La blanchisseuse", an early painting of a young laundress, sold for $22.4 million. At the age of 13 this artist fractured his left thigh bone, and at 14, the right.[2] The breaks did not heal properly. Modern physicians attribute this to an unknown genetic disorder, possibly pycnodysostosis.His legs ceased to grow, so that as an adult he was only 1.22 m (4 ft 6 in) tall,[2] having developed an adult-sized torso, while retaining his child-sized legs, which were 0.70 m (27.5 in) long.

Déjeuner: Pizza

7th grade:

• Prennez l'examen!!

Demain: Commencez Projet l'Art

8th grade:

• Practique pour le quiz de vocabulaire
• Little matching trial....
• Vocabulary Beeeee

Demain: QUIZ de Vocabulaire

lundi le neuf mars

Le monde est fait avec des astres et des hommes.
Émile VERHAEREN, La Multiple Splendeur, Le monde
The world is made of stars and men.

Trivia: Richard I ruled England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Nantes and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was a primary leader in the third Crusade. He had a 'nickname' of sorts in English...what is the French translation of this name????

Déjeuner: Personal Pizza

7th grade:

• Vocabulary Beeeeeeee Français /Anglais
• LOTTO

EXAMEN : MERCREDI!

8th grade:

• Match Vocabulary terms
• Review some of the worksheet
• LOTTO <3

Vocab Quiz : Matching MERCREDI