lundi le treize septembre (Monday, September 13.)

'O Dieu, si tu veux que jamais plus femme n'élève la voix, crée enfin un homme adulte !'

Oh God, if you want women to never again raise their voices, then create an adult man!

Jean GIRAUDOUX, Sodome et Gomorrhe, acte II, scène 6

Trivia today: In what year did the French government (in France) last use the guillotine as a form of capital punishment?

Vendredi: What are those quarries holding the bodies called?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4gg-EoU0Dog

7th grade

- Trivia

- Finish introductions

- Comment t'appelles -tu?

- Je m'appelle ______________________

- Enchanté!

DEVOIRS:

Take vrai/faux quiz on the life and times of your French teacher. How much do you thiiiink you know?

8th grade:

- Trivia

- Finish/Begin Madame Manley 'Vrai /Faux' quiz

- Introduce class project "Bonjour, je m'appelle..."
-You will have until the end of the period: lundi le 20 septembre, peut-être le 21??

"Bonjour, je m'appelle..."

This will be done in class.

Elements of Project

1. Write a 30 sentence composition about yourself, your life, your interests, your likes and dislikes, your family, your house, your everything...

2. Create at least THREE 'name-plates' (examples will be shown) that represent one of the elements that 'make you, YOU!' ex: Je m'appelle Janine et j'adore les chats. (I design my name in tiger-print.)

3. Type composition at home or in computer lab.

4. Mount name-plates and composition on colored paper and hang in hallway for Back to School Night.

DUE: MONDAY SEPTEMBER 20th

Be creative !

Remember your basics :

Je suis = I am

J'ai = I have

J'adore = I love

Je déteste = I hate

Be colorful

Use your old book and page 185 of Discovering French Nouveau.

French dictionaries (on bookshelf by Mme. DeStazio)

Any resource MINUS a translation service on the internet. TRUST ME, we will be able to tell if you have used one. You are still beginning learners, your sentences will be basic, and that's OK!