C'est vendredi, le premier février!

Tous les hommes sont égaux par la nature et devant la loi.

All men are equal by nature and by law.
Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen

Vous Savez?!: Contrary to popular belief, DOM PERIGNON,  (who was a Benedictine monk) was not the first to invent champagne, but did develop some of the greatest advances in the production of the beverage, including holding the cork in place with a wire collar to withhold the pressure!

7th grade:

• Chez Moi sheet (top and bottom)
• Écoutez! Listening Activity
• PARLEZ!: Qu'est-ce qu'il y a dans la chambre- 5 minutes
• Avec ton partinaire- choisit une chambre 

8th grade:

• Baby Quiz and Bonus
• Label the photos sheet
• LOTTO

MONDAY AND TUESDAY: COMPUTER LAB!

C'est jeudi, le trente-et-un janvier

En France, on étudie les hommes, en Allemagne, les livres.

In France, one studies men; in Germany, books.
Madame de STAËL, De l'Allemagne, chap. 13

Vous savez?!: We could say that this is a teen disaster that became one of the most famous recipes in the history of fine French cuisine! However, the teen wasn’t working at a fast food but in the Café de Paris in Monte Carlo. Edward VII, Prince of Wales, was visiting that night when suddenly the waiter’s pan caught on fire with the liqueur and the crepes were flambéed. The young man found it so delicious that he served it to the Prince and it became a favorite. As a young woman was present, the waiter named it for her. And Crepes SUZETTE were born!

7th grade:

• Où est Leo??? Worksheet Do Now
• Les Pièces- Domino Room Activity
• LOTTO

COMPUTER LAB- UPSTAIRS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5TH!!!

8TH GRADE:

• Baby Quiz plus bonus
• Essential Question: Où vas-tu pour acheter un croissant?
• Forming "Les phrases complets" avec ton partinaire
• LOTTO

C'est mercredi, le trente janvier

Le scandale est souvent pire que le péché.
The scandal is often worse than the sin.
MARGUERITE DE NAVARRE, Heptaméron, 25e nouvelle



Vous Savez?!: On 31 August 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales died as a result of injuries sustained in a car crash in the Pont d'Alma tunnel in Paris, France. The crash was a result of a high speed chase where the car holding the princess attempted to escape the paparazzi. As the casualties lay seriously injured or dead in their wrecked car, the photographers continued to take pictures. The critically injured Diana was reported to repeatedly murmur the words, "oh my God", and after the photographers were pushed away by emergency teams, the words "leave me alone".

* Her companion Dodi Fayed and the driver of the car, Henri Paul, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Fayed's bodyguard, Trevor Rees-Jones, was believed to be the only occupant wearing a seat belt until a 2006 study that said none of the four were wearing a seat belt.

An eighteen-month French judicial investigation concluded in 1999 that the car crash that killed Diana was caused by Paul, who lost control of the car at high speed while intoxicated and under the influence of antidepressants.

7th grade:

Écrivez les suivants en français, et après traduisez en anglais! Write the following in French, then translate into English.

-LE PLACARD-
-LA PISCINE-
-LE CAVE-
-LE SOUS-SOL-
-LE LIT-
-LA MOQUETTE-
-LE LAVABO-
-LA LAVE-VAISELLE-
-LA MACHINE À LAVER-
-L'OURS EN PELUCHE-

-L'ÉTAGERE-

-UN CANAPÉ -

• Baby Quiz! (and bonus)
• LOTTO

8th grade:

• Label the little sheet
• Révision, les magasins
• Les Comparisons- les magasins aux États-Unis et en France
• LOTTO Card

Bébé Quiz: DEMAIN

C'est mardi, le vingt-neuf janvier

J'ai réinventé le passé pour voir la beauté de l'avenir.

I reinvented the past to see the beauty of the future.
Louis ARAGON, Le Fou d'Elsa

Vous savez??: The Eiffel Tower, designed by Gustav Eiffel, was made for the 1889 World' Fair and wasn’t all that popular with Parisiens at the time, even though it was then the tallest structure in the world. It was due to be torn in 1909, but it was saved as it made an ideal spot to put TV and radio antennas on top of!

7th grade:

• Marquez la feuille "LES MEUBLES"
• Parlez: les 5 questions importants!
• LOTTO

8th grade:

•  On fait LES COURSES!

Essential Questions:

a.Qu’est-ce que tu as besoin d’acheter?
b.Qu’est-ce que tu achètes au…?

• Le Présentation des magasins! 

C'est vendredi, le vingt-cinq janvier

Les hommes ne croient jamais les autres capables de ce qu'ils ne le sont pas eux-mêmes.

People never believe others capable of doing that which they themselves are not capable of doing.

De Gondi.

Vous savez?!: The Musée des Egouts de Paris is perhaps the French capital’s strangest attraction –it is a tour of Paris's famous sewer system!


7th grade:

• Bébé Quiz! Bonus Question...
• Marquez les meubles W/S - Write down the furniture work sheet
• LOTTO :-)

Où habites -tu?

J'habite _______________

De quelle couleur est ta maison?

Ma maison est ____________! (bleue, rouge, blanche, jaune, noire, beige, verte)

Il y a combien de pièces dans ta maison?

Il y a ____________ pièces (dans ma maison.)

Comment est ta maison??

Ma maison est assez grande et belle!

8th grade:

• Donnez moi quelsque minutes à corriger vos papiers...SVP?!
• Parlez- Those who have not yet spoken- meet your maker!
• LUNDI- on commence "LES COURSES!" - SHOPPING!!

C'est mardi, le vingt-deux janvier

'Généralement, les gens qui savant peu parlent beaucoup, et les gens qui savant beaucoup parlent peu.'
Generally speaking, the people who know little speak a lot and the people who know a lot speak little.
Rousseau.

Vous savez???: The truffle, a French delicacy that can range in price from $800-$1500 per pound has been described as: diamond of cookery, fairy apple, black queen, gem of poor lands, fragrant nugget, black pearl, holy of holies for the gourmet. Why do you think these little nuggets are so expensive? What other item can you think of that would make a good comparison?

7th grade:

• Petit Quiz de pièces - révisez! 
  Lisez! Pièces Puzzle (5 minutes)
  
  
• Avec ton partinaire: PARLEZ (3 minutes): 
  1.Où habites-tu? J'habite dans _______ à _________
  2. De quelle couleur est ta maison?? Ma maison est ______
  3. Il y a combien de pièces dans ta maison?! Il y a _____ pièces.
• Finissez : House Hunters International: Paris (10 minutes)

BABY QUIZ: DEMAIN!

8th grade:

• Lisez/Écoutez! À quelle heure est le vol à Paris?: l'heure en 24H.
• Parlez: 5 minutes...les photos
• Parlez/Lisez! SPEED DATING! Be as creative as possible. Have no fear! Use those VIP words!
• Re-cap: Les Interrogatives: En anglais?? Écoutez:
• Comment?
• Qui?
• À quelle heure?
• Quand?
• Qu'est-ce que?
• Où?

C'est jeudi, le dix-sept janvier

Et ceux qui ne font rien ne se trompent jamais.

Those who never do anything can never do anything wrong.

Banville.

Did you know????: The Croque-monsieur's first recorded appearance was on a Parisian café menu was in 1910. A "Croque- Monsieur" is a grilled ham and cheese sandwich on a crusty baguette. Miam Miam!

7th grade :

-Commencez LA MAISON - THE HOUSE
-Des Questions...on écoute : les types de maison...et les pièces de la maison!
- on parle/répète!
-on écrit- LOTTO card.

Où habites -tu?

J'habite _______________

De quelle couleur est ta maison?

Ma maison est ____________! (bleue, rouge, blanche, jaune, noire, beige, verte)

Il y a combien de pièces dans ta maison?

Il y a ____________ pièces (dans ma maison.)

8th grade:

• Liste de Questions pour le CUT.
• Practiquez- on parle aux partinaires
• Practiquez - on écrit vos paragraphes...

CUT 2 Review Level IA Days, Dates, and Months!

C'est jeudi, le dix janvier

Qui craint de souffrir, il souffre déjà de ce qu'il craint.

He who fears suffering is already suffering that which he fears.

La Fontaine.

Did you know??? MARIE ANTOINETTE was not originally from France, but was a young archduchess from Austria. She became the wife of the king who ruled France at the time of outbreak of the French Revolution, but was often despised because of her extreme love of fashion and display of wealth. She was eventually convicted and sentenced to the guillotine on charges of treason.

7th grade:

CUT 2 Day one: 
On parle et on écoute!


8th grade: * Please do not forget to ask your parents to be ready to pick you up at Entrance C at 3:45 PM Friday!

• bébé quiz: AVOIR
• On practique - sentences from yesterday below
• AVOIR Expressions
• Les jeux avec AVOIR ... link below.

Click here for French AVOIR review games!

C'est mercredi, le neuf janvier

Le genie est une longue patience.

Genius is patience.

Buffon

Did you know??? On the eve of August 18th, 1572, Henri de Navarre III wed Marguerite de Valois - a night that also marked the beginning of the massacre of over 5000 Huguenots (Protestants) in a wave of Roman Catholic violence in France, also known as the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre. This also prompted the emigration of French pilgrims to the US- specifically New Paltz!

7th grade:

• Attaquez les éléphants!
• Finish Study Packet- especially last 2 pages!!!!

CUT 2: Listening Section DEMAIN!

8th grade:

• Any added tickets to quizzes???
• Trip News
• LE VERBE AVOIR et le question "Qu'est-ce que TU AS pour le voyage????" et "AVOIR BESOIN DE"

* beaucoup de- many

a. I have four flights.

b. Kassidy has many, many suitcases.

c. Zach and Joe have two passports.

d. You (singular) need twelve tickets.

Level IA CUT 2 Review Flashcards

   CLICK HERE TO STUDY FURTHER ON YOUR OWN!: Qui suis-je?

C'est vendredi, le quatre janvier

'Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas.'

It's just one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

Napoléon.

French fact: In France, there are almost as many motorcycles, scooters, and mopeds as cars.

Trivia: Which movie based on a Dan Brown book features la Grande Pyramide?


7th grade:

• Review ONE Sheet
• Chatting about brothers/sisters HAVING vs BEING!
• Stabbing some piggies! Yowzas!

LUNDI: Vocabulary Beee Buzzzz....so you better know your stuff! CUT Outline. 

8th grade:

• Flashcard review
• Vocabulary Bee BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
• Fill out LOTTO Card
• Jouez au LOTTO

LUNDI: Upstairs Computer Lab for 20 minutes of flashcard review before QUIZ on MARDI!

For more practice using my online flashcards, click below: 

Travel and Transportation 2

C'est mercredi, le deux janvier - deux mille TREIZE

'Il faut que le monde soit clair. Si les coeurs étaient clairs, le monde serait clair.'
The world has to be clear. If hearts were clear, the world would be clear.
Jacques AUDIBERTI, Le Mal court, acte III

Bon Année, mes puces!

IT'S BACK! Trivia: The famous glass pyramid (La Grande Pyramide) at the entrance to the Louvre in Paris was designed by Chinese-American architect IM Pei. It was featured heavily in which movie based on the book by Dan Brown?

7th grade: 

• On regarde Les Misérables...
• Demain: on continue avec QUI SUIS-JE?? Révisez

EXAMEN: CUT 2 - JEUDI ET VENDREDI LE 10 ET 11 JANVIER

8th grade:

• Le train pour Paris part à quelle heure? White board review Activity. Focus: Time and Travel.
• Study Sheets for "new" Travel/Transportation vocabulary
• Flashcard makin'
• AVOIR- TO HAVE, the expression TO HAVE NEED: J'AI BESOIN!!

Focus Question: Qu'est- ce que tu as en BESOIN pour voyager?

- J'AI BESOIN D'un/une ________________________

a. I need 3 passports.

b. Kassidy needs fifteen suitcases.

c. You need two hundred-fifty Euros.