C'est mercredi, le trois avril

'La parfaite valeur est de faire sans témoin ce qu'on serait capable de faire devant tout le monde.'
True valour is to do in secrecy what you could just have easily done before others.

La Rochefoucauld.

Vous savez??: The city of Paris is divided into two parts by the river Seine, namely the Rive-Gauche and the Rive Droite. These mean the RIGHT BANK and the LEFT BANK.

Bonjour, mes amis!

I hope you had a MAGNIFIQUE vacation :-)

Now, onto the end of the year...

7th grade:

• On commence "Les Loisirs et Divertissments" - Leisure and Recreation, Pastimes etc
• Ou vas-tu?? JE VAIS
•   Que fais-tu? JE FAIS DU...
• Qu'est-ce que tu aimes-faire??  J'AIME FAIRE...J'AIME...
•  Quels sports joues-tu??? JE JOUE AU...

8th grade:

• Simpsons Cat walk- 5 minutes speaking
• Porter worksheet
• Clothing Speed-dating :-)

Quiz: jeudi

C'est jeudi, le vingt-et-un mars

7th grade:

• Part 2 of 2 CUT III. Speaking/Writing.
• Demain: FILM!
• Return from Spring Break: LA NOURRITURE: FOOD! 

8th grade:

• Gettysburg trip! Passez des bons temps :-)

C'est mercredi, le vingt mars

JOYEUX PRINTEMPS à TOUT LE MONDE!
(after a snow day, yesterday!)

7th grade:

• CUT 3 - Listening/ Speaking: Study Set for Speaking below:

8th grade:

• PORTER W/S
• Passport to Paris: QUIZ ON CLOTHES WHEN WE RETURN!
• CUT 3- APRIL 11th and 12th~

C'est vendredi, le quinze 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.

Vous Savez??: In the RHONE ALPES region of France, it is illegal for UFOs to fly over vinyards. The RHONES ALPES is located in the South East of France and was named after a river that runs throught it and a mountain range that borders it. Its capital is Lyon.

7th grade:

• Create Quizlet Account
• Flashcard review: La Famille
• See who you can beat! Can you rise to the top?
• Chez Mimi

CUT 3- WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY

FRIDAY: MOVIE!

8th grade:

• What not to Wear/Fashion magazine article Web assignment
• Flashcard Quizlet Challenge
• Create account

BIG QUIZ ON CLOTHES: WEDNESDAY

THURSDAY/FRIDAY: GETTYSBURG!

C'est jeudi, le quatorze mars

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

Truth is the sun of intelligence.

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

7th grade:

• Continue avec vos VOKIS
• All Sound MUST be recorded by end of period TODAY!!!
• If you are FINISHED...click through the links below and review:

http://surfacelanguages.com/language/French/reviewwords/Family.html - practice speaking/listening!

http://www.allgemeinbildung.ch/fach=fra/Famille_01a.htm - L'Arbre de Famille

http://lexiquefle.free.fr/famille0.swf - Notre arbre de famille :-)

http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/c4modernlanguages/mimi/main/french_main_menu.asp - Chez Mimi! Find the window that says "Family Ties" Use your headphones!

8th grade:

• Gimme Gimme- Your shopping lists.
• Écrivez: Write EVERYTHING you are wearing today. Include color and description of the item. Use vocabulary sheets!
• Parlez! With partner, ask and answer the following questions.
• Écoutez! Listen to the 5 women described. Who is wearing what?

DEMAIN: Computer Lab again!

Level IA 7th grade Family Flashcards

For those of you who like to get  ahead and study :-)

Level IB 8th grade Clothing Flashcards

For those of you who like to get ahead and study :-)

C'est mardi, douze 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.

7th grade:

• Creation of VOKIS
• link: www.voki.com/classroom
• Login using username and password I gave to you. Do not lose your slip!
• Look at grading rules below, and assignment sheet for guidance

8th grade:

• Allons Faire du Shopping- Les Vêtements Webquest
• Go to W- Student Drop Drive
• Go to FOR DISTRIBUTION
• Go to manley
• Click on Allons Faire du Shopping assignment
• Use "Control + Click" to access the websites listed in the assignment
• Due today: Tache Un- TASK ONE/ Euro to Dollar Conversion and Percentages. Baby Quiz Grade
• Due tomorrow: Shopping List. Do NOT forget to click the size conversion sites to properly determine your size when selecting your items.
• For 500 bonus EURO- tell me: Pierre Auguste Rodin, left homeless by the French government, sculpted what famous statue???

Level IA VOKI LA FAMILLE Project

• www.voki.com/classroom
• Login using username and password I have given you
• Create a VOKI of YOU!
• Your VOKI will do the following to earn you the following grades: 

a. Be Awesome!

b. Speak French IN YOUR OWN VOICE with 50 + words = 100 

c. Speak French IN YOUR OWN VOICE with 40 + words= 90

d. Speak French IN YOUR OWN VOICE with 30 + words= 80

e. Speak French IN A VOKI VOICE with 60 + words = 95

f. Speak French IN A VOKI VOICE with 50 + words = 85

g. Speak French IN A VOKI VOICE with 40 + words = 75

C'est mercredi, le six 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.

Vous savez?!: PIERRE AUGUSTE RODIN, 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.

7th grade:

- Lis la paragraphe de Luke
- Les Quéstions de la famille
- LOTTO Card
- LOTTO

8th grade:

• Bébé Quiz
• La déscription des Vêtements
• Who likes what?!
• Une Semaine de Lady Gaga W/S

C'est mardi, le cinq mars

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
- Henri de Toulouse l'Autrec




Vous savez??? : TOULOUSE L'AUTREC 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.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec

7th grade:

• SNAP!
• Baby Quiz
• Finissez les phrases de notre ARBRE DE FAMILLE
• Chez Mimi : http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/c4modernlanguages/mimi/main/french_main_menu.asp - 
• LOTTO CARD fill in

8th grade:

• Continuez avec Les Vêtements
• Fill in zee Blanks
• C'est quelle couleur??? lil activity
• More describing clothes
• Choisis une membre de la classe...decris leurs vêtements! C'est Qui???

C'est lundi, le quatre 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. But, most of us know him as "Richard, Coeur de Lion" or "Richard, the Lionheart."

7th grade:

• Simpsons do now sheet
• Demi-soeur et demi-frère vocabulary sheet
• http://lexiquefle.free.fr/famille0.swf - Notre arbre de famille :-)
• Notre ARBRE DE FAMILLE - In pairs 15!!! sentences about how we are all related :-)
• Helen EST la mère DE emily (Helen is the mom of Emily, or Helen is Emily's mom.)
• LOTTO card fill out :-)
• Comment s'appelle ton père??? Comment s'appelle ta soeur???
• MON père s'appelle _________________ 
• MA soeur s'appelle __________________

Bébé Quiz: demain!

8th grade:

• Commencez Le Shopping: Les Vêtements!
• Focus Question: Que Portes-Tu??? 
• PORTER- to wear
• Les Feuilles de Vocabulaire

If you just need to hear it ONE MORE TIME!