MN chapter-AATF
teachers report via
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electronic
message service on
their Nov. 2003 French Week activities:
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a "French week activity" suggestion sent out in Sept.
03
~~~~ MANY FRENCH TEACHERS TOOK THEIR CLASSES ~~~~~~~
Sent: 29-SEP-2003 23:40:00.78
From: CALVIN::MNAATF
"Am.Assoc.Teach.French-MN"
To: MNAATF list
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From: IN%"gwoodbury@providenceacademy.org" "Gail Woodbury"
Date: 29-SEP-2003 13:28:00.31
To: IN%"MNAATF@stthomas.edu" "MnAATF e-mail message service
(E-mail)"
Subj: Special showing of "Etre et Avoir"
French teachers interested in taking their students to the Bell
Auditorium to see the French movie "Etre et Avoir": I have
arranged for a special showing of the movie during the day on
November 5th.
I thought this would be a perfect activity for our French students
to
participate in for National French Week. Please contact Adam Sekuler
at the University Film Society if you would like to reserve space
for
your students.
(612-331-7563)
The movie will start around 12:15 or 12:30.
(Time is yet to be confirmed.)
It is 104 minutes long.
Hope to see you there!
A bientot,
Gail Woodbury
French Teacher
Providence Academy
15100 Schmidt Lake Road
Plymouth, MN 55446
Phone: (763) 258-2500
Fax: (763) 258-2501
gwoodbury@providenceacademy.org
~~~~~~~Mayor of Minneapolis Proclamation NFW 2003~~~~~~~
Sent: 3-NOV-2003 21:53:04.62
From: CALVIN::MNAATF
"Am.Assoc.Teach.French-MN"
To: MNAATF List
Subj: La Semaine Nationale du francais 2003
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From: IN%"gberg@mpls.k12.mn.us" "Gaelle Berg"
Sent: 3-NOV-2003 16:33:18.12
To:
IN%"MNAATF@stthomas.edu"
Subj: National French Week Proclamation
Dear MNAATF,
Happy French Week!
I just received from Minneapolis' Mayor R.T. Rybak's office a
beautiful proclamation with the seal of Minneapolis, proclaiming
November 5-11, 2003 to be celebrated as French Week.
I wrote to his office early in September, and when I received no
reply, I sent him a reminder last week, et voila, I got it! I sent
him a copy of the proclamation that Mayor Gary Doty of Duluth had
signed a couple of
years ago,that Cherie Petterson of Duluth Public
Schools had copied to us on email, and his office basically copied
Duluth's. [NB
from mlw of 'mnaatfnet':
It can be seen on the MnAATFWebsite @:
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/mlwolsey/mnaatf/6.htm
]
I'm especially happy, because I when requested in 2001 a similar
proclamation from Sharon Sayles-Belton, but the request was never
acknowledged.
I hope that French teachers will use this to promote National
French
Week with in their schools and with their students, families, and
communities.
Merci, Monsieur le Maire Rybak!
Gaelle Berg, MPS World Languages Curriculum Specialist
Following is the text of the proclamation:
[Since then,
we've received and scanned the original copy which is
clickable at this website:
http://courseweb.stthomas.edu/mlwolsey/mnaatf/mplsNFW03.htm
~~~~~~~~~FIRST SET OF NFW in MN REPORTS FOR
2003~~~~~~~~~
Sent: 11-NOV-2003 12:17:22.37
From: CALVIN::MNAATF
"Am.Assoc.Teach.French-MN"
To: MNAATF List
Subj: 1st set of National French week in MN reports
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#1
Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 12:21:57 -0600
From: Anne Muske <aemuske@isd194.k12.mn.us>
Subject: NFW in Lakeville
To: mnaatf@stthomas.edu
This was our first year
celebrating NFW at Lakeville High School, and we
started small. Attached is a list of what we did. We look forward to
hearing what
everyone else did.
Anne Muske
Traci Nelson
Julie
Ostergaard
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Lakeville High School National French Week 2003
Wednesday - learn a French expression
Thursday - eat French food (cafeteria menus in
French,
crepe
recipes available)
Friday - dress French
Monday - no school
Tuesday - watch "Le
Diner de cons" in the auditorium after school
Throughout week - French music in the halls, announcements on TV
monitors, trivia in the daily announcements,
spot on the school TV news program, general
encouragement to speak French between classes,
posters up in halls, personalized posters on lockers
of all French students as
well as on doors
of staff members who've studied French in the past
(Asterix declaring, "Je parle francais!"),
Eiffel Tower at school entrance
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#2
From: IN%"Kathy_LaHouze@rdale.k12.mn.us" "Kathy Lahouze"
Sent: 11-NOV-2003 07:38:45.40
To: IN%"mnaatf@stthomas.edu
Subj: Etre et Avoir
Bonjour! Robbinsdale-Cooper
took 40 kids to see this marvelous film.
We should have taken all 250 French students! Only a smattering (the
"too cool" ones) thought there wasn't enough action.....
Everyone else
loved it. There is so
much that can be done with this film on so many
levels!
Kathleen Lahouze and Kari Christensen
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#3
Sent: 11-NOV-2003 08:22:32.35
From: IN%"pteefy@randolph.spa.edu" "Teefy, Patricia"
To: IN%"mnaatf@stthomas.edu"
Subj: Students to Etre et avoir
Students in the upper levels of French at St. Paul Academy &
Summit School went to a special screening of Etre et Avoir during
National French Week.
Prior to seeing the movie, I introduced
vocabulary related to film and film critique. The students wrote a
review of the film.
Most of the students loved the movie. They
enjoyed all of the characters, especially Jojo!
Patricia Teefy
Patricia Teefy
French Instructor
St. Paul Academy & Summit School
1712 Randolph Ave.
St. Paul, MN
USA
~~~~SECOND FRENCH WEEK IN
MN REPORT FILE FOR 2003~~~~
Sent: 13-NOV-2003 10:06:04.17
From: CALVIN::MNAATF
"Am.Assoc.Teach.French-MN"
To: MNAATF List
Subj: More NFW in MN ….
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#4
From: IN%"pnp53@charter.net" "pnp53"
Sent: 11-NOV-2003 19:49:09.02
To: IN%"MNAATF@stthomas.edu" "Am.Assoc.Teach.French-MN"
Subj: National French week in MN reports
I am the
lone French teacher at my middle school and this
was my first year putting on a celebration. I made a bulletin
board display highlighting different selling points for French,
each one illustrated with colored clip art, and bleu,blanc,
rouge crepe paper strung across the top for the WL display
case.
I prepared a set of questions based on it and took my 6th
graders down in groups to find answers.
I had a
contest for 7th graders called "French Connections".
I gave each subject area teacher a question related to their
discipline to display in their classroom. Kids had 2 days to
find the answer and enter the contest. I drew for winners from
each class- first one drawn with correct answer. I gave teachers
the answers to post on the day winners were announced. I got
the questions from FL Teach.
Prizes were 2 bags of gummy
Eiffel Towers tied together with yarn and a French pencil.
Every
day in announcements I had a French word of the day
and different little blurbs:
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Day 1,
explanation of French Week
Day 2,
comments on Minnesota's French heritage
Day 3, French
inventions
Day 4, invited
students to the display case to find
out 10 reasons French is better than
chocolate (aboutFrench.com).
( I started a day
late!)
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I also suggested they check out what American companies do business
with France, etc. I enjoyed working on this and will build on it
for next year.
Thanks for all the ideas shared!
Ellen Poquette
Black Hawk Middle School
Eagan, MN
~~~~ THIRD FRENCH WEEK IN MN REPORT FILE FOR 2003~~~~
Sent: 21-NOV-2003 19:54:59.84
From: CALVIN::MNAATF
"Am.Assoc.Teach.French-MN"
To: MNAATF List
Subj: Lake Country School Nat.French Week 2003
report
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#5
From: IN%"cmfisk10@msn.com" "Carolyn Fisk"
Sent: 21-NOV-2003 19:25:44.66
To: IN%"mnaatf@stthomas.edu"
Subj: National French Week at Lake Country School
At Lake Country Montessori school we held a special event at
three levels in our school during National French Week.
With the youngest children who are 3, 4 and 5 years old, 2 of our
parents who perform regularly with the group Girl Germs, taught
the
children Quebecois dances and songs. They came in three times during
the week to work with three separate classrooms of 28 children
each!
The lower elementary hosted a "petit dejeuner" of
croissants,
baguettes, et pain perdu donated from The New French Bakery.
The upper elementary attended the film "Etre et Avoir"
at the Bell
Museum Theater as well as having a "cassecroute" the
afternoon of the
"petit dej"
with all of the leftover bread and Nutella from the morning.
We have carried on with National French Week by mounting colored
flags
on large sheets of paper representing the 5 continents where
French is
spoken. We have almost every country, island or departement outre
mer
represented. They were on display for Grandparents Day, November
21.
Carolyn Fisk and Erica Tesdell
of Lake Country School
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