le vendredi 25 mars 2016

Activités en classe —

• p. 242 Les BD (bandes dessinées)
  • Lecture à haute voix
  • Discussion ensemble
• p. 242, Avez-vous compris, questions 1, 2, 3
  • Vos préférences pour les BD
  • Ressources pour explorer plus :
    • Site de Tintin
    • PowerPoint et site du parc d’attractions pour Astérix
    • Bande annonce (trailer) pour Persepolis
• Introduction : Imparfait versus Passé Composé
  • Charts: Une manière de visualiser l’Imparfait et le Passé Composé
  • Due to our cultural discussions, we did not have time to go over this in class. We will be practicing and discussing the differences between imparfait and passé composé on Monday.

• Cultural discussions — Attacks in Belgium, holiday tradition in France.
  • You will NOT be tested in this information.
  • Please see this note about the materials below; you are welcome to, but not required to, look at these items we discussed or I mentioned in class.
• Discussion, attentats Bruxelles
  • Articles 
    • Bruxelles sous le choc (1jour1actu, news explained for young readers)
    • L’enquête avance (1jour1actu, news explained for young readers)
    • CNN’s ongoing article in English with links
    • FranceTVinfo’s ongoing article in French with links
  • Vidéo
    • Solidarité et émotion (LeMonde)
  • Bandes dessinées (cartoons about the attacks or in homage to the victims)
    • From Le Monde
    • From FranceTVInfo
    • What is Mannekin pis? (in English and French)
• Discussion, traditions liées à Pâques (Easter)
  • Since a couple people were curious about traditions in France, here is more information.
    • Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEpZlj4T9U0
    • Article : http://lci.tf1.fr/france/societe/cloche-chocolat-lapin-5-questions-autour-de-paques-8588451.html

Devoirs, annonces, etc.

Devoirs — 

•IMPORTANT: The next iLrn due date has been changed from Sunday to Tuesday night. As always, the iLrn calendar shows which exercises are due when. If you have questions please let me know.

•Please don’t forget to always

• check the Documents tab the morning of or night before every class and download or print out any sheets and
• read the pages on the calendrier before coming to class.

•We will have 1-2 more quizzes before the end of the semester, so be sure to keep up with reading pages before class and looking over your notes!

Annonces — 

• Free tutoring hours — the Plus… section of the site has hours and locations.

• Language Fair coming up next week, with preparation needed Tuesday-Friday and the Fair itself on Saturday, April 2. For more info see Points bonus.

• If you missed any previous classes, don’t forget to check what we did — previous posts below list what we did, what the homework was, etc. (and whenever you’re absent, you should always check the Archives to see what we did in class, what HW is coming up, etc. The Archives are usually updated by 9pm after class.)