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| Title | French Culture ideas |
| Body | Editor's Note: Though originally directed at elementary French teachers, this message could have a wider appeal. For my units on Monet and Degas, I use the videos made for HBO. You can find them at Teachers' Discovery. They're really very good and include the interaction with the artist with a young person, and my elementary school students can relate. Each lasts about 60 minutes or so. I have prints that I've collected from years and years of calendars and set up 6 stations around my room. The students take a "field trip" around the room, stopping at each station. I chose six stations because that's how many tables of students I have. To finish the unit, we have a Paideia seminar where I ask the questions but don't enter the conversations. (Our school is a national Paideia demonstration school.) A couple of questions about Monet that I remember I have used are: How did Monet change from the beginning to the end of the video? and If M. Monet were alive today, what would to like to ask him? and Since M. Monet was so poor that he had to steal eggs to feed his family, why didn't he just get a "regular" job? I just ordered an Impressionism activity workbook that I have not yet pick up. I'm hoping to add a hands-on activity. I found a marvelous interactive activity concerning Henri Matisse on the Net last week. It looks great: http://www.artbma.org/education/matisse_kids_frame.html Kids love castles and knights and the like. I start with the Rick Steve's video concerning the Loire, and then I use lots of videos I have taken myself, including the chateau at Murol where the audience takes an active part in wearing armor for example. I have an activity book that shows how to make paper helmets and castles. I also have a step-by-step book that leads the students to draw knights and damsels. I have an elementary version of the Book of Hours from which I read a few months. Three years ago, the students made a huge mural on a paper backdrop. They wrote script (in English with some French interjected) of typical medieval people being interviewed by a person from the 20th century. It was a riot!! My fifth graders loved it, and the third and fourth graders couldn't wait to do it too since they had been looking at the mural for a month. I hope I've given you a couple of ideas. The interactive Matisse won't cost you a penny, but your students must have access to computers; one computer per kid. It might work with two students on a computer. Moyer, C. (23 Jul. 2004). Elementary School Cultural Topics. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (29 Jul. 2004). |
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