EteCulture

This project will help you, your classmates and students who will study this book in the future appreciate French culture and Jenny’s experiences during her été inoubliable, and, perhaps, entice others to read it. We hope you will enjoy creating this learning tool for others.

To demonstrate what you have learned about the cultural aspects of the story Un Été pas comme les autres, you are going to design a poster, using the fireworks application, which illustrates one aspect of French culture. Possible topics include: Les sites touristiques (Rouen, la Normandie, Chartres, Lla Touraine, le Périgord , Limoges, les châteaux, Vendôme, la Vallée de Chevreuse, Chinon, …),Paris (le Quartier Latin, les Champs-Élysées, la Rue Mouffetard, Montmartre…) la cuisine (les crêpes, les rillettes, le pâté de foie gras. Le confit d’oie…), ou d’autres sujets (Huguette Zahler, le métro, les marchés, le système scolaire, les grands magasins de Paris, le café, les stéréotypes, Jeanne d’Arc, les différences culturelles…

Your poster will have six captioned illustrations or photos, with at least three sentences in French describing each one. These illustrations may be photos from Internet sites (try artoday.com, scanned photos from books or postcards, etc.) No English may appear on your poster. Please keep track of all sources you use, and attach a bibliogrtaphy.

Please use a font (like Comic MS) which handles accent marks well.

You will choose one of the cultural aspects of the story Un Été pas comme les autres to advertise. Possible Topics may include: Les sites touristiques (Rouen, la Normandie, Chartres, Lla Touraine, le Périgord , Limoges, les châteaux, Vendôme, la Vallée de Chevreuse, Chinon, …),Paris (le Quartier Latin, les Champs-Élysées, la Rue Mouffetard, Montmartre…) la cuisine (les crêpes, les rillettes, le pâté de foie gras. Le confit d’oie…), ou d’autres sujets (Huguette Zahler, le métro, les marchés, le système scolaire, les grands magasins de Paris, le café, les stéréotypes, Jeanne d’Arc, les différences culturelles…
You will research your topic, paying particular attention to why it is so special
You will create a personal folder in the ete folder on Storsrv, Currciular Projects area to which you will save all your written work as well as any illustrations you plan to use along with all corresponding website addresses.
You will create a poster that will advertise the curtural topic you have choosen using text, color photos, maps, postcards, drawings, or other visuals that will help to explain the distinctive nature of their topic. You may select at least six images from any website on the topic and must clearly explain their significance in French. All descriptions and explanations must be 3 sentences long. Students must ask permission from the photographer or website to use any photos that are not their own.
You will spend four class periods working in the MSCALC. You will create your poster using Macromedia Fireworks and you will publish your poster using Macromedia Dreamweaver.
After a brief introduction to Fireworks, following the step by step instructions, you will create your poster using the "Text" tool and the "drawing" tools available in Fireworks.
You are to enhance your text using the stroke, fill end effects palettes. You can incorporate illustrations from ClipArt.Com available at http://ww.clipart.com. ask your teacher for the user ID and password.
You will remember to save your work in two formats: the PNG format, so that you can alter your work if correction is needed, and in the GIF format to be placed on your web page.
Once the poster is completed you will open Macromedia Dreamweaver , and following the step by step instructions furnished, you will place the graphic on the page, and make a link back to the student index page.
You may also enhance your page with color in the background, etc.
You will give an oral presentation of your topic in class. You must clearly explain your topic and why it would attract future visitors to Paris .

Friday, October 31

Students will be graded on cooperation, effort, creativity, meeting deadlines, following directions, and accuracy. The project will be worth a major test grade (100 points). This is a long term project and students are expected to work on it throughout the month ahead. It cannot successfully be left to the last minute.

This project designed and implemented by Emily Wagner , Assistant Head and teacher of French, at Germantown Academy Middle school. Web page design and technical assistance furnished by Carol Siwinski, Curricular Technology Specialist.

November, 2003