Location
Student Center Ballroom, Cleveland State University
Event Type
Paper
Start Date
15-4-2016 10:10 AM
End Date
15-4-2016 10:45 AM
Description
Being quite fed up with the disconnect between boring, abstract, and out of date so-called “units” in my French textbooks and real life, I decided to attempt to invent my own year-long “unit” based upon the ideas of migrants or immigrants who had come to France. From the beginning of the year I informed my students that everything we studied and explored throughout the year would help us create together and present to a small audience a final project in the spring in the form of a play, which they would write, me helping with the French. Since my student population lives in a largely isolated rural, white, and small-town environment, one of my motives for embarking on this project was to introduce my students to the idea of how diverse populations ( of different races, religions, and cultures), living in Europe’s large cities, cohabitate. With the summer Teacher Institute of Migration in Global Context fresh in my mind, I began the school year somewhat confused about how to get to the “play” idea. But events happening in real time in the world opened the door for us and gave direction, as well as providing the context for my teaching of the French language.
French class Level 2:"Migrants in France" project
Student Center Ballroom, Cleveland State University
Being quite fed up with the disconnect between boring, abstract, and out of date so-called “units” in my French textbooks and real life, I decided to attempt to invent my own year-long “unit” based upon the ideas of migrants or immigrants who had come to France. From the beginning of the year I informed my students that everything we studied and explored throughout the year would help us create together and present to a small audience a final project in the spring in the form of a play, which they would write, me helping with the French. Since my student population lives in a largely isolated rural, white, and small-town environment, one of my motives for embarking on this project was to introduce my students to the idea of how diverse populations ( of different races, religions, and cultures), living in Europe’s large cities, cohabitate. With the summer Teacher Institute of Migration in Global Context fresh in my mind, I began the school year somewhat confused about how to get to the “play” idea. But events happening in real time in the world opened the door for us and gave direction, as well as providing the context for my teaching of the French language.
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Key words: Migrants, France, diverse populations