C'est lundi, le trente-et-un octobre

* Recipe for Blood Sausage Candy!
* Extra credit Word Finds.

Trivia: This 2006 French horror film "Them" or "Ils"has a similar story to the American movie made in 2008, "The Strangers." Who was the director of the French version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFTbcDRkG1o&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=activeHow is Halloween celebrated in France?

Halloween in France is usually celebrated by costumed people of all ages going to parties at friends' homes, restaurants, bars, or clubs. The costumes themselves tend to be traditionally "scary" - mummies, ghosts, goblins, witches, and vampires - rather than the cute costumes like princesses, superheroes, and the cartoon character of the day which are popular in the US. Some recreation centers encourage kids to make their own costumes.

Trick-or-treating is getting to be more common. It started out store-to-store, rather than house-to-house, but the latter is picking up. However, Halloween occurs during the mid-season school break, which slows it down a bit.Stores, malls, restaurants, offices, and homes decorate their windows; pastry and candy shops make up special desserts and candies; and many different kinds of companies use Halloween in their ads. Supermarkets sell pumpkins for jack-o'-lanterns and candy companies are now marketing candy in the traditional Halloween format: one big bag filled with lots of little packages, which may encourage trick-or-treating.

The growing demand for jack-o'-lanterns during Halloween has been a boon for pumpkin growers. There is even a pumpkin patch at a farm outside of Paris where people can pick their own. Halloween in France is rather controversial, due to the perception of corporate and cultural influence, as well as the fact that it is not a typical French holiday and some people still don't understand what is being celebrated. Because Halloween is seen as an American celebration, some French people refuse to enjoy it, having decided to include it in their anti-American boycott. It's too early to tell whether Halloween will develop into a long-term tradition; once the novelty wears off, it may turn out to be just a fad. And yet, interestingly, the French have been celebrating the ideas at the very heart of Halloween (respect for the dead) for centuries. 31 October to 2 November have traditionally been spent, especially by older generations, visiting cemeteries, honoring saints, and attending religious services.

*LOTTO d'Halloween!!

*No cheating! Cards will be verified :)

C'est jeudi, le vingt-sept octobre

Je doute, parce que je crois que l'avenir saura mieux.
Elsa TRIOLET, Le Grand Jamais
I doubt, because I believe that the future will know better.

Trivia: France was occupied by the Germans until 1944 during WWII. June 6 of that year was D-Day, where a massive Allied force invaded the beaches of which area of France???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZgKo46X8CI&feature=related&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

• Good Lord, finish those vocabulary sheets.
• 5 minute conversation using yesterday's photo.
• Vocabulary Beeeee??? Let's look at some of Les Professions first.

DEVOIRS: Leçon 1 Packet

C'est mercredi, le vingt-six octobre

'L'amour est le miracle de la civilisation.
'Marie-Henri Beyle, dit STENDHAL, De L'Amour

'Love is the miracle of civilization. '

MRS MANLEY: BRING BACK WHITEBOARDS TO MILLER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• 5 minute conversation
• What do these questions mean?? Hmmm...a little quiz???
• Finish Vocabulary Sheets...

À bien dire, ce qu'il y a de meilleur dans l'homme, c'est le chien.
Nicolas CHARLET, Légende d'une lithographie

To be blunt, the best thing about man is the dog.

• Presentez un/une camarade
• Activity 5 Page 35 Lire/ Écrire
• Feuilles de vocabulaire - this is only the first half!

C'est lundi, le vingt-quatre octobre

I have long loved the web-site freerice.com!
Now they have a French component that helps you practice French vocabulary AND help world hunger. For each answer you get right the UN World Food Organization will donate 10 grains of rice.Go to:

http://freerice.com/#/french/13781

On the right hand side, click "Change subjects." Then click "French."

Some questions you will have to guess on, or use common sense since they have many cognates.

• Les questions por vos camarades de classe - use your books
• Presentez
• La grande feuille de vocabulaire

C'est vendredi, le vingt-et-un octobre

La femme se détermine et se différencie par rapport à l'homme et non celui-ci par rapport à elle ; elle est l'inessentiel en face de l'essentiel. Il est le sujet, il est l'Absolu : elle est l'Autre.
Simone de BEAUVOIR, Le Deuxième Sexe

Woman is defined and differenciated in relation to man and not he in relation to her; she is the inessential in front of the essential. He is the subject, he is the Absolute: she is the Other.

Trivia: Many consider the First French Indochina War ( 1946-1954) to be the pre-cursor to this war that resulted in over 50,000 American casualties.

• Friday Writing
• Return IR Verbie quizzes
• Give out all 3 types of verb sheet
• Give out Les Nationalités Sheet
• Pair up/ Three up- Interviews (Use textbooks- Page 31- to make sure your answers are written correctly)

C'est jeudi le vingt octobre

Il faut que le monde soit clair. Si les coeurs étaient clairs, le monde serait clair.
Jacques AUDIBERTI, Le Mal court, acte III

The world has to be clear. If hearts were clear, the world would be clear.

• 5 minute conversation
• Super speedy RE Verbies
• Give out sheet with all verbie endings
• Commencez Unité 1- QUI SUIS-JE??? Oh, the eternal question, who am I???
• Ouvrez vos livres à la page 31 et nous allon lire un peu...
• INTERVIEWS- Let's be nosy, shall we? Pairs or groups of 3.

C'est lundi, le dix-sept octobre

La vérité est le soleil des intelligences.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de VAUVENARGUES, Pensées diverses

Truth is the sun of intelligence.

Trivia: Weird French law: In France, it’s illegal to name a pig after this military and political leader who was born in Corsica in 1769 and was eventually defeated at the infamous battle of Waterloo.

• Baby Quiz on a random IR verbie
• FINISSEZ la feuille
• RELAY avec les verbes en IR

QUIZ DEMAIN: LES VERBES IR

GROSSIR - to gain weight

Je grossis               Nous grossissons

Tu grossis              Vous grossissez

Il/Elle/On grossit              Ils/Elles grossissent

C'est vendredi, le quatorze octobre

'Rien ne pèse tant que un secret.'

'Nothing weighs more than a secret.'

La Fontaine.

• Quick 5 minutes writing - Cooking Breakfast with Adam Sandler
• Hand back quizzes
• Continuez avec les verbes en IR
• Fill in Sheet
• Relay?

C'est jeudi, le treize octobre

Les enfants n'ont ni passé ni avenir, et, ce qui ne nous arrive guère, ils jouissent du présent.
Jean de LA BRUYÈRE, Les Caractères, De l'hommme, 51

Children have neither a past nor a future and, hardly ever true of us, enjoy the present.

• 5 minute conversation!
• Hand back writing
• Révisez le quiz de "ER"

Reading:
1. Today the kids in class are wearing (wear) hats.
2. Candice is wearing 33 hats.
3. It's cold!
4. But, Corina and Whykema like the winter because they like to sing for their aunts at Christmas.
5. AJ and Sierra are studying in their notebooks.
6. But, they also are talking on their cell-phones and listening to the radio.
7. Yes, we joke (around) in class.

• Commencez les verbes en IR :-D

C'est mercredi, le douze octobre

' Tous pour un, un pour tous!'
Latin: Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
All for one, and one for all!

• Porter
• Rigoler
• Aimer
• Manger

• La Classe
• Monsieur Manuel
• Mon hamster et moi
• Vous

-5 minute conversation
-Verb Relay
-QUIZ!

C'est mardi, le onze octobre (l'anniversaire de ma mère!)

Aucun possible n'est beau ; le réel seul est beau.
Émile Chartier dit ALAIN, Système des beaux-arts I, VINo
possibility is beautiful; reality alone is beautiful.

• Do Now: Conjuagte the verb...      CHANTER - to sing
• Any ER homework from Friday?
• Whiteboard Review, ER Verbies.
• Begin Intense Sheet on ER Verbs. You can work with a partner.

DEMAIN: BIG ER Quiz (I mean, it counts as a regular quiz.)

C'est jeudi, le six octobre

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
- Steve Jobs

• 5 minute conversation
• Grade discussion - Percentages - Frenchbook Projects
• Let's talk verbies ER, mainly- Let's conjugate the heck outta 'em.
• Whiteboards with ER Verbs

LES DEVOIRS- ER VERB WORKSHEET

MARDI- ER VERB QUIZ (BIG)

C'est mercredi, le cinq octobre

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
- Henri de Toulouse L'Autrec

- Little Question Quiz
- Little Matching Question Activity
- OK- Let's start at the beginning :

LES PRONOMS

Je = I           Nous = We

Tu = You (singular)      Vous = You (Plural)

Il/Elle/On = He/She/it/One         Ils/Elles = They

• Whiteboards! Which pronoun is it?? (Madame Manley, use sheet in U Drive.) 

C'est mardi, le quatre octobre

(Pictured above: the port of St. Tropez. I miss my town...)

'Je me presse de rire de tout, de peur d'être obligé d'en pleurer. '

(I push myself to laugh about everything for fear of having to cry about it. )
-Pierre Augustin Caron de BEAUMARCHAIS (from the Barber of Seville)

- ANY ANSWERS TO MY RICHARD I QUESTION?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eiTMIgKnVog&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active

• Baby Quiz on "Les Choses" THINGS
• 5 minute conversation ER VERBIES- THINK ABOUT THEIR ACTIONS!
• QUESTION WORDS: WHAT do these mean?

Qui?
Comment?
Quand?
Où?
Pourquoi?
Combien?
À Quelle heure?

• Little Matching activity with question words
• Time to STEP BY STEP. Do you remember HOW to CONJUGATE?? ER Verbies...

DEMAIN: BABY QUIZ ON QUESTION WORDS

C'est lundi, le trois octobre

Le monde est fait avec des astres et des hommes.
Émile VERHAEREN, La Multiple Splendeur, Le monde
The world is made of stars and men.

Trivia: Richard I ruled England from 6 July 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Nantes and Overlord of Brittany at various times during the same period. He was a primary leader in the third Crusade. His nickname in French was "Richard, Coeur de Lion"...what is the English translation of this name????

Collect Extra-Credit Number Trivia Sheet

Petit quiz sur Les Temps et Les Saisons /  La Famille

Révisez le avec le bébé quiz des NOMBRES

Can you identify these times by LISTENING?

Identify L'Heure  through WRITING 

* OPEN HOUSE *

DEVOIRS: If not finished with the Time Writing Sheet, that is HOMEWORK. DEAMIN: Little Quiz on "LES CHOSES" - last one. Remember? Computer, Belt? etc.