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3 thoughts on “Poetry – French”
What a great way to start my morning. Helping students discover the beauty of poetry has always escaped me. It would be great to start a discussion!
These poems are wonderful. There is a chance the I might be getting a (few) section/s of French at some point and I can’t wait to use these in the classroom. I recently saw a recording of one of the TPRS meetings in Alaska (courtesy of Michele – thanks!!!) where their guest speaker talked at length about the use of poems in a CI classroom, giving very specific examples and demonstrating her method. It was magnifique – and so helpful.
Well I used to teach AP French Literature in Charleston, SC. But the problem was that I didn’t have the three years of CI building up to that fourth year program, because I never heard of Krashen down there, and so it became me force feeding poetry into the best of the best kids’ minds. It wasn’t any fun. It was preparing for an exam. Since leaving Charleston, I have been teaching levels one and two only. There are few programs in DPS or anywhere where we can teach the good stuff, the LaFontaine, the Rimbaud, and all of that stuff that makes our hearts weep and our spirits soar. Now they have dropped the AP Lit exam in French. Not profitable. I would think that we would find a major ally in the College Board – we are the only folks out there who can give them actual properly prepared customers for their products – the AP exams. Meanwhile, instead of being properly prepared for the joys of poetry over their first three years of high school or earlier, smart kids miss an opportunity that could change their lives. The worst is when people like Jody are doing the kind of work she is doing with 4th and 5th graders, and then the kids quit later when they are older when they could have been way ahead of the game and so, in her case, no AP Spanish Lit/Poetry gets studied when they are older because the programs aren’t properly articulated or thought out. How much does that suck? That’s like growing a beautiful garden in the spring and then forgetting to water it and letting it die in the summer heat (the teenage years, which are so hard for kids to live through and they could benefit from a little poetry if they had had a teacher like Jody in 5th grade).