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__**Project Ideas for the French Classroom**__ • Dialogues or presentations (au restaurant, au marché, une conversation au téléphone, les passe-temps, ma collection, mon voyage, mes vacances, mes activités, un interview, ma famille, etc.) • Questions and answers (inversion, intonation, question words) • Pattern books on grammar topics (ie. adjectives, reflexive verbs, faire vs. jouer, verbs i.e., partir/sortir, vouloir/pouvoir, expressions of quantity, prepositions, passé composé, Mrs. Vandertamp verbs, les sports, les saisons, etc.) • "Je me présente" project (identity scrapbook) • Illustrated dictionary or vocabulary project (i.e., au marché, la vie quotidienne, les achats, un défilé de mode, Comment ça va?, la météo, au restaurant, un menu, la nourriture, les sports, etc.)

Comic Life Example - La famille



__**IMAGES **__ Finding images for students to use while maintaining their integrity as good digital citizens is a challenge. What can you do? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">• students can take their own pictures using digital cameras or video cameras (home or school, put on CD or memory stick) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">• students can use a webcam or Photobooth (built-in camera) <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">• students can draw pictures and scan them or photograph them • pictures can be placed in the iPhoto library for quick and easy access <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">• students can use a copyright free website to find pictures <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">(i.e., Free Teacher Clip Art, Classroom Clip Art , Pics4Learning , Compfight , Ookaboo , <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Free Photo Bank , School Clip Art , Find Icons , Photos8 or <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Photopedia <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> . )

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Also, check out <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Creative Commons <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">, Wylio , and <span style="background-color: initial; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Wikimedia Commons <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">. Here students can find images to use in projects where <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">permission has been given to remix the image or adapt it for use in projects. Read the fine print carefully!

Fables de la Fontaine French Children's Stories Tintin WikiSource Simply Scripts - find the scripts for many popular movies
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 120%;">**DIGITAL RESOURCES** <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Digitizing the Writing Workshop <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Digital Writing Tools - wiki Outta Ray's Head - writing resources Purdue OWL - Online Writing Lab Wet Ink - magazine for teen writing Read, Write, Think - classroom resources WriteforTen Rhyming Dictionary Creative Writing Prompts - hundreds of topics to prompt writers National Novel Writing Month - Nano Wrimo's Young Writer's Program Chateau Meddybemps - illustrated story starters Paperrater - online editing and grading <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Writing on the Web <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Motivating Boy Writers