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Première Semaine —
Introduction to La Poésie Française

Administer Pretest:  How Creative Are You?
Allow time for test.

À Discuter: Test scoring and analysis.
Students score their own tests. Draw conclusions.

À Discuter: What is poetry? Elicit student answers. Write ideas on board. Why study poetry? Elicit student answers. Write ideas on board. Draw conclusions. Hand out materials.

Explication Brève: Devoirs Oraux.

Devoir à Lire:
» Introduction: La Lecture
» Standards and Goals
Les Devoirs Oraux

The Author:
Judith M. Michaels is a private consultant from Green Bay, Wisconsin.  You can reach her at Judmichaels@aol.com

Different languages — I mean the actual vocabularies, the idioms — have worked out certain mechanisms of communication and registration. No one language is complete. A master may be continually expanding his own tongue, rendering it fit to bear some charge hitherto borne only by some other alien tongue, but the process does not stop with any one man. While Proust is learning Henry James, preparatory to breaking through certain French paste-board partitions, the whole American speech is churning and chugging, and every other tongue doing likewise.
     — Ezra Pound, "How to Read," 1929