American Association of Teachers of French NATIONAL BULLETIN VOLUME 30 NO. 1 SEPTEMBER 2004 FROM THE PRESIDENT butions in making this an exemplary con- utility, Vice-President Robert “Tennessee ference. Whether you were in attendance Bob” Peckham has begun to develop a Web physically or vicariously, you can be proud site in response to SOS calls this spring of how our association represented all of and summer from members in New York us and presented American teachers of state, and these serve as models for our French as welcoming hosts to a world of national campaign to reach every state. T- French teachers. Bob is asking each chapter to identify to the Regional Representative an advocacy re- Advocacy, Recruitment, and Leadership source person to work on this project (see Development page 5), since every French program is sup- Before the inaugural session of the con- ported or lost at the local level (see pages 5 ference took center stage, AATF Executive and 7). Council members met to discuss future A second initiative, recruitment of new initiatives of our organization as we strive to members, is linked to a mentoring program respond effectively to the challenges facing to provide support for French teachers, new Atlanta, Host to the Francophone World our profession. We recognize that as teach- teachers, solitary teachers, or teachers ers, we must be as resourceful outside of We were 1100 participants with speak- looking to collaborate. It has been recog- the classroom as we are in the classroom. nized that mentoring is essential if teach- ers representing 118 nations, united in our We want our students to become more pro- passion for the French language in its di- ers are to feel successful and remain in the ficient in the use of French and more knowl- profession. The training of foreign lan- verse literary, pedagogical, and cultural con- edgeable about the Francophone world. We texts, as the AATF and the FIPF (Fédération guage teachers in sufficient numbers to seek new experiences to reinforce our own replace those who are retiring is not keep- internationale des Professeurs de Français) competencies in teaching, in research, and met in Atlanta to hold the 2004 Congrès ing pace and sometimes causes French in global awareness. We want to ensure programs to disappear when the French mondial des professeurs de français. We that the study of French is valued by our may have looked different, dressed differ- teacher retires. We have seen examples of local and national publics, who are the de- the new French teacher not being sup- ently, and spoken with different accents, but cision-makers in extending programs, in we all came together with enthusiasm for ported or mentored and rapidly leaving the maintaining them or, unfortunately, in elimi- profession as well as stories of French pro- our profession, a desire to learn and to nating them. As an association, we are roll- share, and awe of the extent to which French grams just being eliminated in order not to ing up our sleeves and setting the course have to deal with the challenges confronted is the common bond that stretches all for our efforts to support the study of French around the world, visible on every continent. and the work of French teachers across the Inside this issue Page The challenges of this conference were country. To that end, we are directing our tremendous and required focus, negotia- Excellence in Teaching Awards ...... 2 energy simultaneously in three directions, AATF Executive Council ...... 5 tions, diplomacy, and much correspon- which are not necessarily separate but fre- dence to bring it to a very successful con- Advocacy Workshop at ACTFL ...... 5 quently intertwined. The thrust of these three Call to Arms for Advocacy ...... 7 clusion. The results were achieved largely initiatives is toward advocacy, recruitment, through the perseverance and commitment AATF Sessions at ACTFL ...... 7 and leadership development. Our vice- National French Week Contests ...... 9 of our Executive Director Jayne Abrate, presidents and our commissions are weav- whose capacity for work seems indefati- AATF Small Grants ...... 10 ing these initiatives into the work that is al- Regional Reports ...... 11-12 gable and whose sense of doing a job well ready in progress or will be integrating them were evident at every turn. She, in turn, was Fund for the Future ...... 12 into new projects. New Honorary Members ...... 13 supported by the work of the staff in our At least on an anecdotal level, we are national office: April Walsh, Rosalba Correa, Chapter Checklist ...... 14 aware of the efforts to eliminate or to Membership Drive ...... 15 and Amy Hanson. Acknowledgment is also marginalize French programs at elemen- due to the French consular staff in Wash- Mots chassés ...... 16 tary, secondary, and post-secondary levels. AATF Commissions ...... 17 ington, DC and in Atlanta and the Ministry of French-bashing has emboldened some Foreign Affairs in Paris, the FIPF, and oth- AATF Book Club ...... 17 communities and institutions to claim that Promotion in Motion ...... 19 ers in AATF: Jean-Pierre Piriou, President French no longer is relevant. The irony, of of the Organizing Committee, and Christo- National French Contest ..... 22, 25-26, 35 course, is that Congress is calling for the Salut les jeunes! ...... 23-24 pher Pinet, Co-chair, with Alain Braun of the development of citizen expertise in many Program Committee. Those who served Contest Administrators of the Year...... 27 critical languages for reasons of national Chapter News ...... 29-33 as plenary speakers and session present- security. To provide our members with tools ers are to be commended for their contri- Materials Center ...... 38 to respond to the charge of dépassé or in- Mentoring Initiative ...... 39 by a new teacher. We are especially look- sion at the AATF conference next summer. 2005 AATF DOROTHY S. ing to our retired members to serve as Our Charge LUDWIG EXCELLENCE IN mentors, and members currently in the As the new school year begins, let us TEACHING AWARDS classroom are, of course, most welcome focus on the opportunities that AATF mem- The American Association of Teachers to be involved. Through this program, we bership affords us and use the fruits of the of French invites nominations for four hope to meet the challenge of French teach- work being undertaken on our behalf to annual awards for outstanding teachers, ers everywhere, or as the President of the improve the learning and teaching of French one at each level: elementary school, FIPF put it: “Solitaire parfois, solidaire in our classroom, to advocate a place for middle school or junior high school, high toujours!” Suzanne Hendrickson, Chair of French in the curriculum, and to actualize school, and post-secondary (university, the Articulation Commission and Region IX our leadership potential. Let us also think college, or junior college). The purpose of Representative, is directing this program. of ourselves as members of a community the awards is to recognize those teachers She asks that each chapter identify to the ready to support each other and to share who have demonstrated excellence in and Regional Representative (see page 5) a with each other the special insights and commitment to the teaching of French mentoring chair to create one link of the net- experiences that we each embody! Let us language, culture, and literature. work that is required for this initiative to be take the first step toward this sense of unity The award itself will be a framed effective (see page 39). by becoming a community of readers and certificate from the AATF, recognizing the Our third thrust is directed at the devel- setting an example of lifelong learning for recipient for his or her outstanding contri- opment of leaders and the creation of op- our students and our colleagues! Let us butions to the teaching of French and a one- portunities for leadership at local, regional, also prepare to celebrate National French year complimentary membership in the and national levels. Our goal is to find a Week in our communities and remind our AATF for 2006, a cash award, and a one- leader for every task and a task to define public that French is still relevant! We are year subscription to Le Français dans le every leader. Some of us are leaders by in- off to a good start. Have a memorable year! monde. An official presentation will be made clination; others are brought to leadership at the AATF Awards Banquet in Quebec in through necessity, adversity, or passion. We July 2005. advanced this initiative at the chapter level Nominations may be made by an during our week in Atlanta by inviting chap- individual AATF member in good standing ter presidents or their designate to meet Margot M. Steinhart or by an AATF Chapter. All nomination docu- the national AATF leaders: President, Vice- President ments (candidate information and Presidents, Regional Representatives, [[email protected]] recommendations) must be submitted to Editors, and Commission Chairs. We want AATF National Headquarters by the our chapter leaders to recognize their deadline of February 1, 2005. Please note people resources, to draw upon the avail- ACTFL Annual Meeting that this deadline has been advanced. able support at the regional and national November 18-21, 2004 Additional details about this award and levels, and to understand and benefit from the nominating packet may be found on the the work that has been accomplished, is Chicago AATF Web site at [www.frenchteachers.org/ underway, and will be undertaken to meet hq/teachaward.htm]. members’ needs. At the same time, these leaders need to connect the members in their chapters to the work of the associa- Volume 30 Number 1 AATF NATIONAL BULLETIN September 2004 tion by indicating leadership and profes- sional development experiences, opportu- Editor: Jane Black Goepper, Cincinnati, Ohio fice. Office of Publication: AATF, Mailcode nities for their students, and materials and 4510, Southern Illinois University, Reading Committee: Therese C. Clarke, Dept. other resources available to AATF mem- Carbondale, IL 62901-4510. of Modern and Classical Languages, Buffalo bers. A good leader sets the example but State University, NY; S. Pascale Dewey, All items published in the National Bulletin are also encourages or provides leadership Kutztown University, PA; Gisèle Loriot- the property of the American Association of opportunities for others. Raymer, Northern Kentucky University, High- Teachers of French. They may be copied for AATF Book Club: Myrna’s List for 2005 land Heights, KY; Elizabeth Miller, Crystal classroom or workshop use only if the source Another initiative is one that is designed Springs Uplands School, CA; Samia I. Spen- and date of publication are indicated on the to reach every AATF member and to create cer, Auburn University, AL. copies. through the AATF a community of readers of Postmaster: Send address changes to AATF, The AATF National Bulletin (ISSN 0883-6795) French. In keeping with the venue of the Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois University, has its editorial offices at 2324 Park Avenue, AATF convention in Quebec, the 2005 AATF Carbondale, IL 62901-4510. Apt. 34, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206; e-mail: Book Club will feature works whose authors Deadlines for submissions of materials to the [[email protected]]. Correspondence and manu- are from Quebec. Myrna Delson-Karan, National Bulletin: September issue, August 1; scripts should be sent to the editor at this Region I Representative and a renowned November issue, September 1; January is- address. The American Association of Teach- scholar of Quebec literature, has agreed to sue, November 1; April issue, February 1. ers of French publishes the AATF National moderate the reading of the three works Bulletin four times a year in September, No- Please note: Because of convention dates she has selected for us. Information on vember, January, and April as a service to its and other deadlines, unlike commercial maga- these works and on ordering copies ap- members in supplement to the official journal zines, the issues of the National Bulletin are pears in this issue (see page 17). Future of the association, the French Review. Sub- mailed during the given month of publication issues of the National Bulletin will feature scription to the AATF National Bulletin requires and should reach most readers by the end of each work in order to enhance our reading membership in the organization. Periodicals that month. experience and to connect AATF members postage paid at the Carbondale, IL Post Of- through a literary encounter. Myrna’s List will also provide a focus for a book discus- 2 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) MESSAGE DE LA SECRÉTAIRE GÉNÉRALE Chers Collègues, Elle a défendu avec acharnement l’AATF efforts pour la promotion du français. Je Encore un congrès réussi. Encore une contre tous ceux qui n’avaient pas voudrais le remercier aussi d’avoir pris le rentrée qui nous attend. Vous verrez à la confiance en nous ou qui tout simplement temps de discuter de la situation du page 20-21 le compte-rendu du congrès ne nous connaissaient pas encore. En français aux États-Unis avec nous. d’Atlanta. Le travail d’organisation s’est même temps, il ne faut par oublier que Je voudrais aussi remercier les avéré énorme. Dans les semaines qui Chantal avait dans cette tâche l’appui de nombreuses personnes qui se sont porté l’ont précédé, nous avons été débordés à ses supérieurs. Nous remercions le volontaires et qui ont fait tout ce qu’elles un tel point que toute décision prise a été Conseiller culturel Jean-René Gehan de pouvaient pour assurer le bon déroulement basée essentiellement sur le temps nous avoir soutenu par ses paroles et par du congrès, pour résoudre tous les qu’elle impliquait. Le type de problèmes ses actes. Et nous exprimons notre plus problèmes survenus à la dernière minute que nous avons rencontrés a été multiplé profonde reconnaissance à Son Excel- et qui ont accepté avec un sourire de faire par 10 comparé à un congrès AATF lence Jean-David Levitte, Ambassadeur ce que je leur demandais de faire. Il s’agit typique, et le nombre de problèmes de France à Washington, pour sa des membres du Conseil d’administration multiplé par 50. Le budget du congrès disponibilité, sa compréhension des de l’AATF, des Présidents des Commis- dépassait largement le budget annuel de difficultés auxquelles les professeurs de sions de l’AATF présents à Atlanta, des l’AATF. français font face tous les jours et pour sa responsables des chapitres de l’AATF, Heureusement nous avons eu le participation active au congrès d’Atlanta. ainsi que le personnel du bureau--April soutien de la France à tous les niveaux. Je Au nom de l’AATF et à titre personnel, je Walsh, Rosalba Correa et Amy Hanson. tiens à remercier l’équipe du Consulat de voudrais le remercier de ce soutien En particulier, je remercie mon fils Marc qui France à Atlanta. Du Consul René-Serge précieux. a imprimé toutes les photos publicitaires Marty jusqu’aux stagiaires, tous ont travaillé Il va sans dire que le congrès n’aurait des congressistes moyennant un dîner sans relâche pour assurer la réussite du jamais vu le jour sans le soutien actif de la dans un restaurant japonais, et mon mari congrès. M. Marty nous a accueillis Direction du français au Ministère des Serge qui a supporté mes journées de plusieurs fois chez lui lors des visites de Affaires étrangères (MAE) à Paris. Nous travail de 16 heures par jour 6 jours par préparation, et la veille du congrès a offert avons beaucoup apprécié leur semaine pendant des mois avant le une réception et un dîner de bienvenue aux professionalisme et leur franchise. Les congrès et qui m’a accompagnée à Atlanta personnalités et aux organisateurs. Cécile subventions du MAE financent la plus où il est même intervenu au sujet de l’anti- Peyronnet, Attachée culturelle, et Aurélien grande partie du fonctionnement de la américanisme dans la presse française. Lépine-Kouas, Attaché culturel adjoint, ont FIPF, et ce soutien matériel, ainsi que Maintenant que nous pouvons classer porté un intérêt soutenu à la préparation logisitique et moral, permet à cette ce grand événement dans le livre de sur place et à l’accueil des personnalités. fédération d’offrir des services aux souvenirs, il faut se tourner vers les Cécile s’est chargée d’organiser le côté professeurs du monde entier. Tous les activités de la rentrée. Nous préparons technique pour les soirées culturelles. quatre ans, le MAE apporte sa contribution actuellement les appels de cotisation qui Non seulement a-t-elle recommandé la à l’organisation d’un congrès mondial, et seront envoyés au début du mois d’octobre. troupe de danseurs africains mais elle a nous le remercions de la confiance et de Nous vous demandons de bien vouloir les trouvé des sponsors à Atlanta. L’Attachée l’amitié manifestées à l’égard de l’AATF. retourner le plus rapidement possible de presse Natacha Constable a partagé Nous avons toujours essayé d’être à la avec vos bulletins de vote. Cela assurera son expertise pour la campagne de hauteur de leurs attentes. En particulier, je la continuité de votre adhésion et nous presse qui a entouré le congrès. Elle s’est voudrais remercier Xavier North, Directeur permettra d’entrer les données en temps occupée des représentants de la presse du français, qui a veillé à l’organisation du voulu. Nous vous encourageons à penser et a organisé pour eux de nombreuses congrès et qui, par sa présence à Atlanta, a à faire une contribution au “Fund for the interviews avec des professeurs de la témoigné de l’importance qu’il accorde au Future” (voir page 12). Ces contributions région. Les stagiaires Bradley Deckert et travail des professeurs de français. Hélène nous permettent de réaliser de nombreux Isabelle Desjardins ont également Defromont, Sous-directrice du français, et projets de promotion. Je regrette contribué leurs talents chaque fois qu’on Catherine Maclorin, Chef de bureau, pour d’annoncer que nous avons décidé, d’un en avait besoin. N’oublions pas non plus des raisons indépendantes de leur volonté, commun accord avec l’AATG, de suspendre ceux venus de New York, de Washington n’ont pas pu assister au congrès, mais la cotisation commune que nous offrons ou de la Nouvelle Orléans pour tenir le nous avons senti de loin leurs vÉux pour depuis dix ans. Les différences dans nos stand–Fabrice Jaumont, Samia Benouaret un congrès réussi, et nous avons beaucoup structures de cotisations ont rendu la et Adam Steg. Je remercie Adam de tout ce apprécié tout ce qu’elles ont fait pour aider gestion de plus en plus difficile. Nous qu’il a fait pour m’aider, pour son amitié et à la mise en Éuvre du congrès et pour remercions l’AATG de leur collaboration pour sa disponibilité dans des soutenir les efforts de l’AATF. Nous qui continuera sans aucun doute dans circonstances difficiles. saluons également le travail exceptionnel d’autres domaines. Les mots sont de bien fabiles outils de toute leur équipe, Dominique Geslin, Dès maintenant nous nous tournons pour exprimer notre reconnaissance à Pascale DeSchuyter, Pascal Hanse et vers le congrès de 2005 qui aura lieu du 7 Chantal Manès de l’Ambassade de Jean-François Georgy. Finalement, nous au 10 juillet dans la ville de Québec. Nous er France à Washington. Elle nous a toujours exprimons notre plus profonde reconnais- vous invitons dès le 1 octobre à soumettre fourni des conseils judicieux et utiles. Elle sance à Xavier Darcos, Ministre de la en ligne une proposition d’atelier et de partageait avec nous un seul objectif--un Francophonie. Sa présence à Atlanta a communication. Consultez régulièrement congrès réussi digne des professeurs de contribué énormément à la réussite du le site Web [www.frenchteachers.org] pour français qui travaillent partout dans le congrès, et sa solidarité, en tant les renseignements les plus à jour. monde avec passion et enthousiasme, qu’enseignant lui-même, avec les Jayne Abrate parfois dans des conditions très difficiles. professeurs les encouragent dans leus Secrétaire générale

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 3 MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT BUSH SPECIAL SUBSCRIPTION A OFFER TO LE FRANÇAIS DANS LE MONDE CONTINUED The special offer for AATF members to subscribe to Le Français dans le monde has been continued. The review is now the official publication of the Fédération inter- national des professeurs de français (FIPF) and is published by CLE International. The AATF has negotiated a special subscrip- tion rate for AATF members. Each year more than 500 AATF members have taken advan- tage of this special offer. Members have two subscription options. For a yearly subscription payment of $52, you can receive six issues of Le Français dans le monde plus two accompanying CDs as well as two special issues of Francophonie (a savings of $76 over regu- lar subscription rates). For a yearly sub- scription payment of $62, you can again receive six issues of Le Français dans le monde with two accompanying CDs, two special issues of Francophonie, and, in ad- dition, two issues of the more research ori- ented Didactique “Recherches et Applica- tions” (a savings of $79 over regular sub- scription rates). To facilitate the process, AATF members may pay the AATF at the same time they make their annual dues payment, and we will handle the transfer to CLE International. Subscriptions may be obtained by filling out the appropriate space on your 2005 dues renewal invoice which will be mailed to all AATF members in early October. Those who subscribed for 2004 may renew their sub- scription in the same way. It can take sev- eral weeks to process these subscriptions. Therefore, it is important to send your re- newals as early as possible. 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Frost in France: An American Recycling Prices are subject to change without To communicate address changes, con- Company Negotiates a Joint Venture in notice. tact [[email protected]], 4 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) AATF 2004 EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Margot M. Steinhart, President [2006] Fax: 406-587-8490 David Graham, Region III New York Dept. of French and Italian E-mail: [[email protected]] State) Rep. [2006] Northwestern University, Kresge 152 Sharon Shelly, Managing Editor, French 344 Trim Road Evanston, IL 60208-2204 Review [2007] Morrisonville, NY 12962 Ph: 847-467-1448; Fax: 847-491-3877 Department of French E-mail: [[email protected]] E-mail: [[email protected]] College of Wooster Chapters: Central NY, Hudson Valley, Pays Jayne Abrate, Executive Director [2006] 400 East University Street du Nord, Rochester, Western NY AATF, Mailcode 4510 Wooster, OH 44691 Diana Regan, Region IV (Mid-Atlantic) Southern Illinois University Phone: 330-263-2562 Rep. [2004] Carbondale, IL 62901-4510 Fax: 330-263-2693 411 Dartmouth Road Ph: 618- 453-5731; Fax: 618- 453-5733 E-mail: [[email protected]] Bryn Mawr, PA 19010 E-mail: [[email protected]] Jane Black Goepper, Editor, National E-mail: [[email protected]] Jean-Pierre Piriou, Past-President Bulletin [2007] Chapters: Central PA, DE, Lehigh Valley, MD, [2004] 2324 Park Avenue, #34 NJ, Northeastern PA, Northern VA, Philadel- Dept. of Romance Languages Cincinnati, OH 45206 phia, Pittsburgh, Susquehanna Valley, VA University of Georgia Fax: 513-861-5572 Danielle Raquidel, Region V (Southeast) Athens, GA 30606 E-mail: [[email protected]] Rep. [2006] Fax: 706-542-3287 Sidney L. Teitelbaum, Director Fine Arts, Languages & Literatures E-mail: [[email protected]] National French Contest [2004] University of South Carolina Brenda Benzin, Vice-President [2005] P.O. Box 32030 800 University Way 824 Delaware Road Sarasota, FL 34278 Spartanburg, SC 29303 Kenmore, NY 14223-1236 Fax: 941-364-9820 Fax: 864-503-5825 E-mail: [[email protected]] E-mail: [[email protected]] E-mail: [[email protected]] Chapters: AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN Éliane Kurbegov, Vice-President [2004] Myrna Delson-Karan, Region I (New York Dr. Michael Krop Senior High School City) Rep. [2006] Valérie Lastinger, Region VI (East 1410 NE County Line Road Dept. of Modern Languages & Literatures Central) Rep. [2004] Miami, FL 33179 Fordham University West Virginia University Ph: 305-652-6808; Fax: 305-935-6208 Faber Hall, Room 553 P.O. Box 6298 E-mail: [[email protected]] Bronx, NY 10458-9993 Morgantown, WV 26506-6298 Tel: 304-293-5121 Robert “Tennessee Bob” Peckham, Vice- Fax: 718-817-2655 E-mail: [[email protected]] Fax: 304-293-7655 President [2006] E-mail: [[email protected]] Modern Foreign Languages Chapters: Metropolitan, Nassau, Suffolk, Westchester Chapters: Detroit, IN, Northwest IN, KY, MI, University of Tennessee OH, WV Martin, TN 38237 Jean-Pierre Berwald, Region II (New Ph: 731-587-6562; Fax: 731-587-1407 England) Rep. [2005] Ann Sunderland, Region VII (West E-mail: [[email protected]] 49 Maplewood Drive. Central) Rep. [2005] Truman High School Christopher Pinet, Editor in Chief, French Amherst, MA 01002 E-mail: [[email protected]] 3301 South Noland Road Review [2007] Independence, MO 64055 409 West Morrow Chapters: CT, Eastern and Western MA, NH, RI, VT E-mail: [[email protected]] Bozeman, MT 59715 Chapters: Chicago, Kansas City, St. Louis, Downstate IL, IA, KS, MN, NE, ND, SD, WI YOUR FRENCH PROGRAM IS WORTH SAVING: Helen Lorenz, Region VIII (Southwest) FRENCH ADVOCACY WORKSHOP IN CHICAGO Rep. [2004] 4120 Eldorado Tennessee Bob Peckham will direct an work and for our nation as we respond to Plano, TX 75093 Advocacy Workshop for AATF members in issues of national security and to the chal- E-mail: [[email protected]] Chicago on November 18, 2004, the day lenges of succeeding in a global economy. Chapters: AR, Central TX, CO-WY, El Paso, before the ACTFL Conference sessions Interested AATF members are urged to e- Hautes Plaines, Houston, NM, North TX, begin. This workshop is designed for those mail Margot Steinhart [m.steinhart@ OK, South TX, UT interested in helping AATF chapters and their sbcglobal.net] to receive an update on the Suzanne Hendrickson, Region IX members to strengthen support for exist- details of this workshop as they become (Pacific) Rep. [2005] ing programs, to mount an effective cam- available. Dept. of Languages & Literatures paign to support French programs wher- The workshop will be held at Northpark Arizona State University ever they face reduction or elimination, and College from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will in- Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 to provide information to be shared with our volve hands-on work with Internet re- E-mail: [[email protected]] many different audiences—institutional, sources. The cost for the workshop is $40 Chapters: AZ, HI, ID, MT, NV, Northern CA, parental, and community. The focus of the which includes a light lunch. Transporta- OR, San Diego, Southern CA, WA/BC/AK advocacy initiative is proactive. It strives to tion is available from the conference hotel generate enthusiasm for and confidence to the university site by public transporta- in French as an important language for the tion or by taxi. world in which our students will live and Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 5 MEMBERS’ NOTES Marie-Simone Pavlovich, of the Chi- level. Félicitations! taining several thousand signed French cago/Northern Illinois Chapter participated Robert M. Terry, Professor of French, books and some 1500 blue binders con- in Bernard Pivot’s Dictée in Paris in early University of Richmond, VA, has received taining priceless documents either pur- spring. She placed first among the Ameri- the 2004 SCOLT Founders Award for his chased or received personally. A beautiful can contenders in the Trophées de la significant contributions to the SCOLT con- Persian carpet adorns the floor and signed Langue française. The Dictée was televised ference and because he “exemplifies the posters from famous French performers on TV5. Marie-Simone organizes the spirit and ideals of the founders of the or- decorate the walls. A floor to ceiling window Grande Dictée which is cosponsored by ganization.” Félicitations! lets in natural light and overlooks the cen- the Chicago/Northern Illinois Chapter and tral green of Brown. Northwestern University each February. The Brown University Library has ac- Félicitations! quired a major collection of books and liter- AATF EXECUTIVE ary correspondence from Dr. Mel Yoken, DIRECTOR ELECTED TO Cécile Peyronnet, Attachée culturelle au Chancellor Professor of French at the Uni- Service culturel du Consulat de France, At- versity of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. The lanta, recently named Honorary Member of Yoken Collection encompasses literally the AATF, has also received the 2004 hundreds of American, French, English and SCOLT Friend of Foreign Language Award Québécois authors and public figures ac- for her support of teachers in the SCOLT tive during the latter half of the 20th century. region through scholarships and her pre- The collection contains over 20,000 books sentations at both SCOLT and AATF chap- inscribed and annotated by their authors, ter meetings. Félicitations! as well as tens of thousands of letters, Pourtant, plus de cinq siècles après sa notes, personal papers and other manu- mort, François Villon, obsédé par le gibet, scripts from many of the most important est haut perché sur la Toile. Outre ses individuals of the period. In addition, there Oeuvres complètes (Pierre Jannet, 1867), are numerous letters written by significant accessibles sur le site de la BNF, le maître figures of the 18th and 19th centuries. The de la ballade du XVème siècle, exclu et déchu collection is housed in the John Hay Library, de son vivant, a su gagner ses lettres de in the Yoken Room, on the Brown campus. noblesse. Et l’universitaire américain Rob- Dr. Yoken, who holds a Master’s degree ert D. Peckham, de l’Université du Tennes- from Brown, chose his alma mater to re- see-Martin, n’y est pas étranger. Ce ceive his collection because “Brown’s pres- médiéviste en littérature française ébauche, tigious John Hay Library, is well known for dès 1996, ce qui est devenu un centre de its extensive holdings available to scholars renseignements sur les études and researchers. I have spent over 40 years villoniennes, riche de 500 liens. “Il m’était as a scholar of French language and litera- HEAD JNCL/NCLIS évident que les publics de Villon ture and feel reassured that my unique ar- Dr. Jayne Abrate has been elected Presi- dépassaient de loin le cosmos de commu- chives will be displayed and preserved un- dent of the Joint National Committee for nication entre académiciens,” assure ce der one roof for future generations.” Languages and National Council for Lan- professeur de langue et de culture Merrily Taylor, former Brown University guages and International Studies (JNCL/ françaises, auteur de François Villon: a bib- Librarian, recognizing the value of the Yoken NCLIS). The organization, based in Wash- liography (Garland, 1990). Cette Société Collection, stated “I’m sure that in the years ington, DC, is a national coalition of 60 François Villon présente, à la lumière des to come, Dr. Yoken’s archives will be con- scholarly and professional organizations contextes historique et littéraire, “un Villon sidered a high point in my 22 years at representing over 250,000 members of the textuel, international–traduit en 15 langues, Brown.” Samuel Streit, Associate Univer- language and international education biographique, critique, sans oublier le Bul- sity Librarian for Special Collections said: fields. Dr. Abrate has been a member of letin bibliographique,” tente de résumer “The John Hay has a long tradition of col- the JNCL/NCLIS Board of Directors since l’enthousiaste Robert D. Peckham. lecting books and manuscripts in a broad 1997. The AATF was one of the eight found- “Atteindre des lecteurs, tirer des corrections array of disciplines, and the Yoken Collec- ing associations of the twenty-eight year old et des suggestions de médiévistes d’un peu tion will both complement and expand our JNCL/NCLIS. partout dans le monde, créer une collec- holdings in a variety of literary and histori- J. David Edwards tion de poèmes américains qui imitent ou cal fields.” Executive Director font référence à la Ballade des dames du As an inquisitive Brown University gradu- JNCL/NCLIS temps jadis” restent pour l’heure ses ate student, Mel Yoken had questions with préoccupations. Autant dire que l’”escroc, several of his readings. He thought nothing CELEBRATE truand, marlou, génie,” chanté par Jean of writing to the authors for direct answers, Richepin en 1876, aurait pu lui dédier sa and the authors wrote back to him. Fortu- NATIONAL FRENCH Ballade de merci. (Le Monde des livres, 26 itously, Dr. Yoken saved everything and has WEEK: NOV. 5-11, 2004 March 2004) now decided to share his incredible collec- Take French out of the Mary Lynn Redmond, Associate Profes- tion of outstanding memorabilia with the sor in the Department of Education at Wake world. The Yoken Archives were recently classroom and into the Forest University, Winston Salem, NC was dedicated during a three-day marathon cel- community! named the 2004 SCOLT Outstanding For- ebration. The Yoken Archive room itself is eign Language Teacher: Post-Secondary lined on four sides with bookshelves con- 6 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) CALL TO ARMS FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE ADVOCACY AATF-SPONSORED Advocacy is of great importance to the [www.utm.edu/~globeg/advofr.shtml] SESSIONS AT ACTFL AATF in a climate where French enrollments A note about technical expertise: it is The AATF will again sponsor six ses- show little growth on the college level and much less important for an advocacy des- sions at the 2004 ACTFL Convention which where a number of high-school programs ignate to be able to create a Web site than it will take place November 18-21 in Chicago. are being eliminated. We have decided to is to be able to gather pertinent information • “Regional Accents: How the French fight this attrition logically and systemati- for one and perhaps to know someone who Define(d) the Midwest,” Presenters: cally. can make a Web page. However, it is best Anita Alkhas and Larry Kuiper, Univer- As an association truly concerned with for a chapter to own and manage its advo- sity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and every child’s opportunity to learn French, our cacy page than to rely on someone at head- Denise Phillippe, Concordia Language efforts will eventually involve organization quarters or a nationally designated tech per- Villages (MN); from the national to the local level. Topics son. This is a “state” page, and chapter • “Presenting Quebec Society and Culture: addressed in advocacy discourse will be members will want to update it with the most Content, Methodology, and Resources,” both in and outside of language education, powerful state-relevant information as it Presenters: Marie-Christine Koop, Uni- with some entirely unrelated to education. becomes available. This might be done versity of North Texas and Chair of the In this struggle, advocates may need an best with a members partnership pair (in- AATF Commission on Cultural Compe- offensive of letters, but they will also need a formation & tech specialists). Making a tence, and S. Pascale Dewey, Kutztown grassroots network of local supporters, will- simple Web page with Netscape Composer University (PA) ing to show up at PTO and school board (available free with every Netscape browser) • “Advocacy Depot: Building Tomorrow’s meetings. Therefore, they will work with is easy. It is best to get specific information Language Advocacy Centers with Les- other educators, students, parents, alumni, about hosting a page from your Internet pro- sons from Today’s Crises,” Presenters: school board members, city officials and vider or school technology specialist. Ten- Robert “Tennessee Bob” Peckham, other politicians, people from regional and nessee Bob Peckham [[email protected]] University of Tennessee-Martin and AATF local business communities, newspaper would be happy to assist. You can also find Vice-President, Jacki Thomas, Texas reporters, and other media representatives. detailed instructions on the AATF Web site A&M University-Kingsville and Co-Chair To begin this comprehensive campaign, for constructing a Web page at of the AATF Commission for the Promo- we are calling on each AATF chapter to have [www.frenchteachers.org/general/self]. He tion of French, Joyce Beckwith, a designated advocacy coordinator. The intends to offer short targeted workshops Wilmington High School (MA) and Co- name and contact information (including e- and on-line instruction. Chair of the Commission for the Pro- mail address) for this individual will be for- 2. Organize information pertinent to the motion of French, Brenda Benzin, Buf- warded by chapter presidents to their Re- status of French in the chapter. This might falo State University (NY) and AATF Vice- gional Representative (see page 5) by No- include answers to queries in the district President, and Barbara Ransford, vember 1. and state profile lists from Camden-Fairview High School and Here are some things which an AATF Ideas for French Language & Culture Ad- Chapter President (AR); chapter advocacy coordinator should be vocacy in the U.S. • “French is All Around you, but How Do willing to do: [www.utm.edu/~globeg/advofr.shtml ] You Identify the Resources?” Present- 1. Work with other chapter members or 3. Maintain a name and address list of ers: Margot Steinhart, Northwestern Uni- with other chapters (in multi-chapter states) influential people in the chapter (state and versity and AATF President, and Jayne to make available state-specific advocacy district supervisors, state and national Abrate, Southern Illinois University and materials on a Web page such as the fol- senators and representatives, allies in AATF Executive Director; lowing: business, state foreign language associa- • “Le Grand Concours,” Presenters: New York Needs French tion contacts, advocacy coordinators for Geneviève Delfosse, Thomas Jefferson [www.utm.edu/~globeg/nyadvocat.html] other AATs in the state, etc.) High School of Science and Technology (VA) and Chair of the Secondary Test De- Tennessee Needs French 4. Identify members and interested al- velopment Committee, and Ted [www.utm.edu/~globeg/frtnadvoc.shtml] lies who are willing to travel and speak, those who are willing to make telephone Haldeman, Homewood-Flossmoor Although these pages may be considered calls, and those willing to write letters. High School (IL); templates, each state’s page will be differ- 5. Create correspondence templates for • “All About National Board Certification,” ent in a variety of ways. Not all the catego- letter writing campaigns. Presenters: Samantha Godden- ries of information on these pages will be 6. Put out the call that you are interested Chmielowicz, Schurz High School (IL), relevant to all targeted groups or individu- in any sign that a French program will be Todd Bowen, Adlai Stevenson High als, but the categories exist because the cut, scaled back, replaced by something School (IL), and Susan Colville-Hall, information from each might be used in else, or that someone is struggling to intro- University of Akron and Chair of the AATF constructing an effective argument aimed duce a French program in a district where Commission on Professional Teacher at a particular group or key individual. Re- there is none. Standards. dundancy is the operative word here. Local 7. If possible, map out where chapter For more information go to the ACTFL Web advocates can create their own district-spe- members are geographically, so you can site at [www.actfl.org]. cific documents by selecting from the state call on those near trouble spots. page and adding their own local informa- 8. Share ideas, success and failure sto- BE SURE TO VISIT THE tion. Some materials used in sites above ries with other chapters. and in other phases of the advocacy AATF WEB SITE Robert (Tennessee Bob) Peckham struggle can be gleaned from an outline for University of Tennessee at Martin advocacy and links in www.frenchteachers.org E-mail: [[email protected]] Ideas for French Language & Culture Ad- vocacy in the US Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 7 PROMOTIONAL FLYERS TO ENLIVEN YOUR CLASSROOM

Help Wanted: Encourage Students to Learn French AATF’s newest promotional flyer. Designed to promote the study of French to high-school counselors by highlighting the importance of French for many different careers. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. French By the Numbers White on red flyer highlights dozens of statistics on the presence of the French language in the world and the importance of the French economy in the global marketplace and particularly to the American economy. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. French is Not a "Foreign" Language New promotional flyer. Black and white on forest green flyer illustrates how close English and French are. An easily understand- able text written in French as well as an English paragraph full of French words and phrases make it clear that French is not a "foreign" language. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. Why Learn French Attractive blue and green on white flyer presents French as a language for business, jobs, travel, and global communication. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. Speaking French: an investment in the future Red, white, and blue brochure explains why French is a world language! It explains why today’s French student isn’t only learning a language rich in history and culture but also is opening a door to greater career opportunities. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. Top Ten Reasons to Learn French (published by the French Cultural Services and the AATF) A red, white, and blue brochure which lists 10 excellent reasons why students should learn French, including increasing their advantage in the global job market and improving their critical and creative thinking skills. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. Why French FLES*? (developed by the AATF FLES* Commission) This color flyer offers reasons and testimonials on the importance of beginning the study of French at a young age. Use it to promote the importance of French in the elementary schools. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250. NEW! (developed by the AATF Commission on High Schools) This color flyer promotes the study of French to high school guidance counselors. It highlights the many reasons why it is important for students to learn French. 50 copies @$5.00; 100 copies @ $10 (member prices); 20 cents each for quantities larger than 250.

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8 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK CONTESTS YEAR OF LANGUAGES The theme for the year 2004 is “Speak Send to: Helen Lorenz, 4120 Eldorado, The American Council on the Teaching French and Understand the World: Parler Plano, TX 75093. of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) and cospon- français et comprendre le monde.” Guidelines: The poster theme must appear soring organizations proclaim 2005 the on each entry. No copyrighted figures (ie. Year of Languages in the United States. ESSAY CONTEST Its primary objectives are as follows: Deadline: Postmarked by October 15, 2004. Snoopy, Astérix) accepted. Each entry must be the original work of a current French stu- • Leave no American behind in the op- Send to: David Graham, 344 Trim Road, dent whose teacher is an AATF member for portunity to learn at least two lan- Morrisonville, NY 12962. 2004. No group entries. There is a limit of guages. Guidelines: Each entry must be the origi- five entries per school. The student's name, • Every American citizen should have the nal work of a current French student whose grade, level of French, school, school ad- opportunity to learn to communicate in teacher is an AATF member for 2004. No dress and telephone number, and teacher's at least two foreign languages in addi- group entries. There is a limit of five entries full name must be written on the back of the tion to the mother tongue. per school. Essays must be written in En- poster. Submissions with incomplete in- • Promote a world where multilingual- glish and be typed or word processed. The formation will not be judged. ism and cultural understanding prevail. student's name, grade, level of French, Posters must measure 18" x 24" and have • Help sponsor more than 50,000 for- school, school address and telephone a flat surface with no moving parts. No eign language related activities in the number, and teacher's full name must be three-dimensional posters accepted. No U.S. at both the local and the national written on the front of the essay. Submis- glue is to be used. Tempera paint, india levels. sions with incomplete information will not ink, markers, flairs, or crayons may be used. • Celebrate the history and use of all lan- be judged. The required essay lengths, by Use white poster paper. Mail entries flat. guages in the U.S. including those lan- division, are: The judging divisions are: guages indigenous to the country. • Grades 3-5: Maximum 150 words; • Elementary: Grades 3-5 • Sponsor workshops, conferences, • Grades 6-8: Maximum 250 words • Intermediate: Grades 6-8 competitions, theatrical performances, • Grades 9-12: Maximum 350 words • Secondary: Grades 9-12 language festivals, and other activities. • College: Maximum 500 words • College • Involve students, parents, schools at all levels of instruction, academic dis- Judging Criteria: Theme relevance, origi- Judging Criteria: Visual impact, theme rel- ciplines other than foreign languages, nality, written expression. evance, originality. (Remember that the use and leaders locally, statewide, and na- All essays become the property of the of color is important to visual impact. Large tionally. AATF and may be used in AATF publications areas of white reduce the visual impact of • Involve language teachers, American or materials. All participants in the AATF the submission.) historians, civics educators, U.S. and Essay and Poster Contests will receive cer- All posters become the property of the world history teachers, teachers of in- tificates. A student may enter both contests. AATF and may be used in AATF publications ternational and global education, Na- First, second, and third place winners of or materials. All participants in the AATF tive American educators, TESOL teach- each division will receive prizes to be an- Essay and Poster Contests will receive cer- ers in the U.S., heritage language nounced. tificates. A student may enter both contests. groups and educators, museums and POSTER CONTEST First, second, and third place winners of museum educators, The United Na- Deadline: Postmarked by October 15, 2004. each division will receive prizes to be an- tions, U.S. representatives to the United nounced. Nations, special ties to UNESCO and the European Union, educators in the Western Hemisphere, Ministries of The AATF and the National FLES* Commission Education in the Western Hemisphere, Foreign Embassies and Consulates in the U.S., U.S. embassies and con- sulates abroad, U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Education, present a new video the U. S. Congress, members of the Executive branch Including the Presi- “Forward with FLES*” dent, U.S. ethnic and immigrant groups The video addresses some important issues: and social clubs. 1. Why FLES*? 2. FLES* Outcomes 3. French Connectons 4. FLES* and the Future This 11-minute video was filmed in Dallas, New Orleans, Baltimore, and UPCOMING AATF Rutherford, NJ. Project Coordinators: Dr. Gladys Lipton and Dr. Lena Lucietto Many people were interviewed, and the speakers on the video represent views CONVENTIONS from different walks of educational life: superintendent, mayor, headmistress, PTA Join us as we celebrate the president and member, parents, state foreign language specialists, National FLES* French-speaking world in: Institute director, principals, foreign language chairs and coordinators, AATF • Quebec (July 7-10, 2005) Regional Representatives, French teachers, Spanish teachers, students.... Funding for the video was part of a grant received by the AATF from the U.S. • Milwaukee (2006) Department of Education Title VI. • Baton Rouge (2007) For more information, consult the Materials Center listings on page 38 FLES* includes Sequential FLES, Sequential FLEX, Exploratory, Immersion • Belgium (2008)

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 9 AATF SMALL GRANTS NEWS FROM THE At the Atlanta Convention, the Executive FROM CHAPTER TREASURY (This must EXECUTIVE COUNCIL Council again renewed the AATF Small be attested to by the Chapter Secretary-Trea- Three new and two returning Executive Grants program for 2005 to support local surer). PLEASE NOTE: Every year some Council members joined the group during the 2004 Convention in Atlanta. Robert “Ten- projects by Chapter members who need interesting requests remain unfunded be- nessee Bob” Peckham was elected Vice- an extra infusion of cash in order to get their cause of lack of financial support at the President for the term 2004-2006. Region project off the ground or to bring their project Chapter level; it is important to begin the application process AS SOON AS YOU III (New York State) Representative David to completion. The total amount of funds Graham was elected for the term 2004- available is $5000, with the maximum READ THIS by alerting your Chapter offic- ers to your upcoming request. 2006. Region Representatives Myrna award being $500. The usual restriction Delson-Karan (Region I-New York City) and will still be in effect: 100% matching funds Applicants should remember that the ba- sic purpose of this modest program is to Danielle Raquidel (Region V-Southeast) from the chapter to which the applicant be- aid those members who need supplemen- were reelected to three-year terms. Man- longs must be committed—or less if the tary funds to carry out a worthy project that aging Editor of the French Review Sharon Chapter treasury cannot meet the chal- would otherwise be unfunded or Shelly also joined the Executive Council for lenge. In this way, it is hoped that the appli- underfunded. Projects must bear a rela- the first time in Atlanta. cant can attract sufficient overall funding. tionship to the purposes of the Association, Also at the Atlanta Convention, Sidney Application procedures and require- namely furthering the study of French in the Teitelbaum, Director of the National French ments remain the same as in previous U.S., and be of potential benefit to other Contest, announced his retirement as of years. A letter specifying the following AATF members or to his/her students. September 30, 2004. After a national should be sent to the Executive Director, Under no circumstances will awards be search, current Assistant Director Lisa Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois University, made to carry out strictly personal research Narug was chosen as his successor. She Carbondale, IL 62901-4510 postmarked by or to travel abroad for the sake of general will assume the position on October 1, 2004 March 1, 2005: (1) name of applicant and enlightenment. Members at all levels of in- and will join the Executive Council next year Chapter to which he/she belongs; (2) a brief struction may apply. in Quebec. summary of the project, including purpose, A committee will evaluate the applica- individuals involved, inclusive dates; (3) to- tions and determine the recipients. Prefer- tal anticipated budget; (4) funds requested; ence will be given to new projects having a SOCIÉTÉ HONORAIRE DE (5) other sources of funds being sought, wide impact. Projects for National French FRANÇAIS INCLUDING AMOUNT TO BE MATCHED Week 2005 are encouraged. The establishment of a chapter of the Société honoraire de français offers sev- eral benefits to a secondary French pro- 2005 SUMMER SCHOLARSHIPS FOR THE FRENCH REVIEW gram. It provides an opportunity to recog- FRENCH STUDENTS WELCOMES ARTICLES FOR nize outstanding scholarship in the study The American Society of the French Aca- A SPECIAL ISSUE ENTITLED of French language through selection for demic Palms will award two student schol- membership, the placement of a special arships to be used for a four-week mini- “CINEMAS” seal on the graduate’s diploma, the wear- mum study program in a French-speaking This special issue will be open to ar- ing of a blue/white/red cord (or white cord) country during summer 2005. To qualify, ticles on French and Francophone cinema, at graduation, and the right to wear the offi- the student must be a junior enrolled in a cinema and literature, and the teaching of cial emblem/pin of the honor society. The high school French program or be a junior cinema. This volume to be published in chapter provides a vehicle for focusing ac- majoring in French at a post-secondary in- May 2006 will be in honor of the AATF meet- tivities around French language and litera- stitution. The scholarship of $1,500 may be ing to be held in Milwaukee in July 2006. ture and also for encouraging member par- used to cover travel and program costs in a Articles should be scholarly but not exceed- ticipation in the annual writing contest as French program that the recipient selects. ingly specialized. Authors should consult well as application for the annual travel The application must be endorsed by a the Guide for Authors at the end of each grants. There is the opportunity for students member of ASFAP and be submitted by issue of the French Review for formal con- to serve as officers, directing the induction December 15, 2004. Applications will be siderations and the Editor in Chief if they ceremony, or leading other chapter events. have further questions. The deadline for sent electronically upon request. Please Information is available from H. Todd contact Margot Steinhart at [m.steinhart@ submission tot he editor will be August 1, Knox, Executive Secretary SHF, 500 2005. Submit articles to Christopher Pinet, sbcglobal.net]. Monteigne Drive, Lafayette, LA 70506-6308, Modern Languages and Literatures, Mon- E-mail: [[email protected]] or from the Web tana State University, Bozeman, MT 59717. site at [www.frenchteachers.org]. REMINDER TO FDLM SUBSCRIBERS If you move, you need to inform Le ADVOCACY Français dans le monde directly. The • Information about the most effective way to advocate for foreign lan- AATF cannot keep track of and com- guage programs municate these changes. Notify the • Links for language-related Congressional testimony AATF or send an e-mail to [[email protected]], AND send any • Federal government grant opportunities address changes for Le Français Check out the JNCL-NCLIS Web site at dans le monde to [[email protected]]. www.languagepolicy.org

10 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) REGIONAL REPORTS REGION IX—PACIFIC a well-known French dessert, and the event chapters in the region in the rich French In spite of the geographically challeng- sold out. The Northern California Chapter and Francophone cultural life of New York ing makeup of the region, individual chap- celebrated with a series of films sponsored City. These included the signature event of ters are working energetically to provide in- in conjunction with the French Consulate. the Metropolitan Chapter, the annual Jour- teresting activities and support for their The Arizona chapter received a $250 AATF née de Gala, the Charles Perrault Contest, members and to promote French and Fran- Small Grant for a number of activities in sponsored by the Services Culturels of the cophone studies and culture in their areas. Phoenix and Tucson. The AATF collaborated French Embassy, the celebration of La Fran- The Washington/British Columbia/Alaska/ with the Alliance française, the Phoenix/ cophonie held at St. John’s University, Alberta, Northern California, and Southern Grenoble Sister Cities Committee, Arizona among others. The proximity of the Chapters California chapters work very closely with State University, the Institut français of the Region allowed for a sharing of many the French Consulates in their areas as well d’Arizona, the International School of Ari- of the highlights of the year. In essence, as with the Alliance française and other zona and other Francophone groups to many of the AATF meetings involve not only Francophone organizations to sponsor a sponsor almost two weeks of Francoph- all of the chapters of the Region, but colla- variety of interesting activities. All chapters one cultural events centered around lec- boration with many other language asso- are to be commended for their work. tures, films, social gatherings, and meals. ciations in the area. The Services Culturels The Grand Concours is an important The 200th anniversary of Hector Berlioz’s of the French Embassy offered a special area of focus for Region IX, with all chap- birth was celebrated with lectures and con- reception in honor of the Northeast ters reporting national winners. The Re- certs. Other celebrities featured included Conference to which all AATF chapters of gion ranked sixth in total student enrollment artists Marion Pike (a California artist who the region were invited. Le Grand Concours with 9,737 students participating. Two chap- lived many years in Paris and painted ex- continues to be a centerpiece for all ters ranked in the top twenty for enrollment— traordinary portraits of Malraux and Coco chapters in the region and is extremely Northern California, under the direction of Chanel) and Paul Gauguin. Franco-Ameri- motivational for French students. All Pat Nakashima and Elizabeth Miller, ranked can friendship and collaboration was high- Chapters of the Region held beautiful award fifth, and Southern California, Fataneh lighted with a presentation on the bicenten- ceremonies and offered many prizes to the Tabatabai, Administrator, moved from twelfth nial of the Louisiana Purchase and a spe- winners, including scholarships to French place in 2003 to eleventh place this year. cial dinner on Veterans’ Day. Festivals of and Francophone countries. Southern California was also one of twelve various kinds celebrating French language Myrna Delson-Karan chapters nationwide that set a 25-year en- and culture were also held on many school Region I Representative rollment record in 2004. In the FLES campuses. REGION II: NEW ENGLAND Concours Northern California, under the Members of Region IX who deserve spe- New England had a particularly active direction of FLES Contest National Chair cial recognition for their accomplishments year. The Grand Concours remains the Elizabeth Miller, retained its number 1 rank- this year include the following: Pam Will, most important event in attracting student ing. Pam Will enrolled 164 FLES students, Northern California Chapter, received the and teacher participation in all the New capturing the award for the teacher enroll- award for the teacher enrolling the most England chapters, and enrollment rates ing the most students in the country in le students in the country in le Grand have maintained. Several chapters have Grand Concours. Four chapters in Region Concours-FLES. She received a trip to At- had good success in celebrating National IX—Arizona, Northern California, Oregon, lanta which included round-trip airfare, three French Week and have organized concerts and Washington/Alaska/British Colum- nights hotel at the Hilton, registration, and and other formal events to promote the bia—had national FLES winners. meals. Colleen Chamberlain from the study of French language and Francophone Region IX also had participants and Washington/British Columbia/Alaska chap- cultures. Our chapters had meetings dur- three winners in the Tour du monde de la ter received a 2004 AATF Summer Scholar- ing the year either as separate affairs or in Francophonie. José García from Arizona ship to the Université du Québec à conjunction with their state foreign lan- and Marisa Chen and Lisa Hahn from Cali- Chicoutimi. Christine Kolstoe, President guage association. Several chapters are fornia were among eight winners who were of the Chapter, received a $750 Small Grant undergoing reorganization; The Vermont recognized at the Atlanta Congress Séance for a Éric Vincent concert in the spring and chapter will be electing a new president; d’ouverture. They then left from Atlanta to Dances of France program in the fall. Marie- the Maine chapter has recently elected new begin their tour du monde francophone ac- Magdeleine Chirol and the Southern Cali- officers, and New Hampshire will have companied by Lynn Heyman-Hogue, mem- fornia Chapter received a $500 Small Grant some personnel changes as well. ber of the San Diego Chapter. to bring a French play to Whittier College. National French Week 2003 was cel- Sue Hendrickson Le Grand Concours ebrated in Region IX chapters with a variety Region IX Representative Once again the Grand Concours proved of activities highlighting French and Fran- to be very successful in all seven chapters REGION I-NEW YORK CITY cophone culture. In past years students in in terms of participation and awards re- During the academic year 2003-2004 the Oregon have visited the Portland Art Mu- ceived. The Concours itself as well as the region has flourished with interesting seum, dined at French restaurants, and follow-up award ceremonies continue to pedagogical and cultural events which have participated in various French activities. attract a great deal of interest among teach- focused on the promotion of French French plays are sometimes staged at ers, participants, and the various commu- language and culture for students of all Linfield College and in Portland. In Novem- nities represented. Thanks to the tireless levels. La Semaine du Français has proven ber 2003 the French Club at Linfield Col- work of the contest administrators, interest to be the organizational framework and lege received funds from the student gov- in French and Francophone language, lit- impetus toward the realization of many of ernment to invite an expert chef from Port- erature, and cultures remains high. Paula these events. The Regional Representative land to give a demonstration preparation of Frank, contest chair for Rhode Island re- promoted a sharing of many activities of all ceived one of two national awards for Con- Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 11 test Administrator of the Year and was hon- Quebec consulates, the French Library ,and CONTRIBUTE TO THE AATF ored on two occasions, at an awards cer- various state and regional foreign language FUND FOR THE FUTURE emony in Rhode Island this past April and associations. These activities are publicized once again in July at the Awards Luncheon by means of the Internet to the New En- The AATF Fund for the Future exists to at the AATF Convention in Atlanta. gland chapter presidents as a way of en- support initiatives approved by the Execu- National French Week and Music couraging participation among teachers of tive Council which promote French studies If the Grand Concours was a major fac- French and their students. across the U.S. For the past several years, tor in attracting interest for French, the other The French Embassy and Consulate are the Fund for the Future has been used to was certainly music. Various chapters or- recognized and thanked for their presence support National French Week. ganized concerts to celebrate National and assistance at meetings that were held To this end the Executive Council voted French Week and to present some major in Connecticut, Eastern Massachusetts, in 2002 to establish the following new cat- French language performers. Josée and New Hampshire. egories and benefits for Fund for the Fu- Vachon, a favorite Franco-American singer Jean-Pierre Berwald ture Benefactors: who has entertained students of French Region II Representative PLATINUM LEVEL BENEFACTOR: throughout the U.S. for many years, per- Awarded to any member who shows that formed in Vermont to help celebrate Na- they have named the AATF as a benefi- tional French Week and in Rhode Island at ciary in their will for an amount of no less an AATF sponsored gathering this past than $10,000; will receive a framed cer- March. The group Matapa gave concerts at tificate, honorary membership status, two venues in Connecticut in honor of Na- FRENCH REVIEW’S FOCUS ON complimentary registration to all future tional French Week as did the group Va-et- PEDAGOGY AATF conventions, be placed on the Web vient in Vermont. Jacques Yvart performed Teaching is at the heart of our mission site Honor Roll of donors; at a combined meeting of the Eastern and and this year’s French Review offers a wide GOLD LEVEL BENEFACTOR: Awarded to Western Massachusetts chapters this past selection of articles devoted to pedagogy. any member who shows that they have October. Brian Thompson, President of the In the October issue we feature pieces on named the AATF as a beneficiary in their Eastern Massachusetts Chapter, continues how to design realistic writing assignments will for an amount of no less than $5000; to invite French and Francophone singers based on real life for beginning, intermedi- will receive a framed certificate, life mem- to the Boston area for festivals and con- ate, and upper-level courses at both the high bership status, complimentary registra- certs in local schools as well as in all of school and university levels. A second ar- tion to all future AATF conventions, be New England. In the fall, the combined ticle complements the first by showing us placed on the Web site Honor Roll of chapters of the AATF and AATG will sponsor how to use the Web to enhance intermedi- donors; a singing duo from Strasbourg who will ate writing skills. In December “Toward a SILVER LEVEL BENEFACTOR: Awarded perform in French and German at the an- Pedagogy of the Francophone Text at the to any member who contributes at least nual meeting of the Massachusetts Foreign Intermediate Level” (this is perhaps the $2500 in a given year to the AATF; will Language Association and will remain in most challenging level to teach) proposes receive a framed certificate, complimen- the area to celebrate National French Week using Acadian and Cajun literature because tary registration to all future AATF con- in various area schools. the authors find that they share a cultural ventions, be placed on the Web site Honor Roll of donors; AATF Awards base with traditions in the U.S. which makes them easier to teach than stories from other, BRONZE LEVEL BENEFACTOR: Awarded New England can be proud of various to any member who contributes at least awards given to New England members. more distant cultures. Also in December there is a stimulating essay about cloze $1000 in a given year to the AATF; will Those who received AATF awards include receive a framed certificate, be placed Paula Frank (see above) of Rhode Island, windows that shows how this approach encourages students to understand how on the Web site Honor Roll of donors. Marjorie Salvodan, and Janel Lafond- In addition to these new categories, Paquin of Eastern Massachusetts and writers bring grammar, language, and ideas together in the creative process. Feb- members will also be recognized each No- Diane Nichols of New Hampshire. Marjorie vember in the National Bulletin as a Spon- won an award for a Small Grant project; ruary brings an essay on how to design and teach a course on African cinema and sor ($500-$999), Patron ($100-$499), Sus- Diane won a travel/study grant offered by taining Member ($50-$99). However, we the French Embassy through the AATF for March an article entitled “Tartuffe in Text and Performance: A Blueprint for Collaboration” welcome contributions in any amount. We three weeks of travel and study in are nearly 10,000 members strong, and if Perpignan. Janel won the prestigious AATF which shows how well an interdisciplinary approach can work when a professor of every member donated only $1, we would Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in Teaching have $10,000 to devote to scholarships and Award (secondary level) and was honored French and a professor of theatre bring both their disciplines to bear. Finally, in the April the development of promotional materials along with Paula Frank at the awards lun- and activities. Please consider making a cheon of the AATF Convention in Atlanta. 2005 issue there is an innovative essay entitled “L’Utilisation de simulations donation to the AATF Fund for the Future as Boston remains one of the most impor- you return your dues invoice this fall. A con- tant centers of Francophone activity in the boursières en classe de français commer- cial.” We hope that you will enjoy and find tribution made in 2004 is deductible on U.S. The Eastern Massachusetts Chapter your 2004 income tax return. is second only to Chicago in membership, use in your classrooms for these articles and Boston maintains an active Sister City and others which contain interesting ele- relationship with Strasbourg. The Eastern ments for the teaching of literature, society, Massachusetts Chapter organizes numer- and film in these rubrics. NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK ous workshops and presentations through- Christopher Pinet NOV. 5-11, 2004 out the academic year often with the partici- Editor in Chief pation of local universities, the French and The French Review

12 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) AATF SCHOLARSHIPS AATF WELCOMES NEW HONORARY MEMBERS FOR SUMMER 2005 PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT The AATF was We are working hard to finalize agree- pleased to welcome ments for scholarships for study abroad two new Honorary during summer 2005. In addition, the Members during the Walter Jensen scholarship for an under- Awards Luncheon at graduate French major preparing for a ca- the convention in Atlanta reer in teaching will be announced in No- on July 22, 2004. Cécile vember. Peyronnet, now former The Université de Montréal has provided Attacée culturelle at the at least one scholarship for the past sev- French Consulate in At- eral years, and we hope that this will con- lanta was instrumental tinue as well. We hope that the Université in helping organize the du Québec à Chicoutimi and the Université Laval will renew their scholarship offers. convention. Her enthu- siasm, dedication, and Pictured left to right: Cécile Peyronnet; Michel Girardin, Directeur We also hope to provide scholarships for adjoint du FIAP and AATF Honorary Member; AATF President study in France and Belgium. support helped make Margot Steinhart; Gérard Duval. At this time we wish to inform interested the convention a suc- members that more details and applica- cess. In addition, for tion materials will appear in the November the past four years she has done a tremen- and teacher training seminars to comple- National Bulletin. They will also be posted dous amount to support French teachers ment the activities already available to on the AATF Web site [www. in the Southeast. We were pleased to name guests and visitors. Many American teach- frenchteachers. org] as soon as they are her a new Honorary Member of the AATF in ers and AATF members know that the FIAP available. Note that the application dead- 2004. Gérard Duval is the Director of the is une étape incontournable of a visit to line for all scholarships is February 15, FIAP Jean Monnet in Paris. A longtime friend France. We are honored to welcome him 2005. of the AATF, he has been at the helm of the as a new Honorary Member of the AATF in FIAP as it has continued its mission to pro- 2004. vide lodging and programs to visitors from all over the world but also as the staff have Have a Question? developed innovative cultural programming If you have a question about the CORRIGÉ DES EXERCICES Grand Concours, about the AATF Con- sur l’article «La Vie des mots» paru dans vention, about membership, about la French Review, Vol. 77, No. 6 (May 2004). CHECK THE WEB FOR UPDATES your local chapter, about the work of Les activités se trouvent à la page 16. our Commissions, about National I. 1. je file The Web site will have regular up- French Week, go to the new AATF Web 2. m’a rigolé au nez dates on AATF activities including site at [www. frenchteachers.org]. 3. t te en l’air L Scholarships, National French Week, You’ll probably find the answer there. 4. d’une humeur massacrante Awards [www.frenchteachers.org]. 5. n’est pas une balance 6. n’y ont vu que du feu 7. «Fiche-moi la paix.» 8. fait NEW CD AVAILABLE 9. je vais sécher le cours de chimie ARCHITECTURAL WALKING TOUR OF PARIS 10. gobe II. 1. a donné, quand il l’a fallu The AATF now has available a CD entitled: “Paris: A Walking Tour of Selected Build- 2. pensait, était ings.” Designed for architects, this excellent CD has a wealth of still and video photog- 3. elle voulut hier raphy of 24 Paris buildings and monuments, including the Musée d’Orsay, la Grande 4. a poursuivi (ou: poursuivit) l’autre Arche, la Bibliothèque nationale, la Cité des sciences, la Pyramide du Louvre, and the jour Centre Pompidou. For each building, there is a brief introduction in English, a series 5. j’ai connu cet individu B un of still photographs of the features of the building, a series of video clips of each meeting. building, as well as a site map. III. 1. Un; 2. Une (ou: la), le; 3. un; 4. la, The AATF would like to thank Jeff Roberts of New World Design Partnership for l’; 5. la; 6. le; 7. un; 8. les; 9. la; providing us with this excellent resource for French teachers. 10. du IV. 1. en flagrant délit ______CDs x $12.50 = Total enclosed ______2. il m’a raccroché au nez 3. sa meuf Name: ______4. n’y verra que 5. de faire de sales coups Address: ______6. il m’a envoyé paître 7. c’est une véritable tLte en l’air City, State, Zip ______8. je ne me rappelle pas cette conversation Tel: ______Mail to: AATF, Mailcode 4510, Southern Ill. Univ., Carbondale, IL 62901 9. lui a décoché 10. «C’est du toc!»

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 13 PEN PAL & PLACEMENT BUREAUX CHAPTER CHECKLIST Are you looking for a student-to-student or class-to-class pen pal exchange with France? Contact the AATF Pen Pal Bureau. Identify mentor liaison and submit name to Regional Represen- Individual names of French students are tative AND Suzanne Hendrickson [[email protected]] available for $.75/name. Group correspon- by November 1, 2004 (see page 39). dence is available for $7.50/class. We will Identify advocacy liaison and submit name to Regional Repre- provide you with names, and your students sentative AND Robert “Tennessee Bob” Peckham initiate the correspondence. [[email protected]] by November 1, 2004 (see page 7). The AATF also offers its members a Placement Bureau service. We publish a Send copy of chapter constitution and bylaws to National monthly job list of positions in French at Headquarters by November 1, 2004 [[email protected]]. the university level. Although the labor in- volved in coordinating a job list for K-12 Encourage, plan and promote National French Week activities positions is prohibitive, we do occasionally for November 7-11, 2004 (see page 36). get calls from schools looking for K-12 Nominate teachers for the AATF Dorothy S. Ludwig Excellence teachers. These announcements are di- in Teaching Awards by February 1, 2005 (see page 2). rected to the Babillard on the AATF Web site [www.frenchteachers.org]. We also offer a Send chapter newsletter and chapter news to Regional Repre- dossier service which is available to teach- sentative, National Bulletin Editor Jane Black Goepper ers at all levels who want a secure place to [[email protected]] and AATF President Margot Steinhart maintain their complete placement file. [[email protected]] on a regular basis. The job list subscription is $15 per year. Dossier service is an additional $15 for 12 Promote and participate in the AATF Book Club: Myrna’s List for mailings (additional mailings are $1.50 2005 (see page 17). each). There is a $5 charge for members living outside the U.S. For more informa- Commit to sending chapter president to AATF National Confer- tion on either of these services, contact ence in Quebec City and to presidents’ meetings on the after- AATF, Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois Uni- noons of July 6 and July 10, 2005. versity, Carbondale, IL 62901-4510; Tele- phone: (618) 453-5732; Fax: (618) 453- 5733.

ORDER FORM FOR NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK PROMOTIONAL ITEMS PLAN NOW FOR NEXT NOVEMBER! The following items are available from AATF at cost for promoting National French Week. Order your promotional items now. If you wait until October, it will be too late to receive most items in time for your celebration. Prices for promotional items include shipping unless otherwise indicated. Quantity Total Bumper Stickers: National French Week: November 5-11 [2 for $1; 10 for $4] ______Pencils: La Semaine du Français: du 5 au 11 novembre [4 for $1] ______Buttons: On est les meilleurs! [1-25 @ 65 cents each; more than 25 @ 50 cents each] ______Balloons: National French Week: La Semaine du Français [8 for $1] ______**SPECIAL: Order 25 of each item (100 items total) for $25 (represents a 20% savings) ______T-shirts (blue with white logo design) ______T-shirts x $10 ____ L _____ XL ______T-shirts x $11 ____ XXL ______Note: T-shirt prices do not include postage ($3 for first T-shirt, $1 for each additional shirt); ______Total enclosed for promotional items. ______Name: ______Phone: ______Address: ______City, State, Zip ______Enclose payment or purchase order and mail to: AATF, Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62190-4510. Photos of all items are available on the National French Week Web site: [www.frenchteachers.org/].

14 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) AATF MEMBERSHIP DRIVE IN MEMORIAM 2005 RAY TOURVILLE 1935-2004 Leadership Council (1987- The AATF is again sponsoring a mem- 1988) which dissolved when the bership recruitment campaign. Member- Illinois Council on the Teaching ship in your professional association is the of Foreign Languages was business of each member. Just as we seek formed. He also served vari- to promote the study of French among our ously as president and as trea- students and administrators, we must also surer of this association. promote membership in the AATF to all our Among his many honors, in colleagues, in particular our younger col- 1980 he was named the best leagues. We ask you to reinforce the ben- AATF chapter treasurer. In 1992 efits of belonging to a professional asso- he was made chevalier dans ciation to your colleagues. l’Ordre des Palmes acadé- How It Works Ray with AATF President Margot Steinhart. miques, and in 1998 he re- We are offering a special three-for-one ceived the AATF Outstanding incentive to current members to recruit new A great voice for foreign languages, Teacher Award at the post-secondary members. If the current member can get and in particular French, has been stilled. level. three new members to join, 2005 member- D. Raymond Tourville died on April 9 He founded the Foreign Language. ship will be free. The requirements are: (Good Friday) of a heart attack. Residence Program (now called Inter- Ray had a history of congenital heart national House) at NIU’s Douglas Hall ♦ the three new members’ forms with problems, but it did not deter him from for students to live and converse with payment must be mailed together putting all his heart and soul into his work. native speakers of other countries. to National Headquarters with the He was a true survivor, a genuine Ray’s proudest accomplishment at NIU, sponsoring AATF member’s name workaholic who never shied away from a however, may have been the establish- prominently indicated; challenge. ment of a state-of-the-art foreign lan- ♦ the current member’s preprinted re- Having obtained a Master of Arts de- guage learning center which rivals any newal invoice should, if possible, ac- gree and done doctoral work at language lab in the country. company the three new forms; l’Université Laval, he rose from Assistant Among Ray’s many extracurricular ♦ if the current member has already Professor of French to chair the Depart- activities, he was a choir member and ment of Foreign Languages and Litera- paid dues for 2005, the free mem- lector at Christ the Teacher parish bership will be applied to the next tures at Northern Illinois University, (Newman Center) in DeKalb. He was spending his entire teaching and aca- calendar year; no refunds will be named Rotarian of the Year for 2003- made. demic administrative career there. He 2004. Tireless and extremely detail ori- came to NIU in 1962 and at the time of ented, he balanced his administrative If you are a teacher trainer, we ask you to encourage your students who are planning his death was the faculty member with duties with a prescribed physical exer- a career in teaching French to join as stu- the longest term of service--42 years. He cise program in order to keep both mind dent members. Membership forms are was director of the French and Italian Di- and body running as smoothly as pos- vision for many years before becoming available on the AATF Web site sible. [www.frenchteachers.org], or we will send department chair in 1994, a position he A devoted husband and father, Ray is held until his death. He was planning to membership forms to anyone who requests survived by his wife Sharon whom he them. retire in January 2005. married in 1965 and who was herself a Ray served four years as treasurer If you have access to state or local mail- teacher of French at NIU for 10 years ing lists of French teachers or members of (1978-1982) and four more as president and at DeKalb High School for 15 years, other language organizations, please think (1982-1986) of the Chicago/Northern Illi- retiring in 2002. He is also survived by to forward those lists to us, and we will verify nois chapter of the AATF. He was instru- their son Marc and daughter Lisa whether or not they are already members mental in its development into the larg- Sullivan. of the AATF and, if not, do a special mailing est chapter of our association in the coun- Ray will be sorely missed, both pro- to them. The lists must be current and must try. He was the AATF Region VII Repre- fessionally and personally. contain specifically French teachers. sentative from 1988 to 1993. Locally, Ray John Tomme Please help us recruit new and veteran was an organizing founder and first presi- Waubonsee and Kishwaukee teachers to help the AATF continue to be a dent of the Illinois Foreign Language Colleges dynamic and growing organization!

Promotional Materials Looking for materials to attract July 7-10, 2005, Québec City students, promote French, and enliven your classes? Watch for updates on our Web site: Check out the www.frenchteachers.org • AATF Materials Center (p. 38) Le français, langue de la diversité • Poster series (p. 18) • Promotional Flyers (p. 8) • Other Promotional Items (pp. 14, 28)

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 15 MOTS CHASSÉS: Exercices sur l’article «la Vie des mots» paru dans la French Review, Vol. 77, No. 6 (May 2004). Le corrigé se trouve à la page 13.

I. Remplacez les mots ou expressions soulignés par des mots ou expressions familiers. 1. Il faut que je parte rapidement. 2. Ce voyou s’est moqué de moi. 3. Cet élPve est étourdi. 4. Le prof est de mauvaise humeur. 5. Ce type n’a pas trahi. 6. Ses parents ne se sont rendu compte de rien. 7. «Laisse-moi tranquille!» 8. Ce joueur de basket mesure deux mPtres. 9. Je pense que je n’irai pas au cours de chimie. 10. Elle croit tout ce que je lui dis. II. Mettre les phrases au passé (faire les changements nécessaires). 1. Le proviseur donne un rendez-vous aux parents quand il le faut. 2. Son copain pense qu’il est complPtement dérangé. 3. Elle veut aujourd’hui prendre rendez-vous avez lui. 4. La police va poursuivre les malfaiteurs. 5. Je connais cet individu. III. Mettre l’article défini ou indéfini. 1. ______de mes amis l’a contacté. 2. Va me chercher ______boîte de pâté dans ______frigo. 3. La gamine a ______plan d’enfer pour sauver son chien. 4. ______peur vrille ______estomac. 5. Nelio est tétanisé par ______peur. 6. ______magazine que j’ai lu s’adresse aux adolescents. 7. Mon prof a ______boulot fou. 8. ______couettes sont B la mode. 9. Il a imité ______signature de sa mPre. 10. Il a été renvoyé de ______cours de gym. IV. Soulignez les erreurs lexicales ou grammaticales des phrases suivantes et corrigez-les. 1. La police les a arrLtés en délit flagrant. 2. Nous parlions au téléphone et soudain il m’a raccroché B la narine. 3. Il a offert une montre B sa feum. 4. Mon pPre y verra que du feu. 5. Les racketteurs n’arrLtent pas de faire de malpropres coups. 6. Au lieu de me répondre gentiment il m’a envoyé brouter. 7. Il oublie tout: c’est un véritable cerveau en l’air. 8. Je me rappelle de cette conversation. 9. Le voyou lui a décroché une grande claque. 10. «Ton bijou c’est du tic!»

Colette Dio, Nancy, France

Used with permission of the American Association of Teachers of French, National Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 1 (September 2004). AATF, Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4510.

16 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) AATF NATIONAL COMMISSIONS Commission on Articulation Commission on French for Business and Rogers High School Suzanne Hendrickson, Chair International Trade 15 Wickham Road Dept. of Languages & Literatures Eileen Angelini, Chair Newport, RI 02840 Arizona State University Philadelphia University E-mail: [[email protected]] Tempe, AZ 85287-0202 4201 Henry Avenue Commission on Student Standards E-mail: [[email protected]] Philadelphia, PA 19144-5497 Nancy J. Gadbois, Co-Chair E-mail: [[email protected]] Commission on Community Colleges 86 East Street Denise McCracken, Chair Commission for the Promotion of French Southampton, MA 01073 St. Charles County Community College Joyce Beckwith, Co-Chair E-mail: [[email protected]] 4601 Mid Rivers Mall Drive Wilmington High School Bonnie Adair-Hauck, Co-Chair St. Peters, MO 63376 Wilmington, MA 01887 2497 Shadowbrook Drive E-mail: [[email protected]] E-mail: [[email protected]. Wexford, PA 15090 ma.us] Commission on Cultural Competence E-mail: [email protected] Marie-Christine Koop, Chair Jacqueline Thomas, Co-Chair Commission on Professional Teacher Dept. of Foreign Languages Dept. of Languages and Literatures Standards University of North Texas Mail Sort Code 165 Susan Colville-Hall, Chair P.O. Box 311127 Texas A&M University-Kingsville University of Akron Denton, TX 76203-1127 Kingsville, TX 78363 Akron, OH 44325-4205 E-mail: [[email protected]] E-mail: [[email protected]] E-mail: [[email protected]] FLES* Commission Commission on High Schools Commission on Universities Gladys Lipton, Chair Brenda Benzin, Chair Patricia Cummins, Chair 824 Delaware Road P.O. Box 2632 School of World Studies Kenmore, NY 14223-1236 Virginia Commonwealth University Kensington, MD 20852 E-mail: [[email protected]] Fax: 301-493-5232 P.O. Box 842021 E-mail: [[email protected]] Commission on Middle Schools Richmond, VA 23284-2021 Janel Lafond-Paquin, Chair E-mail: [[email protected]] THE AATF LAUNCHES A BOOK CLUB

The AATF has launched a Book Club to Québécois everyman. This book is a re- build a community of readers among French freshing exercise in free-wheeling fancy that 2004 AWARD teachers. It will be initiated this year with a depicts the new Quebec society. WINNERS view toward featuring books by Quebec Cet été qui chantait, Gabrielle Roy authors at the 2005 Convention which will In this work, Roy has captured the moods ATLANTA take place in Quebec City from July 7-10. and rhythms of a life permeated with the CONVENTION This is a great opportunity to get to know simplicity and peace that arise from a close Quebec literature and to share your knowl- union with nature. Stamped with her ge- AATF Dorothy Ludwig Excel- edge with colleagues. A book list is being nius, these recorded reminiscences con- lence in Teaching Award provided here to allow participants to read tribute various rays of light and intensity to a Secondary Level: in advance of the convention. We expect to composite picture of summer in rural Que- Janel Lafond-Paquin (MA) have lively discussion groups led by experts bec. at the convention. AATF Chapters can also Post-Secondary Level: These inexpensive books and other Marilyn Conwell (PA) use the Book Club as an interesting sub- French books can be purchased at a 10% ject for a meeting. We hope that many of discount from Exportlivre: e-mail: [tderi@ National French Contest you will participate in this interactive activity exportlivre.com]; fax: (450) 671-2121; tel: Administrator of the Year which should prove to be enjoyable and (450) 671-3888. Contact person: Colette Paula Frank (RI) - Small enriching. It’s not Oprah, but with your help Dupuis. Just mention that you are an AATF Chapter we hope to make it a success! member when ordering in order to be eli- Deborah Bartle (VA) - Large Myrna’s List: gible for the discount. The price does not Une Saison dans la vie d’Emmanuel, Marie- include shipping which will vary according Chapter Claire Blais to how many books are ordered and where AATF Outstanding Chapter This work was hailed as a masterpiece they are shipped. Awards both in North America and Western Europe. Bonne lecture! Large Chapters Blais’ portrait of a large, poor family, pre- Myrna Delson-Karan sided over by the extraordinary grandmother Region I Representative First place tie Antoinette, her exposition of the terrors and Editor’s Note: Myrna Delson-Karan, Associate Tennesse & Virginia appetites of Quebec rural life make this a Professor of French and Quebec Literature at memorable work. Fordham University, served in New York as Edu- Small Chapters cation Attaché for the Government of Québec First place tie Salut Galarneau! Jacques Godbout (1990-2000). She was elected to l’Ordre des This novel tells of a student who leaves Francophones d’Amérique (Québec) in 2003 and Northwest Indiana & his studies, opens a hot-dog stand and promoted to the rank of Commandeur dans l’Ordre des Palmes académiques (France) in New Mexico pursues the myth of money-making only to 1997. She was awarded the Nelson Brooks find his true vocation, that of writing. “Le roi Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Culture du hot dog” portrays a sort of popular by ACTFL in 2000.

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 17 NEW POSTER SERIES

We are pleased to announce a series of six promotional posters for French teachers. The posters are full-color 11x17” based on the themes “Parlez-vous...histoire?” “Parlez-vous...cuisine?” “Parlez-vous...civilisation?” “Parlez-vous...sciences?” “Parlez-vous...sports?” and finally “Parlez-vous...français?” They were designed especially for the AATF with support from a grant from the French Cultural Service and the AATF. The brightly-colored abstract posters suggest many aspects of French and Francophone cultures that can be treated in the classroom. A 123-page guide for using the posters to promote French is included. Thumbnail sketches of the six posters can be viewed on the AATF Web site at [www.frenchteachers.org/] under National Headquarters. To order enclose a check or purchase order for $15 and mail it to AATF Posters, Mailcode 4510, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4510; Fax: (618) 453-5733.

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18 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) PROMOTION IN MOTION JUDGING THE “TOUR DU MONDE DE LA FRANCOPHONIE” CONTEST

A one-month trip to several Francoph- phone interview was our common denomi- Contest Winners one countries was the grand prize pre- nator and perhaps the best way we had not Greer Nabb (NC) sented in Atlanta to the eight winners of the only to assess the finalists’ oral proficiency “Tour du monde de la Francophonie” con- “La Normandie:” un album de photo but also to evaluate their intellectual and que l’élève a prises avec un test. Students between the ages of 16 and personal maturity. Our most telling ques- 18 with a minimum of four years of French commentaire personnel et un journal were eligible to com- intime écrit par Bécassine, pete by submitting une jeune fille normande projects on a wide habillée en costume range of subjects which traditionnel (que l’élève a would allow them to fait), photos de toutes les discover the Francoph- attractions touristiques et one world in all its “cul- aussi des scènes de la vie tural, economic, social, quotidienne à la maison et linguistic, and historic à une ferme. dimensions.” Approxi- December Kinney (OH) mately 100 students “Les Pieds noirs:” un entered the contest, and journal intime écrit par une a list of 24 finalists was femme en Algérie qui announced in early May. explique l’histoire, la lutte As Co-Chair of the sociale et politique et la vie National Commission quotidienne des pieds on the Promotion of noirs. French, I was asked to Marisa Chien (CA) judge the finalists and come up with a list tion was: “Si tu gagnais ce voyage, tu “L’Arbre francophone: ma vision:” un of winners. I quickly enlisted several other représenterais les États-Unis. Que dirais- très bel arbre (en fil et en bois) construit secondary school teachers who serve with tu sur la vie américaine aux citoyens des par l’élève et dont chaque feuille me on the Board of Directors of the AATF pays francophones?” Answers ranged from représente un pays francophone, la base Eastern Massachusetts Chapter. The final- fast food, weather, sports, families, mov- de l’arbre, peinte à la main, avec des ists forwarded to me their introductory vid- ies, TV, music, and jobs to the war in Iraq symboles qui caractérisent la eos and essays describing their projects, and President Bush’s policies! Francophonie. letters of recommendation, and, of course, It was not easy coming up with a list, Lisa Hahn (CA) the actual projects, some of which weighed and all the finalists deserve to be congratu- “L’Afrique francophone:” deux more than 50 pounds. Within a week, my lated. However, the real winners of this con- énormes posters qui montrent l’histoire living room looked like a UPS depot! My cat test are the teachers who encouraged their ethnique et linguistique des pays camped out on the couch in a total state of students to enter. Not only have you taught francophones d’Afrique. shock, and my husband quietly refused to the requisite oral and written skills, but more sign for any more deliveries. It took five trips importantly you have infused your students José García (AZ) in my loaded car to transport all the compo- with a passion for learning which extends “Les Couleurs et la force de la nents of the projects to one central judging far beyond the four walls of a classroom. Francophonie:” travail visuel d’un lion, locale--our Secretary’s basement/office To the teachers of the 24 finalists: Jean choisi comme symbole de la which was spacious and equipped with all Briscoce (Marion, NC), Molly Delin (Colum- Francophonie (la force/le pouvoir) avec the necessary technical machinery (VCR/ bia, MO), Suzanne Gyurgyk (Shaker Heights, les 51 drapeaux des pays francophones. DVD/computers for PowerPoint presenta- OH), Lydia Gilkey (Mobile, AL), Joann Nabb Tania Cortes (VA) tions). (Matthews, NC), Mme Husk (Somerville, NJ), “La Danse: le galliard:” présentation The actual judging stretched over three Saralee Taylor (Powell, TN), Cindee Joshua vidéo où l’élève montre comment on weeks and took 20 hours (not including the (Middletown, DE), Joyce Skocic (Mt. Vernon, danse le galliard, danse de la Renais- prep of scoring rubrics). We began by OH), Patti Simon (Bellaire, TX), Sophie sance. Elle a fait des recherches, appris watching each video or DVD (average length Renoult (Douglas, AZ), SuAnn Schroeder les pas et elle a fait un costume 7-10 minutes). Then we read the written (Marshfield, WI), Ann Miller (Kansas City, d’époque, et elle a trouvé la musique. parts and the recommendation letters. Fi- MO), Svetoslava Dimova (Smyrna, GA), Lisa Candace Casey (AL) nally, we evaluated the finished product. Walborn (Fort Wayne, IN), Irina Dorfman “Une étude de la Francophonie:” Next we wrote a set of questions, in part (San Diego, CA), Inez Hill (Fairmont, WV), présentation PowerPoint montrant une based on the projects, for the telephone in- and Judith Daniel (Harrisonburg, VA), Bravo étude profonde de la Francophonie de terviews. Finalists were notified by e-mail et bonne continuation! ses origines jusqu’au présent. that a judge would be calling them on a Joyce Beckwith certain day within a certain time frame. Co-Chair, Commission for the Jessica Nash (TN) “La Musique francophone:” une These interviews were key factors in deter- Promotion of French mining the winners. Students were not interprétation personnelle sous forme given the questions beforehand and had de trois tableaux qui représentent des no way to prepare for them. In fact, the tele- chansons francophones, travail écrit sur l’importance de la musique. Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 19 HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AATF ANNUAL CONVENTION IN ATLANTA

The 77th AATF Annual Convention offi- missing passenger. The Organizing Com- opérateurs de la Francophonie. Later, at- cially opened at the Hilton Hotel in Atlanta mittee wishes to thank the French Consul tendees were able to get a first look at the on July 19, 2004. However, in addition to in Atlanta, René-Serge 70 exhibits during a Wine and months of planning, the organizers’ work Marty and his staff for orga- Cheese Reception. Monday began earlier in the preceding week. AATF nizing a reception for the evening, chanteur, composi- Executive Director Jayne Abrate and her boards of the AATF and the teur et auteur cadien Zachary Assistant April Walsh drove from National FIPF as well as invited Richard entertained partici- Headquarters in Illinois to Atlanta, notwith- guests and members of the pants with a concert of standing a hailstorm and nonstop interna- community on Sunday musique américaine franco- tional communication thanks to cell phone evening. He also hosted a phone. He had everyone on dinner at his resi- their feet dancing and re- dence for a num- ceived a standing ovation. ber of dignitaries Tuesday, Wednesday, and community and Thursday were devoted members. AATF to break-out sessions given M. Abdou Diouf President Margot by congressistes themselves Steinhart and Executive Director as well as invited experts. Each day focused Jayne Abrate were pleased to at- on a different theme, la Diversité des tend this event. politiques linguistiques, la Diversité Also Sunday evening, conven- pédagogique et didactique, and la Diversité tion attendees were treated to a des usages, respectively. The keynote reception and concert by sing- speakers for each day were Guy Dumas, ers Nathalie Renault from New Sous Ministre associé responsable de Brunswick and Laurence Jalbert l’application de la politique linguistique The AATF Executive Council from Quebec, sponsored by the (Quebec), AATF member Sally Magnan, Uni- government of Canada. versity of Wisconsin, and Henriette Walter technology. The AATF Executive Council Monday’s Opening Ceremonies were (France). Each day’s professional program arrived on Thursday and, under the leader- presided over by Abdou Diouf, former Presi- featured semi-plenary sessions, round ship of President Margot Steinhart, met for dent of Senegal and Secrétaire général de tables, workshops, and papers. The two days of planning and deliberations at l’Organisation internationale de la congressistes were also able to continue the Airport Hilton. Past-President and Presi- Francophonie. At the opening ceremony, visiting the exhibit hall, participate in the dent of the Atlanta Organizing Committee he was joined on the podium by AATF Presi- exhibitors’ raffle, have their picture taken for Jean-Pierre Piriou left the meeting on Fri- dent Margot Steinhart, the President of the a press release, check their e-mail in the day morning to attend a press conference FIPF, Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, Éliane Cybercafé (sponsored by Renault Eurodrive De Pues-Levaque, Per- and CAVILAM), be entertained by music and manent Representative poetry in the Café-concert, and make new of the Communauté friends during and between sessions. française de Belgique The cultural program of the convention en Louisiane, Nathalie continued with each evening highlighting a Normandeau, Ministre different Francophone area. Tuesday au Développement evening, attendees were entertained by the régional et au Tourisme Royal Drummers of Africa, directed by Mor du Québec, Michael F. Thiam. Many of the troupe’s members per- Kergin, Canadian Am- form regularly at Disney World. We extend (from left) Chantal Manès, Executive Director Jayne Abrate, Ministre bassador to the U.S., a special thanks to Attachée culturelle de la Francophonie Xavier Darcos, President Margot Steinhart, Past- and Xavier Darcos, Cécile Peyronnet for all she did to organize President Jean-Pierre Piriou, French Ambassador Jean-David Levitte Ministre délégué à la and secure sponsors for this remarkable at City Hall with Mayor Shirley Franklin pro- coopération, au développe- viding an official send-off to the convention. ment et à la Francophonie On Saturday, the Executive Council trans- (France), who also read a ferred to the downtown Hilton, and attend- message from French Presi- ees and dignitaries began arriving. Slightly dent Jacques Chirac. Follow- more than half the participants stayed at ing the opening remarks, M. the Hilton, while most of the rest were Diouf presented awards to the housed in residence halls at nearby Emory winners of the Concours TV5 University. and the Tour du monde de la An all-day va-et-vient on Sunday between Francophonie. After a pause the Hilton and the airport ensured the safe for lunch, participants returned and timely arrival of the dignitaries. Care- to the Grand Ballroom to hear fully coordinated by Cécile Peyronnet and Hélène Carrère-d’Encausse, Aurélien Lépine-Kouas of the French Con- Secrétaire perpétuelle à sulate in Atlanta, the feat was managed with l’Académie française, followed aplomb despite several flight delays and a by a round table featuring les The Royal Drummers of Africa 20 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) Charles’ rendition of “Geor- gia On My Mind” which re- flected the mood of the par- ticipants), the event was a rousing success. On Saturday morning, about 120 congressistes participated in bus tours of Atlanta, taking them on a visit of historic neighbor- hoods, to the Martin Luther King and Jimmy Carter Centers, and to Coca Cola and CNN World Head- L’Équipe de France: (from left) Pascale De Schuyter (MAE, quarters. Paris), Pascal Hanse (MAE, Paris), Dominique Geslin (MAE, Paris), Fabrice Jaumont (French Embassy, NY), Chantal Organizing a convention Zachary Richard Manès (French Embassy, Washington), Xavier North, Director of this magnitude would be Their monetary and in-kind support was du français au MAE, Adam Steg (French Consulate, New impossible without the help of greatly appreciated. We would also like to Orleans), Samia Benaouret (stagiaire) many individuals. First thank our exhibitors and advertisers (whose spectacle. On Wednes- and foremost, the AATF links can be found on the convention Ex- day, TV5 sponsored an would like to thank the hibitor Page) for their willingness to sup- evening moderated by government of France port the convention. Bernard Pivot and entitled and its representatives Luck often plays a bigger role than we “Double Jeu à Atlanta” in Washington and At- would like to admit in the succes of an event. where many teachers lanta for their unwaver- The Organizing Committee was fortunate were able to share their ing support of the AATF to be able to count on the services of Jeff experiences. Thursday and the convention. Whitney and his staff from Event Transpor- evening, the government From Ministre Darcos to tation, particularly Jessie and Analena, who of Quebec offered attend- the stagiaires who handled the shuttles, on-site registration ees an evening of tradi- helped at the booth, staffing, stuffing bags, as well as the Satur- tional music and dance each representative lent day excursions. Our go-to guys for audio- by La Grand’ Débâcle. his or her wholehearted visual services remain Technology Express, Friday morning began support and expertise to based in St. Louis, who have handled AV for with a keynote speech by this enormous endeavor. our last four U.S. conventions, but we also Dyane Adam (Canada) Bernard Pivot M. Diouf’s presence at were able to rely on James Wagner of Pro- followed by two round table discussions, the convention as well as ductions and Concerts for the sound and one on French in the Americas, moderated the support of the Organisation by AATF Past-President Jean-Pierre Piriou, internationale de la Francophonie and the other a round table of Francophone and the Agence intergouverne- authors, moderated by Christopher Pinet, mentale de la Francophonie en- Editor of the French Review. The closing abled many teachers from all over ceremonies, including a statement sum- the world to participate. All the rep- marizing the deliberations of the conven- resentatives with whom the AATF tion adopted by attendees, concluded the had contact were supportive and day’s professional program. All that re- cooperative. In particular, we mained was the Soirée festive, an evening would like to thank Anissa Barrak of music, dance, and food with a DJ where and Michèle Marcadier. We would AATF Officers meet with Nathalie Normandeau (from left, participants could share their experiences also like to thank the many spon- Executive Director Jayne Abrate, Past-President Jean- and give the convention a proper send-off. sors whose contributions helped Pierre Piriou, Mme Normandeau, President Margot Steinhart) By the enthusiasm of the dancers who re- make the event a huge success-- mained until the very last song (Ray the government of Canada, the government lighting for each evening’s performance. of Québec, the Communauté Thanks also to Sam Miller and his security française de Belgique, the staff, the conference personnel at Emory Agence universitaire de la University, and the wonderful staff of the Francophonie, TV5, Radio Hilton Hotel, especially our convention man- France Internationale, the Alli- ager Carla Policard and Onur, Rakesh, and ance française d’Atlanta, Radomir. The headquarters staff of the CAVILAM, the CIEP, CLE Inter- AATF, April Walsh, Rosalba Correa, and Amy national, the FIAP Jean Monnet, Hanson went above and beyond the call of Renault Eurodrive, Alcan, duty to ensure that everything was done Cartier Boutique-Atlanta, the when it needed to be. And finally, a very Center for the Advancement and special thanks to Joscyln Riech and Printec Study of International Education, Press for moving heaven and earth to get Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP, the convention program to us on time. La Grand’ Débâcle and Solvay Pharmaceuticals.

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 21 JNCL/NCLIS EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2004 MESSAGE CONCERNANT The JNCL/NCLIS Executive Director, J. LE GRAND CONCOURS David Edwards, and staff have spent time Chers collègues: working on the following issues in 2004. Au nom du Comité national de • Working with Senator Christopher Développement du Grand Concours, je Dodd’s (D-CT) office to draft the Paul vous encourage tous et toutes à participer Simon International and Foreign en force en mars 2005 à l’unique épreuve Language Studies Act of 2004 de français destinée à tous nos lycéens. reauthorizing Title VI of the Higher Le Concours a récemment subi de grands Education Act. This bill retains the changements. Mes camarades du comité existing program but adds de rédaction et moi-même avons révisé le undergraduate eligibility for FLAS format de ce concours pour le rendre Fellowships, provides undergraduate beaucoup plus accessible à tous les study abroad opportunities, allows the J. David Edwards (right) pictured with Rep. élèves. Nous sommes enseignantes Rush Holt at the Delegate Assembly, May 2004. Dept. of Education (ED) to gather data, comme vous l’êtes, et nous savons bien and increases the Part A authorization programs. qu’arrivé le mois de mars chaque année, by $40 million to $120 million.. • Sought and provided information about on est loin d’en avoir fini avec le • Contacted members of Senate HELP and to, as well as attended meetings programme! La liste des connaissances Committee to express opposition to and collaborated on projects with, the requises a donc été allégée, surtout pour the House Title VI reauthorization bill’s Defense Language Institute, the les débutants. Nous avons essayé, à (HR 3077) creation of an International Foreign Service Institute, the FBI, l’intérieur des limites imposées par le Higher Education Advisory Board. Department of Defense, Department format QCM du Concours, de refléter la Worked with concerned staff and of State, USDA’s Graduate School, réalité des classes de français un peu organizations to develop strategies Center for the Advanced Study of partout dans la nation. regarding a board for Title VI. Languages, National Endowment for En outre, j’ai personnellement recommandé chaleureusement à tous les • Met with Representative Rush Holt the Humanities, Goethe Institute, and Administrateurs de Concours qui font and his staff to craft HR 3676, the the French and Italian Embassies. preuve d’un si grand dévouement à la National Security Language Act. • Serve on the National Security cause du français de continuer leur excellent Discussed strategies for the Education Program’s Group of travail et de s’assurer que les résultats des Intelligence and Education Commit- Advisers and confer regularly with the élèves, ainsi que les certificats et médailles tees. Assisted in seeking cosponsors director and staff regarding their arrivent dans toutes les écoles en temps and organizational support. Dis- programs. Deal with the responsible voulu pour la Distribution des Prix de fin cussed other languages initiatives congressional committees and staff d’année qui dans certaines écoles a lieu Representative Holt might undertake. to attempt to safeguard the program’s location, nature and funding. Provided en mai. • Also in the House, seeking support information to the field about NSEP’s Si vous ignorez tout de ce concours and consideration for the Homeland report and now pilot program on a annuel de français, ou bien si vous l’avez Security Federal Workforce Act which Civilian Linguistic Reserve Corps. abandonné depuis quelques années, the Senate passed last year and consultez le site de la AATF à Providing assistance to the seeking sponsors for a National Year • [www.frenchteachers.org] , et cliquez sur Department of Defense in planning an of Languages Resolution similar to Grand Concours: vous trouverez sur ce upcoming national conference on one sponsored by Senators Dodd and site tous les renseignement nécessaires languages to include the Secretaries Thad Cochran (R-MS) in the Senate. pour inscrire vos élèves, y compris des of Defense, State, and Labor. • In appropriations for FY’04, succeeded exemples des modifications du concours. in increasing funding for the Foreign • Attended and presented at the Cette année, la participation nationale a Language Assistance Program Northeast Conference, Central States presque atteint les 100.000 élèves. À (FLAP), defended small programs Conference, AATF, AATG, TraiNDaF, l’avenir, je voudrais voir ce chiffre largement important to the field from elimination, and International Visitors. dépassé: le Concours n’est plus réservé à and halved the proposed decrease for • Continue to receive and address “l’élite” de la classe. Dès la rentrée, Title VI of the Higher Education Act. requests for materials and information annoncez aux parents et aux élèves que • In the Administration’s budget from Congress, agencies, media, tout le monde va y participer en mars 2005. proposal for FY’05, unsuccessful in organizations, and individuals and to Vos élèves seront encouragés par les attempts to prevent zero funding for refer them to appropriate JNCL/NCLIS résultats très positifs et leur réussite, FLAP. Also failed to prevent the member organizations. Regularly même si elle est modeste, est peut-être ce elimination of the ERIC Clearing- update the Web site with current qui va les convaincre de poursuivre leur houses. materials and information while étude de notre belle langue! maintaining and adding materials of Si vous avez des questions ou des • Continue to work with the staff of FLAP interest and use to our members such suggestions, n’hésitez pas à m’envoyer un to provide information to the field, find as grant writing, important speeches, courriel à [[email protected]]. readers, evaluate and identify press release, and articles. Geneviève Delfosse programs, secure grants, and ensure Maintained and administered an office, Chair, NFC Development the program’s continuance. Also • staff, and budget while addressing Committee cooperate with ED to provide increased workloads with decreased information about and to Title VI, FIPSE, resources. NCLB, Title III, and other relevant

22 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) SALUT LES JEUNES

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 23 24 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) LE PETIT CONCOURS – LE GRAND CONCOURS

1. ORIGIN: records which sold for $3.50 each. The In 1936, the Executive Council of the levels that were tested were 1-5. FLES American Association of Teachers of was still two years off. The National French voted a national examination to Committee in these early years consisted help determine the relative student of Sid Teitelbaum (NY), Director, Edward achievement in the learning of French in E. Farnsworth (VA), National Chair for the U.S. and to gain more attention for the Eligibility, Emma Blanch (CT), National Association. Chair of Publicity, Gilbert Mueller (NJ), The Regional Representatives National Chair of Test Development. constituted the first directors of the In 1971, we recognized the growing competition from 1936-1945, each importance of FLES: Foreign Language in developing the testing instrument for all the Elementary School (the future of French levels in his/her region. Notes were learning, as I like to term it.) No other AAT compared at the annual national meeting. had a FLES component which added In 1946, a new plan was developed, and impetus to our determination. In fact, to the job of overseeing the development of this date, no other AAT has a FLES this national examination was assigned to component. one individual. The Executive Council then I added Dr. Gladys Lipton to our national decided to call the event the “National committee. Gladys was a leading French Contest” and to offer prizes to top- proponent of FLES in the U.S., as well scoring students. Following are the tasks were to find 35 additional teachers to Assistant Director of Foreign Languages names of the national directors of this represent their chapters and to prepare the for the Board of Education of the City of New event and the dates they held this position: 1970 National French Contest. I set out to York. It was in her living room in Queens, Maurice Chazin 1946-1947 coordinate the existing material for the NY, that French teacher Jerry Mirsky, Joseph O. Embry 1948-1949 1970 National French Contest and to Gladys Lipton, and I, working late into James W. Glennen 1950-1956 conduct a talent search. several nights, fashioned the first FLES J. Henry Owens 1956-1957 In order not to deviate too strongly from national exam. It attracted over 5000 James. W. Glennen 1958-1969 past examinations, the format of the 1970 students and 350 teachers. Prizes, Sidney L. Teitelbaum 1969-2004 instrument followed that of previous years: congratulatory letters, and several dictée, aural comprehension, sound professional articles heralded the event. 2. INITIAL DEVELOPMENT: discrimination, rejoinders, and narrative Over 30 years later, FLES remains in our In October 1969 (the actual date is lost comprehension. Concours canon and is currently under the to history buffs) the author received a I paid a return visit to Minneapolis and guiding hand of Elizabeth Miller (CA). message from Martin Sabin, a dear friend, reviewed my work with James Glennen, A year later, we recognized the growth of and Region IIl Representative. He was listened to his suggestions, and wished middle school in our educational calling on behalf of the AATF Executive him well. He promised to call me when he establishment. Middle school, in a large Council which had learned that Director left the hospital. sense, replaced junior high school, which James Glennen was to be hospitalized for That call never came. meant that students beginning their study a prolonged stay. Since the planning for James Glennen died in the hospital. of French in Grade 7 or 8 often on the basis the 1970 National French Contest was An appeal to teachers for help resulted of two years = one year of Contest, needed already underway, the Council sought in the recruitment of Col. Edward E. a measure of their own. Hence, level 01 someone to serve as a temporary Farnsworth (VA). A retired U.S. Army was born. replacement. Martin knew of my work with colonel, Ed and I became dear friends as The National French Contest became the Contest in our Nassau, New York he assumed the role of National Chair of an eight-level competition: Levels 01, 1, 2, Chapter and recommended me. Eligibility, a role that was to loom large in 3, 4, 5, and FLES A (without a reading My background consisted of three years the development of the Contest. component) and FLES B (with a reading as Contest Chairman for the Nassau Until 1970, 90% of the students entered component). Chapter and of entering many students in the Contest via Division A (i.e., American Our national committee grew as the annual event. (Parenthetically, it comes students with little or no prior exposure to enrollment warranted. Emma Blanch (CT) to mind that one of my students, Barbara French.) Some 10% entered in Division B, was our first (and only) National Chair for Schwartzmann, placed first nationally in denoting significant exposure to French at Publicity and Public Relations. After I tried level 2. Some students live forever in a home and/or at school. Ed refined the my hand at writing the various level teacher’s memory!) system, wrote the early regulations, and examinations, the task was handed over to I accepted the Council’s offer to serve opened the door for additional divisions. Gilbert Mueller (NJ) Virginia Ballard (MD), as a temporary replacement and visited M. His goal was to encourage fair competition, then Marie-Rose Gerdisch (IL), who Glennen in Minneapolis. He gave me so that students competed with others who rendered remarkable service by fashioning some scraps of paper, representing what possessed similar experience. Our two the exams, levels 01-5, for over 21 years; had come into his office at that time divisions in 1970 have grown to five then Hélène Sanko (OH), finally to regarding the 1970 examinations. He gave divisions at this writing. Geneviève Delfosse (VA) who holds this me a list of participating teachers and the In 1970, 48,1571 students competed, vital position today. Our first FLES Chair names of 34 teachers who had agreed to having been entered by 1100 teachers. was Gladys Lipton (NY, later MD) and Past serve as their chapter’s representative. The price per exam: $0.25. The dictée and AATF President. She was succeeded by Since there were 69 chapters, my first the rejoinders were recorded on 78 rpm Elizabeth Miller who has threatened for 15 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 25 years to find a successor but who teachers the opportunity to deduct 1/4 point in one of the seven divisions can be found continues to perform with outstanding for each mistake. in the Manual for Contest Administrators or success and vitality to this day. A few days before the machine-scoring by contacting one of the Contest The critical position of ascertaining was to be held, my wife, two friends whom Administrators. placement and adjudicating which level I recruited with the promise of a certificate 4. TODAY and division are right for a given student (signed by the director!), with coffee and Le Grand Concours is in its best has been tended with fairness. Only two croissants, and I met for a planning condition ever. 97,615 students people have held this position in 35 years: session. The machine scoring officials participated in 2004; every AATF Chapter Col. Edward E. Farnsworth (VA) and gathered and we were about to negotiate has a Contest Administrator who is Professor George Diller (FL). compensation when all hell broke loose. responsible for coordination of chapter The position of National Chair of The student body voted to take over the contest activities; over 13,000 medals Awards has grown as the number of administrative wing of the university which, were awarded, more than in any other year; awards has increased dramatically from hélas, housed the machine scoring the turnaround time between contest end 2000 to a record-setting 13,000 in 2004. facilities! and the publication of scores is minimal; Formerly in the hands of the author, the I notified Fred Jenkins, who calmly but the National Committee consists of selection and awarding of prizes became firmly asked what alternative plans we had. dedicated, experienced professionals. one of the components handled by Lisa We had none! (Ah, the remarkable These professionals are: Sid Teitelbaum, Narug (IL). Lisa began her work with AATF optimism of youth!) National Director (note: Sid has announced in 1991, first as assistant to Fred Jenkins, Since we had no alternative, my wife, his retirement effective September 30, who served as AATF Executive Director, two friends, joined by my daughter Jean, 2004); Lisa Narug, Assistant Director; then as an indefatigable National Chair for and I made the only logical decision: we Geneviève Delfosse, National Chair of le Grand Concours. She has served as would score the papers ourselves! Test Development (Levels 01-5); George liaison with Ken Tindle on our computer And we did–all 45,004 of them. Diller, National Chair for Eligibility and scoring and as a key assistant in every It took days away from our jobs–it took Placement; Elizabeth Miller, National Chair phase of le Grand Concours. The nights away from our comfortable beds, for FLES; Kenneth Tindle, National Chair Executive Council named her Assistant but we did it. for Computer Operations. Director of the Concours in 2001. Scores were announced by two-finger- 5. TOMORROW 3. EARLY PROBLEMS typed letters to the Contest Chairs; prizes were sent, Distributions des Prix were What faces us tomorrow? Let me jump back in time to 1972. This Essentially, we need to continue to was the time of student unrest, particularly held, and we did not return to machine scoring for 20 years. encourage teachers to enter all of their at the college level. I was affected students in le Grand Concours. somewhat because I taught two French In 1994, Tom Welch (KY) offered to pilot machine-scoring. We found 12 chapters Our immediate enrollment goal of courses at Nassau Community College. 100,000 is attainable in the very near By the time I arrived at school (in time for that volunteered to become involved in this endeavor. It was so successful that, in the future. Thereafter, the Grand Concours my evening classes) unrest had settled must continue to reach out to all teachers down for the day. However, posters following year, we expanded it to include every chapter, Levels 01-5. FLES presented of French and to find ways of accelerated everywhere proclaimed STUDENT RIGHTS. enrollment. Awards must continue both in Since matters were so quiet and since the other problems and was not included in machine-scoring until 1999. quality and in quantity–not only for students Contest was “only” a middle and high but for teachers as well. school phenomenon, I never expected any Today, Ken Tindle of the University of Kentucky is our computer genius and Isn’t it reasonable that ways can be problems. However.... found to enroll all students who study I was studying at St. John’s University in almost 100,000 papers are scored–not simply for two divisions as we did in 1970, French in le Grand Concours? New York and the big talk in 1972 was of It is a goal I set for my successor. the installation of computer scoring. A but for seven divisions. Papers are sent by the teachers to the Contest Administrator Sidney L. Teitelbaum friend of mine who took courses with me Director, Grand Concours told me of his work in this field and who sends them to Ken for scoring.. The 1 happened to mention how much simpler job is accomplished by Ken, a highly Enrollment in 1970: Level 1, 17,450; Level the lives of the teacher would be now that dedicated, skilled professional. The FLES 2, 13,946; Level 3, 9,371; Level 4, 4,326; he/she had the capability of machine- component of verbal rejoinders cannot be Level 5, 3,054 (48,157 total). Enrollment in scoring exams. scored (as yet) by computer; hence, that 2004: FLES, 5,200; Level 01, 8,096; Level My ears perked up, my mouth section is scored by our remarkably 1, 22,544; Level 2, 23,340; Level 3, 19,858; (figuratively, anyway) salivated. Machine talented National Chair for FLES, Elizabeth Level 4, 12,760; Level 5, 5,817 (97,615 scoring! Wouldn’t I become the darling of Miller, and her committee. total.) the profession, if I could arrange to have To level the playing field, we needed to our Contest papers machine scored. compensate for students’ differing Surf the Web I announced this miracle to an audience backgrounds with regard to exposure to at our annual AATF meeting. Teachers French. We also studied varying school Visit the AATF Web site at responded in excited tones. “Imagine! We scheduling programs: i.e., French 3 times [www.frenchteachers.org] th th do not have to score our own papers any per week for a year; French 7 Grade + 8 All the latest information on: Grade = equivalent of French 1; modular more.” The other major change would be • National French Week scheduling; midyear entry point. We found the elimination of the dictée simply • Atlanta Convention that backgrounds and entry points could be because the St. John’s computer could not • French Review successfully combined into seven separate score it. I took this news with outward • National French Contest divisions and that, for the most part, disappointment but inward delight; I never • Société honoraire relished the dictée: all it did was give students would “fit” into one of these divisions. The details regarding placement 26 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) CONTEST ADMINISTRATORS OF THE YEAR 2004

involved in my church as the videographer School District in upstate New York and and producer of the church cable TV pro- quickly realized that teaching was the per- gram, Choir Director, keyboard player on the fect career for me. I taught in New York for Worship Team, and Missionettes Coordi- eleven years, taking a leave for one year to nator. I also really enjoy spending time with teach English at the Lycée des Glières in my four grandsons, ages 8, 6, 2, and 1. Annemasse (Haute-Savoie) as part of the Fulbright teacher exchange program. When my husband and I decided to move south for a warmer climate, we happily chose the Richmond, VA area. I have taught in the Chesterfield County School system for the past fourteen years, teaching all lev- els of French from kindergarten to French 5 A.P. I am currently teaching French 3,4,5, I.B., and A.P. at Midlothian High School and cosponsor the French Club in addition to sponsoring our chapter of the Société honoraire de français. I co-direct the an- PAULA FRANK nual congrès français in March, a Saturday of French for the students of Chesterfield RHODE ISLAND (SMALL CHAPTER) DEBORAH BARTLE County schools. This event brings together I was born in Boston, MA and raised in a VIRGINIA (LARGE CHAPTER) 400 people for a day of competitions, cul- suburb called Randolph. I knew from a very A lifelong passion for the French lan- tural workshops, French food, and le Grand young age that I wanted to be a teacher. My guage and culture has seen me to this, my Concours. This year, I organized the host- father, his mother and grandmother were twenty-fifth year in teaching French. Where ing and travel phases of a school exchange all teachers. I graduated from Randolph has the time gone? My intrigue with French with a French lycée in the suburbs of Paris. High School in 1970, having taken five years began in my French 3 class in high school I have traveled to France many times with of French and went to Northeastern Univer- in West Chester, PA where Mr. Colasanti, both my students and my family. sity in Boston. I did not finish at that time the most dynamic teacher I can recall, chal- Seven years ago, I had the opportunity to but got married and had two daughters. lenged us all daily to speak nothing but become the Virginia Contest Administrator From 1974-1981 my husband and I were French in his class. Then, a family camp- for the Grand Concours and have truly en- house managers for group homes of men- ing trip through Europe during the summer joyed the opportunity to work with so many tally retarded adults in Massachusetts and of 1967 introduced me to the beauty and dedicated teachers in our state. For one Vermont. In 1984 we moved to Rhode Is- breadth of France and many other coun- year, I also served as the Contest Adminis- land, and while my daughters were still tries. When I headed off to college, all that trator for the Northern Virginia Chapter when young, I taught music part time in a nursery I knew was that I had a strong desire to they were between administrators. It is an school. return to France for further exploration. An honor to help promote French in this most In 1990 I decided to go back to college to initial interest in international studies led to worthy venture, and I thank everyone who get my degree in teaching French. I at- many classes in politics, history, and a re- works as part of the national committee as tended Rhode Island College and earned turn to French! I spent my junior year abroad well as all of the participating teachers of my Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees by at the Faculté Paul Valéry in Montpellier the Concours. Thanks also to my family-- 1994. As part of my Master’s program, I where I was thrilled to perfect my French, Gary and Kenna--for encouraging me to be was a teaching assistant at the college and travel to my heart’s content, and get to know professionally active! This is truly a shared I also went to Antibes, France to take a many foreign students as a well as a won- labor of love! course one summer. derful French family who opened their home Upon completion of my Master’s degree, to me every weekend. I was hired by the school department in East Once back in the U.S., I finished my B.A. ELECTIONS THIS FALL Providence, RI, where I have been teaching in humanities at Johns Hopkins University. French in the high school. Three years ago I continued on to graduate school at the YOUR VOTE COUNTS! I pioneered a video penpal program with University of Rochester to pursue an M.A. in AATF will be holding elections this fall my French V students where they exchange education. At the end of my program there, for four positions on the Executive Council. videos about themselves, their school, and I was fortunate to receive a Fulbright-Hays Regional Representatives will be elected their community with students in France position as an assistante d’anglais with a for a three-year term (2005-2007) in who are studying English. I am the French yearlong job in Alsace at the Lycée Camille Regions IV: Mid-Atlantic, Region VI: East Club Advisor and have organized many stu- See in Colmar. I enjoyed the small conver- Central, and Region VIII: Southwest. An dent trips to France and Quebec. Many of sation groups with which I worked and took AATF Vice-President will also be elected my students are active participants in our every opportunity to travel through France for the term 2005-2007. local Junior Alliance française. on my free time. I had the opportunity to join Ballots will be included with the dues I am an active member of the Rhode Is- the Alsatian contingent of environmentalists renewal notices that every AATF member land FL Association and of our local AATF who traveled to la Bretagne to clean the will receive in early October. Ballots must board, serving as Contest Administrator for beaches after the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz be returned to National Headquarters by eight years and as Treasurer for the past sank off the coast. Upon returning home, I November 1, 2004. year. During my spare time I am actively began teaching in the Rondout Valley

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Telephone: ______Home ______Work ______28 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) CHAPTER NEWS ARIZONA instance, a legal holiday marking The chapter met in conjunc- the end of WWII whereas every tion with the Arizona Language Francophile enjoys observing la Association (AZLA) annual con- fête nationale, le 14 juillet. After a ference in September. Éric Mar- class has studied a French holiday quis from the Quebec Delega- unit, the class can enjoy inventing tion in Los Angeles spoke about (in pairs) a holiday with all the trap- the current social and political pings–its (imagined) origins, date, situation in Quebec. The spring colors and what they represent, as- meeting also took place in con- sociated activities, symbols, and junction with the AZLA. A remise any other interesting aspects. Con- des prix for Grand Concours cerning the teaching of French cul- winners in the Tucson area was ture, Jane also indicated that the held on May 15. The chapter Web site [www.discoverfrance.net/ held an immersion weekend in France/DF_holidays] is excellent August—the first of what is and that the Hachette Outils series hoped will become an annual is a good resource, Savoir-vivre event. Lauren Pritikin from Chi- avec les Français. Que faire? Que cago presented the Orff method dire? and attendees watched movies At this same meeting, two mem- in French. The chapter is at- bers of our Chapter were honored tempting to find ways to help with the Prix du chapitre: Leah Bolek teachers network, since French Chicago Chapter member Marie-Simone Pavlovich with Bernard of Zion-Benton High School at the teachers in the state tend to be Pivot at les Trophées de la langue française, Paris, March 15, secondary level and John Tomme isolated. Other goals are to in- of Waubonsee and Kishwaukee crease membership and to create stron- which gets her students very involved with Community Colleges at the post-second- ger ties with the Alliances françaises in France and French-speaking countries. ary level. Un grand merci à Eileen Walvoord Phoenix and Tucson. For summer 2005 a Assigned one famous person a week, each et à Jane Castle for a delightful meeting. trip to Las Vegas’ Paris with the opportunity student looks up facts and leads a discus- We learned sadly of the passing of long- to attend a Céline Dion concert and a per- sion about the individual. She puts up a time colleague Ray Tourville of Northern Il- formance by the Cirque du Soleil is a pos- large wall map of the world, and as coun- linois University. Ray had for many years sible activity. The chapter also plans to tries are presented during class, red pins been the inspiration for the dormitory lan- sponsor a showing of Molière Than Thou and yarn indicate France itself, but blue is guage floor at NIU and had served in many in conjunction with the Alliance française in used to indicate French-speaking countries, capacities in a number of language asso- the fall. resulting in a very dramatic demonstration ciations, including the Chicago/Northern Il- Sue Hendrickson of how many Francophone countries are linois Chapter. Region IX Representative found in our world. The third session, “April In February, the eighth annual Grande CHICAGO/NORTHERN ILLINOIS in Paris,” presented by retirees Art Bonds Dictée, presented by Marie-Simone The Chicago/Northern Illinois Chapter’s and Evelyn Erven, was a ready-made and Pavlovich, took place at Northwestern Uni- winter meeting, “Beyond the Basics,” took commercially available package of lessons versity. A challenging but delightful experi- place at Buffalo Grove High School. Leah centered on getting ready for a trip to Paris. ence, we congratulate the four top winners Bolek, Zion-Benton High School, and Bar- The presentation “Extracurricular in the professionals/teachers/translators bara Hoerr, Peoria Richwoods High School, Extraordinaire” by Kathryn Fleischman, category: (1) Janet Evans, (2) Gerald Plotkin, presented their schools’ National French Morton East High School, and Cathy (3) Patrick Stephan, and (4) John Tomme. Week activities, featuring ways of creating Kendrigan, Buffalo Grove High School, of- The Chapter also enjoys basking in the a French presence in the community. Bar- fered some novel ways of keeping students glory of Professor Pavlovich’s having been bara was also the recipient of an award for committed to studying French, including a winner herself in les Trophées de la National French Week activities, a seven- French Club and the French National Honor langue française, a contest which took place day stay in Paris at the FIAP Jean Monnet. Society. in Paris in March at the Centre des congrès The first of the five sessions offered pre- A big thank you to Robin Jacobi and de la Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie de sentations on varieties of the French Ex- Nancy Roesner for their organizational la Villette. If you are a subscriber to TV5, change by Todd Bowen, Adlai Stevenson skills, to all our presenters, and to our en- you may have seen one of the rebroadcasts High School, Ted Haldeman, Homewood- thusiastic attendees. of this splendid ceremony. Flossmoor High School, and Mary Rooks, Our Réunion du printemps had as its In May the annual Distribution des prix Morris High School. Mary pointed out a num- theme “Faire la fête” and featured Chapter for the National French Contest took place ber of interesting visits for the French group, President Jane Castle. We met at a French at Dominican University in River Forest. The including Blue Man Group and an experi- restaurant in Geneva, IL where our hosts annual Summer Institute at Dominican ence at the Courthouse. The second ses- Betsy and François Sanchez regaled us University, a very successful immersion sion was presented by Barbara Kane of with their excellent cuisine. experience for teachers, took place June Central Middle School in Glencoe. Over the Jane Castle gave a lively presentation 21-July 2, featuring the theme “Les years she has developed a fascinating pro- on the many important jours de fête. Few of Différences culturelles.” gram, Le Tour du monde francophone, us may know the importance of le 8 mai, for Submitted by Gerald Plotkin Secretary Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 29 CONNECTICUT which united members of both the Eastern new linguistic attachée from the French The Connecticut Chapter held two con- and Western Massachusetts chapters. En- Cultural Service. certs to celebrate National French Week by titled “La Chanson: Bonne à Tout Faire,” One of the most difficult, time-consum- the Québécois singing group Matapat. The this session featured Jacques Yvart, the ing yet fascinating projects which our Ex- audience included 1120 students and chanteur/compositeur from Brittany and was ecutive Board undertook this year was to teachers from the entire state. By giving the attended by over 100 members and quite a judge the finalists of the “Tour du Monde de concert twice in different areas (Middlebury few nonmembers whom we actively re- la Francophonie” contest and come up with and Fairfield), the chapter reached many cruited! The Chapter also sponsored a full- a list of winners. Joyce Beckwith chaired more students. The annual spring work- day French Immersion at MaFLA with Pre- the group which included Valerie Sutter, shop and luncheon were held at Hopkins senter Amale Bourhim, Director of Opera- Janet Wohlers, and Christiane Fabricant. School in New Haven. Mireille Déchelette tions of ETRAV, Paris. Amale spoke on Merci à toutes! The Chapter is also grateful presented a workshop on using film clips “Deux Géants du 20ème siècle: Picasso et to Janet for serving as our Contest Director. to teach French and contemporary French Rodin.” Jacques Yvart performed at sev- This coming October, the theme of the issues in the classroom. eral local high schools and colleges to cel- MaFLA 2004 Annual Conference is In May we held the annual awards night ebrate National French Week. “Multilinguism Makes the World Go Round.” for the winners of the Grand In keeping with this theme the AATF Concours. About 200 students, teach- will sponsor a double session ers, and families attended. Mireille with AATG called “La Chanson Déchelette brought official greetings Sans Frontières/Songs without from the French Embassy. Everyone Borders.” This session will fea- praised Contest Administrator Tho- ture Jean-Marie Hummel and mas Betts of Amity High School for Liselotte Hamm, both well-known his superb direction of the contest. singers from Strasbourg who will We had so many winners that we perform in French and in German. were only able to invite the top five win- After MaFLA, they will remain in the ners at each level. Connecticut did Boston area to present more con- have a first place state and national certs during National French winner in Level 2, Stephen Lich- Week. enstein, a student of Alison Schleifer Kudos to Marjorie Salvodon at Hopkins School in New Haven. We from Suffolk University who re- announced the two winners of the ceived an AATF Small Grant which AATF Scholarships awarded each year she will use to fund a film festival to outstanding seniors. They were during National French Week. Nathalie-Claire Chiavaroli from Congratulations to Janel Lafond- Darien High School (student of Ann Paquin who received the AATF Bolognani) and Samantha Gelfand Dorothy Ludwig Excellence in from Choate-Rosemary Hall (student Teaching Award–Secondary Level of Katharine Jewett). Both lead their at the Awards Luncheon in Atlanta. schools’ French clubs and partici- Bravo to Mel and Cynthia Yoken on pate in French activities outside of the the opening of their Archives at classroom. Samantha provides op- Brown University. Félicitations to portunities for boarding school stu- Joyce Beckwith who received the dents to taste and see French culture. MaFLA Distinguished Service Nathalie engages young children in Award for “exceptional and meri- French activities at Franco-o-Fun torious service to the Common- summer camp. wealth.” Jean-Pierre Berwald In March our two new directrices gave a Jean-Pierre Berwald Region II Representative full-day immersion workshop at the Univer- Region II Representative EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS sity of Massachusetts-Boston on “La Pub.” IDAHO Led by President Brian Thompson, Vice- One had to be an AATF member or willing to The Idaho Chapter met at the annual President Patricia Jacquart, Secretary join “sur place” to attend. To our surprise, conference of the Idaho Association of Valerie Sutter, and Treasurer Joyce four new members signed up! The pre- Teachers of Language and Culture in Octo- Beckwith, many successful activities were sentation received rave reviews and will be ber. All French teachers in attendance at planned. In September, we welcomed given as a three-hour workshop, sponsored the conference were invited to attend; top- Corine Étienne and Pratima Prasad to our by the AATF, at the MaFLA Conference in ics discussed involved the Grand Board of Directors. Both are professors at October 2004. In May we collaborated with Concours, la Semaine du français, reports the University of Massachusetts-Boston. the French Library and Cultural Center and from the AATF conference in Martinique, a We also began our monthly Friday afternoon the Alliance française of Boston to offer a report from AATF Region IX Representative “Causeries”, one at a French/Asian restau- full-day “Atelier Pédagogique.” Andrea Javel Suzanne Hendrickson, and reports from rant in Cambridge and the other at a Carib- from Boston College and Anne-Christine individual teachers on activities in their ar- bean restaurant in Hingham. These “Cau- Rice from Tufts University both presented eas. In spite of the distances that separate series” have brought in new members. In workshops, and Terry Caccavale brought the sparse population of the state, there is October, we sponsored a double AATF ses- her students from Holliston High School to much going on in support of French stud- sion at the Massachusetts Foreign Lan- discuss “L’Existentialisme chez les jeunes.” ies throughout Idaho. Elections were held, guage Association (MaFLA) conference Also on hand was Veronique Mistycki, the and Claire Bledsoe was elected to replace 30 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) retiring President Joan West. Many thanks and the presentation of workshops on the York, Michael Bloomberg. A reception to Joan for her contributions to AATF and to use of the computer and new technology followed the performance. The Chapter the promotion of French in Idaho. programs offered by the Service Culturel of also collaborated on several activities with Sue Hendrickson the French Embassy, as well as a theatre the Société des Professeurs français et fran- Region IX Representative workshop directed by a Master Teacher from cophones d’Amérique and the Association MAINE Princeton University. The first scholarship culturelle francophone. The Maine chapter held a conference in in memory of Evelyn Popper, an outstanding The year concluded with the Distribution March at Bates College. We gave out the dedicated member of the Metropolitan des prix which honored national winners. Lorianna Boucher award to high schools Chapter, was awarded at the banquet of the Each year a scholarship to France, offered students. A slate of officers was proposed Gala. Chapeaux to Vice-President Anne by Ambassador Rhidha Bouabid of the Or- for next year. The new President is Benoît for her hard work in organizing the ganisation internationale de la Francopho- Catherine Hobby. Ray Pelletier, the Interim Gala. nie, is presented to a national winner who Past-President, will revise the chapter Web Vice-President Anne Benoît also has received the highest score. There was site and set up a viable communication sys- organized two exceptional programs. In an increase in the number of participants tem among members. Professor Pelletier October, there was a program called Teach this year, which helped increase mentions that the Northeast Consortium for Europe, held at Columbia University, membership. Many thanks to Françoise Canadian Studies sponsored by the Uni- sponsored by the French Embassy, which Noble, Contest Adminstrator, who worked versity of Maine sponsored a summer in- featured sessions on various aspects of to assure the success of the contest. stitute in Québec that attracted 40 teachers France and globalization. In January, Anne The Chapter’s Board thanked Harriet from 15 states from New En- Saxon, who completed a four- gland to Indiana, Texas, South year term as President, and Carolina, Arizona, etc. He also elected its new President, Dr. mentioned that The Acadie, a Françoise Santalis. Dr. Vera summer immersion program Junkers became First Vice- will again take place this year. President, and Dr. Debra Jean-Pierre Berwald Popkin, Second Vice- Region II Representative President. METROPOLITAN NEW YORK The Chapter is grateful to In October, the Chapter those who supported their sponsored a ”Welcome to the events and extends a special AATF Metropolitan Chapter” ta- thanks to the AATF national ble at the joint conference of the office for their support. UFT and NYSAFLT held at John Myrna Delson-Karan Jay College in New York City.. Region I Representative Saundra Dressler, a member MONTANA of the Metropolitan Board, Chapter President Claudia represented the Chapter by Boddy stresses the impor- presenting a workshop on la tance of the Grand Concours Martinique. for the state, emphasizing the In November, the Chapter number of teachers participat- helped organize the Concours ing and the success of the Charles Perrault with the Ser- students. She recognizes the vice Culturel of the French “awesome” job done by Con- Embassy. This was a major event of la Se- organized a region-wide program of test Administrator Ethel MacDonald. She maine du Français, which included seminars on many aspects of teaching also also highlights efforts made by AATF mem- students at all levels from all chapters in held at Columbia University which was co- bers all over the state to promote French in the Region. sponsored by la Maison Française. the schools. Helen Mulroney in Bozeman In March, the Chapter organized its sig- During the winter, members were treated organizes a progressive dinner as a fund- nature event, the Journée de Gala, held to a guided tour of the Costume Institute of raiser for the French Club, and her students annually in New York City. All chapters in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. sing French Christmas carols for the Christ- the Region, as well as AATF members from The Chapter actively participated in an mas Stroll. In an effort to convince students New Jersey and Connecticut, were invited innovative conference in April, ”Discover that learning different languages is impor- to this special day of immersion in French Francophone New York,” held at St. John’s tant, Claudia and her colleagues at Chief culture. The French Ambassador to the U.S., University. Kudos go to Chapter Board Joseph Middle School organized a special the Honorable Jean-David Levitte, was the member Diane Paravasian for organizing trip for thirty-four eighth-grade students of guest of honor. The Chapter also honored this outstanding program. The presentation French, German, and Spanish to visit three members of the AATF Metropolitan featured a drum and dance company from Barcelona, Provence, and Heidelberg. They Chapter who have distinguished Senegal as well as the performer, Simon spent three days in each country. Students themselves in the field of French and have Fortin, who gave a presentation in song on coached one another at each stop, and ac- given devoted service to the Chapter over the history and culture of Quebec. This event cording to Claudia, were bold and deter- the years: Dr. Myrna Delson-Karan, was sponsored by the Délégation générale mined to use their language skills. She Françoise Cestac, and Henriette Rattner. du Québec, St. John’s University, and the notes that the trip has had a direct influ- Dr. Margot Steinhart, AATF President, Organisation internationale de la Franco- ence on numbers at the school for 2004- attended the Gala. The day also included phonie. A special message recognizing the 2005 and that the board and administra- an Exhibit Hall with more than 20 exhibitors event was received from the Mayor of New tion have given the project full support. The Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 31 chapter’s fall 2004 meeting will take place in the study of language and culture. Concours in the state and that new blood is in conjunction with the MEA conference in Belmont High School French students coming into the chapter. Incoming Presi- Helena in October. sponsored a night with elementary dent Micheline Ghattas adds that she ap- Sue Hendrickson students.This school gave the graduating preciates the immediate response from en- Region IX Representative seniors involved in world affairs a “Sans thusiastic members. In 2004-2005 Oregon NASSAU, NEW YORK Frontières” Award. Spanish and French is planning National French Week activities Under the leadership of President Clubs plan various community service as well as an Éric Vincent concert, films, Deana Schiffer, National French Week was projects for next year . The French Club will group outings, and dinners. celebrated throughout Nassau County in spend another weekend in Quebec for Ca- Sue Hendrickson multiple ways, including petits déjeuners à nadian Thanksgiving. Next summer they Region IX Representative la française, films, and competitions. will take a trip to Brittany, the Loire Valley, RHODE ISLAND In December, the Annual Holiday Dinner Normandy, and Paris. Conval High School In October, Dr. Mary Ellis Willis, Univer- was held at Hofstra University. It was a will inaugurate a two-week exchange pro- sity of Rhode Island, gave an informative delightful evening of fun, honoring our recent gram in the fall. The French students will talk on Middle Eastern Literature at the retirees. arrive in November, and the Conval stu- Rhode Island Foreign Language Associa- In March, almost 2000 students dents return the visit the following April. It is tion Conference. In December, Dr. Alain- participated in the Grand Concours. For the the third year that outstanding students Philippe Durand, also of URI, spoke to over purpose of encouraging involvement, we were inducted into the Société honoraire 300 students of chapter members at East have put into place the following prizes for de français. The honorees traveled to Paris Greenwich High School on hip-hop music first place winners: Levels 1 and 2: and visited castles in the Loire Valley, vis- and culture in France. Josée Vachon also monetary awards; Level 3: fully-paid stay at ited Monet’s garden and linked up with two performed for a group of 500 students at Concordia Language Immersion Camp; other New Hampshire schools at the air- Toll Gate High School in Warwick. Ms. Level 4: scholarship to Saint-Charles Gar- port in Paris. Marie-Claire Wheeler received Vachon’s performance was made possible nier College in Quebec; Level 5: a fully-paid the New Hampshire Excellence in Educa- thanks to a donation from our regional of- summer trip to France for the student and tion Award in World Language. Le Grand fice. In addition, the chapter held two work- teacher. Concours is going strong in New Hamp- shops on the Museum of Art, Rhode Island Our Poetry Contest was held under the shire and Vermont thanks to the incredible School of Design’s teacher guide “High- leadership of Jenn Nesfield and Peter dedication of Jim Lambert. Though retired, lights of French Art.” Holmes. The competitions were in original his energy and love for our association The Grand Concours was once again a poetry as well as recitation. Hundreds of makes him a terrific Contest Administrator. big success. Over 700 Rhode Island stu- students, parents, and teachers attended The Chapter is planning a Molière work- dents registered for this year’s contest. We the awards ceremony. To honor the memory shop in spring 2005 with the collaboration finished the 2003-2004 academic year with of our friend and colleague, a champion of of the University of New Hampshire. our second Grand Concours award cer- the study of French and of the culture of Jean-Pierre Berwald emony at which we honored both the top France, we have renamed this contest, the Region II Representative ten finishers in the state, and also Paula ”Aline C. Desbonnet Poetry Competition.” NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Frank, AATF Contest Administrator of the Thanks to proceeds from a recently The Northern California Chapter spon- Year. established fund, the chapter is now able sored an afternoon session at the Foreign Jean-Pierre Berwald to offer the winners engraved plaques for Language Association of Northern Califor- Region II Representative permanent display in the school building. nia conference. In March the Journée de SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA The concluding event of the year was printemps, highlighting “Gastronomie et The Chapter had an extremely active year the Distribution des prix held at The pédagogie”, took place at Stanford Univer- in 2003-2004 involving many activities, lec- Wheatley School in East Williston, hosted sity. Awards programs for the FLES and tures, concerts, theater events, and films by Jeri Cowan, the Contest Administrator. high schoolers in the Grand Concours were sponsored by the French Consulate, Que- This was a standing-room-only ceremony, held on May 19 and 23. Incoming Chapter bec Delegation, various French and with 366 prizes awarded. President Anne Jensen states that she is Francophone organizations, and colleges Myrna Delson-Karan especially pleased that the chapter has and universities in the Los Angeles area. Region I Representative gained membership and has added new, Some highlights include a series of theatri- NEW HAMPSHIRE younger members. She adds that confer- cal pieces—La Fontaine’s Fables and Paul Jacques’ term ended in the fall, and ences have been well attended. AATF works by Molière, Beckett, and Ionesco; the Marie Claire Wheeler (Vice-President) from thanks outgoing President Dominique Van Congrès AATF-SC 2004 at Cal State Monadnock volunteered to serve as Acting Hooff for her dedication and service. Northridge featuring workshops on cinema, President. Sue Hendrickson culture, and pedagogy; Journée November’s yearly meeting was held in Region IX Representative internationale de la Francophonie with a Manchester at the World Language Con- OREGON presentation by Attaché culturel Laurent ference. Speakers included Isaure Mignotte The Oregon Chapter sponsored ses- Devèze entitled “Le sens des mots;” a visit from the Boston French Consulate and sions at the state language association in March from French Ambassador Jean- Yvonne Cyr from the Franco-American Cen- (COFLT) conferences in the fall and spring. David Levitte who spoke at the UCLA School tre of Manchester. Diane Nichols won the In October Professor Barbara Altman from of Public Policy on “Transatlantic Relations: Scholarship offered by the AATF French the University of Oregon spoke on “Poster New Challenges, New Opportunities”; the Embassy), spending three weeks Girls of the Middle Ages.” In the spring Chap- chapter’s Dîner du printemps and the Perpignan. Kathleen Vaillancourt reported ter President Margaret Krausse gave a talk Bastille Day Festival français de Santa Bar- that her colleague, Dr. Hans Dietz, a long- about classroom techniques. Professor bara featuring food and music. time AATF member, has retired. Hans has Krausse states that she is especially Sue Hendrickson devoted his career to encouraging students pleased about the success of the Grand Region IX Representative 32 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) SUFFOLK, NEW YORK et-Vient presented one that took place at WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK President Joan Militscher reports that in Mount Saint Joseph Academy in Rutland. The Westchester Chapter, under celebration of National French Week in Isabelle Kaplan held a workshop in con- President, Sophie Kent, held many film- November, singer Éric Vincent gave a junction with this group at Christ the King showings for Westchester students in workshop to teachers on using music in School in Rutland on the use of songs in cooperation with the Jacob Burns Film Cen- the classroom and a wonderful concert the the classroom. tre in Pleasantville. Several hundred following day for over 400 students and Jean-Pierre Berwald students attended two different performan- teachers. Both events were a great Region II Representative ces, one for young students, L’Enfant lion, success. WASHINGTON/BRITISH COLUMBIA/ and another for older students, Métisse. The Concours de Poésie took place in ALASKA/ALBERTA An activity was organized for teachers to December at SUNY Stony Brook. Many The chapter received an AATF Small attend the perfomance of Molière’s Le Ma- students participated and thoroughly Grant to bring Éric Vincent to Seattle for a lade Imaginaire, given by the Comédie Fran- enjoyed the day. Thanks were extended to performance, a joint effort of the AATF, the çaise at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. the many judges who gave their time. Once Alliance française, and the Seattle/Nantes The Westchester Chapter held many again, Peggy Fort, Contest Administrator, did Sister Cities Association. The Alliance meetings in conjunction with the an excellent job in organizing the event. sponsored a Thé des étudiants to honor Westchester Association of Foreign The annual National French Contest was the best and brightest students in the ad- Languages. held at Commack High School. Under the Approximately 1000 students partici- expert direction of AnnMarie pated in the Grand Concours Allen, the event was a huge this year and more than 360 success. NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK: prizes were awarded to the The Distribution de Prix LA SEMAINE DU FRANÇAIS winners. Sophie Kent, who was held at Half Hollow doubles as Contest Admini- Hills High School East. The Pour la reconnaissance, strator, congratulated her team students who placed well l'étude, et la promotion for their work in organizing the in the Concours were de la langue française et Distribution des prix, which recognized at this event. We des cultures francophones took place in Scarsdale in May: also had the honor of Sylvie Corten, Laura Bell, and having an intern, Samia Mary Elizabeth Mace. The local Benouaret, from the television of Westchester came Educational Service of the to film the ceremony. There French Embassy, speak to êtons ensemble! were three winners for First the students about the im- Branchons-nous... Agissons... F Prize on Level V. These portance of learning about students were each awarded a different cultures while du 5 au 11 novembre 2004 trip to a Francophone country. studying their language. In Initiatives locales, régionales, et nationales A barbeque is planned as the addition, the second final activity of the year at the aux États-Unis annual Kathleen Ann Lyons home of Sylvie Corten. Memorial Scholarship was Consultez le National Bulletin et le site Web de l'AATF Enthusiasm is building! awarded to Kathleen Myrna Delson-Karan [www.frenchteachers.org] pour d’autres renseignements. Kasten, student of Anita Region I Representative Ekstam and senior at WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS Connetquot High School. We have every vanced levels of French at which many of Chaque année, notre chapitre organise, confidence that Kathleen will put the the AATF members and their students were au printemps, une conférence pour se re- scholarship to good use while pursuing her recognized. Chapter President Christine trouver tous dans une atmosphère collé- dream of becoming a French teacher. Kolstoe deems the Grand Concours a suc- giale et renouer nos discussions profes- The spring meeting and elections were cessful event thanks to the participating sionnelles. Cette année à Mount Holyoke held at a restaurant which is situated members and Contest Administrator College, nous avons écouté avec grand plai- overlooking the Great South Bay in Kathleen Brunner. Twenty-seven teachers sir, Isabelle Kaplan de Bennington College Patchogue. The meal and the meeting were participated entering 1083 students this et Hélène Visentin de Mount Holyoke. Isa- both delightful. Joan Militscher and Naomi year. The chapter is planning a tribute to belle nous a montré des scènes de films Berman continue as President and the late Howard Nostrand to recognize his pour illustrer sa présentation «Le Cinéma Secretary-Treasurer, respectively, and we contribution to world languages, the AATF, et les standards: synthèse pédagogique», welcomed Dr. Sarah Jourdain, professor at and the Washington Association of Foreign et nous avons pu participer à une discus- SUNY Stony Brook, Vice-President. Language Teachers. The chapter will use sion animée à ce sujet. Hélène nous a fait We ended our year on a optimistic note part of its Small Grant to offer a “Dances of passer dans les coulisses du théâtre de and were satisfied with the interest shown France” program in the fall. It is also plan- Molière avec une présentation fascinante for French in Suffolk County. ning a workshop in conjunction with the sur «Les images méconnues du théâtre Myrna Delson-Karan French Cultural attaché and TV 5 for the fall au Grand Siècle à travers son public et ses Region I Representative conference and a possible workshop with conditions matérielles». Elle nous a mon- VERMONT the Alliance française. tré à quel point la mise en scène et le The Vermont chapter reports two con- Sue Hendrickson décor de ce théâtre illustre était conçue pour certs that took place during National French Region IX Representative plaire au public. Week. Josée Vachon gave a concert at Jean-Pierre Berwald Spaulding High School, and the group Va- Region II Representative Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 33 PROMOTING FRENCH IN THE COMMUNITY: RESSOURCEZ-VOUS À A SUMMER CAMP FOR 4TH & 5TH GRADERS VOTRE ALLIANCE Parents of 4th and 5th graders, especially summer class was devoted to studying FRANÇAISE in families where both parents work, are theories of language acquisition and teach- Ne manquez pas l’occasion pour tout eager to find worthwhile activities for their ing methods, and one week was spent in professeur de français de se renouveler à children during the summer when school class designing the scope and sequence son Alliance française locale. Avec plus de is out. Given the opportunity to sign their of the summer camp. For one week the 120 Alliance françaises aux États-Unis et à sons and daughters up for a free, two-week class did not meet to allow the future in- Porto Rico, il y en a sûrement une près de French summer camp at my university, lo- terns time to prepare their materials for the chez vous. Votre rôle? Devenir actif comme cal parents readily filled in a simple appli- activities for which they were responsible. membre du Conseil d’administration, cation form. Offering a French summer The two-week summer camp extended comme professeur (tous les niveaux, camp through our undergraduate French beyond their first summer term by a couple adultes et enfants, horaires flexibles), program provided enriching experiences for of days but still gave me time to assess comme étudiant ou comme bénévole. the community and furnished university stu- their reflection paper in which they were Les Alliance françaises accueilleront dents the chance to share their enthusiasm asked to evaluate their experience. avec enthusiasme vos idées. Pourquoi for French. In its small way, the summer On the final day of the camp we invited pas? Enseigner un cours? Suivre un camp promoted an appreciation for French, the parents and grandparents of the par- cours? Fonder un Cercle de lecture? Ouvrir which is not taught in any of our area’s ticipants to a demonstration of what the un groupe de conversation? Imaginer des middle schools. young “campers” had learned. Divided into cours d’enrichissement pour vos élèves Thanks to an AATF Small Grant and an- groups of four or five, the youngsters se- (comme révision pour les examens AP, par other from the Texas A&M University lected a topic from among the sixteen they exemple?) Votre expertise est précieuse et system’s Academy for Educator Develop- had studied and, with the help of one of the sollicitée! ment (whose goal is to prepare both more interns, developed an activity for the 40-50 Pour en savoir plus, consultez notre site and better teachers for the public schools), guests. One group selected the parts of Web: [www.afusa.org] or contactez: Ann my small university in south Texas was able the body and interpreted “Alouette,” each Swedeen, Ph.D. à notre bureau national à to offer twenty 4th and 5th graders 40 hours member of the group representing a differ- Indianapolis: [[email protected]] ou 1- of instruction in French. Four undergradu- ent part of the body. Another group showed 800-6FRANCE. Des cours et des ate students and two recent graduates with that they had learned prepositions and sang programmes en langue française: rien que minors in French taught the “campers” ba- a song that starts “Sur la montagne,” ac- pour le plaisir d’apprendre! sic French for four hours daily, under the companied by visuals they had produced. La Fédération des Alliances françaises, supervision of myself and a high school A third group sang “Vent frais,” again with a USA, Inc. vous souhaite à toutes et à tous French teacher with long years of experi- visual, while a fourth group did an elabo- une bonne rentrée et une année remplie ence in the classroom. rate interpretation of the song “Bonjour Ma- de succès. Our motto was to keep the youngsters dame, Bonsoir Mademoiselle,” wearing Jane Robert, Présidente active. We didn’t select a topic (be it colors, Mardi Gras masks. The fifth group demon- numbers, or days of the week) unless we strated their knowledge of the alphabet and could think of an engaging activity as a fol- the colors, also accompanied by visuals. ÊTES-VOUS UN PROF low-up. We had the children coloring, draw- Judging by the enthusiastic comments ACCOMPLI? from the interns, the children, and their fami- ing, designing posters, joining the dots, Prove it. Seek National Board Certifica- th spelling words with letters for alphabet lies, the French Summer Camp for 4 and tion. Nationwide, the numbers of educa- th soup, singing (and doing the actions to ac- 5 graders can be deemed “un succès fou.” tors seeking certification is growing each Asked if I will do it again next year, my reply company the songs), marking dates on a year. Yet despite incentives in many states, calendar, making and decorating clocks involved a request to allow time to recover the number of candidates interested in pur- and showing time on them, and respond- from this one. It is a big commitment of suing certification in French is disturbingly time and energy. Still, it was a rewarding ing to Total Physical Response commands. low. National Board Certification in Span- They also played charades, hangman, experience for all involved and one that can ish and French has been available for three homemade card games, and commercial be reproduced where there are undergradu- years, yet as a professional group, French ate French programs around the country. games such as pétanque, Monopoly, and Teachers are far behind in participation. The Pictionary. In addition, they watched videos Offering a French summer camp for middle number of candidates directly impact and listed to mini-lectures about aspects school students is a great way to promote whether or not NBPTS is able to offer regis- French in the community. of French culture such as la Tour Eiffel, le tration to teachers for that certificate. So Tour de France, Toulouse-Lautrec, and Jacqueline Thomas just do it! Don’t put it off any longer. We have French expressions used in English. Texas A&M University-Kingsville worked hard as a group to make French an The summer camp took a good deal of academic and popular subject of study. preparation. Modifying an existing ad- Let’s use National Board Certification to vanced French class in applied linguistics, MEMBERSHIP DRIVE show ourselves to be a group interested in I included in the student learning outcomes professional development as well. For in- the following statements: students will The AATF is launching a three- formation, visit the NBPTS Web site at demonstrate their ability to develop lesson year membership campaign! See [www.nbpts.org]. the announcement on page 15 for plans to teach aspects of French vocabu- Deanna Scheffer lary and grammar; teach 4th and 5th graders information concerning the 3-for-1 songs, rhymes, and games in French; and offer for a year’s free membership. develop units on aspects of French culture. The first week of their four-and-a-half week

34 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) What's New in the French Review? Vol. 78, No. 1 (October 2004) Articles include: • “L’Année littéraire;” • “Realistic Composition Assign- ments for Our Students?” (C. Krug) • “Bringing the Web to the Foreign Language Writing Class? “ (C. Pooser); • “Stendhal mémorialiste de Retz?” (M.-C. Garneau de l’Isle-Adam); • “French Gay Activism and the American Referent in Contempo- rary France?” (W. Poulin-Deltour); And don’t forget the many excellent reviews and “La Vie des mots.”

FRENCH REVIEW NOW AVAILABLE ON LINE The AATF is pleased to announce that French Review Vols. 1-72 (1927-1998) are now available in the J-STOR Archive of scholarly journals as part of J-STOR’s Lan- guage and Literature Collection. The Col- lection was developed in conjunction with the Modern Language Association to reflect the worldwide diversity in the field of lan- guage and literature studies. Eligible participants can search and browse the full-text of the back run, exclud- ing the most recent 5 years. Readers can explore the rich tradition of the journals, in- cluding past reviews and analysis of the Cannes Film Festival and the Avignon The- ater Festival, and twenty-five years of “La Vie des mots.” For a list of institutions who participate in J-STOR, please visit [http:// www.jstor.org/about/participants_na.html]. FREE NATIONAL FRENCH SOCIÉTÉ HONORAIRE DE J-STOR is an independent not-for-profit CONTEST ENROLLMENTS FRANÇAIS ON THE WEB organization with a mission to create a Le Grand Concours will offer first-time The Société honoraire de français now trusted archive of scholarly journals. Infor- AATF members 10 free student enrollments has information up on the Web site at mation regarding J-STOR is available at (10 test booklets and 1 CD of the level of [www.frenchteachers. org]. Click on Na- [www.jstor.org]. their choice—a $19.50 value). In addition, tional Headquarters, and you will see the an AATF member who recruits a new mem- link to information about starting a chapter, ber will receive 5 FREE TEST BOOKLETS. including the form, a sample constitution, REFLETS FRANÇAIS A member who takes advantage of suggestions for initiation ceremonies and This outstanding video, created by AATF’s 3 -for-1 membership promotion and the form to report new student initiates and Bernard Petit, presents the songs of recruits three new AATF members will be information on ordering supplies. Éric Vincent along with a visit of Paris. eligible to receive 15 free test booklets for We hope this will facilitate your commu- The multicultural flavor of Vincent's the 2005 Concours AND will have their AATF nication with Executive Secretary Todd Knox music and the poetry of Paris combine membership paid for one year-a value of who can be reached at H. Todd Knox, Ex- to create an exciting document. The $65.25! ecutive Secretary SHF, 500 Monteigne Drive, 58-minute video is also accompanied Visit the Concours Web site Lafayette, LA 70506-6308; e-mail: [htknox@ by a study guide containing a transcript [www.frenchteachers.org/concours] to juno.com]. If you do not currently have a of the narration and the song lyrics, download a special membership applica- chapter of the Société Honoraire at your cloze exercises, and study questions. tion to recruit new teachers or contact your school, start one this year! See page 38 for more information. Chapter Contest Administrator or AATF Na- tional Headquarters.

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 35 NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK 2004 Start planning now for the sixth annual National French Week celebration. Join with your local chapter, colleagues in your school and community, as well as colleagues at local colleges and universities to create another exciting National French Week. We will again have special National French Week materials (pencils, balloons, pins, bumper stickers, T-shirts) available for distri- bution by August 1 (see page 14). Make sure to order early. If you wait until October, it may be too late to receive your order in time for your celebration. Remember that every activity from large to small can be an effective promotional event for the study of French, especially when students are involved. Below is just a brief list of some of the successful activities organized by our members over the past four years, proceeding from small to city-wide: • student-created posters on French or Francophone scientists, artists, authors, engineers displayed in the school or in local places of business; • a student-created mural featuring famous French or Francophone individuals or a giant crossword puzzle with French clues; • an exhibit of student-created reproductions of famous French art works; • a French meal served in the school cafeteria or French menus for the regular cafeteria fare; • inviting colleagues in other disciplines to study units on French-related topics during the week; • serving croissants and café au lait in the teachers' lounge or to the counselors and office staff; • a “French fact a day” read over the public address system; • poster, slogan, cooking, sports, or recitation contests with prizes, of course; • organizing groups of older students to teach a French lesson or song to elementary school students; • a job fair featuring local French businesses or U.S. businesses that have operations in France; • guest speakers including natives of Francophone countries, artists, authors, performers, or film directors; • immersion activities (but with outside participation by administrators or elected officials as judges, for instance), Francophone festivals, film festivals, performances; • collaboration with area music, theater, or arts groups, museums, local movie theaters, sports teams, international clubs, etc.; • a talent show or cabaret or karaoke evening featuring all French skits, songs, and music; • consult the AATF Web site [www.frenchteachers.org] for other ideas. These represent just a few of the many creative ideas suggested by our members. Do not forget that one of the key components of National French Week is to involve target audiences beyond our students and their families. Be certain to include counselors, fellow teachers, potential students and their parents, administrators, school board members, and local elected officials in your festivities. Begin working now to obtain a proclamation from your mayor and share it with colleagues in your city. AATF Chapters should begin work immediately to obtain a proclamation from the governor and make sure every chapter member receives a copy. These can be published in newsletters and on posters and shared with the media. University faculty should take a copy of these proclamations and request a similar statement from the university president or provost. Many of you reported having difficulty getting media attention for your activities. Media coverage is a key component to a successful National French Week, but is not always easy to attract. The media are interested in events rather than information. Present your news as an event although you may well need to provide background information as well. Court your local journalists and television reporters or, better yet, have your students do it. Don't forget the school newspaper or alumni magazine. Of course, this year you can return with documents, photography, and video from past events. Create a schedule for contacting the media with periodic updates both before and after the event.

CELEBRATE NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK NOVEMBER 5-11, 2004

NATIONAL FRENCH WEEK CHECK LIST • Consult the AATF Web site for ideas for your 2004 National French Week celebration; • Ask your students for input; • Invite colleagues to join you and share the work; START • Prepare a flyer for your colleagues in other disciplines, and ask them to support your effort by NOW! planning a French-related unit during National French Week; offer to help them find information; • Request a proclamation from your mayor (combine efforts in larger cities or work with your local chapter so you do not duplicate efforts); • Order promotional materials, an AATF Promo Kit (page 28) or National French Week items (page 14); • Solicit support from local businesses, civic organizations, or Francophone agencies; • Contact local media representatives; • Put your students to work researching information, preparing materials, and making contacts.

36 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) HIGH SCHOOL EXCHANGE: ROCKRIDGE, ILLINOIS & AGEN, FRANCE

My room was cleaned, the grades were That helped them with their English skills, dogs at one family’s home. The day they posted, and summer had finally arrived! I and it began the friendships with their left, there were so many tears we had to get American hosts. We then took them on a was lazily surfing the Web one rainy morn- out the tissues. Real friendships and ing in June of 2003 when I found a posting tour of a John Deere factory and the John bonds had formed between the American on the AATF site. It was a request for pen Deere World Headquarters. We took them and French students and teachers alike. on a tour and lunch at a local university, and pals, posted by a teacher in France. I re- Our guests were very diplomatic; they sponded, and she and I began an e-mail we took them to a hockey game. One high- carefully sidestepped any political issues, correspondence which became a daily rou- light of their trip was our riverboat luncheon and we did the same. The friendships cruise on the Mississippi River. They were tine. formed were cross-cultural and genuine… By the time school started again in the so excited to be on the “Mighty Mississippi!” some of my students who hadn’t been in- fall, Judy Dubois and I had become well- We also went to a local movie multiplex the- terested in a trip to France are now plan- ater to see a real American movie Starsky acquainted over the Internet. In early Sep- ning on going themselves to see these new tember, she proposed that our classes not and Hutch. (They were amazed that there friends on their own. Several of the French only be pen pals but also exchange students are actively organizing visits, the way she had done with yearlong exchanges to the U.S. other classes in Great Britain in pre- now that they’ve had a taste of vious years. I was very hesitant. It is American hospitality! In my a huge project, and I am the only classes, I see a real difference in French teacher in a small rural high attitude now: what had been school. Would there be enough in- theory is now authentic in my stu- terested students? Would the school dents’ minds. They’re using the board approve? Who would help language more spontaneously me? How would we get the money and more creatively, and the in- for such a big project? terest in French has shown in my As I began asking students in enrollment numbers for next year. school and parents at our fall open Our local AATF chapter was not house, it was obvious that the inter- able to financially support us, but est was there. The school board we received an AATF Small Grant gave me a green light, and the inter- to help with the funding of this ested parents voted unanimously to project. With the grant, we were work hard to support the project. Ev- able to pay for the riverboat lun- erything was a go! We recruited host cheon cruise on the Mississippi families for 13 students from the River and the some of the admis- Lycée Jean-Baptiste de Baudre, in Agen, sion to the Hancock Tower Observatory. Our were no subtitles!) Then, they drove go-carts France. We began a flurry of activity to raise thanks go to AATF for this support in mak- and played laser tag at a fun center. funds to pay for excursions for our guests ing a memorable trip for our guests. for their two week stay. They spent Easter with their host fami- We raised over $5000 for this project. It lies (Mme Dubois and her colleague stayed Our fundraisers began with French club cost our group approximately $195 for each with me) and the following week in school selling bonbons. From there, we sold con- teacher and guest student while they were cessions at basketball games and wres- at Rockridge High School. Each day in here. We provided all the transportation and school, they had two hours of English tling meets, we wrote and called local busi- excursion fees for our guests while they classes with their own teachers, then they nesses for donations, we sold candles, we were in Illinois. In turn, I brought a group of sold Mardi Gras beads, we held a Spaghetti went to hands-on demonstration classes seven of my students to France on Memo- around the school, put on by teachers in Supper with a silent auction of gift baskets rial Day weekend, for a two-week stay with the school who had volunteered. They of donated items, we made chocolate roses our new friends. I held language classes from chocolate kisses that we sold for learned songs in choir, discussed farming in their school, and my students attended practices in agriculture, made appetizers Valentine’s Day, and we sold balloons to some classes in their lycée in other sub- in home economics, learned on the com- pop and get a prize for St. Patrick’s Day. We jects. Their group treated us to many excur- also had parents and students selling puters, went to gym classes, had a fiesta sions and field trips, (to museums, with a Spanish class and even made plas- candy bars, we held two bake sales, and châteaux, fortified cities, wineries, etc.) with tic things in shop class. we contributed to a community-wide yard all the expenses paid for by their fundraising sale. Our most productive fundraiser was Our biggest trip was to Chicago along efforts on “their side of the pond.” The high- with all those students at the high school our Trivia Night at a local American Legion light of our trip was a ride on the TGV to enrolled in French. We took two charter hall. Bordeaux, where we toured the city and Our fifteen guests arrived April 3 at buses first to the Hancock Tower where we shopped. went up to the Observatory. From there we O’Hare Airport. We were there in three bor- My heartfelt appreciation goes to AATF went shopping and then to Wrigley Field for rowed vans to drive them the three hours for your support of this program. It was a back to the Quad Cities area. Their first an all-American baseball game. The French life-changing and enriching experience for students were lucky enough to see two out- week was our spring break, and we showed us, for our entire school, and the whole com- of-the-park, back-to-back home runs! What them the area by taking them on many ex- munity. Merci bien! cursions in our area, in carpools driven by an experience for us all! Deb Flaugher At the end of their last week, we had a parents. First, we went to a local IMAX the- Rockridge High School going-away cookout of hamburgers and hot ater and had a Scavenger Hunt at the mall.

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 37 AATF MATERIALS CENTER vieillit pas; white with blue lettering. Specify Prices quoted in this list INCLUDE size ( XL, XXL only). $10 for 1; 2 for $15. POSTAGE AND HANDLING. Make checks PROMOTIONAL FLYERS (sample copy (While supplies last) payable to AATF. Payment or school available on request) Posters. Series of six color posters purchase order must accompany orders. All flyers 10 cents/copy for quantities up (11x17 in.) promoting French on the theme Pictures of some items are available on to 250; 20 cents/copy for larger orders. Parlez-vous...? Includes 123-page study the AATF Web site: [www.french (member prices) guide. $15 set of 6 only. teachers.org]. Please allow 3-4 weeks for 1. NEW! Help Wanted: Encourage AATF Certificate of Merit. Each 15 cents. delivery. Students to Learn French Tout Paris. Full-color illustrated guide to REPORTS OF THE AATF FLES* 2. Newly revised Why French FLES*? Paris. 128 pp. $15.00 COMMISSION 3. French by the Numbers highlights Paris Monumental, folding 22" x 30" 1. Success Storues: Promoting FLES* Pro- with facts and figures the importance of color map of Paris showing monuments grams, Gladys Lipton, Lena Lucietto, French in the world. on one side and street detail on the other; Harriet Saxon, Editors, 2004. $9.00 4. French is Not a “Foreign” Language includes 5" x 7" map of métro. $10.00. 2. French FLES* Around the World, Lena illustrates the close connections between Color postcards, set of 20 (Provence, L. Lucietto, Editor, 2000. $9.00 English and French. Châteaux, Cathédrales, Bretagne, or Paris) $6.00. Specify choice. 3. The FLES* Image: A Picture is Worth a 5. Why Learn French? Highlights Thousand Words! Lena L. Lucietto, business and career reasons to study AATF Coloring Book, 16 pp. 8" x 11" for FLES* students. $1.00 each. Editor, 1998. $9.00 French. French FLES* Stickers: "AATF, FRENCH 4. Attracting French FLES* Students. 6. Top 10 Reasons to Learn French. FOR KIDS, FLES* in Grades K-8." 4/$1.00. Gladys Lipton, Editor, 1996. $9.00. 7. Speaking French: an investment in NEW! Un Calendrier perpétuel. Newly 5. Reaching All FLES* Students. Gladys the future. revised and expanded 104-page calendrier Lipton, Editor, 1995. $9.00 Bumper Stickers: Forward with French. highlights significant events in French and 6. FLES* Methodology I. Gladys Lipton, 2 / $1.00; 10/ $4.00. Francophone history as well as birthdates Editor, 1994, $9.00. TEACHING VIDEOS of famous individuals from all walks of life 7. Expanding FLES* Horizons. Gladys NEW! Video: Tant qu’elle chante, elle in the Francophone world. Resource list of Lipton, Editor, 1993. $9.00. vit presents the music videos of Carole Web sites and bibliography, complete index, glossary, and brief Teacher’s Guide. 8. Evaluating FLES* Programs. Gladys Fredericks. Includes 6 music videos $15 (members)/$18 (non-members) Lipton, Editor, 1992, $9.00. featuring Carole, Jean-Jacques Goldman, and Michael Jones. Accompanying activi- Color Notecards: 12 notecards with 9. Implementing FLES* Programs. ties and guide. $40.00 (members)/$45.00 envelopes featuring 6 different color Gladys Lipton, Editor. 1991. $8.00, (nonmembers) designs from winners of the 1999 FLES* 10.Innovations in FLES* Programs. Reflets français, a 58-min. video by Poster Contest; blank inside. $10.00. Gladys Lipton, Editor. 1990. $8.00. Bernard Petit featuring the songs of Éric Swiss Kit. General information on 11. The People Factor in FLES* Programs. Vincent and the sights of Paris, includes Switzerland, including geography, maps, Gladys Lipton, Editor. 1989. $8.00. study guide. $40 (members)/$45 (non- history, economy, political, and social systems, and short stories. $6.00 for the NEW! Any 5 FLES* Reports for $40. Com- members). first copy; $1.50 each additional copy. plete set of 12 Reports for $80. MEDALS AND AWARDS Order one copy of the old Swiss Kit and one Les Armes de Paris, 32 mm bronze (from PROMOTION OF FRENCH copy of the new for $7.50. NEW CD! Archtectural Walking Tour of government mint in Paris) $18.00. AATF PROMOTIONAL ITEMS Paris provides still and video footage of 24 AATF medallions, 1½ in.; blue, gold, and AATF Mugs: White with blue logo and Parisian buildings. $12.50 (members)/ white cloisonné enamel; reverse side name. Each $6.00 $15.00 (nonmembers) plain; two designs; please specify. Each AATF Notepads: Le français en Video: Forward with FLES* (11 min.) $5.25. Specify (1) Busts of Washington and Amérique du Nord (1/2 sheet, 50 sheets encourages French FLES* programs with Lafayette with AATF; (2) French hexagon, per pad): Each $1.50. comments from experts, administrators, with "American Association of Teachers of AATF Bic Clic Pens: AATF and Forward and teachers. $15.00 (members)/$18.00 French” around perimeter. with French on black and red pen. 6 for (nonmembers) AATF pins, ½-in. square with letters $3.00; 10 for $5.00. Video : Open Your World With French/ AATF. Each $4.00 th AATF Ball-Point Pens: AATF engraved in Le français m'ouvre le monde (10 min.) 75 Anniversary AATF pin. Each $4.00. gold on blue marbleized pen. Each $8.00 encourages students to study French. OTHER MATERIALS (discounts for quantities). $15.00 (members)/$18.00 (nonmembers) NEW! Martinique: L’Ile aux fleurs T- AATF Tote Bag: “Le français au cœur de Video: Forward with French (10 min.) shirt, white with outline of island on front. l’Amérique.” Black nylon with handles. Interviews with business people in NY Specify size ( XL, XXL only). $10 for 1; 2 for $10.00 (while supplies last). state who use French in their work. $15.00 $15. (While supplies last) (members)/$18.00 (nonmembers) T-shirt: Le français m'ouvre le monde, To obtain any of these materials send Travel Guide (119 pp) gives advice for navy with world map highlighting where your check or school purchase order to: teachers planning student trips abroad or French is an official language, areas listed AATF Materials Center, Mailcode 4510, exchanges, including resources, orienta- in French on the back. Specify size (L, XL, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL tion, liability, sample forms. $12.00 XXL). $18.00 ($19 for XXL). 62901-4510. Prices valid through 12/31/ (members)/$15.00 (nonmembers). T-shirt: Le Français change mais ne 04.

38 Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) CALENDAR OF EVENTS

AMERICAN TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION, TEACHERS OF ENGLISH TO SPEAKERS OF Alexandria, VA 22314; Telephone: (703) 894- October 13-16, 2004, Toronto, CA. Informa- OTHER LANGUAGES (TESOL), March 29- 2900; Fax: (703) 894-2905; E-mail; tion: ATA, Telephone: (703) 683-6100; FAX: April 2, 2005, San Antonio, TX.. Information: [[email protected]]; Web: [www.actfl. (703) 683-6122; E-mail: [conference@ TESOL, 700 South Washington Street, Suite org]. atanet.org]; Web: [www. atanet.org]. 200, Alexandria, VA 22314; Telephone: (703) 836-0774; Fax: (703) 836-7864; E-mail: FÉDÉRATION OF ALLIANCES FRAN- MENTORING INITIATIVE ÇAISES, USA, ANNUAL MEETING, October [[email protected]]; Web: [www.tesol. In an effort to foster communication 21-23, 2004, Washington, D.C. Information: org]. among French teachers, strengthen pro- Ann Whitlock Swedeen, Managing Consult- NORTHEAST CONFERENCE ON THE grams in the schools, and support each ant, 8074 Bowline Drive, Indianapolis, IN TEACHING OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES, March other, the Commission on Articulation is 46236. Telephone: (800) 380-1484; E-mail: 31-April 3, 2005, New York City. Informa- organizing a mentoring program. Through [[email protected]]; Web: [www.afusa. tion: Northeast Conference, Dickinson Col- this initiative we want to offer assistance to org]. lege, P.O. Box 1773, Carlisle, PA 17013- teachers who are new in the profession, PATHWAYS TO BILINGUALISM: EVOLVING 2896; Telephone: (717) 245-1977; Fax: (717) who feel isolated because they are the only 245-1976; E-mail: [nectfl@ dickinson.edu]; PERSPECTIVES ON IMMERSION EDUCA- French teacher in the school or district, or Web: [www. dickinson.edu/nectfl]. TION, October 21-23, 2004, Minneapolis, who would like to share ideas with a col- MN. Information: CARLA, University of Min- SOUTHWEST CONFERENCE ON LAN- league. We would especially like to invite nesota. Telephone: (612) 626-8600; E-mail: GUAGE TEACHING (SWCOLT), April 7-9, our experienced and active “retired” mem- [[email protected]]; Web: [carla@acad. 2005, Irving, TX. Information: Audrey Cournia, bers to share their expertise through this umn.edu]. SWCOLT, Telephone: (775) 358-6943; Fax: project. Plans for the mentoring program AMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE TEACHING OF (775) 358-1605; E-mail: [courniaaudrey@ were introduced at the Atlanta Convention FOREIGN LANGUAGES, November 18-21, cs.com]; Web: [www.swcolt.org]. during the Chapter Presidents’ Breakfast and the Delegate Assembly. 2004, Chicago, IL. Information: ACTFL, 700 AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AS- In the next couple of months each chap- South Washington Street, Suite 210, Alex- SOCIATION (AERA), April 11-15, 2005, ter is asked to identify a Mentoring Coordi- andria, VA 22314; Telephone: (703) 894- Montreal, Canada. Information: AERA, 1230 nator, who will then circulate information 2900; Fax: (703) 894-2905; E-mail; 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036- about the initiative and recruit volunteers to [[email protected]]; Web: [www.actfl 3078; Telephone: (202) 223-9485; Fax: serve as mentors. We would like to use the .org]. (202) 775-1824; Web: [www.aera.net]. fall state association meetings to publicize AMERICAN COUNCIL FOR QUEBEC COMPUTER-ASSISTED LANGUAGE IN- the project. The name of the chapter coor- STUDIES BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, No- STRUCTION CONSORTIUM (CALICO), May dinator should be given to your Regional vember 18-21, 2004, Château Frontenac, 17-21, 2005, East Lansing, MI. Information: Representative (see page 5) and to Quebec City, Canada. Information: Confer- CALICO, Southwest Texas State University, Suzanne Hendrickson at [sue.hendrickson ence Chair, Raymond Pelletier, Canadian- 214 Centennial Hall, 601 University Drive, @asu.edu]. There will be an announcement American Center, University of Maine at San Marcos, TX 78666; Telephone: (512) with contact information for those individu- Orono, 154 College Avenue, Orono, ME 245-1417; Fax: (512) 245-9089; E-mail: als desiring a mentor in the November is- 04473; e-mail: [raymond_pelletier@umit. [[email protected]]; Web: [www.calico.org]. sue of the National Bulletin. Once we have maine.edu]. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS names of mentor volunteers and those MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION OF OF FRENCH, July 7-10, 2005, Quebec City. wanting to be mentored, a database will be AMERICA (MLA), December 27-30, 2004, Information: AATF, Mailcode 4510, Southern created and individuals will be paired ac- Philadelphia, PA. Information: MLA, 10 Astor Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901- cording to needs/expertise, interests, and Place, New York, NY 100003-6981; Fax: 4510. Telephone: (618) 453-5731; FAX: location. Individual pairs will then arrange [(212) 477-9863; E-mail: [convention@ (618) 453-5733; E-mail: [abrate@siu. edu]; to communicate in ways convenient for mla.org]; Web: [www.mla.org]. Web: [www.frenchteachers.org]. them, e.g. through e-mail, personal contact, SOUTHERN CONFERENCE ON LAN- etc. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR APPLIED Please consider ways in which you can GUAGE TEACHING (SCOLT), February 24- LINGUISTICS, July 24-29, 2005, Madison, 26, 2005, Charlotte, NC. Information: Lynne participate in the program. In what areas WI . Information: AAAL, 3416 Primm Lane, can you offer expertise or in which areas McClendon, SCOLT, 165 Lazy Laurel Birmingham, AL 35216; Telephone: (205) Chase, Roswell, GA 30076; Telephone: might you like some help? Tell your col- 824-7700; Fax: (205) 823-2760; E-mail: leagues who may not be current members (770) 992-1256; Fax: (770) 992-3464; E- [[email protected]]; Web: [www.aaal.org]. mail: [[email protected]]; Web: of AATF about the project as well. Inviting [www.valdosta.edu/scolt]. AMERICAN TRANSLATORS ASSOCIATION, them to participate will enable them to col- November 9-12, 2005, Seattle, WA. Infor- laborate as well as introduce them to the CENTRAL STATES CONFERENCE ON mation: ATA, Telephone: (703) 683-6100; work of the AATF. By working together in THE TEACHING OF FOREIGN LAN- Fax: (703) 683-6122; E-mail: [conference support of each other we can strengthen GUAGES, March 10-12, 2005, Columbus, @atanet.org]; Web: [www. atanet.org]. and advance our mission of teaching OH. Information: Patrick T. Raven , Execu- French and Francophone cultures. tive Director, PO Box 251, Milwaukee, WI AMERICAN COUNCIL ON THE TEACHING OF 53201-0251; Telephone: (414) 405-4645; FOREIGN LANGUAGES, November 18-20, Fax: (414) 276-4650; E-mail: [csctfl@aol. 2005, Baltimore, MD. Information: ACTFL, com]; Web: [www.centralstates. cc]. 700 South Washington Street, Suite 210,

Vol. 30, No. 1 (Sept. 2004) 39 REMINDER: IMPORTANT DEADLINES AND DATES SWISS KITS AVAILABLE Both versions of these kits, provided by October 15, 2004 Deadline for submissions for AATF National French the Swiss Embassy, contain general infor- Week Essay and Poster Contests (see page 9) mation on Switzerland, including geogra- Deadline for Fulbright Teacher Exchange Applications for phy, maps, history, economy, but are pre- sented with different sets of materials. Academic Year 2005-2006 (see September 2003 issue) The old version includes a large color November 1, 2004 Postmark deadline for return of AATF Election Ballots poster with many scenes of Switzerland, Deadline for Chapters to Submit Name of Advocacy Chair maps of the country and city guides, a col- to Regional Representative (see page 7) orful brochure on the cheese industry, a Deadline for Chapters to Submit Name of Mentoring pamphlet on the life and travels of Jean- Chair to Regional Representative (see page 39) Jacques Rousseau, literary excerpts of November 5-11, 2004 National French Week (see page 36) Swiss authors, an article on the youth of November 18, 2004 AATF Advocacy Workshop (see page 5) Switzerland, and a small book with infor- December 1, 2004 Deadline for receipt of proposals for 2005 AATF Conven- mation on geography, history, economy, and tion in Quebec City (see page 3) the political and cultural institutions of the December 15, 2004 Deadline for receipt of applications for ASFAP scholar- country. The new version, La Suisse en vue, has ship (see page 10) a more uniform format with four colorful February 1, 2005 Deadline for Submission of Nominees for AATF Dorothy dépliants on (1) paysage et cadre de vie, Ludwig Excellence in Teaching Award (see page 2) (2) économie et activités scientifiques, (3) February 15, 2005 Deadline for applications for AATF Summer Scholarships population et société, and (4) fédéralisme (see page 13) et plurilinguisme. Many photos illustrate the February 21-28, 2005 FLES (grades 1-6) Grand Concours (see page 23) text. Multiple copies of each section are March 1, 2005 Deadline for applications for 2005 AATF Small Grants included with a Teacher's Manual. (see page 10) Both Swiss kits are offered to AATF mem- Deadline for applications for the Walter Jensen Scholar- bers free of charge for the cost of postage: ship for Study Abroad (see page 13) $6.00 for the first copy, $1.50 for each addi- March 3-22, 2005 Grand Concours (see page 22) tional copy. Order one copy of the old and one of the new version for only $7.50. If no indication is given, the new version will be sent. Contact National Headquarters for AATF ANNUAL CONVENTION ordering information and for availability. QUEBEC CITY, JULY 7-10, 2005!

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