Materials list, project and expectations

MATERIALS:

1 48 page notebook or a binder with plastic sheet protectors → for work in class

1 48 page notebook or a binder with plastic sheet protectors → logbook for work at home

1 alphabetic notebook → vocabulary

TOPICS:

1968 as a transnational social and political movement

visions of the place of the human in the world

PROJECTS:

This class is an exchange based class. You will be asked to produce multiple digital projects based on the documents you will study. The goal of this is for you to teach your correspondents in the Czech Republic what you have learned about their history and culture. They will be doing the same, creating digital documents about your history and culture.

You will:

read, discuss and create a short films in groups about The Cowards

Watch, discuss and create short films about The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and The Hand

Study, discuss and create recordings about the visual poems of Kolar

Study, discuss and create digital explanations about Revue K

The projects will be sent to your correspondents and presented for Journéees Portes Ouvertes in April and during the “Semaine des Langues” in May

EXPECTATIONS:

1/ logbook: You must write a half a page each week.You will explain; your research, the websites, the difficulties encountered, new concepts you are exposed to, what you have learned, the process of putting together your presentations...

The logbook will be collected and graded throughout the year.

2/ vocabulary book: You are expected to write all the words that you encounter that are relevant to the project you are working on that are new to you. In addition I will be giving lists of relevant words that you must enter into your vocabulary book.

The vocabulary book will be collected and graded throughout the year.

3/ class notebook: You will keep a class notebook for in-class lessons and discussions.

4/ Language: You are expected to speak English in class. Although it is certainly easier to express yourself in French, the classroom is English only.

In-class English is graded (quantity not quality).

5/ Presentations: Presentations are to be memorized. You may have a small card with keywords if necessary.

Presentations must be done on-time. Late presentations will be penalized.

6/ Attendance: You are expected to be in class each week. Any absence must be justified. If you are absent for an evaluation or presentation, you have one week to make it up.

7/ Digital work: You will have assignments that are turned in via email. The expectations are the same: you must send them by the deadline, otherwise they will be considered late.

This is my email address: alexisbuckley45@gmail.com