Linda Harrison Kettering Fairmont High School Centerville, Ohio French III Action Plan Grades 11 & 12 French Paris, Brittany, and Normandy The students in the French III class are reading a novel Le Mystere Des Faux Billets. The teacher selected twenty-five cultural themes presented in the book. Each student will select a topic to research and then he or she will give an oral presentation to the class. Some of the topics are: American ex-patriots in Paris, cafes, Celtic traditions in Brittany, Chartres, Gustave Eiffel, European Communities, High speed trains (TGV), Monet, plus several other subjects. Dewey Numbers 306.409 641.5944 726.6 748.594 759.4 796.62 937 940.54 944 Subject Headings Gothic architecture Medieval cathedrals Middle Ages William Henry Johnson Henry Ossawa Tanner Greg LeMonde Bastille Day Impressionism Giverny Louvre Non-Fiction Books Abt, Samuel. Lance Armstrongs Comeback from Cancer. San Francisco: Vanderplas, 2000. Bertholle, Louisette. French Cuisine for All. New York: Doubleday, 1976. Cate, Curtis. Antoine de Saint Exupery. New York: Putnams, 1970. Duggan, Alfred. Julius Casear. New York: Knopf, 1955. Fisher, Teresa. Food and Festival in France. Austin, TX: Raintree, 1999. Greene, Meg. The Eiffel Tower. San Diego: Lucent, 2001. Guermont, Claude. The Norman Table: the Traditional Cooking of Normandy. New York: Scribners, 1985. Hoban, Sarah. Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Paris. Minneapolis: Runstone, 2001. Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism. New York: Artabras, 1997. Lazelle, Marguerite. Tour de France. Buffalo, NY: Firefly, 2003. Leininger-Miller, Theresa. New Negro Artists in Paris: African American Painters and Sculptors in the City of Light, 1922-1934. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University, 2001. Reference Books Griffin, Robert H. The Folklore of World Holidays. Detroit: Gale, 1999. Jordan, William C. The Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia for Students. New York: Scribners, 1996. Vaugh, William. Encyclopedia of Artists. New York: Oxford University, 2000. Internet Sites Discover France France Embassy of France in the United States Gaul Train a Grande Vitesse Infohio Resources AMICO-information on artists and their works EBSCO-current articles on daily life and sports Barnard, Bruce. Railway Renaissance or Reversal. Europe 2 June 2001:63-65. EBSCO. Infohio. <http://www.infohio.org>. Drake, Geoff. Goodbye, Greg. Bicycling Feb. 1995:46-50. EBSCO. Infohio. <http://www.infohio.org>. Videos Discovering France. San Ramon, CA: International Video, 1994. France: Paris, Normandy, and Brittany. Chicago: Questar, 1997.