French III

Les Pays Francophones
 
 

Project Timeline
Thursday
4/24		 Research selected Francophone country.  Suggested research areas: map, history, clothing, food.
Friday
4/25		 Research selected Francophone country.  Suggested research areas: monuments, cities.

Monday
4/28

 Begin children's book: create storyboard.
Tuesday
4/29		 Work on children's book.
Wednesday
4/30		 Work on children's book.  Over the weekend: work on special project.
Thursday
5/1		 Work on children's book.  Make "overhead" for presentation: word doc with images, vocabulary.
Friday
5/2		 Finish and bind children's books.
Monday
5/5		 Begin presentations.

 

Online Resources


General Sites

Online Culturegrams

World History Online
 Facts on File

CIA Factbook

Lonely Planet Worldguide
Find the region where your country is located and click on it.  Then choose the country in the next column to continue with your research.

iEXPLORE
#1 ranked website for adventure and experiential travel

World Travel Guide
Another site to use for research
of your country.  Click on the
region of the world where your country is located.  Then click on your country to get more information.

Virtual Tourist
You can be a virtual tourist by clicking on the region and then the country of your choice.

Traveleye
Find the continent where your country is located and then click
on your region and then choose
your country from the
navigation bar.
Country Specific Sites

La Belgique
Personal webpage with
nice photos of Belgium.

La Cote d'Ivoire

Le Haiti
TravelNotes
 Personal webpage

Le Madagascar
The Africa guide

La Martinique
 Fodor's Guide
 Photos

La Suisse
Personal Webpage
 WikiTravel

Senegal
Africa Guide

Le Tahiti
(French Polynesia)
A great site to research Tahiti and other French islands.
 

Le Canada
In French
 

Citation Examples

Book:
Carlson-Reddig, Thomas. An Architect's
     Paris. Boston: Little, Brown and
     Company, 1993.

 
Magazine:
Navailles, Jean-Pierre. "Eiffel's Tower."
     History Today. 47:6 (Dec 1989). 38-43.

Web site:
"Tour Eiffel". La Conciergerie. The Paris
     Pages. 6 Mar. 2007 <http://www.paris.
     org/Monuments/Eiffel/>.

Online Database:
Roberts, William J. "Brittany." France: A
    Reference Guide from the Renaissance
    to the Present, European Nations. New
    York: Facts on File, 2004. Modern World
    History Online. Facts On File. 7 Mar. 2007
    <http://www.fofweb.com/>.

 

Image (photograph or painting):

Notre Dame. Photograph. 2006. 6 Mar. 2008 <http://www.klett- franzoesisch.de/.../notre-dame.jpg>.

Name of image. Type of image. Date. Date you found image. <web address>.

Video:

Paris. 2007. Teacher Tube. 6 Mar. 2008   <http://www.teachertube.com/             view_video.php?viewkey=32b49cfb72d1d48a5a96>.

Name of video. Date Published. Website. Date you found video. <web address>.


For more examples see the following website:
http://www.tenet.edu/library/citation.html