Quebec+assembly

__** Theme: **__ We felt both completely at home, yet it also seemed completely different. It was an American French teacher's dream.

Light, heavy, light
 * __ Flow: __**

Maybe a brief history lesson: common history, linguistic history
 * __ Introduction ideas: __**
 * 1) Fusion of French culture and american culture: best of the French culture and best of the American culture
 * 2) Grant : Brief explanation that we received a grant -- USM works hard to keep teachers up-to-date and to provide teachers with opportunities to enhance how they teach
 * 3) Why did we choose Quebec? Talk about Quebec as our French speaking neighbor with which we have historically a lot in common. Economic ties.Talk about the French language as a global language.
 * 4) Our trip was not a typical vacation, tourist type trip
 * 5) We went so that all of us could keep our French up
 * 6) We chose Quebec because it was an obvious, yet not obvious choice
 * 7) Why travel -- why go rather than simply research Quebec (opportinity to interact with people, opportunity to use French)

I. Film of British occupation of Quebec: the fourth Reich II. Start with song, French question Start with a question for the school & take 2 ideas from the freeshman, sophomore, junior sections. (Have a big white board on stage and write that down so everyone can see the stereotypes).
 * French isn't any less than that, but it is so much more.

**__Theme ideas:__**
 * 1) Alison: Language as a bridge or ambassador (French language is like a fifth campion, they call us United Statesans, they were impressed with our language skills as United Statesans), traveling and speaking the language, searching for interactions on the street, Brett going to the music session, he met someone he previously knew in France when he went to the music session
 * 2) Brett: Language is part of their identity, le quebec libre pictures, interaction between francophone, immigrants that come into Quebec cannot go to English speaking schools, they are required to go to French speaking schools.
 * 3) Brett: Calques, prononciation difference (with practicing saying it)
 * 4) Neelie: Culture / Food: sirop d'érable, poutine, le marché
 * 5) Neelie : Cirque du Soleil
 * 6) Brett: Culture / Music/Dance/Entertainment: giguer, les cuillères, les festivals,
 * 7) Renee: Background on Canada/le Quebec (boring, but perhaps important to orient students): size of country, langues spoken, ethnicities (important) -- link to the huron village we visited
 * 8) Renee: Our "geeking out moments" - Picture of Brett taking a picture of the phone booth, photos of things that would only interest French geeks like us
 * 9) Renee - Government of quebec -- I found it interesting that the largest statue on the house of parliament/in front of the parliament is of the amerindiens

__**Close**__
 * 1) Tourism stuff -- what we might recommend that others go see if they ever go to QuebecFavorite memories -- moments that stand out, isle
 * 2) Geeking out stuff - moments that make it

__**Outline**__ __Introduction (Renee & Neelie)__ 1. Neelie: Grant : Brief explanation that we received a grant -- USM works hard to keep teachers up-to-date and to provide teachers with opportunities to enhance how they teach, quick travel/city summary,set the stage for the presentation and mention that we are all going to talk about something that we found interesting about the trip or important to Quebec
 * Have music playing as we come in. Stop the song. Teach lyrics real quick. Start playing tune, and sing it....**

. 2. Alison: Why quebec: Know so much about France which is so far away. We have French speaking neighbors and know a bit about Quebec. We also had notions about the culture because it's Canada, and like many people we assume it will be like the US. It ended up being the American french speaker's dream because...

__Renee or Alison__ 1. Quick facts on Quebec

__Alison:__
 * 1) Alison: Language as a bridge or ambassador (French language is like a fifth campion, they call us United Statesans, they were impressed with our language skills as United Statesans), traveling and speaking the language, searching for interactions on the street, Brett going to the music session, he met someone he previously knew in France when he went to the music session

__Brett : language__
 * 1) Brett: Language is part of their identity, le quebec libre pictures, interaction between francophone, immigrants that come into Quebec cannot go to English speaking schools, they are required to go to French speaking schools.


 * 1) Brett: Calques, prononciation difference (with practicing saying it)

__ Renee: History / Multicultural country __


 * 1) Renee - Government of quebec -- I found it interesting that the largest statue on the house of parliament/in front of the parliament is of the amerindien
 * 2) Renee: Background on Canada/le Quebec (boring, but perhaps important to orient students): size of country, langues spoken, ethnicities (important) -- link to the huron village we visited

__ Neelie: Street arts & Food __


 * 1) Neelie: Culture / Food: sirop d'érable, poutine, le marché, ile d'orlean
 * 2) Neelie : Cirque du Soleil, moulin en image, l'art, les projecteurs, la musique-2 videos

__ Brett: Music __
 * 1) Brett: Culture / Music/Dance/Entertainment: giguer, les cuillères, les festivals,

__End - Renee (if time):__ Geeking out
 * 1) Geeking out stuff - moments that make it

__End - if time__ each of us says one favorite memory & show the picture

LEAVE TIME FOR QUESTIONS