Le Lycée Français de New York introduced parcours in the middle school this fall. Developed from a project-based learning approach, these pluridisciplinary classes encourage students to develop their creativity and many different skills working in teams on a final project.
In the class, “New York on the Airwaves,” Perrine Le Dûs and Damien Mercier, Secondary teachers, invited a class of seventh graders to put on a radio journalist’s hat for the fall semester to create a podcast on a topic of interest in New York City.
These middle-schoolers learned the basics of radio production, including research, recording interviews, writing scripts, and editing it all with music as any radio journalist might. Take a listen below.
L’équipe des Uptown taggers, with students Arthur, Florian and Sofia, explored graffiti art on the streets of New York.
SNY, with Charlotte, Clément, Kathleen and Omar, will tell you all about the performance artists so present in New York.
In Naturama, Maxence, Paul and Tom take you to Central Park to discover nature.
Paulina, Sacha andVictor-Emmanuel go searching for their fellow French citizens in New York in Les grenouilles.
The team of Bakary, Camilo and Gustave also looked into graffiti, in this anecdotal history of graffiti artists in une histoire de graffeurs.
Joseph, Hugo and Tristan explored their interest in the iconic taxis new-yorkais.
Ilia, Mia et Sasha take us on a journey of discover through the secret tunnels of New York in STS (Secrets tunnels sous terre).
In Crazy Foods, we’ll find out about some of the more unusual restaurants with Jenna, Selin and Vivienne.
And, Elisabeth King, the communications director of the Lycée Français de New York, went back to class herself to learn and to document the student and teacher experience in her first podcast.
About the Author :
Perrine Le Dûs joined the library staff at the Lycée in 2015. She had worked previously as a librarian at a high school in Angers (France), then at a middle school in Seine-Saint-Denis (France). After gaining experience in publishing and in promoting cultural events, she chose to specialize in information architecture. She is interested in speculative fiction, and recently discovered her interest in science through science fiction. She is passionate about popular science, a subject which she loves exploring with her students.