So, you want to change the ceramic tiles in your kitchen. They’ve been in front of you for years and the other day you just decided you had enough of these small beige squares. The problem is not the color, what bothers you now is the shape. You find squares
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The Lycée math curriculum is bilingual. How does this benefit students? Bilingualism and biculturalism are two of our biggest assets, as math educators. On the one hand, the French math tradition is very strong, and even world-renowned. It is well-designed to lay groundwork for understanding theoretical concepts, pure math, and
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In the same spirit as the Suffragettes project of Mireille Miller, our primary art teacher—which focuses on women who fought for their right to vote—the Lycée’s French department seeks to pay tribute to women writers and Francophone artists from history, and make them more visible. 10th-grade students thus launched themselves
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Chances are you never bothered to ask your math teacher where the words “sine” and “cosine” came from or why we use that ridiculous symbol for the square root of a number. You probably accepted these new notations – to be added to the already long list of arcane words
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High school students had the privilege to meet the author Gaël Faye, recent winner of the Prix Littéraire du Lycée (2017) and the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens (2016), on Friday, October 26 thanks to the Cultural Center. Before Faye’s visit, French students (in the classes of myself, Mr. Morival, Ms. Roussel,
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Every year the French Consulate awards World War II veterans with the French Legion of Honor. The ceremony takes place at the Lycée Francais de New York, with the participation of Y9 students, who study this time period on their history class. Tune in from 3pm EST to watch the ceremony
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At 11:11 on 11/11 (November 11) 1918, in a rail car in Compiègne, France and Germany signed the armistice that would end “the Great War,” or as we more commonly know it, World War I. In Europe, signs of World War I are more abundant than in the United States:
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On Friday the 28th of September, the Lycée held its second annual “James Baldwin Day” for students from 10th to 12th grade. This event was created last year in honor of James Baldwin, an American-born writer who spent much of his career in France. According to Mrs. Aufses, who heads
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The Lycée extends a big congratulations to Vannina Boussouf and Nicolas L’Hotellier, who lead our Primary and Secondary schools, respectively, for being honored with the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. In a ceremony on Monday night at the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on 5th Avenue, they were each presented with
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In March 2018, Dr. Brandon Marshall, a history teacher at the Lycée Français de New York, received a travel grant to Venice, Italy, to explore ways to bring the work of historians to life for students through field research and filmmaking. Dr. Marshall is one of eleven teachers to receive
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