Observation At Art High-school Part 1

Date: November 27 2207
Time: from 1:40 to 2:40
Total time: 1 hour
Teacher Yanick Ranieri
Class: French
Level: Senior

When I got to the class, the class was discussing about the economic system that France has it, the Euro. Professor Ranieri got ready for every student a poster that showed every Euro bill, a few copies for each type of amount (example: €5, €10, €20, etc ..) Professor Ranienri discussed and described each bill with the class asking questions about it. After have analyzed the Euro bills, the class compared the Euro to the Dollar, looking for similarities and differences. Prof. Ranieri started talking about the Euro coins and said that she will have them ready for next class. She asked as homework to Goggle the word "Euro" and the value of the Euroo in the Dollar and bring this information to the next class.
After that Professor Ranieri asked to take the books and so a group exercise, every students groups by two and they started doing the group exercise. After a few minutes professor Ranieri went to the board and asked to check if the rest of the class got it right and if they didn't to fix the sentence. The exercise was based on grammatical and vocabularies that the class was familiar with already as "to have, to need, can I, scholar tools, numbers and colors" and in the exercise was asked to put all this elements together.
After this the class mover to the computer room, Professor Ranieri explain me that the classes is of more with games and activities with the computer. Professor Ranieri gave a disc to each student and they could either work by there selves or in groups of two. The CD material is related to the material already studied with the class. The language used in the CD was for the majority French and some English was spoken too. I had the chance to go around the class and take a look of the type of exercises were giving to the students and there were some exercise that were based on try to find the right description to the picture that is showed on the desktop. If the students gave the wrong answer the computer would give a little hint in English that would help them answer in the correct way.
There was also a puzzle to create and when you clicking in each piece sometimes could get a picture (in this case was scholar tools) and other times they would get a description on an object (a scholar tool). When the student found the description that would match the picture the two pieces turned and showed a part of the puzzle. The game ended when the puzzle is completed. One other type of game was a creation of a dialog where a voice from the computer would asked a question and the student needed to choose from 3 answer offered by the computer.
At the end of the class I asked Professor Ranieri about the project that I notice in the classroom, there were a lot of posters done by the students with the elements studies and drawing and description done in French. Some were about scholar tools, other about their selves and their hobbies; one was a little comic, food and animals. All the works were wonderful and so creative. Professor ranieri explain me that being in a school where is giving so much importance in art it's a good way to let the students do arts projects that would get them involved in it and they would learn more about French.