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Vivian with the Attache Culturel
and Madame Tawaji |
To
celebrate National French Week, November 5-11, 2007, East Woods French
students participated in a cultural contest organized for students in
the Tri-state area by The New York Education Office of the French
Embassy, in association with the American Association of Teachers of
French. The 2007 contest is titled "Spreading freedom and equality:
Following Lafayette's footsteps" in honor of that most enthusiastic
supporter of French-American friendship, the Marquis de
Lafayette.
There were over 3,000 entries to the
contest who submitted artistic projects to the competition. Eighty
students received certificate awards and five students were honored
with $500 Grand Prizes. East Woods School proudly announces that two of
its’ French students received awards: seventh grader Grant
Murphy and fifth grader Vivian Zetterstrom. Vivian Zetterstrom was one
of the five recipients of the $500 Grand Prize.
On
November 16th, these East Woods students joined other award recipients
at the New York Historical Society in Manhattan for an award
ceremony.
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Vivian with Senateur
Jacques Habert
& the Marquis
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Early
this fall, the East Woods French teacher, Mrs. Martine Tawaji, prepared
her students for the contest. Her students participated in the contest
on a voluntary basis and had the opportunity to submit their projects
in a variety of forms -- a written or recorded national anthem based on
the themes of freedom and equality; a painting or drawing of a flag
symbolizing freedom or French-American friendship; a video, painting or
sculpture of a celebration ceremony for Lafayette's return to America;
a written speech Lafayette might have pronounced; a four-page comic
narrating Lafayette's tour of America in 1824; a model of the ship
"Hermione"; a doll-size costume that Lafayette could have
worn.