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Focus Student editions: French |
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2005 • 1-58510-153-2 • paper • 232 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95
2006 • 1-58510-154-0 • paper • 164 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95
2007 • 978-1-58510-183-2 • paper • 258 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95
2008 • 978-1-58510-247-1 • paper • 232 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95
2010 • 978-1-58510-296-9 • paper • 191 pages • 5½ x 8½ • $14.95
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The Focus Student Editions are appropriate as introductory texts for French language courses in literature and culture. These editions, prepared with non-native French speakers in mind, include an introduction (in French) to the author and the work, the complete novel with both linguistic and cultural notes (French-French), a current bibliography and questions in the AP* format to facilitate study.
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The following links are downloadable PDF files which can be read using the free Adobe Acrobat reader. To get the reader, go to www.adobe.com
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Myrna Bell Rochester has degrees from the University of Chicago (Romance Languages) and the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received her Ph.D. in French. She studied at the Université de Genève during a four-year stay. Dr. Rochester has taught at UCLA and at Stanford University. Co-author of college textbooks and educational materials, she also lectures and publishes on topics in modern literature. Natalie Schorr teaches at Phillips Academy, Andover, where she has served as chair of the language division. She received a diplôme d’études supérieures, mention bien, from L’Université d’Aix-Marseille and served as lectrice at L’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Fontenay-aux-Roses. Her most recent book is Tune Up Your French: The Top Ten Ways to Improve Your Spoken French. Eileen M. Angelini received her B.A. in French from Middlebury College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in French Studies from Brown University. She is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages at Canisius College. Dr. Angelini has won research grants from the U.S., French, and Canadian governments. She is a frequent presenter at national and regional conferences and the author of publications on literary analysis, and on pedagogy, focusing on the professions and cross-cultural communication. Dr. Angelini is a Question Leader for the AP French Language Examination and a College Board Consultant. Dr. Angelini recently was awarded the 2008 AATF Dorothy Ludwig National Award for Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
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Each book contains the same basic sections. Changes are noted below. Introduction Laye: L'enfant noir
contains: Molière: L'École des
femmes contains: Guy de Maupassant:
Pierre et Jean contains: Voltaire: Candide ou
l'Optimisme contains: Corneille: Le Cid
contains: Activités |
"By far the easiest and most helpful edition for American students to follow. Students enjoyed reading the background information and didn't find |the questions a chore. Although I've used other editions of Maupassant's Pierre et Jean and Moliere's L'Ecole des femmes in the past, I now have all my students use this edition only." Deanna Scheffer at Episcopal High School, Jacksonville, FL
From NECTFL Review #62 (Spring/Summer) "These editions are meant to provide students with a smooth transition from the study of language to the study of literature. As a matter of fact, they oftentimes provide a bridge that leads imperceptibly from one to the other (this is particularly true in the case of L’enfant noir, the story of a boy’s youth told with meticulous contextualization, considerable repetition, and constant rephrasing — characteristic techniques of the oral storytelling tradition).... [T]he Focus Student Edition of L’enfant noir is currently the best available. It has great merit. AP and non-AP teachers of Francophone literature should not hesitate to adopt it."~ J. Vincent H. Morrissette, Fairfield University |
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Camara Laye: L'enfant noir
Molière: L’École des femmes
Guy de Maupassant: Pierre et Jean
Voltaire: Candide ou l'Optimisme
Corneille:
Le Cid