Homework

Following is the first homework assignment.

Your pre-departure journal is due Nov. 16th by 5 pm:

Pre-Departure Journal Assignment

a) Write about your own “culture”. This can take any direction you want, but it must be sincerely addressed.

b) Take one or more “American” value we discussed and give examples of how you’ve seen it demonstrated in American society. If you have them, give examples of how these values have compared/conflicted with values/traditions from other cultures.

If you were not in class, you may go to the following webpage for help: (http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/educators/enrichment/culturematters/Ch2/thirteencategories.html ), however, you are not limited to this one resource. You may draw from any resource, including personal experience. While there is no “right” or “wrong” answer, a well thought out, well articulated response should be submitted by all.

Journal Assignments should be 1-3 pages and are due by 5pm Friday, Nov. 16th.

Useful Web Pages

Bonjour Everyone!

How are all of you doing? Here’s a small Webliography on Paris you might enjoy.
Here are some cites to get you started:
There are Les Pages de Paris (The Paris Pages) online in English and French, designed for visiteurs and will keep you busy for a while: http://www.paris.org
To review what we learned in class about how to ride the metro, please take a look at: http://www.paris.org/Metro/
Read about the Carte Orange that you got at the orientation meeting:
http://www.paris.org/Expos/ParisTickets/Orange/
Take a look here as well…
http://www.paris.org/Monuments/
http://www.paris.org/postcards/metro.html
(free e-postcards): http://paris.parishotels.com/ecards/index.php?lang=en
You can ask questions about travel to and around Paris, or on life in Paris on the "Thorn Tree" Travel Forum, a service from LonelyPlanet.com that allows you to post questions (for free) and have anyone in the world who wants to answer respond.
See it for yourself:
http://thorntree.lonelyplanet.com

Need help brushing up on your French? Check this out:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/lj/
http://french.about.com/
http://www.homestead.com/Anne_Fox/LearningFrench.html

***More links:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/places/places-of-a-lifetime/paris-thebasics.html
http://cityguide-europe.com/fr/paris /

If you have know of any resource, webpage or otherwise, please share it with the group by responding with a comment. Thank you.
Bonne chance et Bon voyage!
Sincerely,
Ms. Dinah
Assistant Director, OMSA
Tel. (217) 333-0054 armstead@ad.uiuc.edu
130 Student Services Buidling, MC-306, 610 E. John Street