Novelty Book Club Presents: Our Voices, Bringing Diverse Stories to Young...
Reserve your seats here! Lycée Français de New York senior Alice Dauchez likes books. She likes books so much, she started a reading club at the school last year. Today, the Novelty Book Club claims...
View ArticleCongrats To Lycée Artists: Art Awards and Pedagogy
You might have heard about the Lycée art department’s recent crop of Scholastic Award winners. Twelve Secondary art students received a total of 26 awards, including two national gold keys for...
View Article“Beyond Suffrage”: The Evolution of the Women’s Movement Today
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View ArticleLive from the Lynx! Student Journalists Report on James Baldwin Day
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...
View ArticleLycée Launches Mentorship Exchange Program with NYU’s Institute of French...
We are thrilled to announce that the Lycée will be facilitating an International Education Exchange Program this year in collaboration with NYU’s Institute of French Studies. Lycée students will obtain...
View ArticleQ&A with Première Scène Founders: Nathalie Roussel and Frédéric Yvelin
The Lycée’s Première Scène – French Theater Festival was launched 20 years ago this February 1st and has become an annual event for thespians at French Lycées in the U.S. and Canada, and even France,...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes in the Broadcast Room
Lights, camera, action! Whether it is your first time to walk through the doors of the Lycée’s broadcast media lab, or your hundredth, the thrill of a busy newsroom never gets old. Downstairs in the...
View ArticleRacines and Microhistory
Can a collection of individual stories tell us as much about society, as a sweeping retrospective written by a historian or a journalist? Rachelle Friedman and Nathalie Roussel, Secondary teachers at...
View ArticleCross-Grade Collaboration Benefits Students of All Ages
At the Lycée Français de New York, we are lucky to have fourteen grade levels (soon-to-be Nursery to Y12) contained in one school. Our students range from age three to age eighteen. They come in so...
View Article2019-20 Prix Littéraire Opens Again!
Comme chaque année depuis dix ans, le département de français avec l’aide des documentalistes et le soutien de l’APL, organise un Prix littéraire. Un jury de lecteurs composé d’élèves de lycée (de la...
View ArticleEuropean Day of Languages: A Cultural Celebration
On Thursday, September 26, Secondary students in the Lycée’s World Languages Program ventured out into the richness of New York City. German students went uptown to the Neue Galerie in Yorkville, while...
View ArticleJames Baldwin Day: “Blues music is elegance in the face of adversity.”
“Blues music is elegance in the face of adversity,” jazz bandleader of Sammy Miller and the Congregation told students at the beginning of the Lycée Français de New York’s third annual James Baldwin...
View ArticleWhen the Wall Came Down
Lycée students in ninth and fifth grade built a replica of the Berlin Wall to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its fall this week. German teacher Laurine Kleitz saw the anniversary as a rich...
View ArticleLe Lycée en vedette à la French Cinema week
La réalisatrice Marie-France Brière, aussi co-directrice avec Dominique Besnehard du festival du film francophone d’Angoulême a choisi le Lycée Français de New York comme fil rouge de son nouveau...
View Article10th-Grade Students Take a Hard Look at Nonrenewable Resources and Changing...
Earlier this year, 10th-grade students in Ms. Gibert’s Sustainable Development class turned their attentions to the Amazon rainforest, where an alarming surge in wildfires was causing international...
View ArticleScratch That! 8th-Graders and Game Design
The Lycée’s Digital Learning Team hosted its annual Computer Science Fair this week in the auditorium gallery. Students of all ages exhibited their work in coding, electronics, game design, making a...
View ArticleA Game to Build Mandarin Language Skills
January 24 was the start of the Chinese New Year. Eighth and sixth-grade Mandarin students helped mark the occasion through an escape game. Mandarin teacher, Mr. Venturin, and librarians, Ms. Stouff...
View ArticleScreenagers, Trapped?!, and the Middle-School Years
Two weeks ago our sixth- and seventh-grade after-school theater performers gave us a tour of a middle schooler’s phone from the inside, with all of its potential cruelty and kindness. The performers in...
View ArticleExploring Links Between the French, American and Haitian Revolutions
In commemoration of the National Remembrance Day of Slave Trade, Slavery and Abolition in France, students in 11th-grade AP European History completed a series of projects to show the connections...
View ArticleThe Math Hatter Chronicle #14
In his latest installment, the Math Hatter stays current with a look at a formula for classroom arrangements in the era of social distancing, false positives in Covid-19 testing, and the late, great...
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