Union Catholic French Class Visits Exhibit at NY Botanical Garden

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Union Catholic students in Madame Ciringione’s French 4H class began a unit on La Révolution impressionniste et Claude Monet: le peintre de la lumière (Revolution Impressionist Claude Monet: The Painter of Light).

Students read about and discussed Impressionism and several famous French Impressionist artists. In particular, students researched facts about Claude Monet’s life and paintings through different French websites and shared their findings on Edmodo, an online educational tool used at UC.
 

On October 19, the students of French 4H went on a trip to the New York Botanical Gardens to see the Monet exhibition. Students embraced the beauty of the gardens. The best part of the exhibit was the reproduction of the green bridge that arches over the lily pond at Giverny. Monet’s wooded pallet was also a great attraction for the students.

This week back in the classroom students have completed the research and painting portions of their own chosen Monet replica on canvas. Students will be writing en français bien sûr (in French, of course) about their painting next.