What kind of writer was Jacques Ferron?

Click on the link and then watch the video clip and answer the following questions:

What American Southern writer did he admire?

What kind of writer was Jacques Ferron?

What types of works did he write?

http://archives.radio-canada.ca/IDC-0-72-1636-11272/arts_culture/jacques_ferron/clip1

Samuel Beckett - Do you get it?

Beckett's dramatic works are as well known for their creativity as for their unusual nature. Beckett followed Acte sans paroles-I with Acte sans paroles-II. Watch this video clip and explain in your own words what the "play" Acte sans paroles-II is about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCf515excHA

Page d'ecriture

Watch the video clip (it is in Italian) and answer the following questions:

1. How is this video interpretation faithful to the original poem?

2. How is the video original?

3. How does this video reflect the importance of Prevert's poem?

Colette - L'autre femme

We watched this clip in class today. Watch it again and discuss how it reflects the students' perspective on the importance of Colette.

Le pont Mirabeau-Marc Lavoine (2001)

After reading Apollinaire's poem "Le Pont Mirabeau", watch the video clips and answer the following questions:

1. What is the significance of the Pont Mirabeau?
2. How does Marc Lavoine's song reflect the continued importance of Apollinaire's 1913 poem?


Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Et nos amours
Faut-il qu'il m'en souvienne
La joie venait toujours après la peine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Les mains dans les mains restons face à face
Tandis que sous
Le pont de nos bras passe
Des éternels regards l'onde si lasse
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
L'amour s'en va comme cette eau courante
L'amour s'en va
Comme la vie est lente
Et comme l'Espérance est violente
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure
Passent les jours et passent les semaines
Ni temps passé
Ni les amours reviennent
Sous le pont Mirabeau coule la Seine
Vienne la nuit sonne l'heure
Les jours s'en vont je demeure

"Le Pont Mirabeau"
Apollinaire, Alcools (1913)