Activities of the Société Honoraire de Français
You and your peers will be free to shape our organization however you wish, within the parameters of the recommendations of the national organization. That means that you will be able to choose many of our activities yourselves. Our most time-consuming activity is the Théâtre de la nuit étoilée.
Each year, members are eligible to compete for travel grants, and for prizes awarded in a national writing contest. At graduation, members are recognized with a certificate and blue, white and red honor cords. If you have given exceptional service to the club, you will receive a medal honoring that fact.
Membership in this organization, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French, is the highest honor for students of French in the country. Nothing would make me happier than to have all of you who are now eligible, and more of your peers who are on the borderline, wearing those beautiful honor cords at graduation! You will need to work hard together, but for so many reasons, ça en vaut la peine!
Your main activities will be:
Suggested Activities from the AATF:
Each year, members are eligible to compete for travel grants, and for prizes awarded in a national writing contest. At graduation, members are recognized with a certificate and blue, white and red honor cords. If you have given exceptional service to the club, you will receive a medal honoring that fact.
Membership in this organization, sponsored by the American Association of Teachers of French, is the highest honor for students of French in the country. Nothing would make me happier than to have all of you who are now eligible, and more of your peers who are on the borderline, wearing those beautiful honor cords at graduation! You will need to work hard together, but for so many reasons, ça en vaut la peine!
Your main activities will be:
- attend monthly organizational meetings at 6:45 am
- work and perform in plays put on by the Théâtre de la belle étoile
- plan and participate in activities for National French Week, November 6-10, 2023
- plan and participate in our annual fundraiser, during the week before St. Valentine's Day
- Perhaps re-start, attend and "animate" our French Table at Starbuck's
- develop pages for this website
- make a new French bulletin board. Keep up with it: word of the week, song of the month, country of the month, etc.
- apply for scholarships and enter writing competitions at the national level.
Suggested Activities from the AATF:
- Celebrate French holidays, such as St. Catherine's Day with a judging of "hats."
- Christmas pageant in French: caroling in French at hospitals, orphanages, or to other classes or study and present French Christmas traditions
- French dinners: at French restaurants, sponsoring a French dinner for parents and other students and perhaps charging a nominal fee, members choose to make some typically French dish and have a potluck of various kinds of French foods
- Mardi Gras: floats (on wagons) depicting some aspect of French culture or costume party in which the students come dressed as some important figure in French history
- Field trips to Embassies, Consulates, museums, plays, films, French church services, etc., when the opportunity arises.
- Participation in programs and contests sponsored by colleges in the area of the high school.
- Sponsor an International Dinner in which other language clubs of the school are invited to present some talent in their language.
- Join meetings or causeries with members of other SHF groups in the area.
- Publish a French newsletter or seasonal publication.
- Procure films regarding French culture from Embassies or Consulates in your area; video-cassettes of French movies are also often available.
- Money-making projects for a scholarship fund to provide for an outstanding student in French: bake sales, sidewalk cafés. Petit Tour de France. French Fair: set up a Paris street scene with attractions such as cafés, flower markets, pastry shops, artistic corners, and our puppet show.