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aceflor · 06-22-2013, 03:11 AM

I read the whole thread and was really surprised to see how different things are from one country to another..

Here the mandatory books for next school year for my son, to give you an idea this would be I think his last year of Junior High in the US before entering Senior High.

He is going to a Lycée Français, the main language being French, bust most students are Spanish speakers, so basically they are all fluent in both, many classes are given in Spanish, and the first foreign language is English.

In Spanish:
Artuto Perez-Reverte : El Capitan Alatriste
Carlos Ruiz Zafon : Marina
Gustavo A Becquer : Rimas y Leyendas

In French :
Guy de Maupassant : le Horla
Corneille : le Cid
Edmond Rostand : Cyrano de Bergerac
Prosper Merimée: Carmen
Valérie Zenatti : Une bouteillle dans la mer de Gaza

English :
William Shakespeare : The taming of the shrew

Funny enough, he has lots of classics in French(they had Molière this year, and Homère the year before that) which I am very happy with, but not much in Spanish this year (last year they had Cantar del Mio Cid). I am very happy that they kept those classics in the program, the Ministry of Education was talking about not doing any Moliere, Corneille, Racine, Musset, Rostand, and so on anymore. I would hate that, this is the core of our culture...

But I know that half of his class struggles in French, so for them the classics are probably just plain horrible.

06-22-2013, 03:11 AM	#58
aceflor Wizard Posts: 3,472 Karma: 48036360 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: where the sun lives, or so they say Device: Pocketbook Era, Pocketbook Inkpad 4, Kobo Libra 2, Kindle Scribe	I read the whole thread and was really surprised to see how different things are from one country to another.. Here the mandatory books for next school year for my son, to give you an idea this would be I think his last year of Junior High in the US before entering Senior High. He is going to a Lycée Français, the main language being French, bust most students are Spanish speakers, so basically they are all fluent in both, many classes are given in Spanish, and the first foreign language is English. In Spanish: Artuto Perez-Reverte : El Capitan Alatriste Carlos Ruiz Zafon : Marina Gustavo A Becquer : Rimas y Leyendas In French : Guy de Maupassant : le Horla Corneille : le Cid Edmond Rostand : Cyrano de Bergerac Prosper Merimée: Carmen Valérie Zenatti : Une bouteillle dans la mer de Gaza English : William Shakespeare : The taming of the shrew Funny enough, he has lots of classics in French(they had Molière this year, and Homère the year before that) which I am very happy with, but not much in Spanish this year (last year they had Cantar del Mio Cid). I am very happy that they kept those classics in the program, the Ministry of Education was talking about not doing any Moliere, Corneille, Racine, Musset, Rostand, and so on anymore. I would hate that, this is the core of our culture... But I know that half of his class struggles in French, so for them the classics are probably just plain horrible.