Bonjour ! Je m’appelle Madame Syvertsen (see-vert-sen). Je suis professeur de français 1 à 8. J’ai étudié à Dominican University et aussi à l’Université de Fribourg, Suisse. J’adore le français, mais j’adore aussi ma famille. Nous habitons Evanston. Mon mari s’appelle John. Il est architect à OWP&P à Chicago. Nous avons quatre enfants, Andrew, Martin, Nel, et Philip. J’adore FHC !

French Assignments (Class Notes)

Class Reviews

Rubrics

Grade 5 - Cafe Rubrique
Grade 5 - Gloire au Père
Grade 6 - Cafe Rubrique
Grade 6 - Bénis nous
Grade 7 - Ma Maison
Grade 8 - Telephone Assignment
Grade 8 - Notre Père
Grade 8 - Je Te Salue, Marie

Links : French Curriculum
www.classzone.com – contains review quizzes for each lesson in text

www.linguascope.com – fun French vocabulary website
Please request username & password information for this Site by e-mailing me.

http://www.frenchteachers.org

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Spanish

Dear Parents,
I had the opportunity to meet a few of you during open house a couple of weeks ago, and I am very excited to see your enthusiasm for your children’s progress in learning Spanish! I hope to be a good contribution to that end, and believe that with our combined efforts the students can all advance quite quickly not only in learning a wide base of Spanish vocabulary, but that they also will become adept at correctly forming phrases and expressing ideas in Spanish.

Let me also share a little about myself:
Several years ago I went to Venezuela, South America where I studied Spanish among the Venezuelans. Later I was asked to teach Spanish to a group of missionaries that arrived in Venezuela, and agreed to assist them for a year. Additionally, I began to teach Spanish to a group of American children, and greatly enjoyed those classes.
I continued to work as a translator and language consultant for a couple of more years, and was presented with a request that I tackle the job of learning an unknown tribal language. This job description would involve not only learning the new language, but also preparing a language course for a missionary team who was soon to work in that tribe. The missionary team was to consist of both North Americans as well as Latin Americans, so I prepared the language course in English as well as Spanish, then used their respective languages to communicate with them and teach them the tribal language.
Since that time I have continued to work as a translator and language consultant, providing online help in addition to my occasional trips overseas. I continue to enjoy working with languages, and hope that your children will benefit from our classes together as we start from the introductory level and advance quickly!!
I will continue to update you as I work ahead in preparing more lessons.
Blessings,
Lori Higham

lhigham@faithhope.org