SWE+Les+Glaneurs

**Graduation Portfolio Task (SWE) 2011-12: French 2**
 * Good French Dictionary link: [|French Dictionary]**


 * Target School Wide Expectations:**


 * SWE #1 Students are Creative and Practical Problem Solvers**
 * SWE #2 Students are Clear and Effective Communicators**

**Des Glaneurs**

Students are expected to prepare and submit all work required by this GPT by the due dates prescribed. Unexcused late submissions will be penalized 10% per school day.


 * Step 1**


 * Biographic sketch Jean-François Millet**


 * Length:** 250-400 words


 * Form:** typed; double-spaced; size 12 font


 * Content:** the biography should include the following:


 * dates and places of birth and death
 * education
 * major works
 * description of Millet’s style of painting
 * milestones


 * Due**


 * Step 2**

View the film //Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse// by Agnes Vardas.

Respond to the essay prompt //Life Gleaning.//

//(350-500 words)//


 * Life Gleaning**

In her intimate film “Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse”, Agnes Varda directs her

lens at the curious lives of various salvagers, recyclers, bottom feeders,

and junk artists who find the subsistence of life in the scraps left behind.

But the film is as much a self-portrait, an end of life gaze at a certain kind of

“gleaner” for whom culling and scavenging human society and nature has

been life itself, a passionate //raison d’être//.

Provide your own observations and assessment of the film. What did you

glean from Vardas’ vignettes and vignette? Interpret the final scene, in

which Vardas has a painting by another 19th c. French “Realist”,

Hèdouin, retrieved from storage and brought into the overcast windy

ambiance of a small court yard. The title of the painting is “Gleaners

fleeing before the storm.” Why, along with the portrait of the eccentric but

saintly biologist, does Varda call this the “high point” of her film.


 * Step 3**

In your own words, describe the act of gleaning in the most general terms. (50 words)


 * Step 4**

Choose **3 different gleaners** in the film and indicate in what sense they participate in the activity of gleaning and what are the concrete or immaterial end(s) of their gleaning. (100-200 words each)


 * Step 5**

1 at DISHS 1 in a local town or anywhere in Maine 1 anywhere in the world
 * Identify 3 gleaners**:

Indicate in what sense they participate in the activity of gleaning and what are the concrete or immaterial end(s) of their gleaning. (100-200 words each)


 * Step 6**


 * Auto-Gleaning**

Indicate how you will practice your own version of gleaning and produce some concrete or abstract evidence of your activity. You must compose 10 complete sentences that describe, explain or generally present your gleaning. You must give your gleaning activity a title, en français.