Procédés
- Go to the Liste
de Candidats. Once decided which French innovator to study.
- Read the history of the Nobel Prize.
http://www.nobel.se/nobel/index.html
- Research your innovator. You must use
sources other than the Internet.
- Research your innovator’s contribution,
emphasizing how the contribution improved the past and present world.
- Research the period in which your innovator
lived in order to understand the quality of life at the time. Try the following
sites as starting points. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://www.historycentral.com/map.html.
- You must be able to prove that the
contribution of the person you chose "conferred the greatest benefit
to mankind" in the year in which the contribution occurred. Therefore,
you must make yourself very familiar with that year.
- Go to http://french.about.com/library/weekly/aa111000.htm
and learn how to write a proper business letter in French.
Ask yourself…
- What was life like at the time your nominee lived?
- How did he or she change life during that year, today and in the future?
- Did his or her contribution lead to future changes in the world? Were they
good or bad changes?
Informational Websites:
- Yahoo
Encyclopédie 2001
- Biography.com
- "Projet
l'Europe des découvertes." Les 10 découvertes et inventions
scientifiques françaises
- "Projet
l'Europe des découvertes."
(Search under "Découvertes" once you know what your inventor is famous
for.)
- Enchanted
Learning.
"Inventors and Inventions from France."
