| Texas French Symposium - established 1964 - |
TEA Recognized
UIL Equivalent
| Annual State Competition for all High School Students of French, levels 1-5/6 plus experienced |
Bonjour! It takes a lot of coordination to organize yourself and your students for Symposium but it's well worth it!
These documents represent our 25 years of preparing and taking students to the competition. I matched my
suggested deadlines (also in the general info brochure) with the bulleted documents we used at those times I
added tips and suggestions that worked for us. Please feel free to use all or any part of them. Do not hesitate to
contact me if I can be of any help at suesfrenchmodules@yahoo.com.
September - invitation sent by TFS Board of Directors
• Sign announcing TFS – hang ASAP after invitation arrives w/date and place. We put them in the hall
outside our rooms (we were across the hall from each other) as well as in them.
• Invitation letter to students – We gave these to any interested as well as to those we thought would do well
but hadn’t volunteered.
October - letter of intent due
• Student acceptance letter/contract/tentative schedule/general info – we gave these all at once in a packet.
November - TFS student participation agreements & all fees due.
No additional students may be added or substituted after this date.
• Student sign-up/teacher worksheet also used to also hang in room once you decide who does what. We
found it best to assign the “required” categories ourselves.
December - make hotel arrangements
• Here are a few poems and prose pieces that, for some reason, I typed up. Try to get students to pick their
own pieces. If you can get recordings made, even better.
January - preliminary event selection due on line
• This is when we started after school practice. tips for practice UPDATED FOR TFS 2012
• Hotel info/sign to hang to announce hotel sign-up/hotel sign-up sheet – we only used one.
February - final event selection due on line / video and bande dessinée entries due
• I am also Judge Coordinator. This is what I give the judges.• Hints for Judges UPDATED FOR TFS 2012
March - The Competition!
• Last minute info/receipt for driver expenses
• Announcing results
Other information you might find useful:
• Brochure - general info UPDATED FOR TFS 2012
• Brochure - for fund raising
• Estimating costs
• Asking for funds/thank you letters
• More thank you letters
These documents represent our 25 years of preparing and taking students to the competition. I matched my
suggested deadlines (also in the general info brochure) with the bulleted documents we used at those times I
added tips and suggestions that worked for us. Please feel free to use all or any part of them. Do not hesitate to
contact me if I can be of any help at suesfrenchmodules@yahoo.com.
September - invitation sent by TFS Board of Directors
• Sign announcing TFS – hang ASAP after invitation arrives w/date and place. We put them in the hall
outside our rooms (we were across the hall from each other) as well as in them.
• Invitation letter to students – We gave these to any interested as well as to those we thought would do well
but hadn’t volunteered.
October - letter of intent due
• Student acceptance letter/contract/tentative schedule/general info – we gave these all at once in a packet.
November - TFS student participation agreements & all fees due.
No additional students may be added or substituted after this date.
• Student sign-up/teacher worksheet also used to also hang in room once you decide who does what. We
found it best to assign the “required” categories ourselves.
December - make hotel arrangements
• Here are a few poems and prose pieces that, for some reason, I typed up. Try to get students to pick their
own pieces. If you can get recordings made, even better.
January - preliminary event selection due on line
• This is when we started after school practice. tips for practice UPDATED FOR TFS 2012
• Hotel info/sign to hang to announce hotel sign-up/hotel sign-up sheet – we only used one.
February - final event selection due on line / video and bande dessinée entries due
• I am also Judge Coordinator. This is what I give the judges.• Hints for Judges UPDATED FOR TFS 2012
March - The Competition!
• Last minute info/receipt for driver expenses
• Announcing results
Other information you might find useful:
• Brochure - general info UPDATED FOR TFS 2012
• Brochure - for fund raising
• Estimating costs
• Asking for funds/thank you letters
• More thank you letters
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