POÈME + IMMERSION

Ode toMme. Godet

Un souvenir comique d’immersion française, de règle enfreinte, de juste fureur et d’élèves découvrant que l’anglais pouvait devenir une langue de contrebande.

LECTURE PAR L’AUTEUR

Écouter le poème.

Lu par A.F. King dans la version anglaise originale, y compris les passages en français.

Ode to Mme. GodetA.F. King · Lecture en anglais

FRENCH GOVERNOR'S SCHOOL

What survives from the program?

This page can remain intentionally modest until the archive search reveals what actually exists.

Photograph or archival material from French Governor's School. — 01
**Program photograph**
A surviving photograph from the immersion program.

A second photograph or artifact from French Governor's School. — 02
**Another artifact**
A second image if one can be located.

Scan of a French Governor's School program, schedule, brochure, or badge. — 03
**Program material**
Brochure, schedule, badge, handbook, or another documentary object.

THE RULE

English was the forbidden language.

Add a concise explanation of the immersion rule, why it mattered to the program, what happened when students broke it, and how the director’s response later became comic material rather than merely a disciplinary memory.

Optional materials

A rule sheet, student handbook, goodbye message, schedule, or any surviving object that makes the all-French environment tangible.

DISCUSSION DES LECTEURS

Which rule only made sense after you broke it?

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