Setting Significance
What country does the story take place?
What is France.
What is the French personal pronoun meaning we?
What is One.
American Easter symbol missing from French tradition?
Who is the Easter Bunny
What was the word mistakenly used in place of the Easter Bunny?
What is the Easter Rabbit.
Sabatoge
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What is the French Holiday celebrated on the 14th of July that the students discussed prior to Easter?
What is Bastille Day.
Should not have picked this one.
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According to the French students, this object—rather than a rabbit—brings Easter candy?
What is a Flying Bell
These simple nouns were "beyond their grasp" when attempting to explain the concept of Easter to the student.
Either one will earn you the point
What are Cross and Ressurection.
What serious concept becomes unintentionally funny when explained through pantomime and simple words
What is resurrection.
What is the education enviroment the discussion takes place?
What is a French language class.
Why are Bells Significant in Rome or France
The church bells do not ring until the Resurrection night, being considered a sign of the silence that accompanies the Passion of Christ
They bring Chocolate in to France from Rome
This student refuses to participate in the Jesus discussion, revealing cultural discomfort?
Who is the Moroccan Woman/Student
"Lost In Translation"
Designate one person as a leader to contort a phrase in google translate the first team to get the most misconstrued phrase from the original phrase wins the sample phrase from the text is :
Part of the problem had to do with grammar.
Time Two Mins
How to: scramble an English phrase by moving it between languages on google translate.
What topic did the students steer the conversation towards after struggling to explain the resurrection, in an attempt to alleviate some tension.
What is the topic of food.
Free Point
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Explain the significance of this phrase
"Part of the problem had to do with grammar. Simple nouns such as cross and resurrection were beyond our grasp, let alone such complicated reflexive phrases"
Sample Answer:
The phrase highlights how the limitations of language learning distort meaning, making complex ideas seem confusing and causing sincere statements to sound implausible or false.
Students debate the meaning of this holiday’s central event?
What is the resurrection
What phrase did the poles say that cobbled together an explanation of Jesus and his Resurrection
"He be die one day on two morsels of Lumber"
Which literary device does Sedaris use to show the gap between the students’ serious intentions and the absurd explanations they give?
What is Irony specifically situational irony
The classroom becomes a kind of metaphorical microcosm for this broader global entity
What is an international community/relations
Exchange
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The story juxtaposes students’ literal interpretations with this broader religious idea?
What is Faith/Spirituality
How does the story portray language as inadequate for certain ideas
Sample Responses:
The proclivity of fragmented and “fake” French to highlight the broader challenges of cross-cultural communication and the limits of language in expressing complex ideas such as faith in the story
Communication struggles reveal gaps between words and concepts.
The story ends with this tone, reflecting Sedaris’s attitude?
What is amused resignation.