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| Abbreviation | TFS |
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| Formation | 1964 |
| Founder | Dee Moynihan [1] |
| Type | Non-profit |
| Location |
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Region | Texas |
| Susan Dworaczyk, President Meriem Mason, Vice President Terri Whiteman, Vice President/Host School Coordinator Amanda Crépin, Secretary Karen Watson, Treasurer | |
| Website | www |
The Texas French Symposium is a statewide non-profit competition in which French students, which are categorized into levels 1-6 and Experienced compete with other students of their same level from all over the state of Texas. The organization is hosted annually at a random participating high school in Texas who volunteers to host. The contest is held on a spring weekend and lasts two days. It begins with tests in the late afternoon of the first day and lasts until 21:00. The competition resumes on the next day at 8:30 and is closed with a ceremony that includes dinner and awards. During the Symposium, students are involved in assigned academic events which are from the following:
French is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the spoken Latin in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives are the other langues d'oïl—languages historically spoken in northern France and in southern Belgium, which French (Francien) has largely supplanted. French was also influenced by native Celtic languages of Northern Roman Gaul like Gallia Belgica and by the (Germanic) Frankish language of the post-Roman Frankish invaders. Today, owing to France's past overseas expansion, there are numerous French-based creole languages, most notably Haitian Creole. A French-speaking person or nation may be referred to as Francophone in both English and French.
A student is primarily a person enrolled in a school or other educational institution who attends classes in a course to attain the appropriate level of mastery of a subject under the guidance of an instructor and who devotes time outside class to do whatever activities the instructor assigns that are necessary either for class preparation or to submit evidence of progress towards that mastery. In the broader sense, a student is anyone who applies themselves to the intensive intellectual engagement with some matter necessary to master it as part of some practical affair in which such mastery is basic or decisive.
Texas is the second largest state in the United States by both area and population. Geographically located in the South Central region of the country, Texas shares borders with the U.S. states of Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the west, and the Mexican states of Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas to the southwest, while the Gulf of Mexico is to the southeast.
- French Tests (required for all participants)
- Civilization
- Grammar
- Listening Comprehension
- Vocabulary
- Drama Group
- Drama Solo
- Guided Speaking
- Poetry
- Prose
- Sight-Reading
- Dictée (new in 2015)
- Baccalauréat (a quiz-like team competition on French language, culture, and history)
In addition to the aforementioned academic events, the Symposium also has certain events dedicated to francophone cultural arts, including music and visual arts. Students can compete in the following events:
- Music
- Instrumental Group
- Instrumental Solo
- Piano (Solo)
- Vocal Group
- Vocal Solo
- Visual Arts
- Pencil/Charcoal
- Pastel/Colored Pencil
- Painting: Acrylic & Oil
- Mixed Media: Two-dimensional artwork
- Watercolor
- Project
- Digital Media
- Bande Dessinée (comic strip)
- Video
Symposiums are hosted at high schools in the state of Texas, the first having been held in 1964 at MacArthur High School in San Antonio. In 2014, celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Texas French Symposium was hosted at Atascocita High School. The 2015 Texas French Symposium was held at Klein Forest High School. The 2016 Texas French Symposium was held at Spring Woods High School, and at Atascocita High School in 2017. It will be held at The Woodlands High School in 2018.
Douglas MacArthur High School is a public secondary school on the northeast side of San Antonio, Texas, United States. The school, a part of the North East Independent School District serves students in ninth grade through twelfth grade, with admission based primarily on the locations of students' homes. The school serves portions of San Antonio and the portion of Terrell Hills within NEISD.
San Antonio, officially the City of San Antonio, is the seventh-most populous city in the United States, and the second-most populous city in both Texas and the Southern United States, with more than 1.5 million residents. Founded as a Spanish mission and colonial outpost in 1718, the city became the first chartered civil settlement in present-day Texas in 1731. The area was still part of the Spanish Empire, and later of the Mexican Republic. Today it is the state's oldest municipality.
Atascocita High School is a secondary school located in Atascocita CDP, a community housed in unincorporated Harris County, Texas, United States. AHS is a part of Humble Independent School District and serves the eastern part of the district and small portions of the city of Houston.
The symposium is only funded by donations and entry fees. The judges are teachers and French speaking volunteers.
