7+ Finish of the 12 months or Commencement Poems


In instructor boards the place I spend my free time, I’m beginning to see references to commencement decorations and different finish of the yr wrap-up stuff. So at this time I believed I might share with you a number of sources of potential Grad or “finish of the varsity yr” poems. Voici sept poèmes à contempler pour les cérémonies des finissants, aux niveaux variés.






There are three brief ones shared right here by academics. They’re apparently from a selected assortment, which the instructor who named them indicated, which is useful in case you are searching for one thing to buy. L’école est fermée by Georges Jean, Le Temps des vacances  by Maurice Carème, and Route nationale 7 by Charles Trénet.

La disaster – Istvan CSUKAS (Poème russe / hongrois, traduit)


En sortant de l’école – Jacques Prévert.  Il y a beaucoup de variations musicales sur YouTube aussi, si vous avez envie de la partager avec vos jeunes en classe. There’s even a model on TFO, underneath the identify “Tour du monde surréaliste” however only a heads up – there is a blue, bare barbie-like lady in it. For that cause, it may not be your first selection for youthful grades.)


Vacances –  Nadia Leichtnam (who could have been a scholar herself on the time of scripting this poem) It’s a very brief one. Perhaps not as inspirational, however not precisely detrimental in the direction of studying and faculty both. 


Liberté – Maurice Carème Very good, inspiring and constructive. 


By the way, this Belgian poet has a beautiful (if considerably outdated) web site exposing a number of totally different codecs for poems, do you have to care to discover a few of these together with your college students. Verify the Introduction, Poésie Oeuvres and Liens pages. These instructing grade 8 Core French may discover this useful in reaching among the intercultural expectations in Ontario, for French in Europe.)

Additionally, there are some very brief quotes that is perhaps appropriate as properly, for which I made a Pinterest board. Perhaps in the summertime when I’ve a while, I will come again & add the poems I linked to on this weblog publish there as properly, however for now, there are not any duplicates between the 2. 



If by likelihood, you need to assist construct this assortment, I am completely open to creating it a collaborative pinterest board. So please attain out & let me know, both within the feedback beneath or someplace else that you simply already know join with me privately. Please notice that you simply DO must observe somebody on Pinterest with the intention to be added as a contributor to a pin board.



Different nice assets for instructing poetry embrace:

  • Carrefour Schooling’s Journée mondiale de la poésie
  • Over 250 poems by Canadian Poets. It appears the filtering device on this web site will not enable me to share the direct hyperlink that I need. Within the area for “pays” simply choose Canada from the pull down record.  You will most likely need to examine them after all for each college appropriateness, in addition to comprehensibility by your college students, in response to their age and degree.  
  • Les Voix de la poésie – a superb program that Excessive Faculty French academics in Canada must be accustomed to, if not as a result of your college students may wish to take part, however for the nice assets that may be discovered there, together with good video recitations of poems (which can simply function fantastic exemplars or could also be exploited additional by the instructor to apply and consider listening expertise with varied voices), and templates for poetry creation assignments

I hope that is been useful, as we get nearer to the tip of the varsity yr! I might love to listen to about what labored in your explicit college students. 







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