John Abbott College participates in prestigious French literary endeavour
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A group of nine students are participating in a prestigious French literary contest. John Abbott College is the only English-language institution in North America to take part.
John Abbott College, an English-language CEGEP in Montreal’s West Island, is making history in French.
A group of nine students are participating in a prestigious French literary contest. The CEGEP is the only English-language institution in North America to take part.
They are going above and beyond to enrich their knowledge of Molière’s language by taking on a massive challenge: the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
It’s a literary competition organized by one of France’s biggest bookstores and the French Ministry of Education.
The Quebec cohort is among 50 classes of students aged 15 to 18 years old committed to reading 16 new books in two months and discussing them every two weeks.
The goal is to come up with a favourite.
The book with the most votes wins a prize of about 900,000 euros.
Of course, reading 16 books in eight weeks is not easy.
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