Third-year students from Jules-Verne college presented texts worked on during a solidarity eloquence project to residents of a nursing home in Bourges.
A third-year class from Jules-Verne college went yesterday to the Fioretti nursing home in Bourges. They went to meet around ten residents to read to them writings, poems and texts that they had written, as part of an oratory project. “This project, financed by the Educational Cities, carried out with a class from the Victor-Hugo college, gave rise to a sort of eloquence competition, on April 19, at the IUT of Bourges”, presents Marie Favre, professor of French at Jules-Verne college.
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The theme of this competition was adolescence. Solicited by a facilitator from the nursing home, Lilian Courtois, former supervisor of the college, the professor therefore worked with her middle school students, so that they could come and read a selection of their texts. “Residents like to see young people and talk with them,” says the facilitator, who also involves young people in the leisure center. At the end of each reading, the young people were covered with applause.
This reading is part of the solidarity day that the Jules-Verne college organizes each year. The students also presented their certificate oral exams, taken this week, on “less fun” themes, the wars of the last century, which are on the third year program.
An exercise that benefits everyone
Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Éluard… the sixteen future high school students continued, text after text, carrying their voice to the best of their ability, and embodying them one by one.
To one of the residents, particularly involved in the exercises of these young people, even engaging in conversation with some, Professor Marie Favre promised that she would return.
This intergenerational exchange will have benefited the young people at the college and their elders at the nursing home.
Tristan-Sacha Bruchet
