1. For details concerning the National Standards as they are addressed in this unit, please see Appendix A.
2. For information on the CMT, please visit the CT State Department of Education CMT website, at: http://www.state.ct.us/sde/dtl/curriculum/cmt3la/currla_publcmt3.htm.
3. L'Argent de poche
was written by Truffaut and Suzanne Schiffman;
L'Enfant sauvage
by Truffaut and Jean Grualt, with writing credits also going to Dr. Itard for his extensive original documentation.
4. See my 2003 YNHTI Unit, "Cultural Snapshots: Reflections and Illuminations of Francophone Cultures."
5. All biographical information on Truffaut was found in de Baecque's excellent biography,
Truffaut
.
6. For more details of Truffaut's youth that he considered troublesome, see a personal letter he wrote to his father later in life, in de Baecque, pp. 140-141.
7. See http://www.afhj.fr/ressources/french-code-civil.pdf for information on the French Civil Code.
8. Between release from the detention center and Truffaut's career as a film critic, he joined and then deserted the army. Although this is important to Truffaut's life, I think it would be too much information for my middle school students at this time, as we would need to devote much time to the idea of desertion and its implications. See de Baecque, pp. 58-69 for more information.
9. See de Baecque, pp. 322-324 for details on the conception and creation of the film.
10. In English,
argent de poche
means
pocket money
, but the American version of the film is called, "Small Change," because "Pocket Money" was already used for the title of a 1972 Paul Newman film (See NY Times film review listed in Resources.)
11. See the CT State Department of Education website for sample CMT questions according to strand.
12. At 1:23:02 there is good shot that shows how the town is built into the mountainside.
13. See de Baecque, pp. 260-265 for information on the research Truffaut put into the preparation for the film. See Shattuck, pp.208-214 for a look at the differences between the film and reality.
14. See Corrigan and White, p. 86, for definitions of irising in and out.