La Biographie de Mademoiselle

                        

Mademoiselle Litten grew up in Scituate, MA, where, in high school, she became interested in the French language and culture.  She majored in French and sociology at Williams College.  Immediately upon graduation she began a two-year program at the University of Mississippi.  This program, the Mississippi Teacher Corps, allowed her to teach French at the high school level while obtaining certification and taking courses to fulfill requirements for a Masters of Arts in Curriculum and Instruction.  During these two years she worked at Brookhaven High School in Brookhaven, MS, where she tripled the enrollment in the French program and supervised the Student Council.  After she finished her M.A. at Ole Miss she remained one more year in Brookhaven.

In the summer of 2003 Mlle moved to the Upper Valley and that fall began teaching at Marion Cross.  She has been here ever since, loving her job more as each year passes.  She loves her students and having fun, singing songs and being silly.  However she still loves to learn and is constantly striving to perfect her French.  She is currently pursuing an M.A. in French at Middlebury College and plans to spend the summer of 2009 in Poitiers, France.

Mlle goes to France and Québec every opportunity she has.  She has a tradition of going to Montréal every Christmas and she loves to visit her friends in Brittany, on the northern coast of France.  In 2006 she had the opportunity to travel to Senegal, in West Africa, which sparked her interest in African dancing and drumming.  She plays with the World Music Percussion Ensemble at Dartmouth College.

Outside of school, Mlle enjoys spending time with her partner and her family, traveling, watching movies, running, yoga, cooking, reading and trying to play the guitar.  Some of her favorite Francophone musicians are Carla (Bruni) Sarkozy, Daara J, Françoise Hardy, Les Cowboys Fringants, Jean-Jacques Goldman and MC Solaar.