Students in Madame Nathalie Gorey's French class returned to school on Monday still shocked by the events of Friday night, when ISIS terrorists attacked six busy locations in Paris, France leaving, at last count, 129 people dead.

“We spent Monday watching videos and reactions from France,” Gorey said. “Class couldn't continue in a vacuum, this was something we had to discuss and talk about.”

Gorey, who was born in West Africa in the Cote D'Ivoire, where French is spoken, moved to Normandy, France at the age of 11.

“My family is mostly on the west coast of France, and in Normandy,” Gorey said. “We in the class observed a minute of silence in class today for the victims.”

On Monday, Gorey's classes spent time creating artwork to show solidarity with the victims of the attacks. They placed a bulletin board in the hallway surrounded by the students’ artwork.

“They'd do it for us,” sophomore Tayla Lewis said. “On 9/11 they displayed the American flag. I changed my Facebook photo to the French flag.”

Many other students chimed in that they, too, had adjusted their Facebook profile pictures.

“We all feel so deeply about this,” sophomore Sierra Murray said. “We have a teacher who is French, and the culture has a real place in our hearts.”

“They (the students) wanted to make those signs as a way to show their support and solidarity towards French people and France,” Gorey said.

In April 2016, several of Gorey's students are accompanying her on a trip to France, which includes three days in Paris. Gorey said she was concerned students wouldn't want to go anymore, but was pleasantly surprised that they were still “very positive” about the trip.

“My family was worried,” Murray said. “But a family friend who travels everywhere told us there would be a lot of heightened security.”

“It's a little scary now, since this happened,” sophomore Tori Morin, who is also going on the trip, said. “But it's a new experience, a different culture, and that's not something you give up on.”

“I was very pleased and touched with my students' reaction to the Paris attacks and their participation yesterday,” Gorey said. “My parents and my sister live in La Rochelle and I also have my grandmother and an uncle in Cannes, in the south, but thankfully no family in Paris. This has been a very emotional past few days.”