Professeurs documentalistes Collège

Murder by the Book

If you happen to be in Cambridge between now and the end of the summer, don't miss the University Library's exhibition about 20th century crime fiction with artefacts and first editions from the likes of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins. Crime fiction is by far the most popular form of fiction in the U.K. It's the country's most read, bought and borrowed genre. And Britain has produced some outstanding crime-fiction writers and characters from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes to Christie's Poirot and Miss Marple. Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison and Colin Dexter's Inspector Morse. Some of the first editions on display.The exhibition is curated by by Nicola Upson , herself a bestselling crime writer. In an interesting double take, Upson's principal character is Josephine Tey,  one of the Golden Age British detective writers from the 30s and 40s. Tey's historical detective novel about Richard III and the Princes in the Tower, The Daughter of Time , was voted the best detective novel of all time by the Crime Writer's Association in 1990. https://youtu.be/uJnEs5tovrA   The exhibition features many first editions including Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone (1868), one of the first detective novels. Collins' writing desk is also on display. There are also many exhibits about or from Agatha Christie , the unchallenged  queen of crime fiction, whose novels and short stories have sold more than 2 billion copies around the world. In this video, Nicola Upson describes the fascinating story behnind the typescript of her final Poirot Novel, Curtain , published in 1975, thirty years after it was written. https://youtu.be/Q925XXdVlpI Murder By the Book : A Celebration of 20th Century British Crime Fiction Cambridge University Library Free. Till 24 August 2024 This article gives more information and lots of pictures of the exhibition. You'll find more on British crime fiction in Shine Bright 4e Death on the Nile and Shine Bright 2e File 4 Mystery in the Countryside.

100 Million Trees

The Kenyan government wants its people to plant 100 million trees to regreen the country. They even have a new tree-planting holiday. And the ultimate goal is much bigger: to plant 15 billion trees in 10 years. The JazaMiti initiative, which means "fill with trees" in Swahili,  aims to help tackle climate change.

Your Money or Your Life!

Dick Turpin was a highway robber in early 18th-century England. Unlike Robin Hood, he didn’t rob the rich to give to the poor. But he became a legend thanks to early “tabloid media”: broadsheets and penny dreadfuls. A new TV series takes a humorous look at the historic criminal.

Shine Bright 5e: Manuel-Workbook

If you teach in 5e, you'll soon be receiving the latest addition to our Shine Bright textbook collection: Shine Bright 5e. It's a textbook and workbook rolled into one! Check out the introductory video!

Le génocide des Tutsis au Rwanda

Cette vidéo retrace les principales étapes du génocide des Tutsis par les Hutus.

Princess Suffragette

Everyone has heard of the Suffragettes and their actions, yet, have you heard of Princess Suffragette? This Indian princess, whose father was the last ruler of the Sikh Empire, gave up her socialite life in order to fight for a cause.

Irish Independence: Online Exhibition

This online exhibition offered by the Centre culturel irlandais in Paris will give pupils an insight into the turbulent history of Irish independence.

Quais du Polar Lyon is 20

Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is celebrating its 20th edition from 5 to 7 April. It has grown and grown and this year will welcome 135 authors from 15 countries.

Le peuple et sa représentativité

Comment représenter le peuple français ? La réponse de Gérard Noiriel, historien.

ÊtrePROF, un vade-mecum pour l’enseignant du XXIe siècle

Par Armand Kadivar Dans son plan de réformes tous azimuts de l’Éducation nationale, Gabriel Attal a désigné la mère de toutes les batailles : le recrutement et la formation des enseignants. Face à ces manques, l’association Ecolhuma qui, comme son nom l’indique, vise à remettre de l’humain dans le système scolaire, a créé la plateforme ÊtrePROF. Fort aujourd’hui de ses 160 000 membres, le site propose un panel de ressources transdisciplinaires gratuites, créées par et pour des enseignants. L’association Ecolhuma Anciennement nommé SynLab, Ecolhuma est une association d’intérêt général, indépendante, apolitique et non confessionnelle née en 2012. Elle s’est donné pour mission de soutenir les enseignants et chefs d’établissement, afin de faciliter la réussite des 12 millions d’élèves en France, notamment à travers différents dispositifs d’accompagnement, en ligne ou en présentiel. Ecolhuma utilise le levier du numérique pour faire le pont entre les acteurs de terrain, la recherche, les expérimentations et les décideurs éducatifs. La théorie L’association est à l’origine d’enquêtes, fruits du travail de ses chercheurs internes et externes, et dont les notes sont accessibles sur son site. Quatre thématiques prioritaires définissent les horizons de recherche de l’observatoire : le décrochage scolaire, les compétences psychosociales, la santé mentale et la transition écologique. Le dernier rapport, publié en collaboration avec le think thank Terra Nova, se penche sur l’urgence d’une grande réforme de la formation continue des enseignants. Les auteurs de cette publication incitent à repenser le système de formation continue en mettant en place un processus différent : le développement professionnel continu, comme cela se fait dans le monde de la santé. La pratique : des sites pour le personnel éducatif Pour aider concrètement le monde éducatif, Ecolhuma a lancé le site internet ÊtrePROF qui propose de nombreuses ressources consultables gratuitement. Ce contenu se fonde non pas sur une approche disciplinaire mais sur un accompagnement pédagogique autour de la transversalité du métier. Ainsi, les ressources sont faites pour accompagner la vie des professeurs et les aider à faire progresser leurs élèves, à enrichir leur pédagogie et à gérer les relations avec le reste de la communauté éducative. On passe donc d’une fiche intitulée « Stopper les bavardages » à « 6 conseils pour survivre face à des collègues insupportables ». La prise en compte des aspects psychologiques du métier d’enseignant constitue l’une des singularités et, partant, l’une des forces d’ÊtrePROF, qui refuse que les membres de la communauté scolaire soient réduits à des numéros et met l’accent sur le soutien humain et la solidarité intraprofessionnelle. Pour les sujets qui requièrent davantage de documentation, des guides pratiques sont proposés, pour accompagner par exemple des élèves dys ou pour organiser une sortie scolaire. Enfin, des parcours de plusieurs heures sont mis en place : ce sont des séries de formations courtes pour aborder à son rythme un aspect du métier d’enseignant (développer le travail en équipe, mieux connaître ses élèves, prévenir le décrochage…) avec un expert ou un mentor. Un tel dispositif veut permet de pallier les lenteurs administratives. Si un enseignant découvre à la rentrée qu’il a un élève dyslexique dans sa classe alors qu’il n’a aucune expérience en la matière, les formations officielles pour qu’il apprenne à adapter son enseignement n’interviendront, dans le meilleur des cas, que 12 à 18 mois après. Les ressources ne sont pas exclusivement textuelles : la plateforme produit des podcasts, des tutoriaux en vidéo et des lives sur Facebook qui permettent d’échanger en direct sur le métier et ses problématiques.

Chariot of Fire: The Eric Liddell Story

A hundred years ago, a Scotsman became famous for NOT running a race at the Paris 1924 Olympic Games. Eric Liddell's story was immortalised in the 1981 film Chariots of Fire. And a play about his life is coming to Paris for two performances on 23 March.

Romeo and Juliet Without Words

British choreographer Matthew Bourne and his company New Adventures pride themselves in finding new ways of "telling stories without words". In Romeo and Juliet, Bourne has taken one of the best-known words in the English language and transformed the familiar story in a reinvention which plays on the dystopian elements of the original script.

La légalisation de l'avortement

Le droit à l’avortement n’a pas été obtenu en un jour : il est l’aboutissement de décennies de combats.

U.S. Congress Tries to Ban TikTok

On 13 March, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill which would ban the social-media app TikTok from the country unless it is no longer owned by a Chinese company. The legislation was rushed through in record time, although it is not certain it will be confirmed by the Senate. What risk does Congress believe TikTok represents?

Time to Put on a Red Nose

Red Nose Day is back on Friday 15 March in the UK.  British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money" since 1988. 

Rumours, Rumours

Definitely not one to show your pupils! Wicked Little Letters is a delicious comedy with Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley,  set in a 1920s English seaside town, where the population starts receiving defamatory letters full of profanities. An Irish migrant with a good stock of swear words in her vocabulary, Rose Gooding is accused of being the author of the letters. But the women of the town begin to doubt her guilt. The film is actually based on a real case, which took place in Littlehampton, a seaside town in Sussex. In the days before internet trolling, poison-pen letters fulfilled the same role of venting your fury. In this case, most of the ire seems to be directed at innocuous spinster Edith Swan (Colman), who lives at home with her mother (Gemma Jones) and domineering father (Timothy Spall). But much like trolling today, the poison-pen letters had real-life consequences when single mother Rose (Buckley) is charged with criminal libel. https://youtu.be/EofbpYnLj3E This is the second time Olivia Colman (The Crown, The Favourite, The Father, Wonka) and Jessie Buckley (Wild Rose, The Woman in White) have starred together. Buckley played the younger version of Colman's character in the 2021 adaptation of the Elena Ferrante novel The Lost Daughter. Look out for Buckley in the upcoming adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's Hamnet by Chloe Zhao and Colman in Wicker with Dev Patel. This video gives some of the background about the true story, including that of the first female police officer in Sussex, played by Anjana Vasan, but doesn't contain spoilers. https://youtu.be/hFlDmqTb9Do Wicked Little Letters On general release 13 March.

And the Oscar Goes to

2023 was the year "Barbenheimer" revived cinema attendance around the world. But despite leading the box office, Barbie received only one Oscar, for best song, while Oppenheimer dominated this year's Awards, taking home seven statuettes.

Irish Referendum on Women's Role in Society

On International Women's Day 2024, France is including the freedom to have an abortion in its constitution while Ireland is holding a referendum to remove clauses from its constitution which promise the Irish state will do everything it can to allow women to stay in the home.

Benediction: Siegfried Sassoon Biopic

Siegfried Sassoon was one of the most famous of the British World War I poets but unlike Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke or Edward Thomas, Sassoon survived the war he had despised while serving brilliantly. Terence Davies’ final film traces both the war service and the long life looking for meaning which followed, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi playing the younger and older Sassoon.

Technologie Collège : Nouveau programme 2024

Le nouveau programme de Technologie Collège (B.O. du 29/02/24) s'appliquera en 4 e à la rentrée 2025. Retrouvez la synthèse faite par nos auteurs sur les points-clés du programme.

Les femmes ont toujours travaillé

Les femmes n'ont pas commencé à travailler au début de la Grande Guerre, un podcast contre cette idée reçue.

L’interrogation et la négation dans Mémoires de deux jeunes mariées

La bataille de Stalingrad, une bataille de l’anéantissement

Comprendre la bataille de Stalingrad et ses enjeux par l'étude d'un document iconographique.

Happy Leap Day!

If you are born on 29 February, you can consider yourself very special… or very unlucky!

Les Choses humaines, une affaire intime à travers le prisme de la justice

Ready for the Semaine des Langues?

What are you planning for la Semaine des langues? This year’s edition is from 18 to 23 March and is on the theme of « L’important, c’est de communiquer ! », which we would happily adopt as our motto here at Speakeasy News. The event makes special reference to the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer in France: a multi-lingual, cross-cultural event like no other! Lots of schools have events planned. Here’s a selection of initiatives and ideas.

Happy Feet

When humans have trouble walking, they can get help with orthopaedic shoes or prosthetics. What happens when an animal has a problem? San Diego Zoo in California fitted one of its penguins with customised shoes to help with a degenerative foot condition.

Creative Writing Competition: Sport

It won’t have escaped your notice that this is an Olympic year. To get into the swing of things, we’d like to take sport as the theme of our annual creative-writing competition. We’d like pupils to use their imagination to write a story about sport in any way they want.

Doing the Right Thing

Most people would feel proud of saving hundreds of mainly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia just before the outbreak of World War II. But Sir Nicholas Winton was haunted by all the children he couldn't save. Until a surprise 50 years later on a TV programme showed him all the good he had done. A new film, One Life, starring Johnny Flynn and Anthony Hopkins as the younger and older Winton tells this true story.

Your Students Have Talent! Gangsta Granny

In our series "Your Students Have Talent", check out these amazing comic strips created as an intermediate task by pupils using our Reading Guide Gangsta Granny.