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La couronne du Saint-Empire

Les élèves de 5e découvrent la splendide couronne du Saint-Empire ; couronne à la forme octogonale faite d'or, d'émail et de pierres précieuses. Cette couronne témoigne de l'excellence de l'art ottonien du Xe-XIe siècle.

Corneille : Le Cid, Horace, Cinna

À travers le théâtre de Corneille, les élèves de 4e apprennent à lire une pièce de théâtre, à comprendre les enjeux de l'écriture théâtrale et à saisir les liens entre littérature et Histoire.

Charles Le Brun, Le Roi gouverne par lui-même, analyse d'image

Le roi gouverne par lui-même de Charles Le Brun est une décoration du plafond de la galerie des Glaces représentant Louis XIV, seul maître à bord du grand vaisseau de l'État.

Trick or Treat to Do Good

Halloween is an important fundraiser for UNICEF U.S.A. Trick or Treat for UNICEF was started in 1947 and 31 October was declared UNICEF Day by President Lyndon B. Johnson 20 years later. It allows kids "put some meaning in their Halloweening" by collecting money for the United Nations Childrens' Fund. 

Edmond Rostand, Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac de Edmond Rostand est une pièce peu étudiée en classe de 4e. Elle reste cependant connue et plébiscitée sur scène, notamment grâce à son célèbre personnage.

Du mythe antique au super-héros : Ovide, Thésée, Ariane

Cette séquence pour les 6e propose d'observer l'évolution des figures héroïques en partant de textes fascinants et inspirants : les mythes antiques. Qu'est-ce qui caractérise un héros de la mythologie antique ? Quelles sont les différences avec ceux des fictions modernes ? Peut-on dépasser les stéréotypes du héros ?

L'Hercule de Lysippe, analyse d'image

L' Hercule Farnèse de Lysippe constitue une révolution dans l'art de la sculpture au IVe siècle. En effet, l'artiste adopte de nouvelles proportions dans la représentation du corps humain, ce qui rend les statues plus élégantes et permet de les observer sous tous les angles.

Joseph Vernet, L'Intérieur du port de Marseille, analyse d'image

La peinture Le port de Marseille réveille une curiosité touchant à l'eau, questionnant l'élève quant à celle-ci. Cette curiosité concernent la nature et cette nouvelle science appelée la météorologie.

Georges Méliès, Le voyage dans la lune, analyse filmique

Cette analyse filmique présente Le Voyage dans la Lune, film tirant son histoire d'une conversation lors d'un déjeuner familial. Georges Méliès crée le film le plus célèbre de sa carrière et invente tous les métiers du cinéma. Tourné en noir et blanc, il diffuse également son film en couleurs pour le plaisir des spectateurs.

Laboratoire de la langue : les petits mots

Les fiches permettent de revoir les spécificités des différentes natures de "petits mots" en explorant les emplois de chacun et en examinant les fonctions grammaticales qu'ils entraînent au sein d'une phrase.

Love Letter to France

Wes Anderson’s latest film "The French Dispatch" is a homage both to his adopted country and to the amazing writers nurtured by "The New Yorker" magazine, of which Anderson is an avid reader. As with his earlier films like "The Grand Budapest Hotel" and "Moonrise Kingdom", he has assembled an amazing cast.

Apollinaire, Calligrammes

Cet entraînement au brevet comporte des questions, un travail de réécriture et une dictée, et reprend les thèmes des séquences précédentes : Apollinaire, les calligrammes, etc.

Le Bestiaire d'Apollinaire

Cette séquence présente le Bestiaire d'Apollinaire, conçu dans l'atelier de Picasso. Elle se découpe en trois grandes étapes qui montrent comment observer, lire, analyser et écrire un poème.

Guillaume Apollinaire, un poète du XXe siècle

Cette séquence se penche sur le grand poète Guillaume Apollinaire et ses oeuvres. Elle apprend aux élèves à devenir autonome face à un texte poétique tout en leur permettant de découvrir le parcours d'un poète.

Laboratoire de la langue : adjectifs et adverbes

Cette étude de la langue a pour but de systématiser des ressources, des manipulations, pour s'en sortir avec l'analyse grammaticale. Il s'agit de former les élèves à être autonomes dans leur réflexion grammaticale. Ici, c'est à l'aide d'adjectifs et d'adverbes que les élèves développent ces compétences.

Irish Legends: Wolfwalkers

Tomm Moore’s animated films are rooted in Irish folklore and history. After fairies in Brendan and the Book of Kells and selkies in Song of the Sea , the heroes of his latest film are wolfwalkers, which he describes as “benign Celtic werewolves”. The film is set in 1650, when Cromwell’s English army had put down an Irish rebellion and the colonisers were imposing urbanisation and destroying forests Robyn is English. She and her father have come to Ireland with the Cromwellian figure of the Lord Protector. Her father is an experienced wolf hunter and Robyn usually hunts with him but here, in a colonised Irish town under siege, she is as much in danger from the locals as wolves and is forced to remain in the village while her father goes hunting in the woods which are being cut down on English orders to “civilise” the area and prepare it for organised agriculture. Robyn hates being stuck at home doing domestic tasks and defies the ban on going into the woods. There she meets Mebh, who is a wolfwalker. When she is awake she’s a girl but when she sleeps she becomes a magical wolf who the real wolves obey. Mebh accidentally bites Robyn, who becomes a wolfwalker too, torn between her father the hunter and the wolves her friends. She swears to help Mebh find her missing mother but soon faces difficult choices. https://youtu.be/d_Z_tybgPgg All three films in the trilogy, which are traditional hand-drawn animations, have been nominated for best feature animation at the Oscars. They draw on Irish motifs and designs from pre-Christian times.   This  would make an interesting complement to the escape game in Shine Bright 2e SnapFile 18 Celtic Legends , or could widen out the escape game on Scottish legends in our escape-game pack.  

Barbados Elects its First President

On 21 October, the Caribbean nation of Barbados took the first step towards becoming a republic when the joint houses of Parliament chose Dame Sandra Mason as the country’s first president, to replace Queen Elizabeth II as head of state. Ms Mason, a trained lawyer and former magistrate, has been the Governor-General of Barbados since 2018: the representative of the British Crown on the island. Barbados will officially become a Republic on 30 November, its annual Independence Day, joining three other former British colonies in the Caribbean which have replaced the British monarch with an elected official: Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, and Dominica. All three remained members of the Commonwealth, which Barbados also intends to do. A committee is currently working on a new citizens'  charter for the new President to read out on Independence Day, and next year Parliament will make proposals for new Constitution. When the decision to move toward Republic status was approved in 2020, Governor General Mason, delivering a speech on behalf of the country’s Prime Minister Mia Mottley, said, “The time has come to fully leave our colonial past behind.” Barbados was a British colony from 1627 century until independence in 1966. Colonists resorted to slave labour to produce sugar, with the result that today the population is in large majority descended from enslaved African people. Today it has a population of 285,000 and an economy based around tourism, finance and sugar production. This would be a good update for Shine Bright 1e File 7 Caribbean Vibes or    Shine Bright LLCER File 8 From Isle to Isle.

L'art de la calligraphie, analyse d'image

Raoul Dufy, L'Eléphant et le Singe de Jupiter, analyse d'image

Marie Laurencin, Apollinaire et ses amis, analyse d'image

Jack Kirby: the Man who Created the Eternals

The Eternals movie is based on the Eternals comic and characters created by Jack Kirby, which was first released in 1976.

The Earthshot Prizes: Working with Videos

The Earthshot Prizes website has great short videos on the five ecological challenges the prizes aim to tackle. They are perfect for class use, either picking a theme or having groups work on different videos and share information.

Short Films with your Collège Students

The This is England short-film festival in Rouen has a specific programme of short films for collège classes covering topics from food poverty to sharing, coming-of-age to fossil hunting.

2021 California wildfires: Giant Sequoia Killers

On September 2021, two wildfires, one called the Colony Fire and the other Paradise Fire merged together to became the KNP Complex, a terrifying front flames .  These big fires burned through the Sequoia National Park in the Sierra Nevada that is home to some of the largest trees in the world, which also include General Sherman, the world’s largest tree in volume.

The Earthshot Prizes

The British Royal Foundation is awarding five prizes a year till 2030 for innovative ideas to help the planet. The Earthshot prizes have been named in reference to President Kennedy’s Moonshot project which concentrated innovators’ energies on putting a human on the Moon in the 1960s. Prince William explained that the aim of the Earthshots is to repair this planet, not explore another one.

Halloween with Unicef Videos

Halloween is a popular celebration with pupils, and it can be a great way to introduce some English-speaking culture. In the U.S.A., a major Halloween tradition is Trick or Treat for Unicef, a  fundraising campaign for the United Nations children's fund. Unicef has lots of teaching resources about the campaign.

Sir Walter Scott at 250

The father of the historical novel, author of Ivanhoe and the romanticised image of Scottish history portrayed in the Waverley novels, and a collector and preserver of ballads from the oral tradition, Sir Walter Scott was one major figures of Victorian Britain. This year, Scotland celebrates the 250 th anniversary of his birth. Scott was born the son of a lawyer in Edinburgh on 15 August, 1771. At the age of two, he contracted polio, which left him with a limp for the rest of his life. He was sent to stay with is grandparents in the Scottish borders, because the country air was considered better for his health. He was to stay there on and off until he was seven, and was greatly influenced by the ballads and folk tales his grandmother and Aunt Jenny told him. Many featured his ancestors, who, like many people who lived on the border were “reivers”: outlaws who regularly went on raids into England. This light and sound show to commemorate Scott’s 250 th anniversary was projected onto Smailholm Tower in the borders, where his ancestors had lived. https://youtu.be/uC5XsDTLZNI Scott trained as a lawyer, and did work as one, but he had fallen in love with German Romantic poetry and published several translations. He also published anthologies of Scottish ballads he had collected, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders. Then he started writing his own epic poems. The most famous, The Lady of the Lake (1810), was set to music by Schubert. It is a tale from Scottish history, a struggle between King James V and the powerful Douglas clan. It was to set the tone for many of Scott’s novels. His first, Waverley (1814), was an immediate and international success. Set in the Scottish Highlands, it combined romantic descriptions of the wild landscape and of the heroic clans. He would go on to write over two dozen of the Waverley novels and is credited with inventing the genre of the historical novel. Most of them are set in Scotland, like the hugely popular Rob Roy , although Ivanhoe , a medieval English tale of chivalry is another of the bestsellers. Both have been adapted as films. https://youtu.be/p76fH8_a32Y The Waverley novels were published anonymously, as Scott wanted to keep his name for his serious poetry, and his legal work. His authorship was only officially revealed in 1827, five years before his death. The world Scott often described, of the Highland clans living in harmony with admittedly harsh nature and according to strong codes of honour, had disappeared by the time he was writing. The clan system had been dismantled by the British crown after the 1745 Jacobite Rebellions. Wearing tartan and carrying weapons were outlawed. Scott contributed to reviving the fashion for tartan in 1822. Always torn between his love for the Scottish past and enthusiasm for the mercantile British future, he helped organise George IV’s visit to Scotland. He adorned Edinburgh in tartan and kilts and launched a craze that would lead to George’s niece, Queen Victoria’s love of Scotland. (She was an enthusiastic reader of Scott.) Scott, who had been made a baronet in 1818, died in 1832, but left his mark on Scotland and on literature. He contributed more words and phrases to the English language than any writer other than Shakespeare. After his death, his home city Edinburgh erected a large monument to him, which still stands on the city’s main thoroughfare, Princes Street. It is a stone’s throw from the main train station, named Waverley after his novels. https://youtu.be/Po_KnisANPY Head over to Ready-to-Use resources for a Biobox video to introduce your students to Scott from A2+.    

Extinction Rebellion Short Film

The Extinction Rebellion ecological movement first came to prominence in 2019 when after 11 days of protests it persuaded the British government to declare a state of ecological emergency. This twelve-minute-long film starring Emma Thompson is a fiction based on real events and was shot during the 2019 protests in an eco-friendly sustainable way. It can be studied with Shine Bright Terminale Short File 17 Carbon-Free UK.

A Babysitter’s Guide to Monster Hunting

This Netflix adaptation of a book for teenagers uses all the Halloween paraphernalia: pumpkins, witches and monsters, among which the vile Grand Guignol is planning to steal children’s nightmares to unleash them upon the world. But the members of the Order of Babysitters are determined to stop him. When young Jacob is kidnapped by the villains, his babysitter Kelly calls them for help. This A2 worksheet is based on the official trailer.

Sir Walter Scott

This year marks the 250th anniversary of author Sir Walter Scott's birth, on 15 August 1771. Our Biobox video quiz will allow you to familiarise your students with Scott's life from A2+ level. You can download the MP4 file below to use in class. [video width="1278" height="720" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/BIOBOX_210804_redux.mp4"][/video]