Professeurs documentalistes Collège

L’Armée des ombres, de la chronique historique à la construction mythique

En étudiant L’Armée des ombres de Joseph Kessel, les élèves découvrent la France sous le régime de Vichy, les réseaux de Résistance et les intentions de l’auteur à travers divers questionnaires et travaux de groupe. Ils développent également leurs compétences argumentatives en s’exerçant au débat.

Objectif brevet, les figures de style

Des exercices qui permettent de réviser différentes figures de styles telles que les figures d’analogie (comparaison, métaphore, personnification), les figures d’insistance (périphrase, pléonasme, anaphore, énumération), les figures d’opposition (oxymore, antithèse, paradoxe) ou encore d’argumentation (antiphrase, question rhétorique, hyperbole, litote).

Le conte d’Amour et Psyché (4)

Cette fiche constitue la quatrième partie d’une séquence de latin dédiée au conte d’Amour et Psyché. Elle repose sur deux extraits des Métamorphoses d’Apulée et sur les tableaux Amour et Psyché de Antoine Van Dyck et Le Mariage de Psyché et de l’Amour de François Boucher.

Conseil lecture : « Geographia »

Une BD alliant rigueur scientifique et humour retrace l'odyssée de Ptolémée à travers l'histoire de la cartographie.

La mise en place de la solution finale

Comprendre comment le régime nazi a organisé l'élimination des Juifs d'Europe entre 1939 et 1945.

Le sacre de Napoléon et le peintre David

Le Sacre de Napoléon : quand David immortalise l'empereur se couronnant lui-même, défiant le pape et la tradition.

La dénonciation de la société d’ordres

États généraux de 1789 : quand les cahiers de doléances et les caricatures dénonçaient l'injustice sociale.

Easter Traditions

Easter traditions are fairly similar from one English-speaking country to another, but it's nice for pupils to discover them and compare them with their own traditions. Although originally a religious festival, many of the popular traditions such as chocolate eggs and the Easter bunny have more to do with secular celebrations.

The Great Gatsby Turns 100

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is considered the quintessential depiction of the Roaring Twenties and a definite contender for the title of great American novel. On the 100th anniversary of its publication, readers return to the classic, and writers imagine new stories for its characters.

Keep Calm and Carry On!

This slogan from 1939 symbolises British identity in 2025 . You can find it on T-shirts, mugs, postcards and posters.

Les territoires ultramarins français

Outre-mer : entre atout géopolitique et fragilités locales, quel avenir pour ces territoires français ?

Orangutan Eco-Warrior

Ozi: Voice of the Forest is an animated film with an ecological message. Its protagonist, Ozi, is a young orangutan who is separated from her parents during a forest fire. She finds refuge in a sanctuary where she learns sign language. But when she hears her parents are alive, she sets off to find them. Orangutans are humans' closest relatives in the animal world. They are a critically endangered species and live only in the Pacific, principally on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. There are fewer than 120,000 orangutans left in the wild and their habitat is threatened by human activity: the rainforests they live in are being cut down to create palm oil plantations to feed our desire for shampoo, chocolate spreads and cosmetics. That is the situation in the film, which is co-produced by actor Leo DiCaprio, well-known for his commitment to the environment. The film trailer will allow pupils to piece together the story. We see wildfires, Ozi explaining her life in the sanctuary she calls an orphanage, and her realisation she can and must try to save her parents and habitat. It introduces her friends, a monkey called Chance and a rhinoceros called Honkys. Pupils can make hypotheses about the place her parents are being kept and what the company GreenZar is doing taht is "destroying our island". https://youtu.be/URWqCWhyJRc This very short introductory scene narrated by Hugh Bonneville would be great for anticipation: how could this tiny ape "change the world"? https://youtu.be/Td1kDxvKJfI   This short clip entitled "Home Sweet Home" shows the paradisical life Ozi had as baby with her parents in the rainforest. It's good for revising family vocabulary. https://youtu.be/rgdCEYSmBXs This clip shows Ozi rediscovering the forest with Chance after living in the human world. (She has a tablet to take photos because she has become an influencer, helping the charity that helped her teach the world about he species.) [embed]https://youtu.be/8HihAJjnJyc[/embed] Going Further For more about orangutans, check out this article on the Greenpeace site, "10 Amazing Facts About Orangutans". And this article from the WWF site explains what products contain palm oil and how to find responsibly-produced palm-oil products. This film would make a great complement to Shine Bright 5e SnapFile 8 Save Rang-Tan, a beautiful animated poem about saving orangutan habitat created by Greenpeace and narrated by Emma Thompson.     Ozi: Voice of the Forest On general release 2 April 2025

Quais du Polar Lyon 2025

Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is celebrating its 21st edition from 4 to 6 April. This year the festival will welcome 160 authors from 17 countries, including several English-speaking ones.

Australian Election Called

Australia's Prime Minister, Labor's Anthony Albanese, has called a federal election for 5 May. Labor currently has a slim majority in parliament. Opinion polls put Labor neck and neck with the Liberal-National coalition led by Peter Dutton.

Les nouveaux programmes de Français en 6e

De nouveaux programmes de Français vont être appliqués en 6e à la rentrée 2025. À partir des projets de programme publiés en janvier, nous avons synthétisé pour vous les changements apportés.

'Passer de l’apprentissage de la lecture à la lecture pour apprendre'

Lalilo transforme l’apprentissage de la lecture du CP au CM2 avec une intelligence adaptative qui ajuste les exercices en temps réel. Son tableau de bord aide les enseignants à suivre et à différencier les progrès des élèves dont l’autonomie et la confiance en eux sont favorisées. Entretien avec Caroline Schlatter, responsable de la communauté éducative en France pour développer l’usage de Lalilo.

Adaptiv’Math : une éducation plus personnalisée et efficace

Découvrez l'entretien avec Thierry de la Vulpillières Directeur général et co-fondateur de EvidenceB

Les nouveaux programmes en Maths 6e

De nouveaux programmes de mathématiques vont être appliqués en 6e à la rentrée 2025. À partir des programmes officiels publiés au B.O le 17 avril 2025, nous avons synthétisé pour vous les changements apportés.

World Autism Awareness Month

April is World Autism Awareness Month. It aims to raise awareness about the condition. This short video by a British schoolboy with autism is a great introduction for pupils to see how he experiences life and school, and the benefits of help he has received.

Les nouveaux programmes de Langues Vivantes au Collège

De nouveaux programmes en langues vivantes vont être appliqués en 6e à la rentrée 2025. À partir des projets de programme publiés en janvier, nous avons synthétisé pour vous les changements apportés.

L’organisation de l’ONU

Née en 1945, l'ONU réunit 193 pays pour la paix mondiale, mais son influence s'érode face aux divisions géopolitiques.

Le camp de concentration de Natzweiler-Struthof

Natzweiler-Struthof : l'unique camp nazi en France devenu lieu de mémoire témoigne de l'horreur concentrationnaire.

Down the Mississippi

The Mississippi is in the spotlight in April at the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes. A talk and a documentary film explore the river. On 1 April, Hervé Nicolas, recently retired researcher from  l’Institut Agro Rennes-Angers, will give a talk about the effects of climate change on the fourth longest river in the world. On 3 April, there will be a screening of River to the Heart, a documentary following novelist Eddy L. Harris in 2019 as he repeated his own epic journey from thirty years before, kayaking the 2,500 mile length of the Mississippi from northern Minnesota to New Orleans. Harris wrote about the original journey in his first book, Mississippi Solo, and has continued to travel and explore the African-American experience of the country, in the South and in Harlem for example. In May, there will be three screenings of films about the environment and environmental activism. And while you're at the IFA, don't miss the exhibition about Susan B. Anthony , the suffragist campaigner, till the end of April. Mississippi and the Climate talk 1 April 6.30 p.m. Reservations (free) River to the Heart documentary 3 April from 6 p.m., film at 7 p.m. Reservations (free)   This would like well with the documents about the rivier in F File 27 Colours of Louisiana in Shine Bright LLCER AMC.

Threats to the U.S. Department of Education

On March 20, headlines around the world announced that President Donald Trump had dismantled the U.S. Department of Education. What does the Department of Education do, and has it really been closed?

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Civil Rights Map

What about a Civil Rights Trail Map to commemorate and remember this decade-long fight to reach equality? The map and website studied here offer a geographical exploration of the period rather than a more common and historical one, a good means for your B1-B2 students to see the Civil Rights movement from a different perspective.

Canada on the Brink of an Election

When Justin Trudeau resigned as Canadian Prime Minister on 6 January, he was hoping to give the Liberal Party a chance of winning the election that had to be held by 20 October. But since Donald Trump's inauguration, the Liberal Party has leapt up in opinion polls. Now the newly chosen Prime Minster Mark Carney is expected to hold a snap election to try to benefit from that new popularity.

Kids Take Over Parliament

On 28 February, the average age in the House of Commons debating chamber was a lot younger than normal. Instead of the usual MPs, the chamber hosted the annual sitting of the UK Youth Parliament: more than 300 11-18-year-olds elected by their peers. 

L'IA à l'école : perspectives et applications

ChatGPT, Gemini, Dall. e ou Midjurney… Ces outils d’intelligence artificielle font parler d’eux depuis deux ans et la mise à disposition de ChatGPT auprès du grand public. Si l’IA est apparue dans les années 1950, les algorithmes des IA génératives, capables de produire des images, des textes, des sons et de la musique, bouleversent le quotidien et la sphère professionnelle… et investissent de plus en plus le milieu éducatif. Que peut apporter l’IA à l’école ? Analyses et pistes de pratiques proposent dans ce dossier d’ouvrir la réflexion.

MIA Seconde veut renforcer l’apprentissage des maths et du français

Le programme d’apprentissage adaptatif pour les mathématiques et le français MIA Seconde a été déployé dans huit académies pilotes en 2024. Il peut être utilisé en amont des cours, intégré dans les séances pédagogiques et mobilisé comme un outil de révision et de consolidation. Une étude d’impact a été lancée en octobre dernier afin d’affiner ses usages et de maximiser les bénéfices de l’apprentissage adaptatif. Annoncée par le gouvernement Attal, la généralisation de MIA Seconde a été reportée sans date précise.