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Happy Uncle Sam Day!

“Uncle Sam” is commonly used as a symbol of the United States, but where does the name come from?

10 Septembre 2021

September

national symbols

U.S. history

5

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complémentaires

20th Anniversary of 9/11

9/11 … a date etched in everyone’s memory forever. 20 years ago, the world changed tremendously in a few hours. The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center were as unexpected as life-changing for the whole world. Commemorations and various events are to take place in the U.S. to pay tribute to those who lost their lives 20 years ago.

09 Septembre 2021

conflict

war

commemoration

Sélection culturelle

2021 Women's Prize for Fiction Winner

The 2021 UK Women’s Prize for Fiction has been won by Susanna Clarke for "Piranesi", only her second novel, published 16 years after her immensely popular "Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell." Like its predecessor, Piranesi is an experimental novel in the realm of fantasy.

09 Septembre 2021

literature

British literature

fiction

European Language Day 2021

26 September is European Language Day, celebrating all the diversity of languages across the continent. For the 20th anniversary edition, there are some great teaching resources.

09 Septembre 2021

September

video

europe

Sélection culturelle

9/11 Commemorated in Rennes

The Institut-Franco-Américain in Rennes is marking the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with an exhibition and a talk.

08 Septembre 2021

conflict

war

commemoration

Sélection culturelle

Colum McCann: Literature and Music

Prizewinning Irish novelist Colum McCann will discuss freedom and resistance in his work at the Irish Cultural Centre in Paris on 4 September, with musical accompaniment from fiddler Colm Mac Con Iomaire, who shares his commitment to dialogue and peace.

She is Greta

Just ahead of the COP26 summit in Glasgow at the end of October, a cinema release for the documentary I am Greta. The young environmental activist who started School Strike for the Climate in 2018 is still only 18, but has had a profound effect on environmentalists young and old.

30 Août 2021

film

documentary

protest

Labor or Labour Day?

Both the U.S.A. and Canada celebrate their countries’ workers on the first Monday in September, they just don’t agree on the spelling! Featuring picnics, barbecues but also political speeches, both public holidays grew out of union movements in the late nineteenth century demanding shorter working days and more rights for workers.

25 Août 2021

Labor Day

September

video

3

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Respect: Aretha Franklin Biopic

A new biopic of soul diva Aretha Franklin takes its title from one of her most famous songs, "Respect". This resource will introduce pupils first to the song, which became an anthem for the women's movement and the civil-rights movement. Then they can discover the biopic. Jennifer Hudson was chosen by Franklin herself before her death to play her in the film.

23 Août 2021

U.S. culture

music

Los Angeles

Wear a Sports Jersey, Support Life

3 September is Jersey Day in Australia. People wear sports jerseys to work to raise awareness of a good cause: the importance of organ donation. The day was started by the family of a 13-year-old, Nathan Gremmo, who suffered a fatal injury but chose to donate his organs, which saved six other lives.

19 Août 2021

September

charity

Australia

Sélection culturelle

Deauville and Dinard Film Festivals

Fingers crossed, the two major Anglophone film festivals in France are set to go ahead. The Deauville American Film Festival on 3-12 September and the Dinard British Film Festival from 29 September to 3 October.

16 Août 2021

Dinard

Deauville

comedy

Rendez-vous

9/11 20 Years On

On 11 September 2001, the world watched in horror and disbelief as first one plane and then a second crashed into the Twin Towers of the NYC’s World Trade Center. Then news spread of a third hijacked plane heading to the Pentagon and a fourth that crashed en route to Washington, D.C., thanks to the actions of the passengers and crew. Twenty years on, Americans remember the victims, and the heroes who helped save many other lives that day.

14 Août 2021

conflict

war

commemoration

A Guide for your Language Assistants

If you have a language assistant in your school this year, make sure they know about the handy, downloadable guide for assistants produced by France Éducation International. It's packed full of information about the school system and French administration with everything from social distancing rules in class to advice about finding accommodation.

12 Août 2021

language assistant

France éducation international

Education for All

The Global Partnership for Education has a simple goal: to ensure that all children everywhere have the possibility to go to school. The organisation, founded in 2002 is holding a Global Education Summit co-hosted by the U.K. and Kenya on 28-29 July to persuade donors to finance its goals for 2021-2025.

29 Juillet 2021

video

development goals

gender equality

8

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Mary Anning: Dinosaur Discoverer

Mary Anning (1799-1847) was long left out of scientific records of the beginnings of palaeontology in the U.K. The fossil hunter and identifier is finally being recognised, and is in the news as two films are being made about her, and a teenage girl has headed a campaign to have her honoured with a statue in Lyme Regis, where she worked. This A2 article about Anning, who discovered some of the first dinosaur fossils on the Jurassic coast in Dorset, could be studied at various levels depending on teaching focus and students’ interests. It can be included in a unit devoted to science or in a unit centred on the place of women in society. Here we chose to provide teachers with general materials, including work on phonology through tongue twisters, usually seen by students as fun activities. As Mary Anning is most probably unknown to them, they will be able to ask genuine questions rather than grammar-oriented questions. Finally, the topic allows space for differentiation, some students could be asked to find out more about the dinosaurs Mary identified, while others might prefer to write a flyer for Evie’s campaign for example. Vocabulary and grammar the Jurassic period, fossils, archaeology, archaeologist, geologist, collector, excavating, extracting, identifying seashells, seashore, coast past simple of irregular verbs: found, bought, wrote passive: she wasn’t recognised expressing purpose: a campaign to create... Pronunciation Stress in compound nouns. Pronunciation of dinosaur . Pronunciation of women vs woman . /s/ vs /ʃ/ in tongue twister. Ammonite stars Kate Winslet as Anning. It's available on Canal plus. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnDhlrs3XVM There is a trailer for independent film Mary Anning and the Dinosaur Hunters on Facebook.

27 Juillet 2021

film

Mary Anning

archaeology

Terrible Legacy of Canadian Residential Schools

The Residential School system which removed indigenous children from their families and forced them to assimilate, was described by a Canadian government as “cultural genocide”. Indigenous groups searching for information have carried out searches of schools looking for the traces of children who died there. Since May, more than 1,000 sets of remains have been found.

27 Juillet 2021

Canada

indigenous people

Shine bright 2e

Liverpool Loses Unesco World Heritage Status

In Shine Bright AMC File 19 A Tale of British Cities, we mentioned that Liverpool had been threatened with losing its UNESCO World Heritage status because of property develop plans in the historic heart of the city. On 21 July 2021, the announcement was made: UNESCO has stripped Liverpool of the status.

26 Juillet 2021

England

industrial revolution

Wales

Carson McCullers on the LLCER Reading List

One new book has been added to the programme limitatif for LLCER anglais: Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940). McCullers is often associated with Southern Gothic, along with authors like Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner and Harper Lee.

26 Juillet 2021

civil rights

American literature

To Kill a Mockingbird

A Unique Olympics

Postponed by a year because of COVID, doubtful till the last minute, and with no spectators, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics have finally got underway. We look at some of the new sports at the games and particularly skateboarding. The postponed Olympic Games are taking place from 23 July till 8 August, and will be followed by the Paralympic Games from 24 August to 5 September. The Olympics includes several new sports. Softball (women) and baseball (men) isn’t strictly new but haven’t been in a Games since 2008. The Japanese are massive baseball fans and the atmosphere at games should have been amazing. There are four truly new sports making a first appearance: karate (again not a surprise in Japan), sport climbing, surfing and skateboarding. The last three are clearly meant to attract a younger audience to the Olympics. And not just a young audience, young athletes. Team GB has two skateboarders qualified for the Park event: Sky Brown and Bombette Martin. Sky is Britain’s youngest ever summer Olympian, at just 13. She’s also of mixed Japanese and British heritage so this Games is particularly special for her. Martin is barely older: just 14. Skateboarding and surfing seem logical partners to snowboarding and freestyle skiing in the winter games as well as sports like gymnastics which have an artistic element as well as the purely athletic side. But as Brazilian-American boarder Bob Burnquist explains, there’s more to skateboarding than sport. He says it feels, “Like the first time a lifestyle has been accepted into the Olympics." There will be two disciplines in the skateboarding competition: park and street. Park takes place in a “bowl” familiar to anyone who has ever seen a skate park. Street tries to reproduce urban street skating by including obstacles like stairs, handrails, walls and benches for skaters to use in their tricks. Just like in gymnastics or diving, boarders perform a series of moves or tricks. They are marked on the degree of difficulty, height, speed, originality and execution. Sky Brown has serious medal hopes but she’ll be up against tough competition, particularly from the U.S.’s Jordyn Barratt. This is one of a series of 5 mn videos presenting a competitor in each of the new Olympic and Paralympic sports. https://youtu.be/A5dkpYU1ImA If you want to know more about any of the new – or old – check out the “One Minute One Sport” videos. The information comes through cartoon images and onscreen text. Or check out the Olympic site for written descriptions of every sport.

23 Juillet 2021

Olympics

sport

Paralympics

Bringing the Underground Railroad to the Screen

African-American author Colson Whitehead and film director Barry Jenkins both made the same mistake when they were children and first heard about the Underground Railroad. The historical Underground Railroad was a network of people who helped slaves escape from the American South to freedom in the northern states or Canada. Both Whitehead and Jenkins pictured a real trains travelling under the southern states to freedom.

16 Juillet 2021

civil rights

U.S. culture

U.S. history

Vote for Your Next Reading Guide!

Which books and films are you planning to teach in LLCER anglais next year? This year for Terminale, we published six Reading Guides. There are three works left on the list. We are planning to publish a guide on one of them in the autumn, which would you prefer?

12 Juillet 2021

British literature

multiculturalism

western

Sélection culturelle

Surrealism in American Art

Marseilles is an appropriate setting for an exhibition on surrealism in American Art: it was from its port that many members of the Surrealist movement fled Nazi occupied France for New York. Find out more at the centre de la Vieille Charité until 26 September.

09 Juillet 2021

art

exhibition

pop art

Rendez-vous

Queen Honours NHS Heroes

Queen Elizabeth II has awarded a George Cross medal to the National Health Service. It is one of the highest honours that can be awarded to British civilians, for “acts of the greatest heroism or of the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger.”

06 Juillet 2021

UK

hero

award

The Doors Singer Morrison Remembered

Fifty years after his death, Jim Morrison is still remembered for his poetry, lyrics and sometimes outrageous performances with The Doors. His grave in Paris is a shrine to the American singer.

06 Juillet 2021

U.S. culture

music

rock

Sélection culturelle

Cannes is Back!

Yes, that is legendary American director Spike Lee peering out of the poster for the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. He is also the president of the jury for the 74th festival. Two months later than usual, and with cinema releases having been largely suspended for a year, it will be an unusual edition.

06 Juillet 2021

documentary

Cannes

film festival

Shine Bright AMC File 13 Land of the Free

In our series of author videos presenting different chapters of Shine Bright AMC, here is File 13 Land of the Free, presented by its author Rebecca Oudin-Shannon.

05 Juillet 2021

U.S. culture

freedom

liberty

Aboriginalities

If you find yourself close to Belgium this summer, it’s worth heading to Brussels for the Aboriginalités exhibition: more than 250 paintings by First Australian artists who innovate using traditional techniques and subject matter and modern materials.

05 Juillet 2021

art

Australia

Give Me Five 4e

What's Inside? Reading Guide: Jane Eyre

In our series of author videos presenting our Reading Guides, here's Jane Eyre presented by its author Lynda Itouchène.

05 Juillet 2021

Jane Eyre

British literature

Charlotte Brontë

What's Inside? Reading Guide: To Kill a Mockingbird

In our series of author videos presenting our Reading Guides, here's To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee presented by its author Lynda Itouchène.

05 Juillet 2021

civil rights

ségrégation

American literature

Sélection culturelle

Quais du Polar Lyon 2021

Calling all detective fiction fans: Lyon's Quais du Polar festival is back from 2-4 July with the cream of crime-fiction authors from around the globe in genres from adult to kids' fiction, comic books and more. A couple of Anglophone authors who caught our eye are David Vann from the U.S.A. and R.J. Ellory from the U.K. Alaskan author David Vann now teaches at the University of Warwick in England. His first novel, Legend of a Suicide ( Sukkwan Island) (2008) won the Prix Médicis étranger. His latest novel ( Komodo ) is only available in a preview French edition (Editions Gallmeister) (the English will follow). It is a family drama set, like so many of Vann's novels, by the sea, this time on Komodo Island in Indonesia where Californian Tracy has come to learn to dive with her brother. David Vann will be signing books on all three days, and participating in three panel discussions: Paradis noirs on 3/7 at 10.30 a.m. ; Ce qu'on est prêt à faire et défaire quand on est mère on 3/7 at 2.30 p.m. ; Le linge noir en famille on 4/7 at 11.30 a.m. Prolific author R.J. Ellory was born in Birmingham, England, and spent much of his childhood in orphanages. As well as writing, he's an accomplished blues musician, and his fascination with American culture means that most of his books are set in the U.S. His first novel, Candlemouth , was published in 2003 and he won the prix Nouvel Obs/BibliObs in 2009 for A Quiet Belief in Angels ( Seul le silence .) His latest novel, Three Bullets , published in French as Le jour où Kennedy n'est pas mort , is an alternative history tale, imagining that JFK was shot in November 1963, but didn't die. Two translators will "joust" over their translations of an R.J. Ellory text on 3/7 at 2.30 p.m. Ellory himself will take part in two panel discussion: Rural noir on 4/7 at 11.30 a.m. and Polar à fleur de pop on 4/7 at 3.30 p.m. Quais du Polar 2-4 July 2021 In real life and online

02 Juillet 2021

literature

festival

Lyon