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Golden Globes 2021: Congratulations Chloé Zhao!

Here at Speakeasy News, we have been following the career of Chloé Zhao since her first film, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, was featured at the Deauville and Cannes festivals back in 2015. So we were delighted to hear that she was the first Asian woman, and only second woman, to win Best Director at the Golden Globes.

01 Mars 2021

Cinéma

gender equality

black history

Celebrating Wales

1 March is St David's Day, the Welsh national day. Since Wales is famous for its music and particularly its male voice choirs, what better way to celebrate than with a video of the national anthem sung by modern choir Only Men Aloud? The anthem, "Land of my Fathers" (Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau), was written in 1856 by father and son Evan and James James. It's a beautiful song, but is especially moving when sung in multiple-part harmony by a male-voice choir. Male choirs became a tradition in Wales in the 18th century, linked to churches, and then to all-male industries such as mining. The effect of hearing the massed spectators at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff singing it a capella before a rugby match is absolutely electrifying. (Of course that's a memory of days when there were crowds in stadia.) Only Men Aloud, is a modern version of the choir, founded in 2000, and now including a boys' and a youth wing (Only Boys Aloud made it to the final of Britain's Got Talent in 2012.) So what better way to celebrate St David's Day than to watch them singing the anthem? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaG847C6V5Q They are of course singing it in Welsh, but assuming most of our readers aren't fluent Welsh speakers, here's the English version: Land of My Fathers. This land of my fathers is dear to me Land of poets and singers, and people of stature Her brave warriors, fine patriots Shed their blood for freedom Chorus: Land! Land! I am true to my land! As long as the sea serves as a wall for this pure, dear land May the language endure for ever. Old land of the mountains, paradise of the poets, Every valley, every cliff a beauty guards; Through love of my country, enchanting voices will be Her streams and rivers to me. Chorus Though the enemy have trampled my country underfoot, The old language of the Welsh knows no retreat, The spirit is not hindered by the treacherous hand Nor silenced the sweet harp of my land. Or why not try singing along to the chorus in Welsh? Gwlad, Gwlad, pleidiol wyf i'm gwlad, Tra môr yn fur i'r bur hoff bau, O bydded i'r heniaith barhau.

26 Février 2021

UK

music

march

Design as Activism Honoured in Beazley Awards

The Design Museum in London has announced the winners of the 2020 Beazley Designs of the Year, honouring see-saws connecting children on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, improvised brick arches created by Hong Kong protesters and vegan burgers.

24 Février 2021

protest

U.S.

hamburger

West Side Story Free for Classes

The educational TV channel Lumni is offering the Jerome Robbins and Robert Wise film of West Side Story free to stream for collège and lycée classes.

24 Février 2021

film

Shakespeare

musicals

6

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Ruby Bridges, Civil-Rights Icon

Ruby Bridges didn’t choose to become a civil-rights icon. It was her parents who, in 1960, chose to accept that their 6-year-old daughter would be the first African-American child to integrate a white school in the American South. But as an adult, Bridges, who was immortalised by Norman Rockwell, has fought indefatigably for civil rights and black children’s right to equal education. This sequence, featuring a recent video interview by Trevor Noah with Ruby Bridges, is perfect for Black History Month, a theme on civil rights or on remarkable women.

23 Février 2021

video

civil rights

audio

Romantic Poetry: John Keats 200

February 2021 sees the 200th anniversary of the untimely death of British Romantic poet John Keats. The author of "Ode to a Grecian Urn", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" and "To Autumn", died of tuberculosis at the age of 25, convinced his literary career was a failure. Yet his poems became some of the best loved in the English language.

23 Février 2021

poetry

museum

anniversary

Your Students Have Talent: Masters and Servants

It's always lovely to see students' work. Here are some diary entries pupils wrote as their final task in a sequence from Shine Bright Terminale: File 4 Masters and Servants.

17 Février 2021

world of work

Downton Abbey

Shine bright Ter

February is Black History Month

It’s changed names and format several times since 1924, but February in the U.S. is African-American History Month, when schools, cultural institutions and the general public celebrate the African-Americans whose stories have often been left out of official history books.

16 Février 2021

Martin Luther King

mythes et héros

Civil War

Making Mardi Gras Covid-Safe in New Orleans

When it was announced that its famous Mardi Gras parades were being cancelled because of Covid restrictions, New Orleans residents decided to find new ways to honour the tradition. Plus: talks on Louisiana in Rennes and class activities for the Travelling film festival.

09 Février 2021

videos

song

Mardi Gras

Discover Louisiana

Discover films, class visits and talks on New Orleans, Louisiana and Southern literature thanks to the Travelling Film Festival and the Institut Franco-Américan in Rennes. New Orleans is the star of this year's festival, which is going ahead despite cinemas being closed. In fact, it's even being extended for classes in Ile-et-Vilaine: film showings and class visits are available from 8 to 28 February, while the festival proper is 16-23 February. You can receive a link to show one of the featured films in you class, or have an in-person or online workshop around a short film. To find out more, check out the festival's schools' page on the website. As well as short films, options include Black Indians , a documentary about African American Mardi Gras Krewes, Mississippi Burning, Alan Parker's 1989 film about the Ku Klux Klan and Down By Law, Jim Jarmusch's 1986 jazz-infused film set in New Orleans. For the general public, films and talks are also online (with the advantage that you can see them from anywhere.) Check out the programme . Online Talks The Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes is hosting a talk on the history of Louisiana on 19 February as part of the festival. It will be given by historian Cécile Vidal. And on 20 February, editor Benjamin Guérif from Editions Gallmeister, will give a talk on Southern Gothic literature by the likes of William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Carson McCullers, and contemporary authors writing in the style. History of Louisiana Friday 19 February 6.45 p.m. Southern Gothic Saturday 20 February, 2.30 p.m. The talks (in French) will be available on various platforms , including the festival's YouTube channel . Find out more about Louisiana's unique culture in File 27 Colours of Louisiana in Shine Bright LLCER AMC.

09 Février 2021

Rennes

class visits

short films

Rendez-vous

The Last Post for Captain Tom

Captain Sir Tom Moore, the WWII veteran who raised British spirits during lockdown 1 with his sponsored walk to raise funds for the NHS before his 100th birthday, died in hospital on 2 February. "Captain Tom", as he soon became known, became the positive role model people really needed during the pandemic. He had originally planned to try to raise £1000 by walking 100 laps of his garden in England before his birthday. He wanted to thank the NHS for the treatment he had received for cancer and a broken hip. But when his story went viral, he raised a total of £38.9 million for NHS charities. His achievement was honoured in many ways. The Army made him an honorary colonel. The RAF did a flypast on his birthday, to make up for his party having to be cancelled because of COVID. And he was knighted by the Queen, becoming Captain Sir Tom Moore. Thousands of people from around the world sent him birthday cards: 150,000 of them! It took 150 volunteers to open and display them all at his grandson's school. https://youtu.be/vWSR9HhYKj8 In September, Captain Tom and his family launched a charitable foundation to continue helping the NHS but also support other causes close to his heart: championing education and equality and combatting loneliness. https://youtu.be/1m0FG2k5ucc The foundation's motto, is "Tomorrow Will be a Good Day", also the title of his autobiography. There is a moving tribute to Captain Tom by his editor on the Penguin site. Combatting loneliness was also the theme of his Number One single, recorded with Michael Ball and a NHS choir: a cover of "You'll Never Walk Alone". https://youtu.be/LcouA_oWsnU In the last few weeks, Captain Tom developed pneumonia, and tested positive for COVID. He was at home almost to the last, and died peacefully surrounded by his family. His final year was an apt climax to an eventful and fulfilling life and his indomitable spirit will be missed by millions.

03 Février 2021

citizenship

UK

videos

Sujets type bac clé en main pour la spécialité AMC

Rendez-vous sur le site compagnon du futur manuel Shine Bright AMC pour trois sujets type bac utilisables pour le contrôle continu, un pour chaque thématique du programme de Terminale.

02 Février 2021

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

sujets type bac

Online Talk About President Kennedy

The American Library in Paris is continuing to run "evening with an author" events despite the curfew. And the advantage is you can tune in for free from anywhere, and there's no limit on numbers. On 16 February, it will feature an interview with Pulitzer-prizewinning historian Fredrik Logevall on his biography of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

02 Février 2021

biography

Kennedy

U.S. history

Tale of the Sea from Trinidad

The judges of this year’s Costa Book Awards in the UK chose two writers from the Caribbean island nation Trinidad and Tobago as winners in the best novel, best first novel and book of the year categories.

29 Janvier 2021

literature

Caribbean

folk tales

Celebrate Scotland's Burns Night Online

Every 25 January, Scots and Scotophiles around the world celebrate Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet. And since one of his famous poems is about the national dish, haggis, Burns Suppers are an occasion to taste haggis, recite poetry and enjoy Scottish music. You certainly won't be able to go to celebrate in Scotland this year, but one advantage of lockdown, is that you can enjoy some online Burns celebrations. On the day itself, available from 2 p.m. French time, you can enjoy a Postcards from Scotland, a concert where contemporary Scottish musicians explore their connections to Burns, a popular lyricist as well as poet. Find the performance here. From 8-9.15 p.m. French time, catch comedian Janey Godley's Big Burns Supper with loads of guests including singers KT Tunstall and Dougie Maclean, folk groups Manran and Skerryvore and the hilarious Ms Godley herself. For Scottish nostalgics everywhere, Maclean will no doubt perform his alternative Scottish anthem, "Caledonia". https://youtu.be/wP8A9rtg0iI And on Friday 29, also from 2 p.m., the Scottish Poetry Library has invited a bunch of modern-day Scottish poets to celebrate Burns.

22 Janvier 2021

poetry

music

haggis

African American History on the Web

This selection of sites and videos is useful for classes on African American history and culture, particularly the civil-rights movement and the Harlem Renaissance

15 Janvier 2021

history

civil rights

art

Sélection culturelle

Presidential Poet

The Biden-Harris inaugural committee has announced the line-up for the Inauguration and it includes an extraordinary young poet. Andrea Gorman was named the country’s inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate in 2017, at just 18.

15 Janvier 2021

elections

president

poetry

He is Back*!

On Sunday January 10th, Terminator actor and former governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger posted a powerful video on Twitter. He denounced the violent mob that overtook the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday 6th. Recounting his childhood in Austria after World War II, he linked the Capitol attack to Nazi Germany. https://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger/status/1348249481284874240?s=20 The “Proud Boys” equivalent of Nazis In this seven-minute video, Arnold Schwarzenegger , compares the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol with Kristallnacht or the "Night of Broken Glass”, the attack on Jewish people that destroyed thousands of businesses, homes, and synagogues in Nazi Germany in November 1938 and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people. The "Night of Broken Glass" was a violent turning point in the early days of Nazi Germany which would escalate to the murder of 6 million people in the Holocaust. "It was a night of rampage against the Jews carried out in 1938 by the Nazi equivalent of the Proud Boys," said Schwarzenegger in his video. "Wednesday was the Day of Broken Glass here in the United States. The broken glass was in the windows of the United States Capitol." His video has more than 37,3 million views and over 1.2 million likes. … as irrelevant as an old tweet… Schwarzenegger was a Republican governor of California from 2003 to 2011, but has long been critical of President Donald Trump. In the video, he tells us that "President Trump is a failed leader. He will go down in history as the worst president ever… The good thing is that he will soon be as irrelevant as an old tweet." Schwarzenegger also opens up about his childhood in Austria where he was born two years after the end of World War II. He shares memories of his father, Gustav, a member of Austria's military police, getting drunk and then coming home and screaming at and hitting his family. The abuse in his family was not unusual, he added. The other fathers in the neighborhood did the same, the actor said, calling them "broken men drinking away their guilt over their participation in the most evil regime in history." "They were the people next door." "I did not hold him totally responsible because our neighbor was doing the same thing to his family," said Schwarzenegger, calling the experience a "painful memory." "Not all of them were rabid anti-Semites or Nazis. Many just went along, step by step, down the road," he said. "They were the people next door." He compared the rise of Nazi Germany to the attempted coup this week and blamed President Donald Trump, noting that in both eras, leaders' lies instigated violence. "It all started with lies, and lies, and lies, and intolerance," Schwarzenegger said. "President Trump sought to overturn the results of an election, and of a fair election. He sought a coup by misleading people with lies. My father and our neighbors were also misled by lies, and I know where such lies lead." At one point in the video, Schwarzenegger pulls out the sword from when he played Conan the Barbarian in the 1982 film, using it as an example of how democracy, like a tempered sword, becomes stronger under pressure. "To those who think they can overturn the United States Constitution, know this," Schwarzenegger said. "You will never win." Schwarzenegger is not the only Republican personality who doesn’t support the president anymore. Impeachment for "incitement of insurrection" The American Constitution states that a president can be impeached and removed from office for a number of reasons, including "treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors." On Wednesday January 13th, the US House of Representatives impeached President Trump, charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the violence at the Capitol. Ten Republican members of the House broke with their party and joined Democrats in approving the single article of impeachment. Trump will leave power as the first president in the nation’s 245-year history to be impeached twice. The vote to impeach Trump was 232 to 197. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will decide when to transmit the article to the Senate which will get the final word and where Trump could face a trial, which is likely to come after he's left office. If Trump is convicted in the Senate, he could be barred from ever seeking elected federal office again. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, said that the trial would begin after the Senate reconvenes on Tuesday, the day before President-elect Joe Biden takes office. At least 67 of the 100 senators are needed for conviction. Democrats will need at least 17 Republican senators to break ranks to convict Trump. * I'll be back https://youtu.be/-YEG9DgRHhA

14 Janvier 2021

U.S.A.

elections

Trump

3

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Studying "The Buddha of Suburbia" in LLCER

"The Buddha of Suburbia", by Hanif Kureishi, one of the novels proposed as an oeuvre intégrale on the LLCER Terminale curriculum, deals with many themes that are relevant to students today: the search for identity, race, and racism and integration.

08 Janvier 2021

literature

British literature

multiculturalism

Rendez-vous

Georgia on their Minds

Amidst all the chaos in Washington, D.C. on 6 January, as Congress tried to certify Joe Biden’s presidential win, a quieter but possibly just as revolutionary election event was taking place in the deep South. In Georgia’s runoff Senate elections, both seats were won by Democrats, giving Biden a tiny but working majority in Congress. Because of the checks and balances system in the U.S.A., a President’s power to pass the legislation he won his election promising is limited by the composition of the two houses of Congress. These can change every two years, once at the midterm elections and once at the presidential elections. In this year’s elections, the Democrats retained a reduced majority in the House of Representatives, and came close to equal numbers of seats in the Senate. Because of a local election law, Georgia’s two Senate seats weren’t decided in November because no candidate got 50% of the vote. That meant there had to be a run-off between the two candidates with the most votes for each seat. In each case it was a Republican incumbent and a Democrat opponent. Georgia, a traditionally conservative state, had not elected a Democrat as President since 1996, but this time, Biden had won by a small margin (contested by Trump) of just 12,000 votes or 0.2%. Casting Vote Joe Biden knows a lot about the difficulties of passing legislation without a majority in both houses. He was Barack Obama’s Vice-President and for all but the first year and a half of his two terms, the House of Representatives had a Republican majority. President Trump had the opposite scenario: the Senate had a Republican majority for his whole term, but the House swung to the Democrats in the 2018 midterms. The Democratic Party mobilised everyone they could in Georgia to try to gain the two seats that would mean they had a majority: It would equalise numbers of Republicans and Democrats (plus two independents who vote with them) and give Vice-President Kamala Harris the casting vote in case of equal votes. While all eyes were on the riot in the Capitol, news came through that both Democrat candidates had won, by small margins but not enough to require a recount. Raphael Warnock became the first African American Senator chosen by the state (and only the 11th black Senator at all). He is a 51-year-old Baptist pastor, who preaches in the church where Dr Martin Luther King, Jr was pastor. Jon Ossoff, just 33, is a documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist, whose interest in politics dates back to high school, when he interned for legendary civil-rights activist Congressman John Lewis. The majority their victories give President Biden mean that he has a better chance of getting Congress to pass his legislation, such as the $2000 stimulus cheques for citizens suffering financial hardship due to the pandemic that Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell recently blocked. It also means it will be easier for him to obtain the necessary Senate approval for his appointments to his cabinet and to the judiciary once he is inaugurated on 20 January.

08 Janvier 2021

U.S.A.

U.S. elections

MLK

Hanif Kureishi: The Buddha of Suburbia

Hanif Kureishi is a subversive writer in search of identity beyond the borders of race, gender and class. Vanessa Guignery draws a portrait of the author of The Buddha of Suburbia, My Beautiful Launderette and My Son the Fanatic.

07 Janvier 2021

literature

Cinéma

British literature

Inauguration Day

Assuming that anything happens as planned in this extraordinary election campaign, Joe Biden will be sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and Kamala Harris as Vice-President, on Inauguration Day, 20 January, 2021. The ceremony and traditional celebrations that follow will be much smaller than in previous years because of the coronavirus pandemic.

07 Janvier 2021

Martin Luther King

elections

president

Change in Australia’s National Anthem to Reflect Indigenous Heritage

Australia started the new year with a change in its national anthem designed to be more inclusive of all Australians.

07 Janvier 2021

commemoration

citizenship

civil rights

Happy Birthday, MLK!

The third Monday of January is a federal holiday in the U.S.A., in honour of Martin Luther King. In keeping with King's philosophy, citizens are encouraged to treat it as a day of service to others by volunteering in their communities. As the slogan says, it is "a day on, not a day off".

02 Janvier 2021

holidays

Martin Luther King

civil rights

Sélection culturelle

The Spy Who Turned Novelist

John le Carré, master spy novelist, died on 12 December at the age of 89. Like James Bond creator Ian Fleming, le Carré himself worked in intelligence, but his novels were the polar opposite of Bond, portraying espionage as bleak, often tedious, and above all morally ambiguous.

14 Décembre 2020

video

thriller

British literature

Ho, Ho, Ho, Christmas Jumper Day is Back!

As Boris Johnson said as he announced a new lockdown: "'Tis the season to be jolly careful". But it's nice to know that some festive traditions have survived the pandemic. Friday 11 December is the ninth Christmas Jumper Day, organised by Save the Children U.K. Normally, people wear a Christmas-themed jumper to work or school but this is one fundraising event that can actually work just as well on social media. Dress up in a silly jumper - home decorated if possible - make a £2 donation to the charity, post your selfie and encourage your friends to do the same. Mr Johnson is probably a bit busy with Brexit negotiations to take part, but his wax figure at Madame Tussaud's will be appropriately attired on the day. Lots of other well-known faces have trotted out their best yuletide bling to support the charity's efforts. The previous eight editions of Christmas Jumper Day have raised £25 million to help children in the U.K. and around the world. Coronavirus has made the charity's work more necessary than ever, as it has impacted families already struggling with poverty around the world. The Save the Children site has some short, simple examples of c hildren who have been helped by money made by fundraising. Time to Upcycle The Christmas Jumper Day site has some great tips for repurposing plain old jumpers by giving them a Yultide makeover. Like this! https://youtu.be/ENKQd5zc_so For last year's Christmas Jumper Day, Britain’s world record holding Olympic long jumper Greg Rutherford, wore Britain’s longest Christmas jumper (measuring the same as his record 8.51m jump).

11 Décembre 2020

video

charity

children

Travel to Ireland for Training Courses

Every year, the Education Ministry finances 400 courses in language and culture in EU countries for language teachers in primary or secondary. Applications need to be in by 17 January 2021.

09 Décembre 2020

Ireland

teaching

DNL

Rendez-vous

Teen Scientist Looking for a Covid Cure

Not all the scientists researching a Covid vaccine or cure are professionals working in labs. Anika Chebrolu, 14, from Texas, has been named America's Top Young Scientist 2020 for finding a compound that could bind to the distinctive spike protein in the SARS-Cov-2 virus and potentially inhibit its ability to infect human cells.

03 Décembre 2020

video

gender equality

Unicef

Young Scientist Named Time’s “Kid of the Year”

Gitanjali Rao from Colorado, won America's Top Young Scientist, for her innovative gadget to test for contaminants like lead in drinking water. She has also mentored 30,000 students, encouraging them to use science and technology to create social change, too. She has just been named TIME magazine’s first ever “Kid of the Year”. Find teaching resources on this inspiring teen on the BRNE cycle 4.

03 Décembre 2020

gender equality

bullying

science

Rendez-vous

2020: A Year in Language

It’s the traditional time of year for dictionary publishers to announce their “word of the year”. In a year dominated by the pandemic, Oxford Dictionaries decided to choose several, whereas Collins chose “lockdown” from a shortlist dominated by the health emergency. Merriam Webster in the States went with the word “pandemic” itself.

02 Décembre 2020

language

world of work

Black Lives Matter