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Women’s Prize Book News

The longlist has been announced for Britain’s Women’s Prize for Fiction 2021, which will be awarded in July. The prize was created after the 1991 Booker shortlist contained no books by women writers. To celebrate its 25th year, readers voted for a “winner of winners”: Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun , which won the 2007 prize. The Women's Prize was created in 1996 by authors and editors motivated to make a change after the 1991 Booker shortlist contained no books by women writers, despite 60% of novels that year having been written by women writers. It's gone by various sponsors' names over the years: the Orange Prize, the Bailey's Prize. The 16 authors on the 2021 longlist are from the U.K., the U.S; Barbados, Canada, Ireland and Ghana. They include a trans author for the first time, Torrey Peters for Detransition Baby, and six début novelists alongside well-established authors like Susanna Clarke, comedian Dawn French and Scottish author Ali Smith, who is nominated for the final novel in her seasonal quartet, Summer . The full list: Because of You by Dawn French Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi Consent by Annabel Lyon Detransition , Baby by Torrey Peters Exciting Times by Naoise Dolan How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones Luster by Raven Leilani No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers Summer by Ali Smith The Golden Rule by Amanda Craig The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi Unsettled Ground by Claire Fuller Find out more about them on the Women’s Prize site or watch a short presentation of each by the five judges below. https://youtu.be/uFZRogQm7cM The shortlist for this year's prize will be announced on 28 April. The winner will be announced on 7 July. Best of the Best The prize recently celebrated its 25 th anniversary by inviting readers to choose the “best of the best” of previous winners. It was awarded to 2007 winner: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun . Half of the Yellow Sun is set against the background of the bloody civil war known as Biafra, which shook Nigeria from 1967 to 1970, starting just seven years after the country became independent from colonial British rule. It was made into a film starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Thandie Newton in 2013. You can download a reading guide for Half of a Yellow Sun . The video below shows all 25 winners, features an extract from Half of the Yellow Sun, and Adichie answering readers’ questions about inspiration, Lagos and feminism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l--x-H2WYTw Adichie is a prolific writer of short stories and essays as well as three novels. Her most recent book is Dear Ijeawele, or a Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions (2017). You can find out more about her on her publisher’s site . Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is also an inspiring speaker. Check out her speech “The Why Factor” in File 3 Brave New Women in S hine Bright LLCER , as well as an extract from the 2017 Women’s Prize winner, The Power by Naomi Alderman. You may also be interested in SnapFile 4 Lagoon about Nnedi Okorafor’s sci-fi novel set in Lagos.

24 Mars 2021

video

literature

British literature

World Autism Awareness Week

World Autism Awareness Week 2021 (29 March to 4 April) is part of World Autism month. Why not use some of these excellent resources to sensitise your pupils to this issue? Perfect if you’re studying The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time for LLCER but well worth the time for any class from A2.

23 Mars 2021

disabilities

videos

diversity

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Bite Back Food Campaign

Bite Back 2030 is a campaign led by British young people aiming to redesign what they call the "food system" to put young people's health first. This resource features an eye-opening social experiment the campaign carried out to show volunteers just how much they were influenced by advertising when it came to making food choices.

23 Mars 2021

video

campaign

food

Rendez-vous

Leading World Trade

The World Trade Organisation has a new Director-General: Dr Nkozi Okonjo-Iweala. It’s the first time a woman, or an African, has led the international commerce body. Could a new perspective take the WTO in a different direction?

Teen Convinces Florida District to Switch to Electric School Buses

A middle-school student from Florida used a science-fair project to convince the Miami-Dade School District to begin converting its fleet of school buses over to electric. Eighth-grader Holly Thorpe measured CO2 levels inside the diesel school buses and her alarming results convinced the district to make the switch.

22 Mars 2021

school

sustainable development

ecology

Sélection culturelle

David Copperfield: Dickens for the 21st Century

"The Personal History of David Copperfield" is far from the first adaptation of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel. But Armando Iannucci has given the story a very new feel, while keeping Dickens' humour and playing with that idea of autobiography and the art of inventing oneself through the act of writing.

22 Mars 2021

film

British literature

coming-of-age

Sélection culturelle

A History of Women in U.S. TV Series

How have women been portrayed in U.S. TV series in the past, and how has that been changing since #MeToo? That's the topic of an online talk from the Institut Franco-Américain in Rennes on 23 March.

22 Mars 2021

U.S. culture

TV

TV series

Red Nose Day is Back!

Since 1988, British charity Comic Relief has been encouraging people to don a clown's red nose and "do something funny for money". Red Nose Day is back on Friday 19 March and this time, it's plastic free! In 2019, for the last Red Nose Day, Comic Relief received hundreds of letters from children and schools asking about the plastic noses that are one of the charity's main fundraisers. Was there no way to make them that was better for the planet? The boffins got to work, and this year's collection of noses is plastic free: they are made from bagasse, a by-product of sugar cane. And in keeping with their environmentally friendly production, they are in the shape of woodland creatures such as snails, badgers, ladybirds and robins. Red Nose Day is usually an occasion for many people across the country, and especially schools, to have a laugh while raising some serious money, whether simply wearing a red nose to school or work or taking part in more complex comic activities. The Comic Relief team have worked hard to find ways to allow people to continue their fundraising. For example, the Share a Smile campaign encourages people to write their favourite joke on a downloadable poster and put it up in their window or garden to give passersby a smile. And hopefully encourage them to send in a donation. The money collected is used in the UK and around the world to support charities working on homelessness and poverty, mental and physical health and gender discrimination. You can find out more here . On 19 March, a TV special will see comedians and celebrities join in the fun, and show stories of the people who have been helped with funding. https://youtu.be/UXZblRmcqRo Billy's Challenge One big supporter of Red Nose Day went above and beyond to raise money in February. 21-year-old Billy Monger was on track to become the next Lewis Hamilton, when he was seriously injured in a crash while racing at the age of 17. Both his legs had to be amputated. Less than a year later, Billy returned ot the race track in a specially adapted car, and he has continued racing as well as starting a career as a Formula 1 commentator. Billy now walks with prostheses but he decided to take on a triathlon-style challenge in aid of Comic Relief. He walked, cycled and kayaked 140 miles (224 km) despite pain, exhaustion and atrocious weather. He finished on 26 February doing his last 50 miles on foot and bike in laps around Brand's Hatch racing circuit. You can see the highlights of his challenge here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88SckHTRUgs Red Nose Day will return next year: the event is reverting to an annual slot. Sport Relief, which had been alternating with Red Nose Day every second year, will now take place in conjunction with major sports events.

17 Mars 2021

video

charity

download

Webinar Replay on the Grand Oral

Your students no doubt have lots of questions about the Grand oral. Why not suggest they watch this webinar for lots of practical tips, and to ask questions? It will be given by Olivier Jaoui, who is in charge of the collection Mission Grand oral.

15 Mars 2021

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

grand oral

Red Nose Day Webpicks

Red Nose Day (19 March in 2021) encourages people to raise money for projects in the UK and the developing world by "doing something funny for money." But it also aims to raise awareness of poverty, particularly among schoolchildren, who are massive supporters, along with school staff, of Red Nose Day. Here are a selection of teaching resources provided by Comic Relief for Red Nose Day.

10 Mars 2021

video

charity

download

Study Abroad and Internships in the Current Climate

Normally if we were writing about Fulbright Scholarships, it would be about opportunities to study in the U.S. Of course that's complicated at the moment. But one positive point about the current restrictions is that they've led to lots more opportunities to access online education from foreign institutions. This video seminar from Fulbright covers the new virtual student experience whether it's studying or getting work experience with internships.

10 Mars 2021

online learning

study abroad

work experience

St Patrick's Festival 2021

The St Patrick's Day Parade in Dublin was one of the first victims of the COVID pandemic last year and it's been cancelled again this year for the same reason. But never fear! Let's face it, most of us were not going to get to Dublin to celebrate Paddy's Day on 17 March, but we can soak up lots of Irish culture with the online St Patrick's Festival.

09 Mars 2021

Ireland

celebrations

videos

Sélection culturelle

Irish Author Edna O'Brien Honoured

Her books were once considered so scandalous that they were banned in Ireland, but at age 90, The Country Girls author Edna O'Brien received the honour of being declared a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot on 7 March. O'Brien has been prolific since the first of The Country Girls trilogy was published in 1960. Written in just three weeks, it was an outpouring of the frustration of being brought up in the strict, stifling atmosphere of rural, Catholic Ireland. O'Brien was born in 1930 in small town County Clare. By the time she wrote her first novel, she had studied pharmacy in Dublin, scandalously married an older, divorced man, and moved to London to further his literary career. It turned out that she was the writing talent in the family, and the marriage didn't survive her success. In the first book of the trilogy, Kate and Baba are expelled from convent school and set out to find love and excitement in Dublin. Over the course of the following two books, they will have generally unsatisfying sexual encounters and make marriages that are no more successful (the title of the third book is clearly ironic: Girls in Their Married Bliss (1964). In the 1960s, Ireland was still under the thumb of the Catholic church, and "girls" were meant to become pure and faithful mothers and wives, not independent women. The books were banned, as were several of her later works. But for a generation of young women, sneaking in contraband copies, they were a revelation, a vision of a life that seemed a million miles away from their reality. https://youtu.be/LzKdKo5VyfQ?t=87 Portrait of the Artist O'Brien says she had an appropriately epiphanic moment when she first read James Joyce, and knew she had to be a writer. One of the younger generation of Irish writers, Eilís Ní Dhuibhne, dubs The Country Girls The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman , a coming-of-age novel to rival Joyce's own. Like Joyce, she has spent her adult life outside Ireland but constantly drawn to write about it. To many Irish readers, she is the chronicler of their experience and society, over 28 books as well as short stories, plays, biographies and screenplays. And then, in her late eighties, O'Brien suddenly decided to tackle a topic of which she had no direct knowledge. She was so moved by the fate of the Nigerian schoolgirls who were abducted by Boko Haram in Chibok in 2014 that she devoted her 2018 novel Girl to the story. Not one to be put off by difficulties, she made two arduous trips to the country to meet the released schoolgirls and the people working to help them overcome their trauma. The result is the story of young woman who is forced to bear the child of one of her abductors. When she manages to escape, she has to find a way to love the baby. As O'Brien accepted her award on 7 March, there was still much of the spark of indignation at the fate of women in the world. The many authors and fans who paid tribute to her work expressed the hope that she will continue to surprise them with her words. Like everything else these days, the ceremony took place on line. The Cercle Littéraire Irlandais , which hosted the event, has made a video available for 30 days, with the award by the Culture Minister, O'Brien's acceptance speech and warm tributes from the likes of author Collum McCann and actor Gabriel Byrne. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weZFZedDr8k

08 Mars 2021

awards

coming-of-age

Irish literature

Ten-Minute Stories for World Book Day

World Book Day is on 4 March this year. In the UK, schoolchildren receive a £1 book token they can spend on a selection of books chosen for the day. The authors have recorded ten-minute readings great for classroom use. Here's a selection. The readings are part of a project to share stories by recording readings, which would be a fabulous language-learning project. Some pupils really gain confidence in speaking when they can say someone else's words rather than having to come up with their own. Then they can use that confidence to work on their own expression. Here a three of this year's World Book Day authors sharing their stories. This is Humza Arshad reading from his book, L ittle Badman and the Invasion of the Killer Aunties. The scene is in a classroom, so it's good for school vocabulary and it's a great example of doing a dramatic reading, with different voices for the characters. https://youtu.be/20ExqQZ35F8 In this reading, from her book, What A Waste, Jess French shows that non-fiction books can have a dramatic reading too. Great for an ecology theme. https://youtu.be/U9qam_JW0Vs Katherine Rundell reads from her novel, Rooftoppers. It has a great mysterious feel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NgzQIj-xTs You can find more 10-minute readings on the Day's YouTube channel , including readings of a Roald Dahl story and one by his granddaughter Sophie, and ones by children's fiction stars Jacqueline Wilson, David Walliams and Cressida Cowell. There are even more resources on the website , including some great audiobooks .

03 Mars 2021

Roald Dahl

books

video

Sélection culturelle

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