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Short Teaching Stays in the UK and Ireland

As the days start getting longer again, it's time to think of travel! If you teach English in secondary school, you can apply to spend two weeks teaching and observing in a school in the UK or Ireland.

28 Novembre 2020

UK

Ireland

teaching

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Meet Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Now that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are President and Vice-President Elect of the U.S.A., your pupils will no doubt want to know more about them. This A2 article will provide materials for your pupils to speak about the American election in a factual way.

27 Novembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

5

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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Profiles

Although President Trump is still making legal challenges over the election, it seems certain that after the January Inauguration, Joe Biden will become the 46th President of the U.S.A. and Kamala Harris, his running mate, will be the first black female Vice-President and to thus make history. Thanks to this B1 article, the students will learn more about Biden and Harris: not only their private lives but also their political careers as well as the challenges awaiting them in the midst of this worldwide pandemic are here explained.

27 Novembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

New Reading Guides Available

We know from your messages that you've been waiting for them... Our first two film guides in the Reading Guide series, Much Ado About Nothing and 12 Angry Men, are now available as is Jane Eyre.

26 Novembre 2020

film

literature

Cinéma

The Unknown Warrior 100 Years On

The First World War was so devastating, countries were at a loss to know how to commemorate their dead. A hundred years ago, two years after the Armistice, Britain’s King George V inaugurated the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior in Westminster Cathedral, to honour all the anonymous fallen.

25 Novembre 2020

conflict

war

commemoration

Sélection culturelle

The 2020 Booker Prize Goes to First-time Scottish Author

Britain's most prestigious literary prize this year was awarded on 19 November to one of four debut novels in the shortlist: "Shuggie Bain" by Douglas Stuart, a story of family love and addiction in recession-hit 1980s Glasgow.

25 Novembre 2020

video

literature

British literature

Rendez-vous

Thanksgiving Despite Coronavirus

Many countries in Europe have instituted lockdowns with the aim of reducing coronavirus transmissions enough to allow their populations to have a semblance of a normal Christmas. In the U.S., the problem of family get-togethers is a whole month earlier, with Thanksgiving, which falls this year on Thursday 26 November.

20 Novembre 2020

thanksgiving

Canada

teaching resources

Masked But Not Muted on World Children's Day

19 November is Unicef's annual World Children's Day. This year, the UN organisation is highlighting how children have been impacted by the global pandemic.

20 Novembre 2020

poem

videos

Unicef

Celebrating Diwali with a Light Installation at Tate Britain

Like all museums in England, Tate Britain is closed to the public for lockdown. But it's still celebrating art, and the Hindu festival of lights, Diwali, in a stunning artwork displayed on the OUTSIDE of the building.

12 Novembre 2020

art

London

exhibition

Rendez-vous

Finally.... a Result

After four days of tense waiting, demonstrations and threats of legal challenge, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris emerged as the next President and Vice-President of the United States on Saturday 7 November.

08 Novembre 2020

video

president

Trump

Sélection culturelle

Booker Prize Shortlist 2020

The UK’s most prestigious literary prize, the Booker, will be awarded on 19 November. This year’s shortlist of six books, including four debut novels, is very diverse, featuring authors from the U.S., Zimbabwe and Ethiopia as well as a single representative from the U.K.

06 Novembre 2020

literature

coming-of-age

gender politics

Sélection culturelle

Shakespeare's Son and Anne Hathaway

The UK’s 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction has been awarded to a novel that imagines the life and death of Shakespeare’s son Hamnet and rounds out the character of his wife Anne Hathaway: Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet.

05 Novembre 2020

Shakespeare

Hamlet

British literature

5

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Roald Dahl's The Witches

Roald Dahl’s "The Witches" was published in 1983, a typically twisted tale of witches who look like normal women and want to eliminate children by turning them into mice. A second film version, this time by American director Robert Zemeckis, was scheduled for a November release. Like everything else, it's on hold for lockdown, but why not get your pupils ready to watch it with this spooky resource?

05 Novembre 2020

Roald Dahl

video

film

Rendez-vous

Explaining the Electoral College

Until the recent past, the electoral college was barely mentioned in descriptions of the U.S. Presidential electoral system. But then came the 2000 election, when George W. Bush lost the popular vote, but won the majority of electoral college votes. And 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the popular vote by a 3 million margin, but Donald Trump won the electoral college vote 304 votes to 227.

05 Novembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

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The Art of Being a Dandy: Aubrey Beardsley

Despite his early death aged 25, Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) had a prolific career as an illustrator. Part of the Aesthetic movement, a friend of Oscar Wilde’s, Beardsley was a dandy and turned his own short life into a work of art. To accompany the exhibition currently on hold at the Musée d’Orsay, this resource explores his art and the figure of the dandy.

04 Novembre 2020

video

art

Oscar Wilde

Supreme Court Confirmation Rushed Through

Judge Amy Coney Barrett was confirmed as the Supreme Court replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 27 October, barely a week before the presidential election.

30 Octobre 2020

Trump

U.S. culture

gender equality

World Ballet Day

We all need a bit of beauty in these difficult times, and the inspiring example of dancers who are continuing to practise their art even in lockdown. And for a literary fix, see how the emotions of great classics like Jane Eyre and The Handmaid's Tale can be expressed through ballet.

29 Octobre 2020

dance

November

Jane Eyre

Rendez-vous

New Zealand gives Jacinda Ardern and Labour a Landslide

New Zealand’s 17 October election was originally scheduled on a historically significant day: 19 September, the annual anniversary of the date in 1893 when New Zealand women became the first in the world to legally vote. It was postponed because of Covid but was historic anyway: the Labour party became the first in 24 years to win an outright majority.

23 Octobre 2020

elections

EMC

election

Black Lives Matter : Travail collaboratif et éducation aux médias autour d’un sujet d’actualité

Le traitement des sujets d’actualité intéresse toujours les élèves et c’est une bonne chose car cela témoigne de leur volonté de penser en citoyens et de développer leur esprit critique. Cependant, il est parfois délicat d’aborder des sujets d’extrême actualité car on se trouve alors en concurrence avec le flot d’informations dont les élèves sont abreuvés en temps réel. Un cas pratique.

22 Octobre 2020

video

civil rights

EMC

Painting the Town Black

To celebrate Black History Month 2020, the British Post Office painted some of its iconic red post boxes black and adorned them with the portraits and stories of notable black Britons.

22 Octobre 2020

art

UK history

Black Lives Matter

Rendez-vous

2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for American poet Louise Gluck

American poet Louise Gluck won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature for “her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”, the Swedish Academy said on Thursday.

12 Octobre 2020

poetry

Nobel prize

American literature

U.S. Youth Vote Videos

One of the big battles in the U.S. elections is getting people to vote. Which starts with getting them registered. These videos are a great teaching resource.

09 Octobre 2020

president

EMC

U.S. elections

Sélection culturelle

Private Turner: Watercolours and Paintings

Despite coronavirus, the Musée Jacquemart-André proposes a great retrospective of the oeuvre of William Turner (1775-1851), with the “Turner, peintures et aquarelles de la Tate” exhibition. Running to January 11, 2021 in partnership with the London’s Tate.

09 Octobre 2020

art

exhibition

painting

10

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Celebrating Votes for Women

A hundred years after finally gaining the right to vote in the U.S.A., women today systematically both register and vote more than men. These two resources, one with a more complex article than the other, encourage pupils to discover the long campaign for suffrage, and some of the activists who worked for the 19th Amendment and women who continue to oppose discrimination up to the present day.

09 Octobre 2020

civil rights

feminism

votes for women

Guy Fawkes Webpicks: Protest and Plot

Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot are commemorated on 5 November every year in the UK on Bonfire Night. Pupils from A2 can discover the background to this annual event. Lycée pupils can investigate how a failed terrorist from the seventeenth century has become the face of the Anonymous protest movement.

08 Octobre 2020

video

history

lieux et formes de pouvoir

Cindy Sherman Self-Portraits: Hiding in Plain Sight

The Fondation Louis Vuitton reopened its doors to the public on September 23 with a special show featuring the work of American photographer Cindy Sherman. Sherman's thematic self-portraits are a reflection on the portrayal of women in modern society.

06 Octobre 2020

U.S.A.

art

America

Rendez-vous

Campaign Interrupted

On 2 October, the White House announced that President Trump and the First Lady, Melania, had both tested positive for Covid 19, and were self-isolating in the presidential residence. Mr Trump therefore has to interrupt his campaign for re-election and the remaining presidential TV debates are put in doubt.

02 Octobre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

Sélection culturelle

Enola Holmes: Not Elementary My Dear Sherlock!

In the Netflix adaptation of the Young Adult mystery-adventure by Nancy Springer, Millie Bobby Brown is playing Enola Holmes, the sister of the famous detective Sherlock Holmes!

23 Septembre 2020

film

movies

mystery

Rendez-vous

U.S. Elections: the Year of the Unknowns

It’s already been an unusual election year in the U.S.A., with the later Democratic primaries cancelled because of Covid and delayed party conventions held online. As the virus continues to progress in the U.S.A., what are the possible consequences for the election?

21 Septembre 2020

president

Trump

EMC

Goodbye RBG

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on 18 September means the political balance of the court is likely to swing right. Justice Ginsburg was a pioneering lawyer and judge who was at the forefront of battles for gender equality and women's rights. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was one of three women out of nine Justices in the Supreme Court. When she was nominated by President Bill Clinton in June 1993, she was only the second female Supreme Court Justice. At 87, she was also the oldest current Justice. The Supreme Court currently leans towards the right, with a majority of sitting justices nominated by Republican presidents. Ms Ginsburg was seen as a rampart against politically conservative judgements. She had carried on well beyond the average retirement age for the court, 80, despite health problems including the cancer she ultimately died of. "RBG" had become a popular cultural icon in recent years, featuring in a documentary and a biopic written by her nephew, On the Basis of Sex . It told the story of a young law student who faced gender discrimination. At Harvard Law School in 1956, she was one of nine women in a class of hundreds. One of her professors even shamed her for taking up a spot at Harvard Law School that could have been filled by a man. But her experience didn't derail her; it only made her more determined to succeed. The film focuses on a landmark case that made her name, and changed the U.S. legal landscape. Like Al Capone eventually being arrested for not paying his taxes rather than his mafia activity, Ginsburg's genius was to tackle the topic of gender equality from an odd angle, and in a case that initially appeared rather innocuous. She agreed to defend a man who had been charged with tax fraud. He was a single man and had looked after for his sick mother until her death. He hired a nurse to allow him to go to work, but when he tried to put her wages against tax he was accused of fraud. The tax law on caregivers only applied to women. Ginsburg and her tax-lawyer husband realised that if they could get a judgement that gender discrimination is unconstitutional in a case about a man, it would open the doors to strike down the almost 200 laws that were discriminatory to women. And it worked. A Swing to the Right The Supreme Court is part of the "checks and balances" system put in place in the Constitution to separate powers within the political system and avoid any one of the three pillars dominating. However, since Supreme Court Justices are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate, the make-up of the court is inherently political. Republican presidents tend to nominate socially conservative judges, and Democrats favour more progressive ones. The Court was already leaning right with five Republican nominated Justices out of nine (including two nominated by President Trump). RBG's death could mean that the balance swings to 6 to 3. The Constitution doesn't lay down a timetable or detailed rules about the nomination of judges. When conservative Justice Antonin Scalia died in February 2016, President Barack Obama wanted to name a new Justice before the November presidential election. The Republican majority leader of the Senate, Mitch McConnell, refused to hold confirmation hearings, arguing, “The American people should have a voice in the selection of their next Supreme Court Justice. Therefore, this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president.” His action was successful, and Justice Scalia was eventually replaced by Trump pick Neil Gorsuch. The situation in 2016 was a Democratic president facing a Republican majority in both houses of Congress. And an election seven months away. The situation after Ginsburg's death is Republican president, a Democratic majority in the lower house and a Republican majority in the Senate. The same Republican majority leader, Mitch McConnell, wants to confirm a new Justice before election day, saying the Senate would be within its rights to act because it is Republican-controlled, and Mr Trump is a Republican president. Mr Trump announced on Sunday that he would nominate a woman Justice to replace Ms Ginsburg. The Democrats are calling for any nomination to be delayed until after a new President is elected, echoing RBG's own wishes on her deathbed,. NPR reported that Ms Ginsburg wrote to her granddaughter, "My most fervent wish is that I will not be replaced until a new president is installed." Reproductive Rights Campaigners are worried that if another conservative is nominated the Court could overturn decisions on gender equality and reproductive rights. the 1972 Roe v. Wade ruling that guaranteed abortion rights has been under attack in lower courts and state legislatures throughout Mr Trump's presidency. Right to life versus right to choice was already a major campaign issue, with Mr Trump firmly in the former camp and Joe Biden in the latter. You can find more the Supreme Court and RBG's legacy Shine Bright AMC File 15 Justice for all?

20 Septembre 2020

Trump

feminism

U.S. culture