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Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury took the popular genre of science-fiction to the level of literature with short story collections like The Martian Chronicles and novels like his masterpiece Fahrenheit 451. A hundred years after his birth, this B1-level article will allow your pupils to discover Bradbury and his work.

18 Septembre 2020

anniversary

Mars

space

Winning Justice

Maya Moore has won every medal and trophy in women’s basketball. But her biggest victory wasn’t on a basketball court. It was helping a man prove his innocence. And she's just announced an extra happy ending to the battle.

17 Septembre 2020

civil rights

racism

U.S. culture

Winning Justice Videos

WNBA star Maya Moore helped secure release for Jonathan Irons, who spent 23 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted. Three videos will allow you to discuss the case in class. They would make an excellent addition to Shine Bright LLCE File 12 Equality on Trial.

17 Septembre 2020

civil rights

racism

U.S. culture

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The Handmaid's Tale: Sneak Peek

We know many of you are patiently waiting for our Reading Guides for the books and films on the LLCER Terminale curriculum. We are going as fast as we can to produce them. To help you while you're waiting, here is a sneak peak of the guide for Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale".

17 Septembre 2020

literature

Shakespeare

Jane Eyre

Table-top Shakespeare Free Streaming

A couple of years ago, Sheffield-based Forced Entertainment brought the complete works of Shakespeare to the Festival d'automne in Paris: all 36 plays, each summarised by a single actor, using houstober, the videos of the performances will be available in turn online.

03 Septembre 2020

video

Shakespeare

Macbeth

The Voyage of the Mayflower

On 16 September 1620, a ship set sail from Plymouth, England on a voyage that became part of the foundation myth of the U.S.A. The Mayflower carried Puritan religious dissenters called the Pilgrims and the colony they founded in Plymouth, Massachusetts has taken on mythical status. Plymouth wasn’t the first British settlement in the future United States. Jamestown, Virginia, was settled in 1607, but it had a chequered history. At one point, the settlers came close to starvation, and at another the population was decimated by a Native American attack. So, despite the later romanticisation of the story of Pocahontas and Jamestown settlers John Rolfe and John Smith, it is the Mayflower and the Pilgrim Fathers that the U.S.A. mythologised. A Rocky Start Yet, the Mayflower journey got off to a rocky start too. A decade before, a group of religious dissenters from Scrooby in Nottinghamshire had fled to the Netherlands to escape religious persecution. Their form of Protestantism was much more radical than the Anglican Church created by Henry VIII in the 1530s. They opposed church hierarchy and their services and Bible were in English, so that each believer could form their own interpretation. Although they found religious toleration in the Netherlands, the group wanted to found their own settlement. They sought funding from investors for a settlement in the New World, and eventually set off in August 1620. However, one of their two ships wasn’t seaworthy and so it was mid-September by the time they finally left from Plymouth, crowding all 102 passengers and 48 crew onto the Mayflower . This wasn’t an auspicious time of year for transatlantic travel. The ship was beset by storms and the settlers arrived in winter, the worst possible time. The storms also altered their course, and instead of arriving in the existing colony of Virginia (which included most of the east coast from New York to Florida, on paper at least), they ended up making landfall further north on Cape Cod on 21 November. After exploring the area, they settled on Plymouth and tradition says they came ashore at Plymouth Rock on 26 December. Their hardships weren’t over. Only half of them survived the winter, mainly on corn they stole from or traded with the local Native American tribe, the Wampanoag. Two Native Americans who spoke some English, Samoset and Squanto, helped relations with the local tribe. Squanto also helped the settlers learn how to grow local crops, fish and hunt. The Making of Myths It wasn’t until the 19 th century that the Pilgrim Fathers, and their first Thanksgiving feast became important in the national psyche. All young American schoolchildren learn that the Pilgrims invited the Wampanoag chief Massasoit to a celebration of their first harvest, to thank the tribe for its help. No doubt some sort of harvest celebration did happen, but the image of cordial relations between the settlers and the people whose land they had appropriated is far from the truth. Even the description of the first settlers as Pilgrims is misleading. Only about a third of the Mayflower ’s passengers were Puritans. The others joined the voyage to trade, or as indentured servants. Tension between the two groups led to the creation of a truly foundational document: the Mayflower Compact was written and signed on the ship off Cape Cod on 21 November (an artist's impression by JLG Ferris is at the top of this page). In it, the male settlers promised to, “combine ourselves together into a civil body politic […] and to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the colony.” They elected one of the Pilgrims, John Carver as their first Governor. The spirit of democracy contained in the Compact was true both to the Puritans’ faith and the future foundation of an independent republic.

31 Août 2020

U.S. culture

Pilgrims

U.S. history

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The Mayflower 400 Years On

Four hundred years ago, on 16 September 1620, the Mayflower set sail from England, carrying the Pilgrim Fathers (and Mothers!) to found the first permanent British colony in North America. This A1+ article gives very basic information, to allow young learners to start building up a cultural competence about the founding of the U.S.A., Puritans and Thanksgiving.

07 Août 2020

thanksgiving

U.S. history

Native Americans

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"Emma": a New Austen Film

One of the greatest classics in English literature and the “most beloved” Jane Austen novel is back on screen in a new film version that mines the deep seam of humour in the novel. These activities and offer your students a new vision of marriage in the 19th century upper-class England and fit perfectly with Shine Bright LLCER Snapfile 6 “Unmarriageable”.

07 Août 2020

film

marriage

videos

Ray Bradbury at 100

American author Ray Bradbury spent more than seventy years fascinating readers and viewers with futuristic science-fiction stories like The Martian Chronicles, and Fahrenheit 451. But it all started with a little bit of magic.

05 Août 2020

anniversary

Mars

space

Sélection culturelle

Film Festival Time

The autumn is approaching, and with it two traditional cinematic highlights: the Deauville American and Dinard British film festivals. Like everything else, they will be a little less traditional this year but not necessarily in a bad way. (Deauville will include films from the cancelled Cannes and Annecy festivals, even if it features fewer Hollywood stars than usual.) Deauville starts on 4 September and Dinard on 30 Sept.

03 Août 2020

Dinard

Deauville

western

Teaching LLCER anglais monde contemporain

If you’re teaching LLCER anglais monde contemporain this year, you haven’t had a lot of time to prepare. The curriculum was published too late for textbooks to be prepared for it. But we can help: check out our companion site for suggestions and lesson plans to use Shine Bright LLCER with AMC classes.

03 Août 2020

teaching resources

LLCER

Shine bright LLCER

Reading Guides LLCER Terminale

Thank you to our many readers who answered our questionnaire on the works you plan to study with your students in LLCER Terminale. And the winners are...

03 Août 2020

literature

Shakespeare

Jane Eyre

Respect Movie Featurette

Watch this short document about the film Respect . [video width="640" height="360" mp4="http://www.speakeasy-news.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RESPECT_Featurette_ALookInside_210614_Texted_h264_sd_redux.mp4"][/video]

Centennial of Suffrage

In 1920, almost 150 years after the United States declared that “all men are created equal,” American women got the right to vote… 27 years after women in New Zealand did. American suffragists worked for almost 80 years to obtain that right. And there’s still work to do today.

29 Juillet 2020

WWI

civil rights

feminism

Teaching about U.S. Women's Fight for the Vote

In commemoration of the hundredth anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in the U.S.A. in 1920, these videos and mini-site provide thought-provoking teaching tools.

29 Juillet 2020

video

civil rights

feminism

Greta Thunberg Donates Million Euro Prize

The 17-year-old founder of the School Strike for Climate movement has been awarded the inaugural Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity. And immediately announced that she would donate the one million euro prize money to environmental projects through her foundation.

23 Juillet 2020

award

protest

ecology

Times Are Changing at NASA

The days when the public faces of NASA are only white men seem to be coming to an end. On 8 July, the space agency announced that it is renaming its Washington headquarters the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters in honour of one of the African American women mathematicians whose contribution to the space race was brought to public notice in the book and film "Hidden Figures".

08 Juillet 2020

Cinéma

NASA

space

Positive Vision

The Visionary Honours is a new kind of awards ceremony: one that singles out art, media and entertainment that fosters social change and debate.

06 Juillet 2020

film

music

media

Steinbeck and Wilde: Reading Guides

Our last two Reading Guides for the LLCE Première reading list are now available: Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde. You can flip through extracts by following these links: Of Mice and Men The Importance of Being Earnest The links, audios and videos are available on the Reading Guides site . The teacher's guides will be available to download there in the next few days. This short video gives you a brief overview of the collection: https://youtu.be/XvVwCI8BBkc

06 Juillet 2020

literature

théâtre

Oscar Wilde

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Artemis Fowl: Teen Bond Villain

Originally, "Artemis Fowl" was the first of eight fantasy novels by Irish author Eoin Colfer. It was adapted for the cinema by Kenneth Branagh and finally released on Disney+ after being delayed by lockdown. It features first-time actors as well as experienced and even very experienced actors like Judi Dench who plays the part of the leader of the fairy police. We think the story is motivating for A2 pupils and a good starting point for interaction. Pupils will discover the trailer, a clip and an article.

06 Juillet 2020

video

film

thriller

Sélection culturelle

My Name is Artemis, Artemis Fowl

Irish author Eoin Colfer imagined Artemis Fowl as a 12-year-old James Bond villain in a battle with the fairy underworld. The eight books starring the teen criminal mastermind have millions of fans, and there is now a film version directed by Kenneth Branagh. The film release was delayed by lockdown and was finally released directly to streaming on Disney+. The books, and film, combine Irish mythology and a high-tech thriller. The film version tinkers with the original first book but the premise is that a thousand years ago, humans and fairy folk had a catastrophic war. As a result, the supernatural people have retreated underground to the Lower Elements. There, they have developed very advanced, magical, technology. In the film, Artemis's father (Colin Farrell) has been abducted by the fairies, and Artemis discovers that he has secretly worked for the Lower Elements for years. In order to save him, Artemis decides to take a fairy hostage, in the shape of elf Holly Short. Short belongs to a fairy police taskforce called LEPrecon and her fellow officers, led by Judi Dench, are not going to let that affront go unchallenged. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXlBep9uFjI You can find out more about the books on Eoin Colfer's site. Don't miss! Our A2-level Ready-to-Use Resource to accompany the film.

06 Juillet 2020

film

thriller

Irish culture

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Irresistible: U.S. Politics on Film

As the race to the White House is about to resume after the pandemic , Jon Stewart’s latest movie — released on 1 July in France — takes you behind the scenes to help you decipher a political campaign. Setting the movie in Wisconsin, and using (wry) humour, Stewart wants people to realise politics is sometimes more a matter of money and media than a matter of ideas. Rivalry, strategy and stereotypes are exposed.

06 Juillet 2020

film

EMC

EMI

Save the Dates: Exhibitions for the Autumn

It feels strange, but museums are planning exhibitions for the autumn, and it's possible to plan class visits at least in theory! A couple of Parisian exhibitions with Anglophone cultural connections that could interest you are English aesthete and illustrator of Oscar Wilde's works, Aubrey Beardsley, at the Musée d'Orsay and American surrealist photographer Man Ray at the Musée du Luxembourg.

06 Juillet 2020

art

Oscar Wilde

exhibition

Sélection culturelle

The "Irresistible" Election Machine

Jon Stewart honed the art of satire on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. Now he’s left the presenting to Trevor Noah, he has turned his satire on the U.S. political system and its finances in a new film, Irresistible. It stars Steve Carrell as a political strategist for the Democratic Party who persuades an ex-Marine to run for mayor of a small Wisconsin town. It soon turns into a Washington caravan, with opposing strategists stopping at nothing for victory.

03 Juillet 2020

film

U.S. elections

fake news

Fourth of July in Lockdown

U.S. Independence Day will be a subdued affair this year due to Coronavirus but celebrations will take place. This video is a simple introduction to July 4.

01 Juillet 2020

video

U.S. culture

U.S. history

La classe Bitmoji

De la classe virtuelle à la classe bitmoji à la recherche de solutions pour l'enseignement à distance au collège. Régine Ballonad-Berthois teste différentes formes d'enseignement hybride.

29 Juin 2020

virtual reality

distance learning

continuité pédagogique

Rendez-vous

I Love NY Creator Dies

It has become one of the most recognisable images in the world, but when Milton Glaser was commissioned to illustrate a tourism campaign "I Love New York", he thought it would disappear after a few weeks. Which it might have done if he hadn't had a last minute flash of inspiration.

29 Juin 2020

New York

Bob Dylan

graphic art

Et si on parlait du Grand oral ?

Vos élèves de Terminale seront les premiers à passer le Grand oral en 2021. Comment les aider à préparer l'épreuve ?

26 Juin 2020

baccalauréat

Bac 2021

grand oral

Still English Game Webinar

Revivez en replay notre webinaire pour pour tout savoir sur Still English, ce nouvel outil ludique pour l'apprentissage d'anglais.

24 Juin 2020

différenciation

games

ludification

Teaching About Windrush

The 70th anniversary of the arrival of the Empire Windrush in the UK, and the current scandal about the treatment of the children of the Windrush Generation, give an opportunity to look at the experiences of Commonwealth immigrants to the U.K.

19 Juin 2020

video

literature

immigration