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Language and Literature: English Speciality

Are you going to be teaching LLCER this year? We can help! Shine Bright 1e has four sequences covering both themes. Look out for LLCER resources on Speakeasy-news. And in October we’ll be publishing reading guides to four of the literary works on the curriculum. Watch our video to find out more!

31 Juillet 2019

literature

Oscar Wilde

Edgar Allan Poe

Rendez-vous

Boris Johnson at Number Ten

Britain has a new Prime Minister. After a two-month voting process following Theresa May’s resignation, the Conservative Party announced the name of its new leader on 23 July. On 24 July the Queen invited Boris Johnson to form a government.

24 Juillet 2019

Brexit

politics

UK

6

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Rip van Winkle

This A2 activity is based on a short presentation of Washington Irving’s short story Rip Van Winkle, which was first published in 1819, two hundred years ago. Although it was inspired by a German traditional story, Irving gave it a clearly American context as the eponymous Van Winkle magically falls asleep for 20 years, completely missing the War of Independence, and is bemused by the changes that have taken place in his absence. It has become a classic, often considered the first American short story.

19 Juillet 2019

audio

U.S. literature

Rip Van Winkle

Keith Haring: Fast Art

Keith Haring grew up in small town Pennsylvania reading, watching and drawing cartoons. When the 20-year-old arrived in New York City to study art in 1978, his fast, cartoonish style was soon recognisable all over the city. A retrospective at Tate Liverpool, then going onto Brussels, shows the astonishing output of his short life.

18 Juillet 2019

art

exhibition

cartoons

Take Your Classes to the Cinema in Dinard!

The 30th edition of the Dinard British Film Festival will take place in the Breton town from 25 to 29 September. The films in competition haven’t been announced yet, but you can get ready to sign up your classes to see some of the best British films from the last year at special schools showings. It’s a big year for biopics with Mary Shelley, Mary Queen of Scots and Bohemian Rhapsody. There are up to 4 showings a day from Monday 16 to Tuesday 24 September. Reservations open on Thursday 29 August but you can already decide what interests you. The films on offer are: Primary and Collège Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them by David Yates The first instalment of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter spin-off series. Our A2 Ready-to-Use Resource will help you prepare classes. Collège & Lycée Mary Shelley by Haifaa Al Mansour The biopic of the Frankenstein author's early life. Don’t miss our audio interview with the director . Lycée Bohemian Rhapsody by Bryan Singer Rami Malek's Oscar-winning performance as Freddie Mercury in the biopic commissioned by the remaining members of Queen. Mary Queen of Scots by Josie Rourke The theatralised story of the relationship between Mary Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I of England. Our Ready-to-Use Resource will help give classes some background to the complex history. Reservations open at 8 a.m . on Thursday 29 August by telephone on 02 99 16 86 96. The showings cost 4 euros per pupil.

18 Juillet 2019

film

Dinard

festival

Singing for Freedom

South African singer, musician, dancer and activist Johnny Clegg has died at the age of 66. His music was an influential part of his participation in the anti-Apartheid campaign.

18 Juillet 2019

protest songs

South Africa

Nelson Mandela

Digital Democracy in Hong Kong Protests

Hong Kong citizens have been protesting for weeks against a law they say would stifle political opposition by allowing activists to be extradited to mainland China for trial. In the face of surveillance, activists in the former British colony are turning to web apps to anonymously organise protests, or even vote on their next actions.

17 Juillet 2019

activism

social media

democracy

Landing on the Moon

NASA is marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first Moon landings. Fifty years after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the Moon, and 47 years after the end of the Apollo program, the U.S. space agency is preparing to go back to the Moon by 2024.

15 Juillet 2019

myths and heroes

NASA

Mars

Virginia Woolf Love Story

A new biopic, Vita and Virginia, tells the story of author Virginia Woolf's relationship with aristocrat Vita Sackville-West, which resulted in one of the most innovative novels of the early twentieth century, Orlando . Apart from an interest in literature and writing, nothing destined Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West to meet, never mind form a relationship. Vita was a bubbly, well-connected socialite, daughter of a baron. Her real name was Victoria, but that was far too staid for a modern age that was turning its back in Victorian morals. She wrote novels, which sold reasonably well, and designed gardens. Woolf meanwhile was a much more introverted character from an upper-middle-class background. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , when her half-brother tried to introduce her to London society, “It was a failure: at social events Virginia would know and speak to nobody all evening and would stand, crushed by the crowd, against a wall. On one occasion she managed to read Tennyson behind a curtain.” She and her husband Leonard were leading lights of the Bloomsbury Group of modernist writers and they ran an avant-garde publishing company, the Hogarth Press, which championed T S Eliot, Sigmund Freud, Katherine Mansfield, E M Forster, and published their own work. Virginia’s work included novels, where she used stream-of-consciousness narration, biography and many essays, particularly on feminist themes. Vita & Virginia is adapted from a play of the same name by Eileen Atkins, which was based on correspondence between the women. Both left enormous archives of letters and diaries. Vita’s earliest relationships had been with women. Her marriage was one of convenience — her husband was more interested in men. Virginia also had many friendships with women, though her sexuality was permanently marked by sexual abuse she suffered from her half-brother as an adolescent. The women’s relationship was more intellectual than physical, with Virginia watching in awe as Vita, bold, androgynous, adventurous, did all the things that Virginia didn’t dare to do. She showed this vicarious imagination in Orlando (1928), inspired by Vita, whose titular character is so "larger-than-life" that he/she survives more than 300 years from Elizabethan time, changing gender several times. https://youtu.be/vJzT1xawcUU Biography of a biographer Woolf was well-schooled in biography. Her father was the founder editor of the Dictionary of National Biography. Woolf herself wrote many biographical essays about women not recorded or under-recorded in “official” history. Vita and Virginia director Chanya Button points out, “The nature of biography is one of the themes of the film. She could have written a traditional biography of Vita Sackville-West, but she didn’t. She wrote Orlando, which was an imaginative novel. One that has a protagonist that travels across 300 years of history and morphs from male to female.” Vita and Virginia On general release 10 July This film makes a good addition to Shine Bright 1ère Advanced File 1: "Brave New Women", a sequence for Spécialité LLCE on ton women and dystopias. It includes an extract from Woolf's A Room of One's Own where she imagines what life would have been like for Shakespeare's imaginary sister.

10 Juillet 2019

film

love

biography

3

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WWI: They Shall Not Grow Old

To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, Peter Jackson has restored old black-and-white archive footage of British servicemen’s life in the trenches. "They Shall Not Grow Old" takes its title from a 1914 poem and this resource fits perfectly into Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 2: "War will Not Tear Us Apart", a sequence for Spécialité LLCE on the effect of WWI on human relationships.

10 Juillet 2019

conflict

war

commemoration

Visible Woman

Caroline Criado Perez's thought-provoking book Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men does exactly what it says: shows the hundreds of ways in which the needs of women (and anyone who isn't a 1.77m tall, 76kg white male) are ignored in all aspects of our society. The author will be giving a reading in Paris on 16 July.

09 Juillet 2019

women

book

gender equality

4

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Invisible Women

Invisible Women sets out to show that we live in a world that is literally made for men. And the results of that vary from annoying to downright dangerous. This B2-B2+ resource based around a review of the book fits well into the Shine Bright 1re Advanced file 1 for LLCER: Brave new women, on women and dystopias. What if real life was dystopian?

09 Juillet 2019

women

book

gender equality

Amazing Grace

Forty-six years after it was filmed, an extraordinary documentary has been released of Aretha Franklin recording her most popular album, and the biggest selling gospel album of all time.

08 Juillet 2019

documentary

U.S. culture

music

Rendez-vous

Winners!

At the end of the most-watched Women's World Cup ever, an exciting final pitted the Netherlands against reigning champions the U.S.A. The Oranje held off the Stars and Stripes for the first half, but in the end the experience of the American team showed as goals from Rapinoe and Lavelle gave them their fourth World Cup title.

08 Juillet 2019

sport

U.S.A.

gender equality

They Shall Not Grow Old

A new documentary film by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson brings the soldiers in the First World War to life to commemorate the centenary of the Armistice.

01 Juillet 2019

conflict

war

commemoration

Sélection culturelle

Outsider’s Eye

Photographer André Kertész, considered one of the major 2oth-century proponents of the photographic art, is currently the subject of a retrospective at the Château de Tours. Kertész was born in Hungary in 1894 and died in New York 101 years later, having spent a decade in Paris along the way.

28 Juin 2019

New York

exhibition

photography

4

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The Mouse Mansion

"The Mouse Mansion" is a sequence for 6e pupils based on the children's book of the same name by Karina Schaapman, and on the DIY video tutorials on her website. Pupils make their own rooms for the mansion. It's an excellent opportunity to practise vocabulary about rooms and furniture. Author and artist Schaapman spent years building and furnishing the Mouse Mansion, an elaborate doll’s house, out of cardboard boxes and papier-mâché, and writes books about the mice, Sam and Julia, who inhabit it.

26 Juin 2019

video

children's books

arts and crafts

The Mouse Mansion: Working Across Languages or Between Classes

Un projet autour d'un album de jeunesse a permis un travail inter-langues et entre-classes de collège sur la vie quotidienne et la maison. La création de pièces pour une maison de poupées a libéré la parole des élèves et remporté leur enthousiasme.

26 Juin 2019

interlangues

inter-degré

interclasses

Victoria 200

2019 marks the bicentenary of the births of Britain’s Queen Victoria and her beloved husband Prince Albert. Victoria reigned from 1837 until 1899, the longest reign of any British monarch until the current Queen overtook the record in 2015. Victoria reigned over an era of imperial expansion, ultimately ruling over a quarter of the world’s population. It was also an era of technological progress, with transport and communications innovations that made her the first monarch of the information age.

24 Juin 2019

Buckingham Palace

royalty

anniversary

Rendez-vous

Native Voice

In 2019, for the first time, the U.S.A.’s poet laureate — the nation’s “official” poet — will be a Native American. Joy Harjo is a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation from Alabama. She aims to honour both the “Native” and the “American”, saying, “When you grow up as a person in your culture, you have your culture and you're in it, but you're also in this American culture, and that's another layer."

24 Juin 2019

poetry

U.S. culture

performance poetry

3

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Tolkien, War and Fellowship

The trailer for the biopic Tolkien is perfect to add to Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 2 “War will not tear us apart” or File 1 “Biopics in Hollywood”. It draws parallels between Tolkien's childhood friendships and love, his experience of World War I and his later heroic fantasy novels The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings.

21 Juin 2019

video

WWI

love

Sélection culturelle

Yesterday

It’s always great to have an excuse to play Beatles songs in class and the latest one is this summer’s feel-good movie, Yesterday. In it a wannabe pop star from England wakes up from a bike accident caused by a global power cut to discover that he is the only person left on Earth who remembers The Beatles and their songs. Should he claim them as his own? Scripted by Richard Curtis (Love Actually) and directed by Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire), it’ll have you humming Beatles songs all the way home.

20 Juin 2019

film

British culture

romantic comedy

1

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The End of Slavery: Juneteenth

Juneteenth is an American celebration marking the end of slavery, when news of the Emancipation Proclamation finally reached the last U.S. state, Texas on June 19, 1865. These digital resources can be used to add to Shine Bright 2de File 19 "Breaking the Chains".

17 Juin 2019

video

civil rights

U.S. history

5

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South Africa: Nelson Mandela

Shine Bright 1re File 16 is on Born-free South Africa: the young generation that was born after the end of apartheid. The legacy of Nelson Mandela's life and politics is the cornerstone of today's South Africa. In this B1 article, your students will learn about Mandela and his part in the abolition of apartheid and the building of a democratic South Africa until his death in 2013.

16 Juin 2019

biography

Nobel prize

prison

8

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Dorothea Lange: On the Road

Dorothea Lange's iconic photos of Depression-era America and the farming families forced to flee meteorological and financial disasters often focus on the roads the migrants travelled. In Shine Bright 1re Advanced File 4 "On the Road", pupils analyse a photo by Lange juxtaposed with extracts from John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. This resource will allow them to learn more about Lange and her work, and the importance of travelling the roads west to a generation of migrants from the Dust Bowl.

15 Juin 2019

documentary

U.S. history

photography

5

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Michelle Obama Autobiography

Michelle Obama's memoir of her life up until leaving the White House gives great insight in the U.S. political system and the extent to which the private is considered political, and to which spouses and children are expected to participate in candidates' campaigns. It is an excellent addition to Shine Bright 1re File 5, "Politically Private".

14 Juin 2019

U.S. politics

White House

First Lady

7

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First Man Biopic

A new film, First Man, released a few months before the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings gives an opportunity to look back at a discreet man who marked 20th century history. You can use this resource with Shine Bright 1re File 1, Biopics in Hollywood.

13 Juin 2019

film

biography

NASA

James Baldwin: Love in Harlem

The 2019 film adaptation of James Baldwin's novel If Beale Street Could Talk, a love story set in 1970s Harlem, makes an excellent complement to Shine Bright 2de File 1 "United Colors of Harlem" or Shine Bright 1re File 8 "African-American Art" . This video can be used in class to introduce the film and Baldwin.

13 Juin 2019

U.S.A.

video

film

Sélection culturelle

Staging the Brontë Sisters

Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë were wonderful storytellers, but their lives have fascinated generations of audiences almost as much as their books. The play "Brontë" by Polly Teale combines their biographies and their fiction. We talked to Barry Purves, who directed a recent production.

12 Juin 2019

literature

théâtre

Brontë

5

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Aboriginal Rap

This year’s Young Australian of the Year is Danzal Baker, alias Baker Boy, a 22-year-old Indigenous Australian who raps in three languages. As well as achieving success in rap, dance and graffiti, Baker mentors Indigenous youth to help them achieve their dreams. This resourceo can be used with Shine Bright 2de File 2 High-school spirit in Australia, or Shine Bright 1re File 12, Peoples of Oceania.

11 Juin 2019

video

Australia

music