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[HGGSP] Que nous apprend l'histoire sur la guerre en Ukraine ?

Une vidéo accompagnée de cartes répondre aux questions de vos élèves sur la guerre en Ukraine.

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L'expansionnisme russe : la guerre en Ukraine (2022)

Un dossier inédit sur la guerre en Ukraine. 

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Earth Day 2022

April 22 is Earth Day and its organisers are encouraging us all to "invest in our planet", the theme of this year's event. It certainly needs us all to pay more attention to its needs. Earthday.org and NASA provide lots information and teaching tools to engage students and offer practical actions to take.

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Les espaces productifs en France

Un jeu en ligne pour découvrir différents espaces productifs en France.

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Méfiez-vous des classements des villes !

Ce podcast explique la difficulté de faire un classement des villes à l’échelle mondiale. 

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Le Maroni, un fleuve frontière en Guyane

Cet article expose les enjeux de la frontière entre la Guyane et le Suriname, et les dynamiques du territoire transfrontalier. 

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La frontière Guyane-Suriname

Quels sont les enjeux géopolitiques impliqués dans cette frontière ultramarine de l'Union européenne ?

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Historic Supreme Court Nomination

On 7 April, the U.S. Senate confirmed the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as a Supreme Court Justice — the first ever African-American woman in the court's 233-year history. Despite hostile Senate hearings, three Republican Senators gave their votes to confirm the nomination.  When he fulfilled an election promise by nominating Ms. Brown Jackson, President Biden explained, “For too long our government, our courts haven’t looked like America.” President Biden nominated Ms Brown Jackson after Justice Stephen Breyer announced he would retire this summer. Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life. They are nominated by the President but have to be confirmed by the Senate. Breyer is currently one of three “liberal” Justices along with six “conservatives”. Presidents generally nominate Justices associated with their own politics, so liberal Brown Jackson was a logical pick for Biden. Since the Senate is currently split 50-50 Republican and Democrat, the nomination was likely to pass, as Vice-President Kamala Harris has a casting vote. In the event, three Republican Senators “crossed the aisle” to support the nomination. If any Democratic Senators lose their seats at the Midterm elections in November, this may be Biden’s only opportunity to have a nominated judge confirmed. Justice Brown Jackson Brown Jackson,51, has had a long career in many aspects of the justice system. She was brought up in Florida, and  pointed out in her confirmation speech t hat her family has gone from segregation to Supreme Court Justice in one generation. Both her parents were teachers. Her mother went on to be a school administrator. Her father went to law school when Brown Jackson was a child, inspiring her to follow in his footsteps She studied at Harvard and was was editor of the Harvard Law Review like one of her role models, Barack Obama. After law school, she worked as a clerk for Justice Stephen Breyer, a public defender and a defense attorney in private practice. She served as a District Court Judge before joining the DC District Court of Appeals last year. When President Obama was nominating a Justice in 2016, Brown Jackson’s the-11-year-old daughter wrote to him asking to add her mother to his list. In over 200 years, 120 Justices have served on the Supreme Court, 115 of them men and 117 white. The first woman, Sandra Day Connor, was only appointed in 1981. The first African American Justice was Thurgood Marshall, appointed in 1967 by President Lyndon Johnson, after he led the NAACP case in Brown Vs Board of Education, the landmark ruling on school desegregation. Defenders vs. Prosecutors Marshall was also the last Justice before Brown Jackson who had experience as a public defender — a lawyer appointed by the courts to defend the accused. Of the judges in the U.S. court system as a whole, former prosecutors outnumber defense attorneys by four to one according to a recent study by the Cato Institute . It could be argued that having preponderance of judges whose principal experience is on one side or the other of the prosecution-defence divide can skew the system in one direction.  Some of the most aggressive and hostile questioning Brown Jackson faced from Republican senators during the confirmation hearings was about her time was a public defender, implying that by defending criminals she somehow sided with them. You can find more on  the need for reform in the U.S. justice system in Shine Bright AMC File 15 Justice for all?

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The Invictus Games are Back

The Invictus Games for injured and sick military personnel and veterans was founded by Prince Harry, himself a veteran, in 2014. The Invictus Games 2020, the fifth edition, are finally being held from 6 to 13 April 2022 in the Hague, Netherlands. More than 500 participants from 20 countries will compete. As importantly, they will be accompanied by friends and family who have helped them in their recovery. Prince Harry was inspired to create the games after attending the Warrior Games in the U.S.A. He wanted to take the concept of helping service personnel in their recovery through sport, but add an international element, bringing together athletes from around the world. The first event in London in 2014 surpassed even the organisers’ hopes, showcasing inspiring stories of resilience from the athletes. https://youtu.be/PpnYcXJVWNM The Games’ motto is a neat variation on Julius Caesar’s “Veni, vedi, vici” (I came, I saw, I conquered): We came. We saw. We are unconquered. That chimes with the poem “Invictus” which inspired Nelson Mandela in prison, and which gave its name to the games. William Henley (1849–1903), the poet, knew what it was like to suffer from ill health – he developed tubercular arthritis as a teenager and had to have a leg amputated. Christ Martin from Coldplay took the last lines of the poem as the chorus to the anthem he wrote for the Games: I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. [embed]https://youtu.be/XFM5dgPoLrE[/embed] In the Hague , 500 competitors will participate in one or more out of the ten sports: athletics, archery, cycling, indoor rowing, a driving challenge, powerlifting, sitting volleyball, swimming, wheelchair basketball, and wheelchair rugby. Competitors are using sport to help them recover from both physical injuries and the effects combat can have on mental health. Prince Harry is still very much involved in the Games, as can be seen in this tongue-in-cheek  video of him trying to learn some Dutch before the opening ceremony. [embed]https://youtu.be/N_Zu0vd0g5M[/embed] The next games are planned in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 2023.   You can find a whole SnapFile on the Invictus Games in Shine Bright Terminale: Snapfile 21.

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Spies Fooling Spies

A new film details a barely believable operation from World War II involving a dead body designed to fool the Nazis about Allied invasion plans and save the lives of thousands of soldiers. The success of Operation Mincemeat hinged on creating a carefully crafted fiction, which is where James Bond author Ian Fleming came in. Fleming hadn’t created Bond yet, he was an espionage officer in the British military. In 1943 Allies were planning to invade the Italian island of Sicily to open a new front.  But trying to invade a heavily defended island meant risking heavy casualties — men disembarking from small boats would be easy targets. To make things worse, the Allies believed the Axis forces had obtained some intelligence about the plans. It was essential to divert attention from Sicily to other possible invasion points. And so a group of spies came up with a plan to plant a dead body which seemed to be carrying confidential plans to invade Greece instead. The body would be dumped in the sea off the Spanish coast in the hope that Nazi agents in the non-aligned country would get wind of its discovery. Nothing was certain in this scenario — the body could disappear, or not come to the Nazis’ notice. But if it was found, the Allied espionage team were determined that their plant would be as believable as possible. A body with nothing in it except a uniform and top-secret papers would raise suspicions. So the spies set out to create a life story for the corpse, and leave clues on his body. Mundane things like a  receipt for an engagement ring or a theatre ticket dated in the right time frame for someone coming from London as a message courier. A photo of his girlfriend. The tiny signs of civilian life that all of us carry around. Several of the team working on the subterfuge were amateur or published authors. Among them, Ian Fleming, who would go on to write the James Bond novels after the war (and help found the CIA.) Although this operation, based in a dingy London basement, was far from the glamour of Bond’s missions, it required all of Fleming’s imaginative skills to transform the corpse of a homeless man into “Major William Martin”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7ZXOXHZ20 This short video from the National Archives shows some of the documents and artefacts from the real Operation Mincemeat. https://youtu.be/XX7Jy0FX278?t=17 Operation Mincemeat On general release 27 April.   You could link this film with Shine Bright 3e SnapFile 1 Join the Spy School.

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Conseil lecture : Quand la géo explique le monde

Thibaut Sardier, Quand la Géo explique le monde. 30 phénomènes que vous ne connaissez pas encore, Éd. Autrement (2020)

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The Big Jubilee Read

Do some armchair travelling with the Big Jubilee Read: a list of 70 books, ten for each decade of Queen Elizabeth II’s record-breaking reign. As befits its head, the authors and settings range all over the Commonwealth: representing 31 countries on six continents. It includes eight Nobel Literature Laureates, and a lot of Booker Prize winners.

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Cartoprodig : l'outil incontournable des géographes !

Le CNRS a mis au point la plateforme Cartoprodig, un atlas en ligne à consulter et à télécharger librement ! 

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Conseil lecture : Voyage au pays des Ouïghours

Sylvie Lasserre, Voyage au pays des Ouïghours. De la persécution invisible à l'enfer orwellien, Éditions Hesse, 2020.

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La guerre et le système monétaire international

L’invasion russe en Ukraine pourrait accélérer les transformations du système monétaire international.

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They Spoke and They Conquered

Back in January, we announced this year's Cicéronnades competition organised by the Académie of Orléans-Tours, which enncourages pupils to video themselves reciting a poem or prose text. The winners have just been announced, as part of la semaine des langues vivantes.  The Académie of Orléans-Tours is organising a competition for pupils to recite texts in the languages they are learning, which is open to pupils and students (up to the third year of university) all over France and in lycées français abroad. For its second year, the competition, open to pupils and students (up to the third year of university) all over France and in lycées français abroad, covered a wide range of modern languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French as a foreign language, French as a second language, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Turkish) as well as ancient Greek and Latin. Individual pupils make a simple video of themselves reciting their text. The deadline for entries is 11 March 2022, and the winners will be announced on 8 April. For secondary pupils, there were set texts, one a poem and the other a speech. For collège (cycle 4)  , the poem was by Victorian poet Ernest Dowson, tled in Latin "Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam" . For lycée it is William Shakespeare's sonnet number 12, "When I Do Count the Clock that Tells the Time". For c ollège pupils the speech was one given by a young Ugandan climate justice activist, Vanessa Nakate, at a conference on Earth Day 2021.  For lycée , pupils could recite a speech made by Britain's Prince Charles to the COP21 conference in 2015. For collège , the three winners in English are: First prize: Eléa Schott-Barta, Collège Paul-Louis Courier, Tours. Second prize: Fiona Tuvee, Collège Victor Hugo, Puiseaux Third prize: Jean-David Carouée, Collège Pablo Picasso, Charette-sur-Loing And for lycée : First prize: Faustine Pareau-Deniau, Lycée Marceau, Chartres Second prize: Leopold Grindel-Chollet, Lycée Thérès Planiol, Loches Third prize: Maëlle  Gombart-Roze, Lycée Maurice Genevoix, Ingré Congratulations to all of you! You'll find the winners in the different languages and levels as well as all the texts for contest on the Académie Orléans-Tours website  .  

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La France et le monde : une puissance déclassée ?

Dans un monde en transition régi par de nouveaux rapports de force internationaux, la France peine à affirmer son leadership.

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Londres-Paris : concurrence et complémentarité

Ce podcast détaille les principaux facteurs et enjeux de la compétition entre Paris et Londres.

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L’Inde devient-elle un État antidémocratique ?

En 2020, l'Inde met en place une loi qui accorde la nationalité sur des critères religieux. Quelles en sont les conséquences ?

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Les États-Unis et le climat : l'économie d'abord

La lutte contre le réchauffement climatique est un enjeu majeur pour Joe Biden. Mais le principal critère demeure économique.

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Free Celtic Film Festival

The second edition of the Festival du film celtique will take place at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris on the evenings of 11 and 12 April.  Feature and short films from Scotland and Wales will be shown, with lots of opportunity to talk to filmmakers.

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And the Oscar Winners Are…

The 2022 Oscar ceremony was memorable… But what about the winning films? Several of our favourite films of the last year came away with awards. And CODA beat off some favourites to take Best Picture.

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Lyon: Crime (Fiction) Capital

France’s biggest crime-fiction festival is back at its usual time of year, 1-3 April, after a Covid-delayed edition in July 2021. For its 18 th edition it has a large roll-call of writers from France and around the world, including many from the U.K. and the U.S. Alongside stars like Harlan Coben, John Grisham and Paula Hawkins, you’ll also find the cream of Scottish noir: Val McDermid, Irvine Welsh, Abir Mukherjee, and the wonderful Chris Brookmyre. (If you don’t know his work, you don’t know what you’re missing!) If you haven’t discovered him yet, Richard Osman, comic turned bestselling crime author, who has set his books in an old-people’s community that has a Thursday murder club (the point being to solve cold cases, not to commit murders, although...) Alongside stars like Harlan Coben, John Grisham and Paula Hawkins, you’ll also find the cream of Scottish noir: Val McDermid, Irvine Welsh, Abir Mukherjee, and the wonderful Chris Brookmyre. (If you don’t know his work, you don’t know what you’re missing!) If you haven’t discovered him yet you can meet Richard Osman, comic turned bestselling crime author, who has set his books in an old-people’s community that has a Thursday murder club (the point being to solve cold cases, not to commit murders.) On Saturday at 2.30 p.m. there’s a presentation of a crime novel written by a binational duo of authors, one French and one German. It’s called Terminus Leipzig , by Jérôme Leroy and Max Annas. At 4.30 there’s an hour with John Grisham on the differences between the U.S. and French justice systems. Just time to get a few books signed in between! At 5 p.m., three American authors, Kimi Cunningham Grant, David Joy and John Woods, will discuss a region that fascinates them, the Appalachian mountains . And for a complete change of scene, a South African meal at 7.30 with three authors, Deon Meyer, Caryl Férey et Max Annas and a Cape Town chef. It’s worth getting up early on Sunday for a 9.30 cruise on the Rhine with Girl on the Train author Paula Hawkins . At 10.30, catch Val McDermid discussing the importance of place in crime fiction with French author Sonja Delzongle and Arnaldur Indriðason from Island. Or at 11, join a discussion about the modern “cosy” mystery (think Cluedo or Agatha Christie) with British authors S. J. Bennett and Richard Osman, and Jeon Gunwoo from South Korea. Would-be crime writers will have to choose between two events centred more on the technique of crime fiction at 2 p.m. on Sunday, one on suspense and the other on action . (The latter is a chance to meet Chris Brookmyre.) At 5, you can catch a discussion about using real historical characters in crime fiction with British authors S. J. Bennett and Abir Mukherjee,  Peter Dempf from Germany and Raphaël Malkin from France. There’s also space in the programme for film and TV adaptations. On Thursday at 7 p.m., Michel Barnier will discuss Hitchcock and suspense. On Friday 1 st at 3.45 p.m., a preview showing of Irvine Welsh’s TV series Crime , and a chance to talk to the Trainspotting author afterwards. [embed]https://youtu.be/pTGGUF4euTE[/embed] Don’t miss Daniel Craig in a very different role from Bond in Knives Out on Friday at 8.30: a crime film about the murder of a crime writer called Harlan. [embed]https://youtu.be/tn68kE6UkVQ[/embed] Talking of Harlans, catch Harlan Coben by video link for a showing of his “made in France” film Ne le dis à personne directed by Guillaume Canet, also on Friday at 8.30. Three of American director Michael Mann ’s urban crime films will be shown on Friday and Sunday, Thief, Heat and Miami Vice. There are lots more events, games, exhibitions and music. Check out the programme . Quais du polar 1-3 April at various venues in Lyon.  

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Canadian Film Festival in Dieppe

Dieppe will be celebrating Canadian films, in English and French, from 24 to 27 March.

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La fin du charbon en France

Pendant une semaine, une journaliste a suivi le quotidien d'employés d'une des dernières usines à charbon de France.

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How does war affect the global economy?

This episode of AnalyzeThis! aims to explain what are the consequences of conflicts on the global economy.

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