Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

So Many Short Films at the This is England Festival in Rouen

The festival is celebrating its 10th anniversary edition a year late from 12 to 20 November. Last year’s edition was postponed several times because of COVID. So the organisers decided to organise a bumper edition this year, with last year’s selection and a new one. And as usual, special attention has been given to school groups enjoying the festival.

In Conversation with Kenneth Branagh

If you are studying "Much Ado About Nothing" with your LLCER students, or anything about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, you’ll want to download this long-form interview with actor-director Kenneth Branagh from BBC Radio 4.

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Your Students Have Talent: Masked Self Portraits

We always love to see your students' work. Adeline Paget sent us photos of her 6e students who did the masked self-portraits activity we suggested.

Your Students Have Talent: Standard English

And in our series Your Students Have Talent, here is just a small sample of an amazing discussion by students studying Shine Bright AMC SnapFile 12 Standard English, about the status of English alongside other languages in the world today.

Les États-Unis dominent la course aux Nobel

Cet article permet de comprendre le leadership des États-Unis dans l’obtention des prix Nobel.

Paraphraser

L'article propose un ensemble d'exercices et d'activités pour apprendre à reformuler. On pat du principe que si on veut que les élèves l'évitent dans le cadre du commentaire par exemple, ils doivent la comprendre et la maîtriser. C'est en effet un exercice utile pour vérifier la compréhension du texte et pour aller vers le résumé.

L'autorité de la parole à l'épreuve du feu

Mobilisateurs, galvanisants, On trouve des discours exhortant à combattre dans l'histoire des idées, de Thucydide à Churchill, mais aussi dans la fiction (ici, dans Le Seigneur des Anneaux de Tolkien) et au cinéma. La séquence passe de l'un à l'autre pour en montrer le fonctionnement et la permanence.

Focus sur une brève pièce contemporaine sur la Grande Guerre

Classe Quinze de Gabriel Couple est une pièce courte sur le Première Guerre mondiale dont le texte est disponible sur Internet. En seconde au lycée général ou au lycée professionnel, c'est l'occasion de travailler le texte dans une perspective historique et de mettre l'accent sur des activités de mise en scène.

Parier sur la dissertation : vers le réenchantement d'un exercice scolaire

Des activités sont proposées pour la 2de et la 1re afin de préparer les élèves à la dissertation sur œuvre. Il s'agit de dédramatiser l'exercice en travaillant sur l'implication personnelle de l'élève, sur l'utilisation qu'il peut faire de ses connaissances et sur la qualité de l'expression.

Plongée dans un parcours littéraire et pictural

Le retour de l'explication linéaire

Pour apprendre à mener à bien une explication linéaire, l'article prend le parti de travailler l'exercice objet d'étude par objet d'étude, en illustrant le propos par des exemples choisis.

La contraction de texte

La contraction de texte est un exercice essentiel, au-delà de la préparation au Bac, puisqu'il figure aux épreuves de nombreux concours. Apprendre à résumer impose de respecter des étapes que cet article détaille.

Grand oral : le préparer et s'exercer

Pour dédramatiser le grand oral, l'article propose une méthodologie et des activités qui peuvent être mises en œuvre quelles que soient les matières choisies. Cela implique une solide préparation en amont et des exercices spécifiques pour préparer la prestation orale.

Promenades en Méditerranée : Troie, Athènes et Delphes

Au sein de l'objet d'étude « présence des mondes antiques », une séquence de latin pour la Tle propose un parcours dans différents sites des rives de la Méditerranées. Ces textes antiques pourront être rapprochés de textes littéraires, en particulier ceux de l'époque romantique.

Une épreuve inédite : l'essai philosophique ou littéraire

La double entrée, « lettres » et « philosophie » complexifie l'approche de l'essai tel qu'il est présenté pour la spécialité Humanités. Il s'agit donc d'apprendre à proposer un développement raisonné qui fait référence aux deux disciplines.

Teaching about Refugees

The Walk with Little Amal project aims to raise awareness of the plight of refugees and particularly refugee children. As Amal makes an 8,000 km journey across Europe on foot, the project hopes to help other children think about the issue, and they've provided lots of educational tools to help teachers explore the topic in class.  You can read more about the giant Little Amal puppet and her stops in France in our article . The Walk with Amal site has a teaching pack for classes, available in English and also in French . The beautifully designed pack has activities encouraging pupils to think about what home means to them, which objects are most important to them, create family trees or look into the meanings behind names. There's a scrapbook page about Amal for them to read and reproduce about themselves. A section on migration starts out with migratory animals before moving on to human migration and the push and pull factors associated with it. There's lots of poetry in the pack, like this poem by Warsan Shire,  who had to flee Somalia. No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. … No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying - leave, run, now. I don’t know what I’ve become. There's a whole section on facing fears and another on climate change as a push factor for refugees with examples of young climate activists. And the pack closes on a section on adventure.

Madame de Lafayette, La Princesse de Clèves

Le hors-série sur La Princesse de Clèves offre des outils qui permettent aux élèves de ne pas se perdre parmi les personnages et intrigues. Une section consacrée à la peinture de l’amour et une autre aux « morales du roman » correspondent au parcours « Individu, morale et société ».

Before Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks is known the world over as the African American who refused to give up her seat to a white person on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama. But nine months before Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin did the same thing. She's the subject of a play (in French), Noire.

Bigger Than Us

This inspiring documentary features teen activists around the world who see a problem and try to fix it. From Malawi to Colorado they are fighting pollution, opposing child marriage, supporting education, freedom of speech and sustainable agriculture and demanding rights for the planet and indigenous people. Melati Wijsen and her sister founded Bye Bye Plastic Bags, to fight the plastic waste which washes up in the shores of Indonesia when they were just 12 and 10. Filmmaker Flore Vasseur met Melati while making a documentary, and a few years on, the pair decided to meet other young people trying to help their communities and the planet. In Africa they met two young women. Memory Banda in Malawi ran a campaign to raise the minimum age for marriage from 15 to 18 to protect girls from forced marriages and encourage their families to continue their education. Winnie Tushabe has helped 900 Ugandan families learn new agricultural techniques to gain food security. Like much of the continent, their land had been damaged by pesticides and Winnie taught them to use permaculture to grow crops and protect the soil. At the age of 12, Mohammad Al Jaounde, a Syrian living with his family in a refugee camp in the Lebanon, created a school for children like him. Today it has 200 pupils (top photo) and Mohammad continues to run it virtually from Sweden, where he has found refuge. British teenager Mary Finn also helps refugees from Middle-East conflicts, arriving in Greece. She’s now training as a midwife to continue her humanitarian work. Rene Silva lives in a favela in Brazil. At age 11 he created Vos das Comunidas to allow his community to create and share its own news. It now employs 16 journalists and campaigns for freedom of expression. Xiuhtezcatl Martinez began campaigning as a young teen in Colorado on environmental issues. He’s also a talented rapper and keen to share his First Nations culture. He is one of a group of teens behind a group-action case asserting the U.S. government is flouting their rights by not protecting them from climate change. All of these stories make up the feature-length documentary Bigger Than Us. So many of us find the problems we see around us so enormous they seem insurmountable. It’s inspiring to watch these young people who see a problem and decide to try to fix it, not wait for grown-ups to come along and do the job! See our Ready-to-use resource on Xiuhtezcatl Martinez.   Watch the trailer Bigger Than Us On general release in cinemas The f ilm website gives lots of information about the different campaigners and their causes, and gives a link to contact each one. Could be a good class project!

Create a Poster: Halloween

We have a teacher recommendation for a site for creating posters for your classroom, and an example of a poster on the theme of Halloween to use in collège to work on the BE+ing present and reading comprehension around this celebration.

Next Bond

With Craig’s retirement as James Bond after "No Time to Die", speculation has mounted over who will be cast to take over the role.

Walking Across Europe for Refugees

Little Amal is anything but small: she’s a giant puppet of a Syrian refugee girl making her way across Europe. The 3.5-metre-tall puppet began an 8,000 kilometre journey in Turkey on 27 July. After the south of France in September, she’ll be making stops across the north in October before embarking for the U.K.

La figure féminine dans Les Fleurs du mal de Baudelaire

La séquence traverse le recueil de Charles Baudelaire à travers le thème de la figure féminine, topos de la poésie.

La morale en éclat : La Rochefoucauld, Pascal, La Bruyère, Chamfort

La séquence traite de ceux qu’au XVII e siècle on appelle les moralistes et qui recourent aux formes brèves et fragmentaires. Au premier rang de ces moralistes, on trouve Pascal, La Rochefoucauld et La Bruyère.

Maximes et aphorismes : Pascal, La Bruyère, Vauvenargues, Balzac, Char, Cioran, Joubert, Hippocrate, Cicéron, Quintilien

Au XVII e siècle, il est paradoxal que la réflexion sur l’homme soit le fait de textes courts, fragmentés, bien plus que d’amples raisonnement. La séquence met l’accent sur Pascal et La Bruyère, mais prolonge la réflexion avec des textes des XIX e et XX e siècles.

À table avec l'honnête homme : Molière, La Fontaine, Montaigne, Fénelon, Voltaire

Les bonnes manières, les rituels pour servir à table, manger, débarrasser sont au cœur de cette séquence et permettent d'aborder le thème de l'honnête homme. Après une séquence de La Vie d'Adèle de Kechiche, sont étudiés des textes de Montaigne, Fénelon, Molière, La Bruyère qui peuvent accompagner en 1re l'étude des Caractères .

Baudelaire, « Tableaux parisiens »

Le Hors-série est consacré à la section « Tableaux parisiens » des Fleurs du Mal , qui regroupe des poèmes inspirés à Charles Baudelaire par ses déambulations dans les rue de la ville.

2021 Nobel Peace Prize Supports Freedom of the Press

The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to two journalists with a long track record of fighting to protect freedom of expression: Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov, working in the Philippines and Russia.

Captain Kirk Goes Back to Space!

The Canadian actor William Shatner, aka Star Trek Captain Kirk, will be aboard the next rocket from Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos' company, on October 12, 2021.