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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

Josep, una película para no olvidar

Película sobre Josep Bartolí, dibujante catalán en un campo de concentración francés tras la Guerra Civil.

Canción de los republicanos españoles

El Paso del Ebro fue una conocida canción cantada por los republicanos españoles durante la guerra civil española.

Canción sin nombre

Es la historia de Georgina Condori, una mujer andina cuyo bebé, recién nacido, desaparece misteriosamente.

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Arma de instrucción masiva

Iniciativa de Raúl Lemesoff, un argentino, que da libros en su tanque convertido en biblioteca.

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

Si Dios fuera negro, canción de Roberto Angleró

Roberto Angleró (1929-2018), compositor y cantante puertoriqueño. Entre sus éxitos se encuentra este "Si Dios fuera negro".

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

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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

Professeurs documentalistes Lycée

Guy Fawkes Webpicks: Protest and Plot

Cindy Sherman Self-Portraits: Hiding in Plain Sight

Josep, una película para no olvidar

Canción de los republicanos españoles

Canción sin nombre

Arma de instrucción masiva

Campaign Interrupted

Si Dios fuera negro, canción de Roberto Angleró

Enola Holmes: Not Elementary My Dear Sherlock!

U.S. Elections: the Year of the Unknowns

Goodbye RBG

Ray Bradbury

Winning Justice

Winning Justice Videos

The Handmaid's Tale: Sneak Peek

Table-top Shakespeare Free Streaming

The Voyage of the Mayflower

The Mayflower 400 Years On

"Emma": a New Austen Film

Ray Bradbury at 100

Film Festival Time

Teaching LLCER anglais monde contemporain

Reading Guides LLCER Terminale

Respect Movie Featurette

Centennial of Suffrage

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

Greta Thunberg Donates Million Euro Prize

Times Are Changing at NASA

Positive Vision

Steinbeck and Wilde: Reading Guides