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Here is your new unit !
We will work on segregation and on its impact on the American society today.
1. A History of Racial Injustice
Let's learn more about the history of racial injustice in the USA. Here is your first mission:
Student 1: Describe the picture to your neighbor as precisely as you can.
Student 2: You will have to listen to your partner and draw the picture.
If you are alone at home you will have to describe the picture as precisely as you can.
Hey! Well done to the artists! This picture tells the story of racism in the United States of America. This is the awful legacy of what was called slavery. Be careful ! Slavery was before segregation. But before discovering the history of segregation you are going to need words to talk about it.
Here is your mission!
You have to write on a sheet of paper everything that comes to your mind concerning the segregation in the USA. ( Verbs, nouns, adjectives, dates, events, people etc...) Create your own mind map
2. From segregation to the White House
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Now that you have more word it is time for your new mission!
Here is your mission!
1) Read the texts and look at the pictures.
2) Fill in the blanks in the timeline with the right numbers and letters.
3. Important dates and people in the fight against segregation
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Now that you know a bit more about segregation it is time to have a closer look at what actually happened and learn more about the people who made history. Here is your mission!
1) Click on the link to get your exercise.
2) Watch the video as many times as you need. ( up to: jusqu'à 2minutes 12 seconds)
3) Circle the dates that you can hear.
4) Circle the events and the persons mentioned.
5) Use your findings to fill in the blanks in the text.
Source: youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URxwe6LPvkM&list=PL89rxT5sINfNJiydLBJB5QpYYSpdcrw3K&index=45
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Now you are going to watch the video again ( starting from 2min 12 seconds until the end)
Your mission!
1) Circle the dates that you can hear.
2) Circle the names of events or persons that you can hear.
3) Use your findings to write a summary of what you have understood in French. ( That's a good training for the A level)
4. The fight for equal rights : Martin Luther King's "dream."
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I hope that now you know many things about the struggle for racial equality in the USA.
Now, we are going to learn more about Martin Luther King's dream. It is a famous speech but it is also a well written speech. A speech is like a song and the author uses different stylistic devices to give it more power and emotions. Let's discover how it works.
Here is your mission!
1) Watch the speech.
2) Download the worksheet and answer the questions from step 1 and step 2.
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Now we are going to study the text!
Here is your mission!
1) Read the text. Don't forget to use the toolbox if you are in trouble. 😱
2) Use your worksheet! Do step 3 of your worksheet!
3) Do the exercise called step 1: Stylistic device : match the right name with the right definition.
4) Do step 2 Find an example in the text. ( Highlight it in the text)
Hey! I am proud of your work so far. 👍
Since you have been great students I am going to give you a few tips to understand more words! ☺️
5. Malcolm X: The other side of the coin: "We've experienced only the American nightmare."
Hey! Welcome back! 😎 You did a great job with the speech because it was not easy. Words have power and it is important for you to know it. Now that you have studied the most famous speech of Martin Luther King it is time for you to study one of Malcolm X's speeches and to learn more about him. Here is your mission!
1) Read the text.
2) Write Malcolm X's biography by using the information given in the text. Be careful ! You have to change the tense of the verbs. The poor man is dead now.
Hello again! Now it is time to study the speech delivered by Malcolm X called : "The Ballot or the Bullet." As you can see he was less peaceful than Martin Luther King who had "a dream." You don't have to listen to the entire speech you just need to watch it a few minutes to get the tone of it.
Here is your mission!
1) Read the text and answer question 1,2,3,4 and 5 of the worksheet.
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Now that you have studied two speeches about the fight for racial equality it is time for you to think about the elements that you need to write a good speech. Have a look at the things we have found in the speeches and create your own recipe (methodology ) to create a good speech.
Here is your mission:
1) Have a look at the work we did on the speeches.
2) Create your own recipe.
6. Black lives matter when past is present: "Get your knee off our necks".
Hey! You are still here! Now we are going to work on what has changed and what hasn't changed in the American society concerning racial equality. Here is your new mission :
1) Have a look at the pictures on the first page and describe them.
2) Have a look at the pictures on the second page and describe them.
3) Think: These pictures have been taken at different periods in the American history. Do you think that things have really changed since the 1960's. Use the documents to justify your answer.
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As you can see there is still a long way to go to get racial equality in the USA. Now, we are going to work on articles. Here is your mission:
If you are not in class:
1) Choose one article, read it and explain what happened. Be ready to present it to the class.
If you are in class:
1) Your teacher is going to give you an article.
2)Read it and be ready to explain what happened to the class.
3) React: Did you know that this was happening in America? What do you think about it? Did you know their names?
⚠️ Click on the button under the article to download it!
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I know it is depressing but we need to remember all these people who have been the victims of racial inequalities in the USA. After all it is a good way to pay tribute to these people. It also means that the past is still influencing the present in the USA in terms of racial equality.
Let's watch a video!
Here is your mission!
1) Watch the video ( up to 6 minutes)
2) step 1: Fill in the gaps. ( worksheet)
3) Step 2:Take notes and explain. ( What we have studied before should help you to understand.)
Source: Channel 4 :https://www.channel4.com/news/black-lives-matter-explained-the-history-of-a-movement
Watch this video and listen to the song by Alicia Keys: "The perfect way to die."
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I hope that you enjoyed the lesson and that you have a better understanding of the situation concerning racial equality in the USA.
I do love the song too.
Now you can have a look at the recipe to write a speech and your lesson to get ideas for your own speech.
