final task
To celebrate the Black Month History, introduce a movie which tells the story of a famous (or unknown) male or (female) leader of the Civil Rights Movement.
Final Task:
CREATE YOUR POSTER TO INTRODUCE IT! IT IS GOING TO BE SHOWN TO THE DOCUMENTATION CENTER!
INTRODUCE YOUR MOVIE IN FRONT OF THE CLASS ORALLY!
- title? - Who is the leader of the movie? - director? - Why was he / she so famous? - actors? - What did he / she achieve to improve -screenwriter(s)? African Americans lives in the USA? - plot? - movie poster? - pics from the movie? - CONCLUSION: Has African Americans' status changed in 60 years in the USA?
LESSON 6: Black lives matter
1- What is the nature of the document?
The document is the cover of the most famous weekly American magazine.
2- How is it entitled?
The document is entitled ''Time'' . It was created in 1927.
3- In pairs, can you describe the photograph? ( people, time, actions, reasons, in which place?)
4- When was this picture taken?
This picture was taken in 2020
5- Guess to which events these dates correpond to?
1968 = Martin Luther's murderer at Memphis, Tennessee 2015 = Walter Scot was shot in the back five times by a white police officer. 2020 ? ( reasearch what happened that year!)
6- What does the editorial team want to tell behind this? Make suppositions.
They want to tell that African Americans keep being shot since 1968.
7- What do you understand in the following sentence: '' WHAT HAS CHANGED . WHAT HASN'T.''
African Americans are always targetted by white policemen in the USA and are murdered freely from slavery period ( 17th century) to nowadays in the 21st century. So, we can say that the situtation hasn't changed . But, has something changed?
7- What do you understand in the following sentence: '' WHAT HAS CHANGED . WHAT HASN'T.''
African Americans are always targetted by white policemen in the USA and are murdered freely from slavery period ( 17th century) to nowadays in the 21st century. So, we can say that the situtation hasn't changed . But, has something changed?
doc 2
Read & Observe:
1/ Repère le groupe verbal dans ces phrases et souligne-le en rouge.
1/ G. Floyd has just said : ''I can't breathe'' but white policemen all the same killed him .
2/ Comment ce temps est-il construit?
2/ Lawmakers have debated police reform and law enforcement.
3/ Existe-il des mots clés pour déclencher ce temps?
4/ Pourquoi utiliser ce temps? Aide toi des exemples!
3/ Community have marched and come together in a call for change.
4/ Have people around the world reacted to this free murder?
5/ Has African Americans' status ever changed in the USA?
trace écrite : Le present perfect
doc 3: A Global Movement
1- Look at the document
2- ( GC) Where is it? Who are they? When? What is it happening? Guess!
1- Why do people are protesting in the streets?
1- People are protesting after the murderer of George Floyd by white policemen in 2018.
2- How many people are protesting in their city approximatively?
2- Thousands of people are protesting in their city.
3- Where is the reporter ? Why does CBSN Channel choose this one?
4- Which other English - speaking country is mentionned?
3- The reporter is in London ( the capital city of Great Britain) . The channel chooses London because both country are linked by the langauage but also by their colonialism history and slavery.
4- Australia is also mentionned . They talk about indegenous people who are considered as a minority ( inferior) in the country . Australia was colonized by English in the 17th century.
5- Do you think people around the world had the same reaction in the 60's?
- activist
6/ BLACK LIVES MATTER
- Compaign
- colour blind
- condemned
- hashtag #
- colour blind
- implicit
- imprisonment
- inclusive
- Movement
- a drawing
- a painting
- a photo(graph)
- a cartoon
- a comic strip
- an ad
- a movie poster
- a map
- a book cover
- a newspaper article
- a song
- a trailer
- a speech
- a TV show
- a movie
- a series
- TV news
1- TYPES OF DOC
6/ CINEMA
- About the film and the plot:
-This film was released in...
-It was directed by
-The film features (actress) as (role)
-It tells the story of ... with (name of the actor) in the leading role
- I saw the trailer of this film
- It portrays / depicts ...
- It is set in ...
- jobs:
- a director / filmaker
- a leading actor
- a supporting actor
- a screenplay writer / a screenwriter
- genres:
- action film - adventure - comedy - drama -historical -romance - science fiction
FACES OF SEGREGATION
2- RACIAL SEGREGATION
1/ Discrimination
- to segregate = to separate
- to target so.
- racial inequalities
- racial injustice
- to be bullied by so.
- restritive laws/rules
- public facilities
2/ Racism
- a racist slur
- a racist panel
- skin colo(u)r
- to feel inferior to so.
- slavery / a slave
- a second-class citizen
3- CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- non-violence
- civil desobedience
- to be equal to so.
- to claim someone's rights
- to stand up for
- the Supreme Court
- a leader / to lead
4/ ACTIVISM
- to make a sit-in
- to demonstrate
- a demonstration
- to open the doors fo so.
- to be involved into sthg
- to win a Nobel Peace Prize
- to take risks for
- to be assassinated
Phonetics:
compaign
blind
condemned
Movement
Final oral comprehension test:
Lesson 5: Art as a duty to remember
1/ What type of document is it?
The document is a movie poster because we can read a date of release in American cinemas : on the -th of January 2023.
2/ How is it entitled? Why to make this choice?
It is entitled ''TILL'' . The movie director wants to focus on Till family and to tell their story.
4/ Describe the document, focus on the characters:
On this poster, on the background, we can see a happy Black young boy , he takes a large part of the poster, so, he is the main character of the movie . We can notice that this boy is filigreed ( en filigrane) , so, he belongs to the past. Then, in the middle, there is a woman who is wearing in black , so, we can suppose she is feeling sad about an event. Finally, on the foreground, we can see African American people from the back, we can't identy them. Those people who are very well dressed ( woman with a yellow hat) but also poorer people ( man with only a shirt ). They represent Black community in the United States. As a conclusion, the poster shows a mise en abyme : how did Emett Till's tragedy affect his mother's life but also the rights of every African American people in the USA during racial segregation?
5/ What about the colours used in the poster?
The boy who is Emett Till is on sepia colours : sepia filter is used to make something older. We can say that this filter means that Emett is not alive anymore. It is contrasted with black colour, which is the main colour : black is the colour of sadness, of mourning but also the colour of the fight and struggle . It also represents the present : Emett Till's tragedy was the beginning of the Civil rights movement!
6/ Now read these words:
based on a true story
&
Justice needed a voice
- What can you deduce? What do you expect to watch ?
We expect to watch the story of Emett Till from his birth to his murder in 1955. This movie is ''based on a true story'' and it focuses on the same character: it is called a BIOPIC. ( The words mixes '' biography'' and '' picture'' ( movie). Emett couldn't tell what had happened to him . So, this voice will be her mother's who will claim ''Justice'' for her son and tell his ordeal ( = calvary) to raise awareness in the world about the segregation cruelty.
Doc 2: '' Till'' 's trailer
1/ What is the nature of the document?
The document is a trailer. A trailer is defined as being an advertisement for a film or a television programme or radio programme, consisting of short parts taken from it.
2/ How do you justify that it is a biopic ?
The document is a Biopic because it relates the story of targetted characters : Emett Till and his mother. We can see in the middle of the trailer the expression: BASED ON A TRUE STORY.
3/ Who is the director of the movie?
The director of ''TILL'' is Chinonye Chukwo. She is an Nigerian American director. She was born in 1985 and became the first African American female director to be nominated at the Golden Globes for her movie ''Clemency'' in 2020.
4/ How many parts can you see into the document?
Group 1
Group 3
Group work
Group 4
Group 2
Group 4
1/ Which technical revolution arrived into American households in the 1950's?
2/ What did it change during the segregation?
3/ '' They have to see it for themeselves'': which decision was decided by Mamie Till to raise awareness about her son?
4/ What did Black people choose to do for Emett's mother?
5/ Why Mamie Till was endangered ? Justify your answer by some details in the video.
6/ Why did medias were called ''the 7th Power''?
7/ How did Emett Till's story begin to change African American's reaction about their status in the USA?
Group 3
1/ What was the movie director's goal to show Mamie Till alone in the bedroom? ( colours / lights)
2/ What were both reactions at the train station? How can you guess what will happen in the future?
3/ Did images confirm her reaction? Why?
4/ How she sent Emett and how she got him?
5/ Listen to her speech: What kind of relationship did they have?
Group 2
1/ Where was he going on vacation?
2/ What kind of state was it?
3/ What was the name of the grocery where he arrived ?
4/ What was he doing to the white girl? Why was it important for the movie director to show this?
5/ How did Emett's face change? What did he feel?
6/ What is the atmosphere in this extract?
7/ Can you guess what happened to Emett? Why did Chinonye Chukwo choose not to show the tragedy?
Group 1
1/ Who are the characters in the video?
2/ What kind of relationship did they have?
3/ Why did she say: '' This is my boy''? Which word is accentuated ? What is her goal?
4/ How was Emett before going on vacation? ( feelings , physical description, clothes, personality?)
5/ Where was he going on vacation? Justify your answer ( landscapes ; people )
PRL: Read and observe
1- Souligne les verbes dans chacune des propositions principales.
1- Emett was living with his mum in 1950's.
2- Avec quel autre temps est-il associé? Pourquoi?
2- He was going on vacation in Mississipi when he was murdered.
3- A quel temps français correspond-il?
3- He was entering into the grocery when he saw the white woman.
4- Pour quelles raisons l'employons-nous dans les exemples suivants?
4- Mamie Till was deciding to show what they did to her son.
5- Mamie Till was delivering an emotionnal speech while African Americans were starting to claim their rights.
Trace écrite: Past Continuous
Speak like a pro!
6/ CINEMA
- About the film and the plot:
-This film was released in...
-It was directed by
-The film features (actress) as (role)
-It tells the story of ... with (name of the actor) in the leading role
- I saw the trailer of this film
- It portrays / depicts ...
- It is set in ...
- jobs:
- a director / filmaker
- a leading actor
- a supporting actor
- a screenplay writer / a screenwriter
- genres:
- action film - adventure - comedy - drama -historical -romance - science fiction
- a drawing
- a painting
- a photo(graph)
- a cartoon
- a comic strip
- an ad
- a movie poster
- a map
- a book cover
- a newspaper article
- a song
- a trailer
- a speech
- a TV show
- a movie
- a series
- TV news
1- TYPES OF DOC
FACES OF SEGREGATION
2- RACIAL SEGREGATION
1/ Discrimination
- to segregate = to separate
- to target so.
- racial inequalities
- racial injustice
- to be bullied by so.
- restritive laws/rules
- public facilities
2/ Racism
- a racist slur
- a racist panel
- skin colo(u)r
- to feel inferior to so.
- slavery / a slave
- a second-class citizen
3- CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- human rights
- non-violence
- civil desobedience
- to be equal to so.
- to claim someone's rights
- to stand up for
- the Supreme Court
- a leader / to lead
4/ ACTIVISM
- to make a sit-in
- to demonstrate
- a demonstration
- to open the doors fo so.
- to be involved into sthg
- to win a Nobel Peace Prize
- to take risks for
- to be assassinated
Play!
Phonetics:
to release
to feature
a story
leading role
leading role
to portray
a director
a screenplay
a writer
drama
science
Intermediar task
On a poster , introduce each part of the movie ( same groups) by photographs from the movie and real ones . Tell in your conclusion how the story of Emett Till signed the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement?
Lesson 4: Emmett Till, a tragical story.
doc 1:
Oral comprehension test ( from 1.03 to 2.10)
TEST !
Lesson 3: Where are Black heroes?
Group work
GROUP 1
GROUP 2
GROUP 3
GROUP 1
Read the text and answer the following questions:
1/ General comprehension:
2/ Detailled comprehension:
- Who are the persons mentionned or present in the scene?
a) What does the narrator do for a living?
b) What are the clues can you gather to know his identity?
- When does it happen?
- Where ?
c) How Black people are considered according to him?
- What does it happen?
Group work
GROUP 3
2/ Detailled comprehension:
1/ General comprehension:
- Who are the characters ? ( fictionnal or real)
a) What is the narrator's feelings about being black?
- When does the scene happen?
b) What is the main problem for the narrator?
- Where does the scene happen?
c) What is the narrator's reaction?
- What is the theme of this paragraph?
d) Why does he want to fight this inequality?
GROUP 2
1/ General comprehension:
2/ Detailled comprehension:
a) Who are mentionned ( real / fictionnal)?
a) Why does the little girl choose to paint her face in white?
b) When does it happen? ( period of time or period of the year)
b) Who is '' I '' ? ( guess and make suppositions)
c) Where does it happen?
c) What is the main problem for the narrator?
d) What does it happen in this extract?
Mise en commun
Observe what we said about each extract.
Try to be logical and reorder the extract in the correct order!
Now , gather all the clues you have about the narrator?
Who is this Black superhero?
Conclusion: What is the genre of this text? Justify your answer.
doc 2: oral comprehension
On August 28, 1963 , Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
Listen the speech and answer the questions:
PRL: Write the following sentences and observe them.
A/ Souligne les groupes verbaux en rouge.
1- Her face was painted in white.
B/ A quels temps sont-ils conjugués?
C/ Comment sont-ils construits?
2- '' All men are created equal ''
D/ Que met-on en avant?
3- The state of Mississippi will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
4- Martin Luther King's most famous speech was delivrered in 1963
Trace écrite: LA VOIX PASSIVE ( Passive Voice)
BE
voix passive
et un verbe au
se forme avec l'auxiliaire
La
participe passé .
voix passive
sujet grammatical,
,on insiste sur le
Avec la
qui subit l'action.
des actes subis, ou qui ne dépendent pas de la
On décrit donc
volonté du sujet.
L'auteur de l'action peut apparaître dans un
Complément d'agent introduit par BY.
Mais ce n'est pas obligatoire!
ex: The speech was delivered BY Martin Luther King.
complément d'agent
Voix active:
The government
denies
Black people
the right to vote
sujet
COI
verbe
COD
Voix passive:
BY
are denied
The government
the right to vote
Black people
Up to you!
This speech is delivered by MLK.
MLK delivers this speech
MLK delivered this speech
This speech was delivered by MLK.
This speech will be delivered by MLK.
MLK will deliver this speech
Speak like a pro!
6/ CINEMA
- About the film and the plot:
-This film was released in...
-It was directed by
-The film features (actress) as (role)
-It tells the story of ... with (name of the actor) in the leading role
- I saw the trailer of this film
- It portrays / depicts ...
- It is set in ...
- jobs:
- a director / filmaker
- a leading actor
- a supporting actor
- a screenplay writer / a screenwriter
- genres:
- action film - adventure - comedy - drama -historical -romance - science fiction
- a drawing
- a painting
- a photo(graph)
- a cartoon
- a comic strip
- an ad
- a movie poster
- a map
- a book cover
- a newspaper article
- a song
- a trailer
- a speech
- a TV show
- a movie
- a series
- TV news
1- TYPES OF DOC
FACES OF SEGREGATION
2- RACIAL SEGREGATION
1/ Discrimination
- to segregate = to separate
- to target so.
- racial inequalities
- racial injustice
- to be bullied by so.
- restritive laws/rules
- public facilities
2/ Racism
- a racist slur
- a racist panel
- skin colo(u)r
- to feel inferior to so.
- slavery / a slave
- a second-class citizen
3- CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- human rights
- non-violence
- civil desobedience
- to be equal to so.
- to claim someone's rights
- to stand up for
- the Supreme Court
- a leader / to lead
4/ ACTIVISM
- to make a sit-in
- to demonstrate
- a demonstration
- to open the doors fo so.
- to be involved into sthg
- to win a Nobel Peace Prize
- to take risks for
- to be assassinated
Let's play!
Phonetics
non-violence
civil desobedience
equal
to claim
a leader
to demonstrate
to demonstrate
to demonstration
a Peace Prize
Task:
VOTE FOR THE BEST ''Black Hero'' for African American children.
Each of these "heroes" wrote his autobiography. Choose one of them and introduce it to the class ( with diaporama or not) - author? - date of release? - title? - type of work? - inspirations? - reasons why he wrote a book? - Why did they "make a difference'?
LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION
1- What is the nature of the document?
2- Observe the picture . - who is the character ? ( describe him ) - analyse the colours. What do they represent?
In pairs, analyse the painting:
The painter uses blue color on the upper left :
she wants to represent a beautiful day
She wants to represent the North of the United States
and also, the beautilful life of this boy
The painter uses dark on the upper right:
she wants to represent darkness , obscurity and the night = the sad day of the boy
she wants to represent the South of the United States
In the foreground, the black-skinned boy could be African, or African immigrants in another country?
On the left of the painting, his face is intact and the boy is recognizable.
On the right, the boy is unrecognizable and some parts of his face are missing: no more ears, no more eyes and no more tongue. Why?
Something horrible should have happened , what?
Below right, the boy is naked .
His clothes are missing to make him inferior to somebody else or to consider him as an animal.
At the bottom, the boy is wearing a yellow shirt ( BLUE / YELLOW : bright colours)
The title of this painting is:
''How she sent him, how she got him''
1- Analyse the key words into this title.
''How she sent him, how she got him''
Who?
Verbs?
Manner?
Document 2: The death of Emett Till
PRL: rEAD AND OBSERVE
- Emett Till was unrecognizable when his mother got him.
- The painter wants to symbolize a beautiful day for Emett with blue colour use.
- "The boy's dreadful tragedy that I can still remember well".
1- Observe the underlined words. What is the nature of them?
- The boy was unafraid to travel alone during racial segregation.
2- How are they built? Explain in French
- "This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man."
Trace écrite: la dérivation des mots
Speak like a pro!
6/ CINEMA
- About the film and the plot:
-This film was released in...
-It was directed by
-The film features (actress) as (role)
-It tells the story of ... with (name of the actor) in the leading role
- I saw the trailer of this film
- It portrays / depicts ...
- It is set in ...
- jobs:
- a director / filmaker
- a leading actor
- a supporting actor
- a screenplay writer / a screenwriter
- genres:
- action film - adventure - comedy - drama -historical -romance - science fiction
- a drawing
- a painting
- a photo(graph)
- a cartoon
- a comic strip
- an ad
- a movie poster
- a map
- a book cover
- a newspaper article
- a song
- a trailer
- a speech
- a TV show
- a movie
- a series
- TV news
1- TYPES OF DOC
FACES OF SEGREGATION
2- RACIAL SEGREGATION
1/ Discrimination
- to segregate = to separate
- to target so.
- racial inequalities
- racial injustice
- to be bullied by so.
- restritive laws/rules
- public facilities
2/ Racism
- a racist slur
- a racist panel
- skin colo(u)r
- to feel inferior to so.
- slavery / a slave
- a second-class citizen
3- CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- human rights
- non-violence
- civil desobedience
- to be equal to so.
- to claim someone's rights
- to stand up for
- the Supreme Court
- a leader / to lead
4/ ACTIVISM
- to make a sit-in
- to demonstrate
- a demonstration
- to open the doors fo so.
- to be involved into sthg
- to win a Nobel Peace Prize
- to take risks for
- to be assassinated
Let's play!
Phonetics:
- a painting
- a drawing
- a cartoon
- an advert ( isement )
- a movie poster
- a poster
- a book cover
- a trailer
- a book cover
- a movie
- a newspaper article
- an interview
- a reminder
- a document(a)ry
- a speech
- awful
- a trial
- a courthouse
Gather all the clues you have about Emitt Till story. Fill in the following board and sum up orally ! Conclude by saying your feelings and opinions about this!
Mini-Task:
Lesson 2: Historical context
document 1:
document 2: The Jim Crow laws
Listen to the document and answer the questions.
1- Describe the document? Who? Where? When?
Who? African Americans and White Americans ( WASP)
Where? In the United States of America
When? segregation = racial discrimination from 1950's to 1970's
2- Guess what is the document about?
What? It talks about the definition of the Jim Crow laws & the consequences into African American daily lives.
2- What were the laws made for?
3- What did these laws impose?
to let african Americans do what they want in the USA?
a system of racial segregation in the South of the USA
a system of freedom for all
to limit Black people to go to Africa?
a system of free movement everywhere in the states
to limit Black people to go to Africa?
after the American Civil War ( 1861-1865)
4- When did these laws begin?
after the WW2 ( 1939-1945)
after the Vietnam War ( 1960's - 1970's )
5- Answer the questions:
- How do Black people react against these laws? Explain in your own words.
- What does KKK stand for?
Klu Klux Klan
Kind Korean Knights
- What did they teach in black segregated public schools?
White fairy tales
Black History
How to fight?
- What happened with the ''BROWN vs BOARD OF EDUCATION''? ( 1954 )
During racial segregation , public schools were segregated ( white schools / colored schools). A Afro American family called the Browns declared this unfair and went to the Supreme Court ( the highest judicial commission of the country) . There was a trial between the Browns versus The Board of Education. The Supreme Court declared in 1954 segregated schools unconstiutionnal .
PRL- Read & Observe
1- Souligne les verbes en rouge.
1- Emett's skin was black, his murderers were white.
2- Some men dragged him to a barn.
3- Sixty years ago, they had a reason to kill him.
4- They threw him in the water.
4- They tortured him in 1962.
2- A quel temps les phrases sont-elles rédigées?
Futur
Passé
Présent
3- Est-ce que ces verbes sont construits de la même manière? Classe-les.
4- Ecris les bases verbales des verbes soulignés et écris de quel type de verbe il s'agit?
irrégulier
was
BE
irrégulier
were
BE
régulier
dragged
DRAG
régulier
TORTURE
tortured
had
HAVE
irrégulier
irrégulier
threw
THROW
4- Ecris les bases verbales des verbes soulignés et écris de quel type de verbe il s'agit?
irrégulier
was
BE
irrégulier
were
BE
régulier
dragged
DRAG
régulier
TORTURE
tortured
had
HAVE
irrégulier
irrégulier
threw
THROW
I- CONSTRUCTION DU PRETERIT
1- Les verbes réguliers
passé ) ,
verbe régulier
au préterit ( temps du
Pour conjuguer un
on lui ajoute la terminaison
-ED
On double la dernière consonne quand elle est précédée d'une seule voyelle
Exemple: to drag
dragged
On remplace le -Y par un -i avant d'ajouter -ED
Emett Till probably when he was persecuted.
Exemple: to cry
CRIED
2- Les verbes irréguliers
Il faut les apprendre par coeur!
Learn by playing!
Prononciation du -ed
train
help
visit
worry
To go further...
1-They didn't give him a chance to survive.
2- Did they watch him slowly die?
- Quelle est la forme de ces phrases?
la phrase 1 est une phrase négative ( didn't = did not)
la phrase 2 est une phrase interrogative
- Souligne en vert l'auxiliaire dans chacune de ces phrases
- Souligne les verbes en rouge. Qure remarques-tu?
- Peux-tu en déduire quel est l'ordre des mots à respecter?
Speak like a pro!
6/ CINEMA
- About the film and the plot:
-This film was released in...
-It was directed by
-The film features (actress) as (role)
-It tells the story of ... with (name of the actor) in the leading role
- I saw the trailer of this film
- It portrays / depicts ...
- It is set in ...
- jobs:
- a director / filmaker
- a leading actor
- a supporting actor
- a screenplay writer / a screenwriter
- genres:
- action film - adventure - comedy - drama -historical -romance - science fiction
- a drawing
- a painting
- a photo(graph)
- a cartoon
- a comic strip
- an ad
- a movie poster
- a map
- a book cover
- a newspaper article
- a song
- a trailer
- a speech
- a TV show
- a movie
- a series
- TV news
1- TYPES OF DOC
FACES OF SEGREGATION
2- RACIAL SEGREGATION
1/ Discrimination
- to segregate = to separate
- to target so.
- racial inequalities
- racial injustice
- to be bullied by so.
- restritive laws/rules
- public facilities
2/ Racism
- a racist slur
- a racist panel
- skin colo(u)r
- to feel inferior to so.
- slavery / a slave
- a second-class citizen
3- CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- human rights
- non-violence
- civil desobedience
- to be equal to so.
- to claim someone's rights
- to stand up for
- the Supreme Court
- a leader / to lead
4/ ACTIVISM
- to make a sit-in
- to demonstrate
- a demonstration
- to open the doors fo so.
- to be involved into sthg
- to win a Nobel Peace Prize
- to take risks for
- to be assassinated
Vocabox : To talk about the historical context
Phonetics
rights
fight for
freedom
a slur
colour
inequality
slavery
rules
segregate
racist
[ -tion )
- demonstration
- association
- organisation
- segregation
Mini task:
1- Look at the document. By pairs , analyse it as you did before!
- Who do you see? Who are they?
- Where are they?
- When does this scene happen?
- What is happening?
''US MARSCHALL'' armbands = visual clues of 4 security policemen to help Ruby to enter the school.
''NIGGER'' = a racial slur which was used to make African American inferior / humiliation ( NOW , IT IS FORBIDDEN!)
K.K.K stands for Klu Klux Klan , a extremist racial group of persons , against the entrace of Ruby in a school with whites students
tomato squirt = it looks like blood = a racial act to make Rudy guilty to go to a White school.
The use of two opposite colours : black ( the colour of Ruby 's skin ) and white ( the colour of Ruby's dress) . White = purity ( she is a child who didn't know what is a white school)
Ruby has a ruler and a copybook. These are clues to guess where she is going.. at school!
The painter is NORMAN ROCKWELL ( a white American painter ) (1894 - 1978 )
Task:
1- Introduction: talk about the historical context of this video
You are Ruby Bridges. Tell your first day at school to illustrate the following video. Record it !
2- Development: How did she feel to go in a white school for her first day? What could she hear? ( from white parents / white pupils...) What could she see? Who joined her at school? Why?
3- Conclusion: Now, how does she feel hen she thinks about this historical moment in her life?