UNIT 2 - Hair Matters (Tle AMC)

Student B

Student A

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UNIT 2

UNIT 2: Hair matters

Thématiques > Axes * Relation au monde > Héritage commun et diversité * Faire société > Egalités et inégalités Question How can fighting hair discrimination help Black people in America regain pride in their ethnic identity? Project Dub a short film. (POC)

Deeply rooted hair bias

a. Hair discrimination

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Homework

internalized racism

nappy hair

Americanah

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Americanah dans "La p'tite librairie"

La grande librairie, François Busnel

Translation time!

Role play

Play the discussion between Ifemelu and her parents.

Born natural

Colin in black and white

Extra document

Braided, a documentary about braids and appropriation in America, by Elle.

Deeply rooted hair bias

b. Case study: Michelle Obama

"Michelle Obama rocks natural curls in birthday selfie" (BET)

Michelle Obama

"If Michelle Obama had natural hair, Barack Obama would not have won"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 28 May 2014

Press review : 2 groups

A) Search the Internet for articles about the ways in which Michelle Obama has styled her hair since she is no longer the FLOTUS. Prepare a press review.

B) Search the Internet for articles about the use of the "nappy" word. Prepare a press review.

Extra document

Nappily ever after, trailer of a Netflix movie, 2018.

Grammar time: Past conditional

If she had kept her hair natural, Obama would not have won.

If she had kept her hair natural, she ...

If Adichie's book had not been a best seller...

If Joe Biden had been younger...

Grammar time: conditional

1) If you ______ (not water) plants, they ______ (die). 2) If they ______ (leave) earlier, they _________ (catch) the train. It's too late now. 3) If I ______ (be) rich, I ______ (travel) around the world. But I'm not... 4) If it ______ (rain) tomorrow, we ______ (stay) at home. 5) If you ______ (heat) water to 100°C, it ______ (boil). 6) If you ______ (study) harder, you ______ (pass) the test. You'll have to try next year.

Grammar time: Past conditional

Réécrivez ces phrases en utilisant un autre type de conditionnel :a) If I wake up early, I go jogging. (Transformez en First Conditional)b) If I had known, I would have helped you. (Transformez en Second Conditional) c) If we had more money, we would buy a bigger house. (Third Conditional) d) If they had left earlier, they would have caught the bus. (First Conditional)

Inspiration for better hair days

Madam CJ Walker

Madam CJ Walker: Empowering Black women through hair care

STUDENT B : - ideology - solution to her problem / career - another woman? - difficulties - late life - society

STUDENT A : - birth - early life - problem - solution - late life

Madam CJ Walker Speed dating

01:30

Recap + entraînement à l'essai argumentatif

Recap what you learnt about Madam CJ Walker + include the answer to the question " Can we say that by building her own business, Madam CJ Walker helped improve the situation of black women in the USA?"

Phonology : British and American English

born, hair, War, her early life, her hair, formula

can't daughter-in-law

2'00

07:00

1. There are 5 people in the picture

2. We can only the head of 1 person and the body of another

3. The little boy is wearing a tie

4. Barack Obama is bending over to the child

5. The boy on the left is wearing glasses

6. There is a flag with stars standing in the background

7. We can see at least 4 photo frames in the background

8. There is a frame hung on the wall above a cowboy statue

9. The wooden cabinet's legs on the right are on wedges (= des cales)

10. Barack Obama's back is higher than the top of the head of the little boy

Extra doc

Touch it, dude!

Insider, 9 May 2019

Homework: 1 volunteer !

Look for information about the way in which other ethnic groups are physically portrayed in movies: the case of Asian American girls could be particularly interesting (purple hair streaks...) and prepare a press review or an oral presentation.

Heading for laws at last

The CROWN Act

Governor Gavin Newsom Signs SB188 The CROWN Act into law, 3 July 2019

Infographics

Homework: bonus

In the wake of the signature of the CROWN act, you write an open letter to all of California's high school headmasters to try and convince them to establish an annual Day of "free hairstyle".

Final project

Dub a short film.

Don't forget to include everything you've learnt in this unit!