I want to break Free

I want to break free....

Fighting to make a better world

Index

B) Fighting for Equality

A) Introduction

C) Language tools

1. Slavery

1. Obligations in the Past

2. The Civil War

2. Passive Voice

Music Links

3. Segregation

3. Cause/Consequence/Goal

4. Civil Rights

5. Black Lives Matter

Fighting for Freedom around the world

These three men are pictured together. They all fought for freedom around the world. They wanted to make the World a better place. How did they fight to Heal the World?

Read the texts with your group and find important information. Then, practice reading your text out loud.

Pierre Ballouhey, The Three Greats Take a Selfie in Heaven, 2013

practice speaking better

Do you know this song? What do the lyrics mean to you? What does it mean to “Break Free”? What can you “break free” from?

Do you know this film? Do you know the character? His name in English is Jack Skellington. Can you present his biography? Jack Skellington is the patron spirit of Halloween, portrayed as being on par with Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny within his own holiday. Yet Jack is not always happy with his holiday. Listen to his song called “Jack’s lament”. Why is he not happy? Why does HE want to “break free”? Then, listen to the beginning of the song “What’s this”: What would he like to do?

Jack's lament in English Jack's Lament in French What's this?

In 2008, the year Barack Obama was elected as president of the USA, the cartoonist Randy Bish published this cartoon caricature of Mr Obama:

Another cartoonist published this :

“Nightmare before Christmas” published October 30, 2008 by Randy Bish politicalcartoons.com

“L’Amérique d’Obama”, published November 5, 2008 by Philippe Chappatte, International Herald Tribune

Can you compare the two visions of Mr Obama? Mr Obama was the first Black President in the United States. This was an Important moment for the USA. Can you compare the two different images that these cartoonists make of Mr Obama? Why is he compared to Jack Skellington? Why “Yes they could”?

Here is some information about Mr Obama. Can you speak about his biography?

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Test

Revise for a Flash Test: - passive -obligations in past -irregular verbs -biography

Twelve Years A Slave

Read this document to discover "Twelve Years A Slave" Who was Soloman Northup?

Slavery

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What was slavery? Can you give a definition? How were blacks treated?

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Abraham Lincoln

The Civil War

President Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, abolished slavery in 1863. Can you speak about his biography?

Lean more about the American Civil War.

You have discovered how slavery ended, and read how Segregation began. Now do the exercises with the tablets to learnmore about how blacks were treated after 1865:

Segregation

After the Civil War, Slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. But Soon SEGREGATION Became the new problem. Click above to learn more.

Now practice talking about their biographies. Don't forget to use expressions to express the causes, consequences and goals of their actions....

Civil Rights

During the 1950s and 1960s many people fought to change the laws and make segregation illegal. Listen to the Audio of a History Professor on the Alabama educational TV channel. and take notes.

Read these two articles and answer the questions to learn more about this movement

Black Rights Matter

Black People Continue Fighting for their rights today. Inown as the "Black Lives Matter" movement, their fight is as important as ever....

Music Links- Sometimes music says it best

+Heal the world

Listen to the song here

Say It Loud

We Shall Overcome

+Work Songs

What's going on

Making Life in the fields easier

Imagine

+Segretation/Civil Rights

The 1960s was a pivotal decade for protest music, with many iconic songs that reflected the social and political turmoil of the time. Many young people protested the way blacks were treated and also the new war their country was involved in in Vietnam. Clothes also became a way the young protested against the older generation....

A chage is gonna come

Abraham, Martin & John

One Day

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Obligations and Interdictions in the past

To speak about obligations in the past: had to Something that was not allowed, not possible: couldn't Possibilities in the past: could

How were slaves treated? To stress how people were treated, we use the passive voice: Be + Past Participle

Why?Expressing cause, consequence and goals...

A very important little girl

Discover a little girl who wanted to go to school....

Intro

Look Carefully at the close up of Ruby's Notebook..... What does it look like? What could it represent?

Document D

Document B

Document C

For the Fast Workers: Thinglink Look at the information and watch the videos

When President Obama became president, Rockwell's painting was exhibited in the White House. Learn More Here Watch here:

Document A

Slavery in the USA

Read this text and learn more about slavery in the USA Use these questions to check your reading.

Language tools

• How were slaves treated?

- The passive Voice

• What were their obligations?

-Obligations in the past

field and work songs

Two very important people in the Civil Rights Movement were Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Rosa was arresed for not giving her seat in a public bus and Martin helped her by organizing the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. Click see a short extract of a film about Rosa and to listen to Martin's famous speech I Have a Dream:

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Mahatma Gandhi Martin Luther King Nelson Mandela

3 men who advocated non-violence to bring social and political changes