Infonews n°257 du 06/11/2005
Cartoons
Videos
Audio files
Newspapers
Articles
Special Reports
Photo Essays
Worksheets and lesson plans
An article in the New York Times
The story of Emmett
Songs, blogs and poems
Documentary films
Lesson plans
The story from the Guardian
Article
Videos
Drama
General links
Game
Lessons and handouts
Online games for beginners
Einstein's Big Idea ( from [LII New This Week] October 13)
ReliefWeb: South Asia: Earthquake - Oct 2005 ( from [LII New This Week] October
13)
DOE Launches "Energy Hog" Energy Efficiency Campaign ( from [LII
New This Week] October 13)
Brain research : a call for skepticism (from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for October
14)
Definitions of new tools ( from [LII New This Week] October 13)
Blogs
Speak up on the Blog of the Café Pédagogique!
Reporter's guide to privatization (from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for October 14)
Techniques for working with behavior challenges (Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer,
Wednesday, October 19th)
Lettre Flash Langues
She died and was buried last week, but Montgomery, Alabama will celebrate
the 50th anniversary of her action on December 5th this year. Remember also
MLK day is in January and that February is Black history month, so there will
be many opportunities to study the subject. You can also link Rosa Parks to
Emmett Till (see below), whose trial will be revised this year and whom she
had in mind when she refused, or to the poem "Strange fruit" (see
infonews n° 250), or to MLK and Black History: http://perso.numericable.fr/~dreymondch46/infonews/themes/martinlutherking.htm
Here are some documents you can use about Rosa Parks:
Cartoons
http://cartoonbox.slate.com/hottopic/?image=2&topicid=59
http://cagle.msnbc.com/news/RosaParks/7.asp
Videos
- the CNN video about Rosa Parks, with interviews : a bit long, but just
the beginning is enough (thanks to Gilles Siche on eteach)
http://mfile.akamai.com/12942/wmv/vod.ibsys.com/2005/1025/5171098.200k.asx
- from Democracy Now : the journalist present her life and you can hear her
April 1956 report of the event while watching her picture. But her voice is
not very easy to understand and the video/audio file is very long. this video
is for advanced students : there is almost no redundancy between the pictures
and the script : when you see interesting pictures, the sound is just a song,
and when there is the interview, there are too few images to illustrate what
she says.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/25/1412239
you can read the transcript, watch the video or download the MP3 file.
- the National Geographic also features an interesting video, with references
to the Jim Crow Laws and redundant images (thanks to Françoise Peyrissat on
eTeach). There is no script.
Note : You will be able to transfer this video to a memory stick or burn it
on a disk by researching a video file with the name "rosa" on your
hard disk where it is saved after you downloaded it once.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1025_051025_rosa_parks_video.html
also at:
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/ticetravauxstagiaires/videos/rosa_parks.asf
Audio files
- *** the best, from the BBC, short but efficient : the audio file and the
script
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/2005/10/051026_parks.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/newsenglish/witn/ram_files/wo051026.ram
- a report from the journalist of the Guardian (clear, but no script)
"Our New York correspondent explains how one woman's refusal to give up
her bus seat shaped America's civil rights movement"
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-audio//Guardian/news/2005/10/25/251005younge.mp3
- the facts told by the journalist and then by Rosa Parks herself (from Christine
Silvestri on eTeach) : it is not the same script as the other interview, but
you have to pay for this one!
http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/
listen : http://64.27.9.54/archive/index.php?l=8&p=Pacifica_Archives/RosaParks.mp3&m=1
- another interview of Rosa, complete with sound, video (just her speaking)
and the transcript (thanks to Alain krizic on eTeach)
http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/par0int-1
- an article read by Sean Banville, our colleague who writes the Breaking News
everyday, and the script and lesson is below.
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051026-rosa_parks.mp3
Newspapers
Alyne Piazza had the excellent idea to make her students discover the event
by working from the front pages of several newspapers. And the website she
worked from : Today's Front page from the News Museum had the super idea to
archive those pages (they knew we would need them!) and leave them online.
**** So you can access 455 front pages from 47 countries presented alphabetically
and just make your choice ( I printed 17 different front pages for each student
in a half class (module de seconde sti) to work on a different, authentic and
colour document.)
http://www.newseum.org/todaysfrontpages/archive.asp?fpArchive=102505
you can find in her blog the worksheets she prepared for her students (collège)
http://sallaumines.over-blog.com/
Articles
easy and short:
- Scholastic http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/news/archive.asp?archive=102605
- Time for Kids http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/news/story/0,6260,1122822,00.html
- from Time Magazine in 1956 : the end of the boycot
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,867481,00.html?internalid=related
- from Time magazine 1999, when she was among the 100 leading figures of the
century
http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,991252,00.html?internalid=related
longer, a deeper reflection ( from M.J.Paulet on eTeachNet)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103101387.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR2005103101869.html
from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1607192,00.html
Special Reports
NYT:http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/national/25parks.html?ex=1145851200&en=4b6bd4603f35dfef&ei=5087&excamp=OVGNrosaparkshistory
BBC : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4402064.stm# (with
several videos of the burial and many related articles)
Photo Essays
picture Tribute from the BBC : http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/tx/gallery/rosa_parks.shtml?select=10#main (excellent
for beginners, or just to make students talk).
Photo essay from Time-Life Magazine : http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/rosa_parks/
Worksheets and lesson plans
- Teaching from original documents from the US National archives ( her arrest
report)
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/rosa-parks/
[ authentic and interesting, but not very exciting]
- lesson from Breaking News (although I don't like his mentioning she was suffering
from dementia...even if it's true, there are more useful things to mention).
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/0510/051026-rosa_parks.html
- the page from the Académie de Paris
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/rosaparks.php
An article in the New York Times
August 28 2005 marked the 50th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till
in Mississippi.
Read this article from the NYTimes, “How photos became Icons of the Civil Rights
Movement
“dealing with how the photo of Emmett Till’s body has raised public awareness
of racism, and started the civil rights movement.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/featured_articles/20050829monday.html
and discover this lesson plan about the impact of photo journalism and the
civil rights movement:
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/20050829monday.html
To complement the article, here are some links to the resources quoted:
- the PBS “Eyes on the Prize” program, the video is to be bought but there
are interesting ideas and links :
http://pbsvideodb.pbs.org/resources/eyes/index.html
- the book by Chris Metress (editor) "The Lynching of Emmett Till"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/081392121X/104-3401721-3313531?v=glance
- the book written by Emmett’s mother "Death of Innocence"
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1400061172/104-3401721-3313531?v=glance
The story of Emmett
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
http://www.heroism.org/class/1950/heroes/till.htm
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/early-civilrights/emmett.html
http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa021703a.htm
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=503323 (longer,
more details)
the complete story with a link to Rosa Parks "The only thing Rosa Parks
thought about was the boy, Emmett Till."
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notorious_murders/famous/emmett_till/
the story in pictures, with short captions (nothing gore)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/gallery/2004/03-09-till/flash.htm
Songs, blogs and poems
The lyrics of the song by Bob Dylan
http://bobdylan.com/songs/emmetttill.html
http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1151.html
- A blog, with interesting information from various reliable people:
http://emmett-till.blogspot.com/
- PBS has two sites packed with interesting documents: one about Jim Crow and
the Jim Crow Laws, and another one about Emmett Till (companion site to the
film):
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/index.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
Emmett Till’s story on Jim Crow History website
http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/resources/lessonplans/hs_es_emmett_till.htm
a short history of the lynching, and several other article : read “a coming
of age”
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtillE.htm
two poems on NPR: “Marilyn Nelson, the poet laureate of Connecticut, has written
a narrative poem, A Wreath for Emmett Till, especially for young readers. Nelson
spoke with Farai Chideya about her provocative poem, and about the lingering
effect Till's murder still has had on the American psyche."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4818586
Poems written by US teenagers
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/sfeature/sf_students.html
Documentary films
There are two documentary films about Emmett Till’s murder:
- Stanley Nelson, whose film “The Murder of Emmett Till” came out in 2003
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0342800/
- Keith Beauchamp whose documentary “The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till” was
released this summer in the US,
http://www.emmetttillstory.com/
and they seem to have contributed to the reopening of the case, as we can read
in this article:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/040524/24emmett.htm
information about the film and a trailer
http://www.humanarts.org/projects/seven.html
information about the film, with a video and transcript
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/06/15/1345228
a short critic of the film
http://www.bigpicturebigsound.com/article_574.shtml
a sound file and a trailer from NPR
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1969702
Lesson plans
about the film “The Murder of Emmett Till”
http://www.facinghistory.org/facing/fhao2.nsf/all/Till+Overview?opendocument
http://www.facinghistorycampus.org/Campus/reslib.nsf/0/a62c14412227f2a585256f8900648896?OpenDocument
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/till/
about the poem “A Wreath for Emmett Till”
http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/readers_guides/nelson_wreath.shtml
It was last Saturday, and it was the 400th anniversary of the event (November 5th 1605).
The story from the Guardian
pictures and captions:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/0,5860,1605605,00.html
Article
Here is an article for you to read, and a comment from Sarah Rapnouil on
eTeachNet:
"I thoroughly recommend reading the article here by Professor Ronald Hutton:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/gunpowder_hutton_01.shtml
Easier article on the same theme here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4398844.stm
Rather difficult for lycée students (a few extracts maybe, if you're working
on "If"
sentences and "would" + conditional?), but take a few
minutes to consider the tremendous consequences on British history if there
hadn't been a few cases of bubonic plague in London in October 1605. A London
9/11 Ground Zero, no roundhead/cavaleer civil war, no Cromwell republic, a
popular protestant King Charles I (instead of a Catholic beheaded one!) maybe
even a protestant Ireland...
Videos
a reconstitution of what the bast might have been like:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/31102005/356/tv-mock-shows-terror-gunpowder-plot.html
an article about the dangers of fireworks with a video (from Linda Legrand)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3539880.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39925000/rm/_39925226_fireworks06_carslaw_vi.ram
Drama
listen to the audio drama 'Gunpowder women' on the BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/drama/
General links
from Linda Legrand on eTeach
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/news_and_events/events_bonfirenight.shtml (bonfire
night food ideas)
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/Guy.html (basic
information).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A199488 (simple
information about the history of Guy Fawkes)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/state/monarchs_leaders/ (full
history of the gunpowder plot)
and of course:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Guy_Fawkes_Night&oldid=27237165
Game
An interactive game to check what students know about the story
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/games/gunpowder/index.shtml
Lessons and handouts
- see the third handout on this site : it offers a letter with mistakes,
and two sites to check the facts and correct the mistakes. (For intermediate
students)
http://elc.polyu.edu.hk/conference/speakers-mats/jasper-handouts.doc
- Annie Gwynn offers this ready to use hand out with questions (a short webquest),
a crossword and a glossary
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/annie.gwynn/festivals.htm#guy_fawkes
- the British Council suggests this jigsaw reading as an activity for the assistants:
http://www.britishcouncil.org/languageassistant-bonfire-night.htm#tsk2
- Links from the académie de Paris
A Treasure Hunt for lower intermediates upwards
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/guyfawkesTH.php
an article for upper intermediates
http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/guyfawkes.php
Online games for beginners
Our colleague Sylvie Marc on eTeachNet recommends these two site for beginners
: an illustrated vocabulary, with interactive hot potatoes exercises, and a
hangman:
http://users.skynet.be/providence/vocabulaire/anglais/menu.htm
http://www.hangman.learningtogether.net/
Einstein's Big Idea ( from [LII New This Week] October 13)
Companion website to a Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Nova program about "the
story behind the world's most famous equation": energy equals mass times
the speed of light squared (E = mc²). The site features an essay explaining
this 1905 equation that "says that energy and mass (matter) are interchangeable," information
about scientists whose experiments paved the way for Albert Einstein, an audio
clip of Einstein explaining the equation, links to related sites, materials
for library activities, and much more.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/
To Begin: Find out All About Einstein
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Music/musicsmarteinstein.html
ReliefWeb: South Asia: Earthquake - Oct 2005 ( from [LII New This Week] October 13)
Updates on relief efforts related to the major earthquake that struck in
Pakistan-administered Kashmir on October 8, 2005, and affected
India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Includes information about rescue efforts
and relief, assistance from other countries, and extent of damage. Also includes
links to maps. From the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian
Affairs.
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/dbc.nsf/doc108?OpenForm&emid=EQ-2005-00017
DOE Launches "Energy Hog" Energy Efficiency Campaign ( from [LII New This Week] October 13)
In March 2004 the DOE "launched a national public service advertising
campaign designed to make children and their parents aware of
energy efficient behavior. ... [The campaign] features a reprehensible new
villain -- the energy-wasting Energy Hog. ... The centerpiece of the campaign
is the new Energy Hog Web site, which is aimed at children." Includes
a link to the Energy Hog site. From the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
http://www.eere.energy.gov/news/news_detail.cfm/news_id=6719
Brain research : a call for skepticism (from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for October 14)
"Brain research" is everywhere these days. Teachers are bombarded
with claims about
"brain-based learning" at conferences, where they are regularly invited
to view photo imaging of cerebral blood flow. Gender differences in learning
are explained by variations in the cortical
activity of boys and girls. And typically this research, or so proponents claim,
can lead to clear implications for teaching. It often seems a short step from
blood-flow studies to single-sex schools, writes Thomas Newkirk.
Citing "brain research" can perhaps give researchers and advocates
the veneer of science; it can make us feel we are in contact with something
solid. But Newkirk suspects it only makes us look foolish in the eyes of actual
scientists. At worst, it overstates differences and
looks for causes in all the wrong places.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2005/10/12/07newkirk.h25.html
How the Brain Works from the first years and onward
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Teachers/brain.html
Definitions of new tools ( from [LII New This Week] October 13)
This site is not very attractive or easy to read, but you find there definitions
of the latest trends in communication through the net and more:
Podcasts, Blogs, webcasts, audiocasts, audioblog, RSS, wiki,smart mob, folksonomy
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/podcast.html
This site also provides a page of tools (including :
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/Tools.html
and the most advanced will enjoy this page about internet security, which tells
everything about the way we are watched (interesting article about Echelon)
and how we can try and protect ourselves.
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/securityTools.html
You will also find a page of free tutorials for specialists ( to learn how
to use XML, PHP, Java or Cold Fusion....)
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/apps.html
Blogs
here is a list of blogs created by colleagues for their students:
- Barbara Dieu
http://6eme05.blogspot.com/
you can read her interview and how she does it on (in French)
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/disci/pratiques/54.php
- Alyne Piazza
http://3l-blog.blogspot.com/
http://6i-2005.blogspot.com/ (with
lovely poems)
http://sallaumines.over-blog.com/ (cahier
de texte en ligne)
and also an article in le Café
http://www.cafepedagogique.net/disci/pratiques/65.php
- Frédéric Bricout
http://hmblog.over-blog.com/ (for
teachers)
If you're looking for a place to host your blog, here are some addresses to
explore (some are free, others are paying), recommended by our colleague Olivier
Colas, who also recommends to read this guide first (it is in French)
http://www.droitdunet.fr/telechargements/guide_blog_net.pdf
http://www.20six.fr
http://www.blogg.org
http://www.blogger.com
http://www.bloghotel.org
http://www.canalblog.com
http://www.hautetfort.com
http://www.instant-blog.com
http://www.monblogue.com
http://www.neufblog.com
http://www.tonBlog.com
http://www.typepad.com
http://www.u-blog.com
http://www.viabloga.com
http://www.vnunetblog.fr
Speak up on the Blog of the Café Pédagogique!
Le Café Pédagogique is a newsletter like Infonews, but much larger and also
very active on its website. It aims at all teachers and deals with all subjects,
including teaching practice and the teaching institutions. Several public consultations
have been led by the government about how the teaching (and learning?) system
in France can be improved, but most of us, teachers, felt frustrated with the
conclusions, which often seemed written in advanced to fit new changes which
had already been planned.
Le Café is independent, and all those who write there are teachers who work
just to help their colleagues and provide useful tips and tools to make teaching
more lively and efficient. It now launches a new operation : a blog where all
those interested in improving the education system offer their point of view
and suggest solutions. In March, all those contributions will be analysed by
the team of the Café with the help of Philippe Merieu, a famous researcher
in education sciences, and published as a book. Maybe this will really help
things to change!
http://www.cafe-leblog.net/
The blog has several entries, and one "quelle ouverture sur le monde?" is
also about what, in the teaching practice of other countries, could help France
improve its language teaching system. It would be very useful if those of you
who know and/or live in a different teaching system (I know some of you are
from Germany, Israel, the Netherland, etc.) could tell us what they find good
and efficient in their system.
http://www.cafe-leblog.net/index.php?2005/10/29/13-quelle-ouverture-sur-le-monde
Note for our foreign colleagues : you can contribute in English if you don't
feel comfortable in French.
Reporter's guide to privatization (from PEN Weekly NewsBlast for October 14)
Education Writers Association is pleased to release its newest publication, "Public
Schools, Private Markets: A Reporter's Guide to Privatization," to its
membership and the public. This 20-page book by Scott Elliott of the Dayton
Daily News tackles key elements of the
privatization movement: Charter schools; Vouchers; For-profit education companies;
and State-sponsored tutoring. The report is designed to help journalists judge
the effectiveness of privatization, scrutinize how tax dollars are spent, discover
the impact on traditional public schools, and measure whether school privatization
provides access to quality education for all students.
<http://www.ewa.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=120&news_id=1735>http://www.ewa.org/desktopdefault.aspx?page_id=120&news_id=1735
Techniques for working with behavior challenges (Riverdeep's Classroom Flyer, Wednesday, October 19th)
Thirteen strategies are selected here to help you focus on distinct student
behavioral and emotional challenges, helping you to handle those problems directly
and promptly.
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/page/7242.html
Lettre Flash Langues
Lisez cette lettre Flash, vous y trouverez le calendrier des réformes prévues,
et Hourra! en 2006 est prévu d'alléger les terminales technologiques (STG,
STI, etc.) et professionnelles. Une bonne nouvelle!
http://www.education.gouv.fr/lettre_information/lettre_flash/lettre_flash_3.htm
Our Colleague Barbara Dieu from Brazil offers your students to meet other
students from the whole world and find a partner toi discuss and learn together,
or just discover how someone their age lives in another country. Have a look
at the site, register your students, and get into the project:
http://dekita.org/exchange
If you have questions, don't hesitate, write directly to Barbara : bwjdieu@terra.com.br
you can also find interesting resources in her other sites:
http://dekita.org
http://members.tripod.com/the_english_dept
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