Infonews n°311 from 30/09/2007
The controversy
The facts
Other cartoons
Pictures
The site of an anti-addiction machine
Videos
News Articles about computer games addiction
Pair Work
Ciné-VO
SEGPA
What happens in Jena? Is segregation back or still vivid in Southern sates
of the US? Depending on the level of your students, you can deal with this
current event in different ways. With advanced students, you can deal with
the controversy; with intermediate students, I think it is better to keep to
the facts, and link them to a traditional study of racism and segregation around
Jim Crow, MLK Rosa Parks or Emmett Till, or the poem Strange Fruit or some
of the films we often use like Mississippi burning.
[ To find ideas to study these themes, look for them in the archives of Infonews:
http://lycees.ac-rouen.fr/pascal/infonews/archives/archives.htm ]
The controversy
A real case of racism and segregation in the traditional South of the USA,
or a story made of unrelated events that got out of proportion? Were the incidents
worth a rally? Is the press trying to minimize the events? If you really want
to investigate the case, it's better to work with advanced students and read
several articles. I especially like this article from ABC News : it is 4 pages
long, but features several testimonies of people living in the area, and also
a good picture of the local context and way of life.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=3641855
a slightly shorter version of the same article on the Associated Press website:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jOl6L858y0iDf4k_28ojhYLcuLGg
and another shorter one on MTV, refering to the AP article
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1570444/20070924/id_0.jhtml
You can find information and audio files on NPR, with interviews of parents
of the Jena 6 and a reflection on how people get organised through blogs to
protest:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14658077
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14575347
It is also interesting to follow how to page about Jena in Wikipedia evolves.
You can read the warnings about :
- the fact that the content of the article is currently disputed (with a link
to a talk page);
- that the article needs reliable references, and can be challenged and/or
removed
- that it is a current event and that the content can change as the event progresses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jena,_Louisiana
And I think that this can be the opportunity to show the students how an article
on Wikipedia is made, discussed and evolves, and remind them that they must
always verify their sources and make sure they are reliable. (too many students
tend to consider wikipedia as the bible!)
The facts
On e-teach, Catherine Serreau recommends this very well done video from which
you can train your students to pick up dates and the related facts (just invite
them to build a table with entries like : when, who, what happened, what were
the consequences)
you can watch the video on You Tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuoiZnr4jLY
and download it from here
http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video?video_id=YuoiZnr4jLY&origin=chi-v299.chi.youtube.com
The above address is the download address that I got from Save Video. Then
you just right click on the address and download it as "jena.flv",
and you will of course need a FLV reader to read it.
Here is the page from Save Video to get the address:
http://www.savevideodownload.com/download.php
And you go there to download a free FLV player:
http://applian.com/flvplayer/
You can also get a longer version of this video on Philebrity (last video on
the right)
http://www.philebrity.tv/
and you can easily download this video with Videodownloader, the add on for
Mozilla Firefox
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/2390
She also recommends this other video on France 24, with transcript:
http://www.france24.com/france24Public/en/news/world/20070907-Civil-rights-protest-US-Louisiana-Jena-6.html
On Liste Anglais from Rouen, Vincent Dorange recommends this video from CNN,
with a full transcript. It is about the rally that took place in Jena on September
20th to ask for a fair trial for one of the black boy who was sentenced to
jail.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews/09/20/sn.transcript.fri/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
He also recommends the site "free the Jena 6"
created by the people who organised the petition and the rally. You can find
there lots of articles and links to NPR audio files with transcript and Democracy
Now videos.
http://www.freethejena6.org/
On EteachNet, Catherine Serreau announces the 50th anniversary of West Side
Story in Washington :
<http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-165.html>http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2007/07-165.html
and the show will be in Paris, Théâtre du Châtelet, between November 20th and
December 1st. It seems booked out for the classes, but you can still book up
to 4 seats on the internet (at least I did it last Tuesday...).
<http://www.chatelet-theatre.com/fiche_spectacle.php?id=146>http://www.chatelet-theatre.com/fiche_spectacle.php?id=146
She also points at this article from the BBC, with useful links at the end:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/musicclub/events_westsidestory.shtml
you can also find lots of activities and links on Michelle Henry's page:
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/cinema3.htm#west
Hélène Dupont recommends this video from Voice of America :
http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-09-18-voa52.cfm
and Marina Bureaud offers her favorites:
http://www.filmsite.org/wests.html
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/love-in-the-arts/west.html
http://www.westsidestory.com/
http://fr.lyrics-copy.com/west-side-story/america.htm
http://www.westsidestory.com/site/level2/lyrics/america.html a
different version
http://perso.orange.fr/yvanbaptiste/cinema/Films/westwork.htm
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/cinema2.htm#west
Our colleague Jenny Léger asked on e-teach where she could find a picture to start a new teaching unit in Terminale STi, based around the Bac paper from June 2007. I'm sure lots of you will be interested in such a unit, so here are some useful documents.
A cartoon and the bac paper
I found this picture, showing a boy taking roots and turning into a tree,
with his fingers becoming roots that look like spaghettis...
http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7BF4A58228-DA12-4919-92D0-29625CABB179%7D.gif
Here is the paper, for Bac STG-STI-SMS-STL 2007. The text was about a new clinic
opening for video game addicts. Here is the original presentation:
http://pedagogie.ac-montpellier.fr/disciplines/anglais/ressources/sujets/met-STG-LV1-2007.PDF
and there you can find it in Word and .rtf formats, plus a correction and a
grid
http://anglais.free.fr/sujets/index_sujets.html
Other cartoons
"you spend too much time on your computer, we'd like you to watch more
tv!"
http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/thumbnail/%7B2EB8099A-85A3-4276-BC8C-4245CAC5B069%7D.gif
mechanical workaholic
http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/thumbnail/%7B18FB14F7-2275-4163-A9F4-1B1BE39E3C51%7D.gif
chat room addict
http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B2037AD3A-1AC2-4288-ABAF-F1A702C48314%7D.gif
caught reading (with lots of computer vocabulary)
http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B0884C37F-FB3F-49B1-971A-FECD2BE55DAF%7D.gif
Pictures
video game addict who can't even stop to drink his coffee
http://www.extremefunnyhumor.com/pics/video_game_addict.jpg
beaucoup plus hard, look drug addict
http://www.kodykoala.com/uploads/wow2030_062207.jpg
The site of an anti-addiction machine
excellent for STI and BTSI : play limit is a machine that you can (or could?)
buy! it look a bit old, but the description of the product is very interesting.
http://www.playlimit.com/
there is also an excellent user guide, with pictures and diagrams, but it seems
to date back from the 70s or 80s, so remember to present it as an historical
documents....;)
http://www.playlimit.com/forms/PlayLimitUserGuide.pdf
Videos
a teacher who was an addict explains his case and gives advices
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2zyQoM36Fg
" Documentary, does video game addiction exist?"
a bit long (12mn), with interviews of people : how much and often do they play?
What games? Why?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aCmWoVrHDc
a video, with an article close to the text of the exam " (but I couldn't
get it...)
http://www.wsbt.com/news/8483782.html
from YouTube, a student's project for a college class. Interesting video without
words, showing roommates having a discussion through computers instead of just
talking to each other.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBKv8CcfJZk
News Articles about computer games addiction
short : "are video games addictive?"
http://www.parenthood.com/articles.html?article_id=6108
long but comprehensive, with a photo of Tim "Detox for video game addiction?"
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/03/health/webmd/main1773956.shtml
the same article, shorter "treatement for video game addicts : it's no
joke, clinic director compares problem to drug"
http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/09/games_reviews/main1696705.shtml??source=RSS&attr=_1696705
from the BBC : video games, cause for concern?"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1036088.stm
about a clinic in the US
http://www.computeraddiction.com/
an article about this doctor, written in 1999
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/1999/01.21/computer.html
to widen the scope, other addictions like gambling, alcohol and mobile phones
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1036088.stm
Pair Work
Looking for ideas and documents for pair work? it's all there, ready to use
and prepared for you by our colleague Yannick Troccaz. The topics are varied,
from themes like chores, sport or biography, to grammatical objective like
frequency or giving permission.
http://www.pairworkandvoc.net
Ciné-VO
Le CRDP de Paris publie le second volume de la collection « Ciné-VO », cette
fois à l'usage des professeurs d'anglais dans les classes. Ce DVD «
Ciné-VO anglais», a été conçu par une équipe de 4 professeurs d'anglais de
l'académie de Paris, sous la direction de Madame Chen Géré, IA-IPR d'anglais.
C'est un outil novateur, qui allie supports de travail (extraits de films en
VO, extraits audio, images fixes) et matériaux pédagogiques : fiches d'aide à la
compréhension, aides lexicales et culturelles. Il est interactif et pratique.
Ce produit sera présenté à Paris au Cinéma Escurial Panorama, 11 bd du Port-Royal
75013 le samedi 29 septembre à 10 h 30. Vous êtes cordialement invités à cette
présentation. Vous trouverez toutes les informations dans l'invitation à télécharger
sur le site d'anglais de l'académie de Paris.
<http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/>http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/
SEGPA
Une liste s'est créée cet été autour de collègues de e-teach. Elle s'appelle
e-segpa et est pilotée par Monique Cren et des collègues. Pour s'abonner, allez à :
http://teachers.domainepublic.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e-segpa
et vous trouverez aussi des documents, liens et activités sur la page de Michelle
Henry
http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/Henry/segpa.htm
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