mercredi 30 octobre 2019

November Breaking the News for the 8th Graders!





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https://www.umhs-sk.org/blog/november-1-2-all-saints-day-day-of-the-dead/



How do you become "a saint"?

Catholics versus Christians


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Girls and women at rugby...










https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte_Caslick



ACTION 1
Look and understand.
Look and answer 
the following questions.

1) What is the document?
2) Who is the cartoonist?
3) Where is the scene?
4) How many people are there
in the scene?
5) Who and what can you see?
6) What is strange in the scene?

ACTION 2
Learn more about the event above!
Take notes in English
or recap in French.

+
Webquest worksheet
[created by Ms. Stéphanie Sallic from E-teach,
05000 Gap, académie Aix-Marseille] 
to ask your teacher.


FOR
THE ADVENTURERS

FOR
THE EXPLORERS

FOR
THE BOLD AND THE EXPERTS


Action+
Make a Wanted poster.

Break Time
 for help and for the Experts
Here are some templates...





Action++
Make a comic strip
of
the conspirators' night!

Break Time
 for help and for the Best

OPTION 1
PAPER COMIC STRIP

STEP 1
Take
a coloured A3-format cardboard file.


STEP 2
Write the title of your poster
at the top of your poster, in the middle.

STEP 3
Use a model
to make your "paper"comic strip.


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STEP 4
Write your first name 
followed by the initial of 
your family name and your class
between parenthesis 
in the bottom right-hand corner 
of
your poster.

STEP 5
Bring your artwork in class!


OPTION 2
DIGITAL COMIC STRIP

STEP 1
Go on
an online comic strip template.

STEP 2
Follow the instruction
and create your digital comic strip and send the code to you teacher 
by mail (PCN)
or use
https://wetransfer.com/https://wetransfer.com/







STARTER
Look at the document above.
Answer the questions below.

1) Which event is presented?
2) Say it in 2 different languages.
3) What are these 2 languages?
4) Say this historical event 
in the French language.
5) When was this "Wall" destroyed? 

ACTION 1
Look, describe and react.

Back in November 1989...
Document 1


Document 2

Document 3

Document 4

Document 5


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Nowadays in November 2019...
Document 1
Which famous monument in Berlin 
can you recognize?

Document 2
Document 3

1861-1989



Document 5




ACTION 2
Listen (describe) and take notes.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3





 For the Adventurers

 For the Explorers

 For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 3
Look, describe and react.

What do you think of what you see
on this photo
and what do you understand of
this citizen's intents
by keeping this object?
(Commemorative? 
Dignifying and enhancing 
[FR: " Dignes et valorisantes".  ]?
Touching? A touch nostalgic?
Shocking? Indecent? 
A bit regressive?)

"Keeping this object
 -a bit of German History"
has it to do with History? Art? Emotions? Both or all three?

ACTION 4
Do you know 
other "walls" in the world?






ACTION+
Make 
a Welcome and Fraternity poster
for strangers and Migrants.

You may create
either a paper or a digital poster!

ACTION++
Make 
a Welcome and Fraternity poem
for strangers and Migrants.


ACTION+++
Go and visit Berlin...

...whenever you want



...or for Christmas Season!
Yummy, yummy...







STARTER
Discover the event.

a) Read the 2 documents above.
Describe and (try to) 
answer the question.
b) Watch and enjoy the emotion.


First, pick up the key-words.
Secondly, classify them according to the following categories:

PEOPLE

 NATURE
 WAR 
IDEAS or VALUES 

ACTION 1
Read and understand.
Answer the questions below.
1° What is the document? 
How do you know? 
(Give clues from the text)
2° What is the title of the document?
3° What is represented on either side of the title?
4° How many parts does the document have?
5° Which type of phrase starts these parts?
Copy them.
6° Who is the document about?
How do you know?
(quote the text)
7° What is it about?
How do you know?
(quote the text) 
8° Why do you think this document was written?

ACTION 2


What do you remember?


ACTION 3
Listen and enjoy a poem
recited by a school girl!
 


Want to commemorate War heroes?

ACTION+
Could you take the challenge
and recite the poem in turn?

ACTION++
Pay tribute to our War heroes
in your own way!

Break Time
 for help and for the Experts

Option 1
Make your own Poppy
in remembrance of War heroes!

Option 2
Make a Remembrance poster
for War heroes!








STARTER
Look, read and describe.
What are your impressions?
Which is your favourite Super hero, 
if any?

Document 1

Document 2

Document 3


ACTION 1

What do you remember?

ACTION 2
Watch, listen and report.




For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts


ACTION+
Make 
your own Comic Book Super Hero!


Paper version...



Digital version...






STARTER
Read and discover.




ACTION 1
Look and explain.
What is the UN 2019 theme?
Why a toilter is not JUST a toilet
and can save lives??



ACTION 2
Read and play.
Do you take your toilet for granted?
Play and discover
your "toilet privilege"!


ACTION 3
Look, read and take action.
Soap and Sanitation
Go
hand in hand!








ACTION+




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ACTION++
10 Things you can seriously do 
FOR
UN World Toilet Day!







Look, listen and enjoy
the Thanksgiving Rap!
Copy the song lyrics
in your File inside front cover.





STARTER
Discover the event.

a) Look and read the document above.

1) What are the documents?
2) What can you see
 on the left document?
(Describe the scene and give your impressions.)
3) What can you see
 on the right document?
(Describe the scene and give your impressions.)
4) What is striking in the right scene
compared to the left scene?
5) How are the 2 scenes related?
(What do they symbolize?)
6) Which historical event
do they represent?
7) Which country does it concern?
8) Do you know anything
about this event?

b) Read and compare.

Document 1

Document 2


ACTION 1
Read and write.
Think of your 'Thanks' Tour
and be inspired!






Special tribute to my dear students...
Miss B


Special thanks...



ACTION 2
Look, describe and analyse.


1) What is the document above?
2) Where is the scene?
3) Who can you see or recognize
in this scene?
4) What do they look like?
5) What are they doing?
6) Is it a modern scene? 
Why or why not?
7) What do you undersdand of US history from this scene?






First video
1) Who were the first inhabitants 
of North America?
2) Who landed later
 on the 'new' continent?
3) How were their relationships
at first?
4) How did the 2 groups solve
the problem in 1621? (2 facts)
5) Which  American president proclaim 'Thanksgiving' a national holiday? When? Why?

Second video
1) Who invited whom
for the first 'Thanksgiving'?
2) When was
the First Thanksgiving?
3) How many days did it last?
4) What did it consist of ?
5)  What do we learn
about the menu? 
Was turkey on the menu
at that time? 
6) Which US president made 'Thanksgiving'
an annual event? When?
7) Which woman participated in
the growing interest in Thanksgiving afterwards? (Give details.)
8) Which 
US president finally fixed  'Thanksgiving''s date on the 4th Thursday of November?
9) Which special tradition 
about the turkey
has been developed
by US presidents ? When first?
ACTION 3
Watch, listen and understand.
Recap the story!

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts




STEP 1
Watch this photo album!

Learn more about US history...

This is the Pilgrim Memorial in Plymouth, England,
where the settlers called 'the Pilgrims' or 'the Forefathers'  departed...

...and they landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA...

... where a monument stands!


Fill in the monument ID card.

Monument name: ...
Location: ...
Date of creation: ...
Height: ...
Structure: ...
Composition: ...
Central figure: ...
Dedicated to: ...
Matrix message: ...


STEP 2
Watch
this video the Pilgrims' sea itinerary.

a) How did
the Pilgrim Fathers or Forefathers
get there?

b) Look at the map below...
...Here are the first 4 questions...

1) When did the Mayflower ship leave England in Europe?
2) When did it arrive
on the coasts of America? 
3) Which ocean did the ship cross?
4) Which is the name of the ship
in which they sailed? 



...then click on the link  
to answer the other questions. 



ACTION 4
Read and understand.

Food, Glorious Food...
What's for Thanksgiving dinner nowadays? 

What about other traditions 
of modern Thanksgiving?


ACTION 5
Listen and understand.
What is the controversial issue 
about Thanksgiving?
Listen to these vivid testimonies
and report! 






ACTION+
Make a storyboard
of your Thanksgiving story!

Break Time 
for
 Help and for the Best!

Step 1
Think of your story
by writing a draft 
with squares and captions
on a A3-format blank paper.

Step 2
Draw your characters
with their speech bubbles
in your draft.

Step 3
Decide if you are going to make
a paper or digital storyboard.
Here is a link!


Step 4
Write your first name 
followed by the initial of 
your family name and your class
between parenthesis 
in the bottom right-hand corner 
of
your paper storyboard.

STEP 5
Bring your artwork in class
or send it by mail to your teacher!

You may use:






STARTER
Have you ever heard of 
'Black Friday'?


ACTION 1
Look, read and understand.
Take notes about the 'stories'
behind the origin of 'Black Friday'.



ACTION 2
Read and understand.

1) What is the document?
2) Which company edited it?
3) Which event is advertised?
4) When is it each year?
5) What are the two types of bargains (one on the left side and one on the right side) does the company offer?
6) Which offer(s) do you find interesting? 
(Justify your answer-s.)

ACTION 3
Watch and understand.
Describe and react!














LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND

READ AND UNDERSTAND










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