February Highlights for the 8th Graders

The February page is completed now
(or quite so!)
Enjoy
the new organization of the news!
[Thanks to English teacher Ms. Haquet, collège Chagall, Gasny (27).]

The news are organized into 5 parts.

PART 1


PART 2


PART 3



PART 4

FEBRUARY
 IS
 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 
IN THE US


PART 5







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https://www.worldcancerday.org/

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STARTER

Look, read and tell.

What is the day about?

Do you like Nutella?

What do you usually eat Nutella with?

https://www.nutelladay.com/fr

ACTION 1

Watch and discover.

Answer the question below.

1) Who had the idea to create World Nutella Day?

2) Where did she grow up?

3) In which country was she when she first saw Nutella? When was it?

ACTION 2

Watch and enjoy.

Answer the question below.

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Is there a recipe from the video 
you would like to try?

World Day Without Mobile Phone

What about YOU?

https://www.nationalpedia.com/world-day-without-mobile-phone-february-6/

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STARTER

Look and describe.

Elizabeth II Succeeded King George VI
to the British Throne 
at the Age of 25!

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With Queen Mum

ACTION 1

Watch a life in picture motion.

ACTION 2

Watch and report.

The Queen (2006)

The Crown series (2016)

Series trailer

Season 1 trailer

Season 2 trailer

Season 3 trailer

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STARTER
Look and describe.
Which country is concerned?
What does this art symbolize?

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 1
Listen and enjoy.
Enjoy History in Maori language!

ACTION 2
Watch, enjoy and compare.
Discover Maori traditions.

National anthem...

Welcoming someone...

Just a treat!

Some Maori traditions...

Waka by the sea...

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STARTER
Look and tell.
What do you know about this artist?

ACTION 1
Watch and report.
Discover the legend.

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 2
Listen and enjoy.
What did BM like to sing about?

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1) Do you like reggae? Is reggae your favourite music genre?

2) If yes, what do you like about reggae?

Who is your favourite reggae artist?

3) If not, what is your favourite music genre? Quote some artists and their songs.

New Delhi Inaugurated 
as
the Capital of India 

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1) Have you ever been to India?

2) Would you like to go to India?

3) What do you think you know about Indian culture?

ACTION 1
Learn about India History.

For the Adventurers
https://www.ducksters.com/geography/country/india.php

For the Explorers
https://www.kids-world-travel-guide.com/india-for-kids.html

For the Bold and the Experts
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/explore/countries/india/
ACTION 2
Watch and discover what you can do
in
New Delhi.

https://www.quora.com/How-and-from-where-did-the-name-Delhi-originate


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Do you feel like visiting or tasting anything of Indian culture?

https://en.unesco.org/commemorations/womenandgirlinscienceday

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/in-focus/international-day-of-women-and-girls-in-science

GENDER ISSUE IN SCIENCE

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Women in Science That You Should Know...

and Probably Don't.

https://www.weareteachers.com/women-scientists/

HIDDEN FIGURES
2016

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Inspirational songs...

Heroes

When You Believe

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1) Do you often listen to the radio?

2) When and where do you listen to the radio?

3) What do you listen to on the radio?

4) What is your favourite radio station?

https://www.pangolins.org/

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Were you born on a February 29
or do you know someone who was?

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STARTER

Look and describe.

Do you recognize this 19th century British novelist

who created a monster?

Aug. 30, 1797-Feb. 1st, 1851

ACTION 1

Learn more about this lady.

A film

The film posters

ACTION 2

Discover her masterpiece.

a) Answer the questions below.

 1) In which country was Mary Shelley when she had the idea of writing Frankenstein? What was the challenge? 2) How old was Mary Shelley when she began writing Frankenstein?

 3) What is the complete and original title of the book?  Who does it refer to? What does it say of Frankenstein? 4) What is Frankenstein's name in the book? 5) Which book did one of her husband's guests (Dr. Polidori) will inspire Bram Stoker's Dracula later on? 6) What did she died of?
b) Watch and tell.

c) Answer the following questionnaire.
 1) Do you like horror stories / movies (films)? Why or why not?

2) What is your favourite monster? why?

STARTER Look, read and report. Have you read these books  or seen their adaptation on screen?

ACTION 1 Discover the man/the author... What is the event of the day?

Feb. 7, 1812-June 9, 1870
For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

... his era.

ACTION 2 Discover his imaginary world.

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FEBRUARY HITS IN THE US

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What did you learn 
about
this unusual or unexpected 
US tradition?
What is your favourite month and why?

Watch and tell the trailer's story.

What is the film title in French?

Have you seen that film?

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Super Bowl commercial

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Super Bowl concert

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STARTER

Look and describe.

Do you recognize 

the artist and his art work?

Feb. 3, 1894-Nov. 8, 1978

http://sauze.english.free.fr/spip.php?article310

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2009/01/rockwells-four-freedoms/

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and understand.

Learn more 
about
the artist behind the man.

ACTION 2

Watch, listen and understand.

Learn more about his art.

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

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Facebook Launched

on February 4, 2004

by

Mark Zuckerberg

from his Harvard dormitory room!

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What about you? 1) Are you on Facebook? Do you have a Facebook account?
2) How often do you check your Facebook account?
3) What do you use Facebook for?
4) Is Facebook your favourite social network?
5) Do you use other social networks? (Answer the same first three questions then!)

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Davis Cup Created 

Watch the video and answer
the questions below.

1) What nationality was Dwight Davis?

2) What is the Davis Cup exactly?

3) What were the first two countries in the competition? Who won?

4) How many countries are part of the competition now?

5) Which country has won the most Davis cups?

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What about you?
6) Do you play tennis?  (How long have you played tennis?

7) Do you watch tennis matches on TV?

8) What is your favourite tennis tournament / competition?

9) Who is your favourite tennis player? Why?

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1) Which countries had flat breads similar to pizza?

2) Where and when was the modern pizza born?

3) Why was it created?

4) What were the three ingredients? 5) Why these ingredients in particular?

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What about you?
6) Do you like pizza?

7) How often do you eat pizza?

8) What extra toppings do you like on your pizza?

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The 92nd Oscars Ceremony

was held  on the Red Carpet 

in Hollywood.

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Bon Joon Ho's South Korea "Parasite"
as
Best Int. Feature Film
Best Motion Picture
Best Screen play

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Critics

Have fun

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"Hair Love"
as 
Best Animared Short Film

Hair Love, an Oscar-winning animated short film from Matthew A. Cherry, tells the heartfelt story of an African American father learning to do his daughter’s hair for the first time. Directors: Matthew A. Cherry (Executive Producer, “BlacKkKlansman”) Everett Downing Jr. (Animator, "Up") Bruce W. Smith (Creator, “The Proud Family,” Animator, “The Princess and the Frog”)

Bong Joon Ho

for
Best Director

Joachin Phoenix

for
Best Actor in "Joker"

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for

Best Supporting Actor
in
"Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood"

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Renée Zellweger

for
Best Actress in "Judy"

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What about you?
1) What is the best invention of all time for you?

2) What invention would you like to see in the future?

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STARTER
Look and describe.
Can you recognize any former and notorious American presidents?
Can you name the monument in which their faces have been carved?

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

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ACTION 1
Watch, listen and understand.
Meet the First US president...

ACTION 2
Watch, listen and understand.
Meet a legendary US president...

Test

your memory and your understanding!

1)  Who was Abraham Lincoln?

2) What conflict broke out in 1861?

3) What important decision did Abraham Lincoln make?

4) How did Abraham Lincoln die?

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STARTER
Look and describe.
Can you name the type of art depicted?
What is this art characterized by?

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What about you?

1) Do you like Pop Art? 2) What do you like or don't like about pop art? 3) What is your favourite art movement?

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and discover.

ACTION 2
Study an artist' case.

August 6, 1928-February 22,1987

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STARTER
Look and describe.
Which logo can you recognize?
Can you name one of his founder
who was born on that day?

ACTION 1
Watch, listen and report.
What is Steve Jobs' vision 
of  technology?
What does it need or take to be
efficient and successful?


February 24, 1955-October 5, 2011

ACTION 2

Watch, listen and go further.

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

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What about you?

1) Are you fascinated by the computing world? 2) Could you say you are what people call "a Geek"? Why?


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STARTER

Look and describe.

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1) Do you like wearing jeans?

2) Do you often wear jeans?

3) How many pairs of jeans

do you have?

4) What is your favourite colour 

for jeans?

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and report.

1)Which historical event is at the origin of blue jeans?

2) When and where did this event take place?

3) What percentage of Americans own (= have) at least one pair of jeans?

ACTION 2

Watch, listen and learn.

Feb. 26, 1928-Sept. 26, 1902

Claude Lévi-Strauss
Nov. 28, 1908-Oct. 30, 2009
Belgian-born
French Antropologist and Ethnologist
"Tristes Tropiques" (1955)




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STARTER

Look and describe.

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1) Do you eat cereal for breakfast? 2) What cereal do you eat

for breakfast?

3) What do you usually eat

for breakfast?

ACTION 1

Watch, listen and report.

Feb. 26, 1852-Dec. 14, 1943

1) When did John Harvey Kellogg serve corn flakes for the first time?

2) In which state did it happen?

3) What type of food were corn flakes at the beginning?

ACTION 2

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FEBRUARY
 IS
 BLACK HISTORY MONTH 
IN THE US

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And you? Who inspires you?

On February 1, 1865,
President Abraham Lincoln signed the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 
This Amendment abolished slavery.

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Born on Feb. 2nd
African American poet...

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

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https://www.biography.com/writer/langston-hughes

Langston Hughes reads his poems...

The Negro Speaks Rivers

I Too

https://prezi.com/suekjhv2y0yl/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers/

https://www.coursehero.com/lit/The-Negro-Speaks-of-Rivers/things-you-didnt-know/

https://www.studocu.com/en/document/studocu-university/studocu-summary-library-en/summaries/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers/1044478/view

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https://prezi.com/nt3dssiwegk7/i-too-sing-america-by-langston-hughes/

https://prezi.com/p/iot6g6kqz3iy/i-too/

https://www.slideshare.net/KathrynManuel/i-too-and-langston-hughes-life

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https://prezi.com/jqsjggzp1eza/good-morning-by-langston-hughes/

Born on Feb. 4th 
African American 
seamstress and activist...

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For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

Before Rosa Parks,

a 15-year old African American teen
defied Segregation on an Alabama bus!

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/08/23/claudette-colvin-was-the-first-person-to-resist-bus-segregation-in-alabama/

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For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

W.E.B. Dubois
Feb. 23, 1868-August 27, 1963

Booker T. Washington

April 5, 1856-Nov. 14, 1915

W.E.B. Dubois 
vs
Booker T. Washington

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Meet 

that African6American abolitionist, Civil Rights activist and writer. 

He was born a slave but escaped to freedom in 1884. 

His initials are F.D.. 

c. Feb. 1818-Feb. 20, 1895

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https://www.biography.com/activist/frederick-douglass

STARTER

Look, describe and react.

What does this letter make you think of?

(Symbol? Science? Philosophy?

Or else? 

ACTION 1

Look and discover.

Who do you recognize?

2 of these men have been assassinated, one on April 4, 1968 at the age of  39

and the other on Feb. 21, 1965.

Do you know which of them?

https://www.fosterclub.com/blog/foster-famous/malcolm-x

https://noifrance.org/noi-la-nation-of-islam-une-organisation-communautaire-structuree/

https://www.ushistory.org/us/54h.asp

ACTION 2

https://www.slideshare.net/wmsbierer/malcolm-x-7464182

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https://www.slideshare.net/kbeacom/civil-rights-61100080

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INTRODUCTION

Saint Valentine's Day 

is considered as the Day for Lovers

in many countries, 

but it is also the Day for Friendship!

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Valentine Quiz

Write down

your answers, your score

and your profile.

For fun...

For the Passionate

A taste of... Romanticism!

https://psychologytoday.tests.psychtests.com/bin/transfer

Write down 

5 to 10 facts you want to remember.

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STARTER

Listen and enjoy 

Nat King Cole' song!

Let's karaoke!

Copy the song.

ACTION 1

Learn

 your Saint Valentine's vocabulary.

Make an illustrated dictionary 

or

write down 

an English-French dictionary.

ACTION 2

Listen and understand.
Listen and answer the questions below.

1° Do you know your hostess?
2° What is Valentine's Day [=V-Day] focused on?
3° What is its main interest?
4° Who is concerned by V-Day?
5° How do these people usually celebrate on V-Day?
6° What is your hostess's question?
7° Which trades are particularly concerned by V-Day?
8° What does V-Day mean to sweethearts and couples?
9° Which tradition is spread in schools on V-Day
10° What do single people do on V-Day?
11° What do some people do with V-Day cards? How are the called?
12° Finally, what type of Love is associated with V-Day in the High Middle Ages?


ACTION 3
Learn more about Valentine.
Choose your level and retell the story.

For the Adventurers

For the Explorers

For the Bold and the Experts

ACTION 4

Watch and understand.
Meet a mythical couple!
Say what they say of each other.

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1) Do you like celebrating Valentine's Day? Why? Why not?

2) Have you ever received a present for Valentine's Day? What was it?

3) Have you ever received a valentine (= card/message) from a secret admirer?

ACTION 5

Investigate into Love couples.

Do the Webquest about iconic couples!
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In link with your Reading Project 
of
'Romeo and Juliet'
in French!
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http://www.michellehenry.fr/couples.htm



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FEMALE SOLOS

"I will always Love You"
by
Whitney Houston

"Look to You"
by
Whitney Houston

"Run to You"
by
Whitney Houston

"I believe in You and Me"
by
Whitney Houston

"Someone Like You"
by
Adèle



"Grateful"
by
Mahalia




"What did you do" 
by
Mahalia
(feat. Ella Mai)



"You're Still  the One" 
by
Shania Twain

"Here to stay"
by
Meghan Trainor

"Your Love Is King"
by
Sade

"Why can't We Live Together"
by
Sade

"Unbreak My Heart"
by
Toni Braxton

"Lover"
by
Taylor Swift






MALE SOLOS

"All of you"
by
John Legend

"Photograph-Me Before You"
by
Ed Sheeran

"Best Part of Me" 
by
Ed Sheeran
(feat. Yebba)

"Everything You Take"
by
The Police (Sting)

"I Belong to You"
by
Jacob Lee

"Shape of You"
by
Ed Sheeran

"I don't care"
by
Ed Sheeran

"You are the Sunshine of my Life"
by
Stevie Wonder

"Stand By Me" 
by
Ben E. King



"Still Loving You"
by
Scorpions

DUETS/CHOIR

"Wave"
by
Meghan Trainor
(feat. Mike Sabath)



"More Than Friends" 
by
Jason Mraz 
(feat. Meghan Trainor)

"Always on Your Side" 
by
Sheryl Crow 
(feat. Sting)

"In Case  You Didn't Know" 
by
Brett Young
(feat. Una Healy)

"You are the reason"
by
duet Calum Scott and Leona Lewis

"Shallow"
by
duet Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga

"Marvin Gaye" 
by
Ed Sheeran
(feat. Meghan Trainor)




"Listen to Your Heart" 
by
Glee
(Roxette)

"Tell  Him" 
by
Céline Dion and Barbra Streisand

"Stand By Me" 
by
Gospel Choir
at 
UK Royal Wedding 
of
Meghan Markel and Prince Harry




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"You've Got a Friend" 
by

Carol King
(feat. James Taylor)







BOLLYWOOD LOVE SONGS

BUDDIES SONGS

"We're Still Friends" 
by
Amy Winehouse

"What's What Friends Are For" 
by
Dione Warwick
(feat. Elton John, Gladys Knight and Stevie Wonder)

"Best Friend" 
by
Brandy

"You Can Count On Me" 
by
Bruno Mars

"I Will Be Your Friend" 
by
Sade

ACTION+
Celebrate
Friendship on Saint Valentine!

STEP 1




Break Time for Help and for the Best!

Make a FriendshipValentine card
and
write down your message/poem or...

... make a Friendship Valentine  DIY artwork to a person dear to your heart.

A Friendship Paper Heart?



A Friendship Candy glass jar?

A Friendship Candy bouquet ?

A Friendship bracelet?




STEP 2
Make 
your ABC Friendship Illustrated poster.

Break Time for Help and for the Best!

A is for ...
B is for...
C is for...
Etc.

http://www.michellehenry.fr/amitie.htm#az

Thanks to English teacher Ms. Haquet
for her tremendous Interactive calendar
from which this blog page has been inspired!
http://chagall-col.spip.ac-rouen.fr/spip.php?article1182