Sunday, September 4, 2016

Terminale

WELCOME BACK!
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1) MYTHS & HEROES
Urban legends, myths and monsters of the american folklore


1) Pictures by Scottish photographer Calum Douglas: 


VIDEO Rachel Nevada Extraterrestrial Highway



2) YOUR TASK: Now that you know some things about the Roswell case

CREATE A LEAFLET FOR UFO ENTHUSIASTS 
ABOUT AREA 51 OR THE CITY OF ROSWELL!



FIND INFORMATION ON THINGS TO DO IN THE ROSWELL, NM / AREA 51, NA AREA:


In Roswell:

UFO MUSEUM 

THE ROSWELL FILES

POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES

POSSIBLE ACTIVITIES II


Vocabulary you might need:

Words:
out-of-the-ordinary / extraordinary
one-of-a-kind / unique
legendary / mythical


Verbs:
catch a glimpse (voir furtivement)
experience
Don't miss
Don't forget to...
Be sure to...
You can't leave without ... +ing
How about ...+ing? 

Hypotheses:
It could have been...+ plausible hypothesis
It might have been... + plausible hypothesis
Maybe it was... + plausible hypothesis


3) Draw the portrait of a famous american monster





a) Watch the videos and gather information on Bigfoot.

b) Sort them by category. 

Physical / Location / First sighting(s) / Other


Vocabulary: 

"a cryptid": an animal whose existence cryptozoologists believe has been suggested but has not been discovered or documented by the scientific community or by direct evidence.

c) Write a short text to introduce the monster and its myth.




5) Idea of progress

Pioneers and great explorers forging ahead

ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN. 
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND

July 21st 1969: a milestone in human history.
(a milestone: un moment très important.)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy's "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University in 1962.

"We choose to go to the Moon" speech. 
(Short edit)



"We choose to go to the Moon" speech
(with human discoveries timeline).


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LEWIS AND CLARK's EXPEDITION 
1804- 1806



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THE NEXT GENERATION OF PIONEERS?























Première


WELCOME BACK!

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1) Spaces & exchanges
Overconsumption: the supermarket world

Buy Nothing Day AD 1996

Buy Nothing Day "Live more"
99 cents by german artist Andreas Gursky








Trolleyology: specials, pricing, labelling and packaging



MALL OF AMERICA


BUY NOTHING DAY WEBSITE

ADBUSTERS WEBSITE


Some art:






MUSIC: Lauryn Hill - "Consumerism"




Your task: create a poster to promote the November 25th 2016 Buy Nothing Day. Your poster will contain:

- some information about consumerism  (figures, diagrams, surveys etc.)

- give consumers clues about actions the can take to oppose overconsumption.

- some pictures and a slogan.

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2) Idea of progress
The evolution of the workplace from the industrial revolution to nowadays society


STEAMPUNK


  


 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/30/new-zealand-town-oamaru-steampunk-capital-of-the-world


Castle S03e04 Steampunk scene: 
Vidéo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=50&v=brCRfAgO1tE







Fordism

Taylorism
 


WORKING FOR...


The internship trailer

Life at google

Inside google offices

3) Idea of progress
New technologies for better and/or for worse? 











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2019


WALLS
Identities and Exchanges



Hadrian's Wall built between 122 AD and 127 AD in England.

The Wall in Game of Thrones.

The Mexican American border.



BORDER ANGELS










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ARTISTS
ART AND POWER

Barbara Kruger in her own words


The impact of writing on society?



Still from HBO's Fahrenheit 451.


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SOMEBODY TOLD ME
Citizenship and virtual worlds


Behind the news: what is fake news?

Conspiracies.

Who is Alex Jones?

Jesse Walker, author of United States of Paranoia.

Belief 



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