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The Guardian : The World stands disgraced
jul/30/us-firm-condemnation, but...
I can't believe the news today
Oh, I can't close my eyes
And make it go awayBroken bottles under children's feet
Bodies strewn across the dead end streetHow long? How long ?
The only article today...
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Enseignement
"busniss english" :)
culture numérique de l'enseignant
identité numérique et réseaux sociaux
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Divers pour l'été
Plein les yeux! : Château de Versailles
Les meilleurs films d'animation : Films et court-métrages d'animation pour les enfants
Si vous cuisinez cet été: équipe mon pain maison
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"Le magazine phosphore a fait un super numéro sur New York"
http://www.phosphore.com/actualites/phosphore/90/en-aout-partez-a-new-york-avec-phosphore.html
http://www.phosphore.com/actualites/phosphore/90/en-aout-partez-a-new-york-avec-phosphore.html
Liste des oeuvres :
Washington Square by Henry James (1850) Pierre or, The Ambiguities by Herman Melville (1852) The Age Of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) The Great Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald (1925) The Rules of Civility (les Règles Du Jeu) by Amor Towles (2011) Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958) The Catcher in the Rye (L'Attrape-Coeur) by J.D. Salinger (1951) Just Above My Head (Harlem Quartet) by James Baldwin (1979) Sheila Levine is dead and living in New York by Gail Parent (1972) Sylvia : a Novel de Leonard Michaels (2013) Just Kids byPatti Smith (2010). Bright Lights, Big City (Journal d'un Oiseau de nuit) by Jay McInerney (1984) Let the Great World Spin (Et Que Le Vaste Monde Poursuive Sa Course Folle) by Colum Mc Cann (2009) The Bonfire of The Vanities (Le Bûcher des Vanités) by Tom Wolfe 1987 The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster (2005) One Fifth Avenue ( Cinquième Avenue) by Candace Bushnell (2008) Blood Brothers (Souvenez vous de moi) by Richard Price (1976) http://nymag.com/arts/books/features/44617/ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (Extrêmement Fort et Incroyablement Près) Jonathan Safran Foer (2005) The Submission (Un Concours de Circonstances) by Amy Waldman (2011) The Privilèges by Johnathan Dee (2010)
Certains, pour les classiques, sont à 0 cts d'euro sur amazon sous le format kindle."
Merci à E. Vittoz qui propose aussi la liste des chansons :
http://fruitmuffincorner.blogspot.fr/2014/07/songs-about-new-york-city.html
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"SLOW DOWN !'
Questions
a) Watch the opening scene of Woody Allen's Manhattan
Talk about your first impressions? Colours? Old film?
b) CO : Write as you listen (lab)
Screenplay : Manhattan by WoodyAllen
c)Who is the narrator (voice over) according to you? What's his occupation?
d) What is he trying to do?
Try to identify the various styles and/or genres.
http://web.mit.edu/21fms/People/henry3/manhattan.html
The narrator's hesitations / Manhattan's ambivalence...
e) Find out about the music and say how you feel about it.
f) How does this extract make you feel?
e) Tone of the film? Can you guess?
What do you know about Woody Allen? his sense of HUMOUR?
Gerschwin and Woody Allen, common points?
part II
Watch this extract from Smoke by Wayne Wang and PaulAuster
A still from Manhattan : " A city in black and white"
A still from Smoke ( a photo in Auggie Wren's album)
What is very likely to happen at a street corner?
What is bound to happen at a street corner?
What about crossroads ?
What about billboards? :)
Parallèle à l'histoire dans l'histoire, l 'image dans l'image, puis à la fin, le film dans le film.
Comment appelle-t-on cette technique? Mise en abyme?
Le passage est en principe plus long, donc il vaut mieux disposer du film disponible sur dvd!
Voir l'article consacré à Christmas sur ce blog pour y trouver d'autres extraits et la nouvelle
Who is the narrator? What's his job?
What's his passion?
Are the photos really "all the same"? What does Auggie Wren explain to the "novelist" Paul Benjamin?
What is the key sentence in this extract? ("slow down")
What is the "moral" of this extract? Paul Benjamin ( the writer) should have guessed...
What about the music? Compare with Manhattan and Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue
Find the quotation from Shakespeare.
What is the MOOD in this extract?
Vision of "New York" or vision of the photographer's state of mind?
Your conclusion?(= feelings too!)
What do the 2 film extracts have in common?
Read Auggie Wren's Christmas Story : It is a story within a larger story.
What does it tell us about writing, authorship and telling stories?
What does it tell us about life, vision, taking and giving?
Telling a story, taking a photo, shooting a film and giving (life)...
Telling a story and visual arts (photo, film or the reader's ability to visualize..)
Watch this extract to understand Paul Benjamin's problem:
Beginning : the narrator's problem : inspiration, "the white sheet"...
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New York is not only a setting!
Explain.
Beginning : the narrator's problem : inspiration
Read novels by Paul Auster; The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Brooklyn Follies for example
Watch more about Woody Allen and Paul Auster.
Paul Auster on BOOKS and FILMS
Manhattan : NYT Film Review 1979
blog: every woodyallen movie.com/post/manhattan
Woody Allen's guide to New York City
Mise en scène analysis of Manhattan
FINAL TASK
Invite your students to shoot a short film with their phone to "write" their love letter to their (favourite) city and use a song they like as amusical background.....Have them discuss their films and explain why they chose such and such shots; They can send them to e-pals, etc...
Here is one with Alicia Keyes singing "Empire State of Mind" and One Republic singing "Good Life"
The end....? not yet : 93 extracts from movies about New York. Ideal for a quiz.
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British dancer Xander Parish on his historic Mariinsky Ballet role
The Real Billy Eliott retuns home
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UNEXPECTED SQUATTERS ... SORRY! SURFERS
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BBC NEWS
A series of strange stories from Victorian times
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28262808http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28262808
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People Who Feel They Have A Purpose In Life Live Longer
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Une mine de ressources sur la culture des Etats-Unis : Le site de l'ambassade des Etats-Unis
http://france.usembassy.gov/eteachers.html
Toutes les fêtes, des oeuvres et des chansons, ici :
Pour les chansons, il y a le mp3 + les paroles +.....
http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/sing-out-loud-traditional-songs
Holidays: PDF
http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/celebrate-holidays-usa
Génial!
Belles illustrations.Ex :
Literature:
http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/build-fire-and-other-stories
Les numéros de FORUM (toutes les photos des ressources sont magnifiques!)
http://americanenglish.state.gov/past-issues-english-teaching-forum
le numéro actuel sur les chevaux entre autres est superbe, pour des ados que je connais...
Et bien d'autres choses encore :
Vidéos ici :
http://france.usembassy.gov/eteachers.html
Site des ressources pour l'enseignement:
http://americanenglish.state.gov
Les jeux :
http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/lighter-side-tefl
Picture this
http://americanenglish.state.gov/resources/activate-picture-thisAutres idées d'activités:
ex:
http://americanenglisGreetings from sunny new Mexico: lesson plan
A vous d'explorer!
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le débat: La réalité augmentée et ses enjeux
augmented reality: a short fiction
Expérimentation:
En gros, mais vraiment très gros, cela veut dire que vous ne ferez plus rien par hasard...
L'expression est usurpée, rassurez-vous!
Votre chihuhua ne se transformera pas en Doberman!
et pas de King Kong en vue!
Pour ses détracteurs, ce sera bien pire...
Une photo d'un objet, d'un paysage ou d'une personne se verra "augmentée" d'une superposition d'informations qui y seront immédiatement associées. C'est ce que permettent les outils tels que google glass qui seront ensuite des lentilles de contact. Un simple smartphone suffit pour l'instant.
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Let's talk about it with the Pink Panther for a change!
Prohibition ( don'ts + holiday/beach vocabulary + what is a spoilsport?
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Questions
a) Watch the opening scene of Woody Allen's Manhattan
Talk about your first impressions? Colours? Old film?
b) CO : Write as you listen (lab)
Screenplay : Manhattan by WoodyAllen
c)Who is the narrator (voice over) according to you? What's his occupation?
d) What is he trying to do?
Try to identify the various styles and/or genres.
http://web.mit.edu/21fms/People/henry3/manhattan.html
The narrator's hesitations / Manhattan's ambivalence...
e) Find out about the music and say how you feel about it.
f) How does this extract make you feel?
e) Tone of the film? Can you guess?
What do you know about Woody Allen? his sense of HUMOUR?
Gerschwin and Woody Allen, common points?
part II
Watch this extract from Smoke by Wayne Wang and PaulAuster
A still from Manhattan : " A city in black and white"
A still from Smoke ( a photo in Auggie Wren's album)
Parallèle à l'histoire dans l'histoire, l 'image dans l'image, puis à la fin, le film dans le film.
Comment appelle-t-on cette technique? Mise en abyme?
Le passage est en principe plus long, donc il vaut mieux disposer du film disponible sur dvd!
Voir l'article consacré à Christmas sur ce blog pour y trouver d'autres extraits et la nouvelle
Who is the narrator? What's his job?
What's his passion?
Are the photos really "all the same"? What does Auggie Wren explain to the "novelist" Paul Benjamin?
What is the key sentence in this extract? ("slow down")
What is the "moral" of this extract? Paul Benjamin ( the writer) should have guessed...
What about the music? Compare with Manhattan and Gershwin in Rhapsody in Blue
Find the quotation from Shakespeare.
What is the MOOD in this extract?
Vision of "New York" or vision of the photographer's state of mind?
Your conclusion?(= feelings too!)
What do the 2 film extracts have in common?
Read Auggie Wren's Christmas Story : It is a story within a larger story.
What does it tell us about writing, authorship and telling stories?
What does it tell us about life, vision, taking and giving?
Telling a story, taking a photo, shooting a film and giving (life)...
Telling a story and visual arts (photo, film or the reader's ability to visualize..)
Watch this extract to understand Paul Benjamin's problem:
Beginning : the narrator's problem : inspiration, "the white sheet"...
III
New York is not only a setting!
Explain.
Beginning : the narrator's problem : inspiration
Read novels by Paul Auster; The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, Brooklyn Follies for example
Watch more about Woody Allen and Paul Auster.
Paul Auster on BOOKS and FILMS
Manhattan : NYT Film Review 1979
blog: every woodyallen movie.com/post/manhattan
Woody Allen's guide to New York City
Mise en scène analysis of Manhattan
FINAL TASK
Invite your students to shoot a short film with their phone to "write" their love letter to their (favourite) city and use a song they like as amusical background.....Have them discuss their films and explain why they chose such and such shots; They can send them to e-pals, etc...
Here is one with Alicia Keyes singing "Empire State of Mind" and One Republic singing "Good Life"
The end....? not yet : 93 extracts from movies about New York. Ideal for a quiz.
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Links were added after my students had handed back their work :
ere then asked to add essential elements for the oral exam.
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/232159825151131649
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/harp/0116.html
http://healthandwelfare.idaho.gov/Portals/0/Children/ICWA/UNTOLD_STORY.pdf
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/4929/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Sheridan
WESTWARD THE COURSE....
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6rDIPcJJcj4/TVtaZL5dfbI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uy1bQai0Edw/s1600/westward.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yfkvIQuq7s&feature=player_embedded
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/researchNotes/1931.6.1.pdf
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=14569
http://americanart.si.edu/education/resources/guides/guides_social_studies.cfm
http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/envisioning_manifest_destiny.pdf
http://americanart.si.edu/education/pdf/west.pdf
http://www.ourheritage.net/index_page_stuff/following_trails/kane/Kane_Timeline.html
I would say that ......................... and ...................................pervade this scene.
One object provides a dividing line, which one?
the white man and the "Indian" are on ....................... side of the tent
http://cinema2.arts.ubc.ca/units/canlit/pdfs/articles/canlit113-Notes%28MacLaren%29.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Horse_Memorial
http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/tag/Buffalo%20Commons
http://hoist.hrtc.net/~arabento/woundedknee.htm
http://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2009/summer/indian.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125447499
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1397654
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127887777
Label: Frances (Fanny) Palmer immigrated to the United States from England in 1844, shortly before journalist John O'Sullivan coined the term "Manifest Destiny" and the gold rush drew nearly 300,000 settlers to California. By the outbreak of the Civil War in 1861, she had become one of America's most prolific and versatile printmakers, her name appearing alongside that of Currier & Ives. Signed "F. F. Palmer," Across the Continent is her best-known work, demonstrating her artistic skill and sensitivity to the politics of her adopted country. A locomotive follows the mountain peaks West as it divides log cabins from unsettled wilderness. In the lower left, construction continues on a flourishing, well-populated town, promising renewal to a nation recovering from war. In the lower right, American Indians sit on horseback in the train's fading smoke, hinting at the old ways of life that are destroyed to make way for the new.
In 1853 Congress authorized Secretary of War Jefferson Davis—who later served as President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865—to organize fourexpeditions to locate a route for a transcontinental railroad. TheTranscontinental Railroad was completed in 1869, linking the Union Pacific and the Central Pacificrailroads. In this lithograph by Frances F. Palmer, one of the few female artists in this exhibition, we see an invented location somewhere along the transcontinentalroute. Although fictional, the scene represents the many towns that cropped up as the train line extended westward.Across the Continent: “Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way,”1868, Frances F. Palmer, artist and lithographer, American, born England, 1812-1876, James Merritt Ives, American, 1824-1895, published by Currier & Ives, active 1857-1907http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma05/macdonald/currier_ives/west.html
http://www.legendsofamerica.com/rr-railroadtales.html
Other documents
The_Art_of_Manifest_Destiny_History_Kit.doc
http://www.nativeamerican.co.uk/overview2.html
http://tigger.uic.edu/~hilbert/Images%20of%20Berkeley/Berk_life.htm
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