The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the United Nations Organisation in 1948. It is the basis for human rights protection and promotion around the world. Yet in many countries around the world, people have or had to struggle for social justice. Why did civil rights movements start and what did they accomplish ?
Separate but equal ?
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Task
Would you also say that these two songs "sing" America ? Write a well informed editorial to explain your point of view.
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Extra material
#1:drive.google.com/file/d/1NMaEZ1qMd_dkcMl2KRFn_bWqqjhnSJve/view?usp=sharing
#2 : drive.google.com/file/d/1lOaaK7DDH0HKJp3sOBV8Sqwv6vo-v-3k/view?usp=sharing
#3 : drive.google.com/file/d/1CtjesWshsjJyI5RLefxVmQD3ty-Fpypw/view?usp=sharing
#2 : drive.google.com/file/d/1lOaaK7DDH0HKJp3sOBV8Sqwv6vo-v-3k/view?usp=sharing
#3 : drive.google.com/file/d/1CtjesWshsjJyI5RLefxVmQD3ty-Fpypw/view?usp=sharing
The Long March to Freedom
Watch the 2 videos to find out more about apartheid and who brought it to an end and why.
drive.google.com/file/d/1ozWFqGVk_zrJo9SciswHsO9GIkbjEUsw/view?usp=sharingdrive.google.com/file/d/1yIWewgpgYXttqm7cq-UvjKX3PIHVX_aw/view?usp=sharing
Then create an infographic in order to explain this dark episode of South Africa clearly to a large public.
+https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/pcw/98678.htm
drive.google.com/file/d/1ozWFqGVk_zrJo9SciswHsO9GIkbjEUsw/view?usp=sharingdrive.google.com/file/d/1yIWewgpgYXttqm7cq-UvjKX3PIHVX_aw/view?usp=sharing
Then create an infographic in order to explain this dark episode of South Africa clearly to a large public.
+https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/pcw/98678.htm
Changing the mentalities in South Africa was a long and tedious process. The economic sanctions voted by the international community also played an important role in the end of Apartheid regime. How and why did Apartheid suddenly become an international issue ?
Study the different documents below to answer this question . drive.google.com/file/d/1zThkg7dtVUxoMCdZdeAW_AFoeOAmhzGh/view?usp=sharing drive.google.com/file/d/1DLc7AnEniwfxNrHGt8VcfOI5NT3xTUWI/view?usp=sharing cdn.jwplayer.com/previews/p46CjkS2 |
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The Troubles over Northern Ireland
Have a look at these murals. What are they about ? Which message do they send ? What do they show about Belfast ?
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/belfast-murals-recall-brutal-war-debate-northern-irelands-future
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2YjfP4sPMDHNVVMsR4sY85l/paramilitary-to-pop-culture-the-changing-face-of-belfast-s-murals
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/2YjfP4sPMDHNVVMsR4sY85l/paramilitary-to-pop-culture-the-changing-face-of-belfast-s-murals
Watch the extract from '71 by Yann Demange ( 2003) .
drive.google.com/file/d/18K67NHc9QHjtn8P6KUfiu7LQimcINPPi/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1TWYQoIiTaj7KlkK7X8xCCxQSkc1kgrZy/view?usp=sharing
Guidelines :
A/ Focus on the setting and time .( Location - Minute description . Overall impression/mood created - Time of the day -possible year)
B/ People involved ( physical description / age / occupation/ cues / reaction to the situation+ try to account for these reactions)
C/ What’s Going on ? ( describe the action minutely + focus on people’s reactions/ Try to explain which events must have triggered this showdown by checking the website underneath .
Do you think the film director has over-dramatized the events ?
drive.google.com/file/d/18K67NHc9QHjtn8P6KUfiu7LQimcINPPi/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1TWYQoIiTaj7KlkK7X8xCCxQSkc1kgrZy/view?usp=sharing
Guidelines :
A/ Focus on the setting and time .( Location - Minute description . Overall impression/mood created - Time of the day -possible year)
B/ People involved ( physical description / age / occupation/ cues / reaction to the situation+ try to account for these reactions)
C/ What’s Going on ? ( describe the action minutely + focus on people’s reactions/ Try to explain which events must have triggered this showdown by checking the website underneath .
Do you think the film director has over-dramatized the events ?
Watch the extract from In the Name of the Father (Chapter 1) by Jim Sheridan ( 1993).
drive.google.com/file/d/1A7cAulYm9rUQVLzlfn1ppf5c7HKmPsEO/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1lO3nVSBCYga26ViZXfbuDLHSAg_x8EVW/view?usp=sharing
Guidelines:
Summarize the action.
A/ Pick all the film techniques used to enhance the violence of the scene.
B/ Focus on Gerry Conlon’s physical appearance, actions…Say how he is filmed and seen by the audience .
Plenary : Which image of the Troubles is given by th edirector. How does he want us to perceive his « hero » ? Why do you think Conlon’s little sister is panicked ?
drive.google.com/file/d/1A7cAulYm9rUQVLzlfn1ppf5c7HKmPsEO/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1lO3nVSBCYga26ViZXfbuDLHSAg_x8EVW/view?usp=sharing
Guidelines:
Summarize the action.
A/ Pick all the film techniques used to enhance the violence of the scene.
B/ Focus on Gerry Conlon’s physical appearance, actions…Say how he is filmed and seen by the audience .
Plenary : Which image of the Troubles is given by th edirector. How does he want us to perceive his « hero » ? Why do you think Conlon’s little sister is panicked ?
Task :
Listen to the meddley by the Pogues. The two songs initially published on the 1988 album entitled If I Should Fall From Grace with God was banned from being broadcast. From what we have seen so far, try to explain the reason for the slingle being censored the UK .
drive.google.com/file/d/15pJeKaXIR1IAoDv6LtNfHUn-h4R2HhKx/view?usp=sharing |
streets_of_sorrow.docx | |
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Now watch the two trailers underneath : how did people fight for their rights ?
drive.google.com/file/d/1g3uCmYckUuxUPkDu46f6z-qjHmAAPtou/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1KW4oSBoCJN0hjfNGPLMj6Tqy85mxPOKg/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1g3uCmYckUuxUPkDu46f6z-qjHmAAPtou/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1KW4oSBoCJN0hjfNGPLMj6Tqy85mxPOKg/view?usp=sharing
Debate : Is Robert Mcliam Wilson 's Ripley Bogle the best way to talk about the Troubles ?
Study the extract carefully to be able to defend your opinion.
NB : you can also refer to the other documents studied .
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Robert McLiam Wilson was born in Belfast on 24 February 1966 and studied English at St Catharine's College, Cambridge. He is the author of the novels Ripley Bogle (1989), winner of the Hughes Prize, a Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the Irish Book Award and the Betty Trask Prize; Manfred's Pain (1992); and Eureka Street (1996), winner of the Belfast Arts Award for Literature. He is also the author, with Donovan Wylie, of The Dispossessed (1992), a non-fiction book about poverty. In 2003, Robert McLiam Wilson was named by Granta magazine as one of 20 'Best of Young British Novelists', despite the fact that he has not published new work in English since 1996. His next novel, Extremists, will be published shortly.
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