Fighting for the Civil Rights
in the USA
1. Segregation
a.
. Question of Colour (poem + video)
The origin of Segregation (written comprehension + questions)
c. African-Americans (history recap and vocabulary to learn)
d. The KKK with Billie Holiday’s song : Strange Fruit (song)
Grammaire
Le passif / obligations, interdictions et permissions au passé / révisions de verbes irréguliers.
Tâches intermédiaires
Travail en binômes sur 2 extraits de The Help de Kathryn Stockett (2009) après compréhension de l’oral sur bande annonce/extraits du film.
Prise de parole en continu sur l’image ‘The drinking Fountain’ ou prise de parole en continu (PPC) sur ‘I know why the caged birds singing'
2. Integration
a. Rosa Parks, Alabama 1954 (video + song)
b. School Integration (text + Norman Rockwell’s painting)
c. The Freedom Riders (diary)
d. Martin Luther King, 1963 (oral comprehension)
Grammaire
Révision du Prétérit simple et prétérit be+ing, expression du but, propositions relatives et infinitives (want to do)
Tâches intermédiaires
PPC : fais le guide du musée sur le tableau ‘New kids in the Neighborhood’ de Norman Rockwell.
Travail à l’oral en binômes sur school Integration.
Vocabulaire de la séquence : la contrainte, la révolte, le racisme, l’exclusion, les suffixes able/ful/less/al
This poem (by Donna Davis) /ad is about ...
It denounces ....
It makes you realize ....
The aim is to .....
In football supporters can be ....
A QUESTION OF COLOUR
1. This poem (by Donna Davis) /ad is about the colour of our skin and it denounces racism in football and in everyday life.
2. Supporters can be violent and dangerous WHICH is a real problem for football. There is a pun with the word ‘kick’.
3. The poem is shocking to white people: it makes you realize that we are all coloured and as a consequence that racism is nonsense!
The 2 drinking fountains
1. This document is a photograph from ....................... which was taken in ...............when Blacks and Whites were ................... in the ................... of the USA.
2. What immediately strikes me is .....................
3. Although the Jim Crow Laws meant 'separate but ........' the 2
fountains are not ................... since the Blacks' fountain looks like a ................ compared to the ................Whites' fountain .
4. The goal of the photographer was probably to ......................................... and to make us ................. of the .....................of the Law.
5. There is also a sense of ............ because it is both ............... and embarrassing !
Examples of Jim Crow Laws : A FAIRE SUR FEUILLE POUR BONUS
From the 1880s into the 1960s, a majority of American states enforced segregation through « Jim Crow » laws.
Complete using « had to / wasn't-weren't allowed to » :
On buses black people _________________ sit in the back of buses.
In restaurants colored people _______________________ to be served in the same room as white people.
In billiard rooms a negro and white person ________________________ to play together or in company with each other.
In marriage, all marriages between a white person and a negro, or between a white person and a person of negro descent to the fourth generation inclusive, ___________________________.
In cemeteries the officer in charge ____________________ bury colored people on separate ground from the whites.
In parks colored people _____________________ frequent parks which were reserved for them. They________________________ to frequent any park owned or maintained by the city for the benefit, use and enjoyment of white people.