As part of your homework during those weeks without classes, please find attached a grid you need to fill in with the required information from the texts in annex. They all deal with shoot-outs that traumatized Americans. Also keep in mind that there are shootings every year, therefore the list of gun massacres in the document is far from being exhaustive.
NB: In class I would have made you worked in groups, with oral interaction activities yet you can see it is not possible given the CO-VID 19 confinement situation, hence you will work individually.
Just a clue, so that you avoid lacking space when filling in the grid: you must draft the information about the Fort Hood shootings in the line "Group 5" (as two shoot-outs took place in that military base).
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5 shootings that bloodstained America - Written Comprehension HOMEWORK
The National Rifle Association - a very powerful lobby
The document below is the oral comprehension document which defines what the NRA is and the ideas it defends.
A little question: do you recognize the the sentence in the coffin in the GIF below? Where does it come from?
Gun facts - Events, Timeline and Toolbox
Dear students,
Find in annex the timeline and the gun-related events - often laws that were enacted or repealed - that you had to match with the corresponding dates, resorting to your knowledge and logic. You will also find the vocabulary toolbox to help you understand some tricky words extracted from the short texts and the vocabulary exercise done in class.
The video below is a little extra: it is a work of art entitled "Identity Crisis" made by American artist Michael Murphy, a double anamorphosis which leads us to ponder on America's identity, as its title suggests.